Deadline extended:

 Call for Papers
2006 Film and History League Conference on
"The Documentary Tradition"
November 8-12, 2006
Dolce Convention Center, Dallas, TX

Special sessions will include:

-a talk to be conducted by Raymond Fielding Dean of scholars when it comes
to the study of the newsreel and author of "The American Newsreel: A
Complete History."

-Allen Mondell and Cynthia Salzman Mondell, documentary filmmakers with
oeuvre devoted to the ethnic experience in America and the experience of
women. ( www.mediaprojects.org )

www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: News and Satire

American television viewers have been treated with an ever-increasing
visibility and popularity of shows that employ " news" for their
content, such as The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, but that disavows
any connect to the "traditional" business of news. As evidenced by
programs like "Weekend Update" on Saturday Night Live and the opening
monologues of The Tonight Show with Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs, Johnny
Carson and Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman and The Jack
Paar Show, satiric presentation of news is not a new invention.
Yet, with the growing status of shows like The Daily Show as a
"real news" source, what are the implications for the status of news" in the
21st century?

Submissions are welcome on the topic of news and satire for shows
including but not limited to:

The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Saturday Night Live / "Weekend Update"
The Tonight Show
The Late Show with David Letterman
The Jack Paar Show
TV Nation
Real Time with Bill Maher
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher

For information on the conference, please refer to the Film and History
website at www.filmandhistory.org

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words along with a short
biographical note or 1-page CV by August 15th via e-mail to
ksichler_at_gmail.com

Karen Sichler
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia

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