*****  DEADLINE EXTENDED!!! *****

ABSTRACTS ACCEPTED IN ALL AREAS THROUGH JULY 1, 2015.

“Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns”
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
November 5-8, 2015

Journeys can be deceptive. Full of purpose, they are nonetheless plastic and boundless: from the social journeys of women in Britain or children in India and the political journeys of native populations in Australia or the Americas, to the physical journeys of ships through space and time or of comic-book heroes through urban landscapes; from the psychological journeys of warriors in Kenya and painters in New York, to the economic journeys into Wall Street or the middle class or the empty street. To what extent might the journey on a film also be the journey of that film, of the actors, writers, and directors striving to give shape to experiences outside their own?

On the other hand, what kinds of journeys matter to which kinds of audiences? Ten different films might be made about the journey of coal miners in West Virginia or of engineers in South Korea. Why does one “journey” prevail or another? What has one specific cinematic experience done to their stories, to their histories?  What teleological shape has Hollywood given to “crime” in Los Angeles or to “medicine” in urban centers, to the expansionist ideology of nuclear powers or to the racial ideology of homogenous populations? What goals or purposes have certain films or networks of films created? For whom? And which detours or breakdowns on the road to those purposes have decisively altered them?

Film & History welcomes paper and panel proposals for all areas, exploring the interlocking concepts of “Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns” across a wide variety of production systems [Hollywood, independent film, network and cable television], genres [animation, science fiction, noir, comedy, reality television], geographies [narratives of immigration, national and transnational movement of films], ideas and innovations [sight, sound, special effects], individuals [producers, filmmakers, stars, production personnel], and venues [movie palaces, drive-in theaters].

Our annual conference will be held at The Madison Concourse Hotel (in the heart of downtown Madison, WI, next to the historic Capitol), November 5-8, 2015. Attendees will receive specially-discounted room rates for this premier hotel. Air travel may be arranged conveniently through the regional airport in Madison or the international airport in Milwaukee.

Deadline for proposals for individual papers and full panels has been EXTENDED to July 1, 2015.  Please consult our website <www.filmandhistory.org> or our Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/groups/33713683204/> for full calls for papers for each area.  If your proposal does not seem to fit squarely within one of our areas, please submit it directly to Cynthia Miller, Area Chair Manager, at [log in to unmask]

The following is a list of our topic areas:

1950s and 60s TV 

Adaptation 

Classical Antiquity 

Disability & Difference 

Exploitation Film

Explorers and Exploration 

Film Exhibition 

Girlz II Women 

Heroes 

Independence 

Journeys of Identity 

Journeys of Love 

Masculinity 

Post-Socialism 

Queer Film and Television 

Race & Ethnicity 

Road Movies

Sound 

Stardom

Studio System 

Time Travel 

Wandering Jews 

War 

Westerns 

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