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CFP: The Golden Opportunities of Film Exhibition
An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference:
Golden Ages: Styles and Personalities, Genres and Histories
October 29-November 2, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2014
AREA: The Golden Opportunities of Film Exhibition
From coin-operated kinetoscopes to nickelodeons to picture palaces to drive-in theaters and multiplexes, motion pictures have only been as successful as the box office receipts earned through theatrical exhibition.
The early movie business offered golden opportunities for those who were willing to take the risks. Some became itinerant showmen, while others ordered projection equipment from Sears, Roebuck to open family-run small town moviehouses. Film producers seized their golden opportunity when they realized that theater ownership insured access to movie-mad audiences. Today movies can be accessed directly across multiple media platforms, while theater owners face the high costs of upgrading screening technology and the challenges of reinventing the moviegoing experience. What are the golden opportunities for the 21st century film exhibitor?
This area will examine the history of film exhibition through its many permutations, from the local exhibitor serving the hometown audience to Big Five dominance during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Papers on other elements that affected the success of an exhibitor, including: theater design and safety, management and promotion styles, civic engagement, and the increased importance of the concessions stand are also invited and encouraged.
Additional questions that might be explored, but others are welcome:
• Did the Paramount decision kill the golden goose?
• How did exhibitors negotiate the pressures of community standards and censorship?
• What factors produced the decline of the drive-in?
• What made an exhibitor successful in Peoria?
Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).
Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 July 2014, to the area chair:
Deborah Carmichael
Michigan State University
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CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: Sound is Golden: Case Studies of Industry Practices
An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference:
Golden Ages: Styles and Personalities, Genres and Histories
October 29-November 2, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2014
AREA: Sound is Golden: Case Studies of Industry Practices
Histories of Classical Hollywood sound often privilege the technological stability and aesthetic uniformity of recording, editing, and dubbing practices between the 1930s and 1950s. While there is no doubt that Hollywood's "golden age" did involve a great deal of stability and uniformity, this area seeks specific case studies that continue to nuance or challenge this particular characterization of Classical Hollywood sound practices. We are also interested in papers that offer new contexts for understanding the sound technologies and aesthetics of Hollywood's "golden age," contexts that might include case studies of the radio, television, and music industries, as well as case studies of other national cinemas.
In what ways did advances in sound technologies help to create Hollywood’s “golden age”? How might case studies of industry sound practices dismantle our conception of this age? How did sound technologies affect the golden ages of individual genres and the careers of individual artists?
Potential topics might include studies of:
- contracts, patents, copyrights, and related legal issues
- economic and industrial constraints on poverty row sound
- cue sheets, recording studios, and post-production facilities
- sheet music, soundtrack albums, and other ancillary markets
- operettas, musicals, and sound-specific genres
- vocal performance and styles of singing for a recording
- noise, distortion, stereo, and other acoustical concerns
- archival limitations of sound recording and sound technology
- the history of sound manuals and trade journals
- technological designs, standards and 'best practice' techniques
- overlooked stylistic experiments both in and out of Hollywood
Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).
Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 July 2014, to the area chairs:
Eric Dienstfrey
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Katherine Quanz
Wilfrid-Laurier University
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