Call for Papers=20
The Documentary Tradition:=20
Contemporary Documentary Maker =E2=80=93 Morgan Spurlock

The Documentary Tradition - 2006 Film and History Conference
Dallas, Texas, United States

8th=E2=80=9312th November 2006
Deadline for Proposals - 1st August 2006
The Documentary Tradition and its many permutations will be the topic of th=
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Fall, 2006 Film and History Conference. =20
Proposals are now being accepted for The Documentary Tradition looking=20
specifically at the contemporary documentary maker Morgan Spurlock.
Listed below are some suggestions for possible proposals, but all other=20
perspectives and aspects will be considered.

=C2=B7 The impact of the Reality TV form on Spurlock=E2=80=99s work.
=C2=B7 The filmmaker as subject.=20
=C2=B7 Notions of =E2=80=98truth=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98reality=E2=80=99 imb=
edded in the Documentary tradition.
=C2=B7 Documentary as social/political reform.
=C2=B7 Reflections on American culture and its global effects as portrayed =20=
in=20
Spurlock=E2=80=99s work.
=C2=B7 Documentary and cinema
=C2=B7 Narrativisation of the real

Please email or post abstracts of approx 250 words to the address below:

Peri Bradley
Area Chair: Morgan Spurlock
30 Atherley Road=20
Shirley
Southampton
SO15 5DQ
UK
_periart21_at_aol.com_ (mailto:periart21_at_aol.com)=20
To view full details of The Documentary Tradition, 2006 Film and History=20
Conference please visit _http://www.filmandhistory.org_=20
(http://www.filmandhistory.org/) .

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