CALL FOR PAPERS
       FIFTH CONFERENCE ON LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE
       Conference Theme:  POPULAR CINEMAS IN LATIN AMERICA
 
The editors of *Studies in Latin American Popular Culture* and the
Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane
University announce the Fifth Conference on Latin American
Popular Culture to be held October 17-20 at Tulane University,
New Orleans.
 
The conference theme is "Popular Cinemas in Latin America" (see
below), but the program committee invites proposals for panels and
individual papers that reflect the entire range of Latin American
popular culture artifacts, products, and practices.
 
The official language of the conference is English, but papers in
Spanish and Portuguese will also be accepted.
 
Abstracts of papers (250 words) and of panels (including
abstracts for each paper) should be submitted as early as
possible, but no later than APRIL 30, 1996  to:
 
               Ana M. Lopez
               Department of Communication
               219 Newcomb Hall
               Tulane University
               New Orleans, LA 70118
                    phone: (504) 862-3036
                    fax: (504) 862-3040
                    email: [log in to unmask]
 
Final program decisions will be made by May 15, 1996.  Selected
conference papers will be published in Volume 17 (1998) of
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.
 
 
Conference Theme: POPULAR CINEMAS IN LATIN AMERICA
 
Although much has been written and published in English about the
New Latin American Cinema and post-70s Latin American cinema,
much of this work has focused on "art," "quality" or "political"
films with international recognition. This focus has excluded not
only the "classic" cinemas produced in the 1930s-50s, but also
the study of the popular cinemas of Latin America: the films that
were (and continue) to be produced for popular consumption and
pleasure.
 
We solicit a broad range of papers, panels, and theoretical
approaches.
 
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
     *popular genres:  comedy, melodrama, action, etc.
 
     *stars, classical or contemporary: from Jorge Negrete,
     Oscarito, and Maria Felix to La India Maria and Xuxa
 
     *analyses of individual films
 
     *directors and authorship in popular cinemas
 
     *production, distribution, and exhibition of popular cinemas
 
     *crossovers among film and other popular media: music,
     television, video
 
     *audiences and the consumption of popular films
 
     *the impact/popularity of foreign films in Latin America
 
     *popular Latin American films in the US
 
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