Deadline Extended to 15 August 2006

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Update)

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2006 Film and History League Conference

"The Documentary Tradition" Dallas 8-12 November 2006
<http://www.filmandhistory.org <http://www.filmandhistory.org/> >

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AREA: Exhibition

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While much has been written about the documentary, we still know
comparatively little about where many were shown, the context(s) of =
their
reception, and the venues and exhibitors that booked them.=20

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>From movie palaces to newsreel theaters to art house cinemas to less
traditional venues, documentaries have been exhibited in a host of =
public
and private spaces. They have also had a prolific existence on =
television,
on home video, and distributed and exhibited on the Internet.=20

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Filmmakers such as Robert Greenwald have also jumped on the recent
day-and-date craze by simultaneously releasing films such as "Wal-Mart: =
The
High Cost of Low Price" in theaters and on DVD.

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This area seeks panels and individual submissions on all aspects of
documentary exhibition, including but definitely not limited to:

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- Venues for documentary exhibition (movie theaters, film festivals,
military bases, museums, galleries, and other spaces)

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- Home exhibition

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- Itinerant exhibitors

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- Documentary exhibition in specific cities, regions or countries

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- Exhibition of documentaries in specific time periods

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- Distribution, marketing, exhibition and/or reception histories of
individual films

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- Home video and video on demand

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- Audiences

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- Spectatorship

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- Contemporary exhibition of documentaries

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- And much more ...

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Please send proposals (200 to 300 words) and any inquiries via email to
rmelnick_at_movingimage.us or rmelnick_at_ucla.edu.=20

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Ross Melnick

Director of the Collection

Museum of the Moving Image

35 Avenue at 36 Street=20

Astoria, New York 11106

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This area is part of Film & History's 2006 "The Documentary Tradition"
conference. The conference will be held November 8-12, 2006, at the =
Dolce
Conference Center in Dallas, TX, near the DFW airport. D.A. Pennebaker =
and
Chris Hegedus will be featured artists at the conference. Plenary =
sessions
will be conducted by Raymond Fielding, author of "The American Newsreel: =
A
Complete History," and Betsy McLane, co-author of "A New History of
Documentary Film." Sessions will also be held with 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),
and Glenn Marcus and historians who researched "March of the Bonus Army" =
for
PBS. In addition, James Welsh, Editor (Emeritus) of the Literature/Film
Quarterly will chair a special session of film journal editors to talk =
with
participants about publication opportunities and goals.

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