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Please scroll down for CFPs for "Oysters and Snails: Love & Sex in the Ancient World on Screen," and "Cinephilia: The Love of Film."

Call for Papers
"Oysters and Snails: Love & Sex in the Ancient World on Screen"
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 11-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
Second-Round Deadline: November 1, 2009
AREA: "Oysters and Snails: Love & Sex in the Ancient World on Screen"
 
Films and television programs about the ancient Greek and Roman worlds have long served as useful sites for investigating love and sexuality. How, for example, do Quo Vadis (1951), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960) and Cleopatra (1963), and I, Claudius (1976) probe issues such as homosexuality, male bonding, female sexual aggression, the eroticized display of the human body, sex and religion, or sex and class? Why do representations of ancient Rome so often test our ideas about decadence, "perversion" and otherwise "broken" sexual mores? Where do sex and empire really intersect? Do film depictions of ancient Greece-or Egypt or Persia-test our perspectives on sexuality in different ways? Recent films-such as Gladiator (2000), Alexander (2004), Troy (2004), and 300 (2007), as well as the TV series Rome (2005-07)-present matters of love and sex with modern cinematic devices (special effects, digital production) and mores (graphic violence, nudity, and sexual acts), but where are these films traditional, even conservative-and why?
 
This area, comprising several panels, welcomes papers and panel proposals exploring the many ways that love and sex are represented in films and television programs about the ancient world. Possibilities include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
 
* Exposed Masculinities: Hercules & the Muscleman films 
* Cleopatra, Orientalized Sexuality & "the Other" 
* Heterosexual Love, Faith and Redemption in the Religious Epics 
* Roman Deviant Sexualities: from Homosexuality to Incest
* Slaves, Sex and Class
* Greek Sex: is it Sexy?
* Ancient World films & Camp
* Girls Gone Wild: from Cleo to Xena
 
Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the Area Chair:
Professor Monica S. Cyrino
University of New Mexico
Email: [log in to unmask] 
 
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).
 
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Call for Papers
"Cinephilia: The Love of Film"
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 11-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
Second Round Deadline: November 1, 2009
AREA: Cinephilia: The Love of Film 
 
As celluloid film has been replaced by portable media, easy access to films has exploded, creating the largest generation of cineastes, fans, and cult followings in media history--even as traditionalists bemoan the loss of an "authentic" cinematic experience. What happens to our emotional response when films meant for towering screens and massive audiences become private screenings? What happens to our intellectual response? What relationships have emerged because of individual control over the medium itself? Have new textual, franchise, or genre experiences evolved, or have they replaced a more general cinephilia altogether? Do audiences still "love films" in the same way they did thirty, forty, or fifty years ago?
 
This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes paper and panel proposals that examine all historical and contemporary manifestations of cinephilia, film fandom, and cult devotion.  Possibilities include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
 
* Historical forms of cinephilia, especially cinephilia in the contemporary era of home video and digital media
* Theorization about cinephilia - why do people love films?
* Films about cinephilia (Cinema Paradiso, The Dreamers) or filmmakers whose work is an expression of cinephilia (Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino)
* Why and how cults and fanbases develop around certain films
* Practices and behaviors associated with cult film appreciation
* Cinephilia centered on certain genres, modes or aesthetic styles
* Film star or director fandom
 
Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:
 
Adam Capitanio
Area Chair
Michigan State University
235 Bessey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48823 
Email: [log in to unmask] (email submissions preferred)
 
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

 

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