SAMLA: Performance on Film [proposal due May 15; conference Nov 13-15, Durham, NC]
Film Studies Group
Performance on Film
This panel welcomes papers about any aspect of "Performance on Film," defined broadly. Paper proposals addressing the SAMLA 87 theme are especially welcome.
Possible topics could include:
*actor studies
*ensemble performance
*documentary performance
*"liveness"
*concert or dance films
*stand-up comedy performance
*stunt, pornographic, or other "extreme embodied" performance
*Method, Delsarte, or other schools of film performance
*abstract performance
*disability performance
*portrayals of living persons
*playing with or against "type"
*film performance vs. performance in theater, television, radio, online
*performances of authority
*post-human performance
*silent era performance
*naturalist performance and its alternatives
*historical or national differences in film performance
*performance as labor
By May 15, please submit a 500-word abstract and brief bio to Erin Lee Mock, University of West Georgia, at emock@westga.edu.