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Please scroll down for CFPs for "'If You Want to Sing Out': Listening to the Music of Love in Film and Television" and "Things of Love and the Love of Things"

Call for Papers
"'If You Want to Sing Out': Listening to the Music of Love in Film and Television"
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: "'If You Want to Sing Out': Listening to the Music of Love in Film and Television"
 
Love can swing, love can rock, love can stink - and music plays an essential part in helping us understand the many facets, faces, and forms of that love, and its loss, in film and television, through its appeal to our most fundamental emotions.  Sometimes damning, sometimes embracing, music can help situate us in the spectrum of experience that love creates, from hook-ups to break-ups, and everything in between.   Whether on or off-screen, music becomes part of cinematic and televised narratives of love, allowing us to not only see, but also hear, the various contexts and representations of romance, passion, devotion, and heartbreak that popular culture produces.   From odes to Mrs. Robinson to Bing Crosby and Grace Kelley singing "True Love" in High Society, to the multiple volumes of Grey's Anatomy soundtracks, love is a perennial subject for the heart, for the eyes, and for the ears.    
 
This area, comprising several panels, welcomes papers and panel proposals that explore, question, and analyze the relationship of music and the cinematic experience of love.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
 
-Music as a Narrative Convention
-Music and Gender in Film
-Film Musicals
-Popular/Classical Music in Film
-Songs of Love Lost/Love Gained
-Composers/Artists 
 
Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the Area Chair:
 
Mathew J. Bartkowiak Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of English
University of Wisconsin-Marshfield
2000 W. 5th St.
Marshfield, WI 54449
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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
"Things of Love and the Love of Things"
2010 Film and 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: "Things of Love and the Love of Things"
 
As Siegfried Kracauer noted in his Theory of Film, "a long procession of unforgettable objects has passed across the screen - objects which stand out as protagonists and all but overshadow the rest of the cast."  Film, as scholars have often pointed out, has a unique capacity to invest inanimate objects with a significance that far exceeds their quotidian value.  The expressive potential opened up by the medium's careful treatment of "things" is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in the cinematic exploration of love, and of love's varied associations with desire, elation, obsession, and loss.  The fact that film mobilizes the tangible and concrete in its engagement with such an abstract, often enigmatic human emotion speaks to an important affinity between medium and material object that this area seeks to examine.  How can things so powerfully convey the facets of love that dialogue, action, and genre conventions cannot articulate? How has film used objects to portray the realities and myths of love, as well as to contradict our expectations of it?  What are the stakes involved in transferring such expressive weight to things, creating obsession, and perhaps, fetish?  How are the answers to these questions influenced by historical and cultural context?
 
This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers examining the intersection of love and objects in individual films, or within specific genres or historical periods; it also invites projects that discuss the role of a single object in various cinematic contexts.  Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
 
* Things that play an important narrative role or that serve as material symbols of love within the diegesis, 
         like the camellias in Now, Voyager and Reese's Pieces in E.T.
* Things that exist on the periphery of the frame or the plot, acting as an extra-narrative extension of (or 
         commentary on) the primary expression of love in the film
* Things that exemplify a love of commodities that competes or becomes conflated with interpersonal love, as 
         evidenced by Lorelei Lee's love of diamonds in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the love of designer clothing in
        Sex and the City, Thomas Crown's obsession with the Monet painting in The Thomas Crown Affair
* The anthropomorphization or fetishization of inanimate objects that helps to support (or foil) narrative 
         representations of love, like the ballet slippers in The Red Shoes
* Things that elicit spectatorial pleasure from the audience, and how this might impact diegetic efforts toward 
         depicting love. For example, instances of obvious product placement , or the dazzling display of fashion 
         (such as Eve Kendall's dresses in North by Northwest), cars (in films such as Gone in 60 Seconds, The
         Fast and the Furious, etc.) and domestic appliances (like in Lucy and Desi's Long, Long Trailer) that gratify
         society's love of commodities. 
 
Please send 200 word proposals and any questions via email to the Area Chair:
 
Rebecca Burditt
University of Rochester
Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
424 Morey Hall
Rochester, NY 14627
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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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