Proposed Panel for SCMS Annual Conference Imagining, Imaging, and Remembering the Method in the 21st Century March 21-25, 2012, Boston, MA It is the most significant development in US film performance in the 20th century and has accordingly been the subject of constant critical and popular scrutiny. Still, Method acting remains a vexing and elusive subject for scholars and general audiences alike. As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, and confront both deceased Method actors and their purported descendants, it becomes necessary to take stock of what the so-called “Method” does within a new century rife with shifting contexts, morphing mediascapes, and competing historical narratives. This panel seeks papers that deploy varying critical perspectives, methodological approaches, and/or historical artifacts towards this end, work that adds clarity to the myriad ways in which past and present performances (and performers) are imagined, imaged, and remembered within and without 21st century film cultures. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: memorialization and historicization of the Method and its practitioners; discourses of discipline, transformation, and the Method acting body; transnational circulation of the Method actor; televisual and new media representations of the Method; neoliberalism, citizenship, and the identity politics of the Method and its practitioners; industrial and institutional discourses surrounding the Method; and the Method’s relationship to mutations in celebrity cultures and star systems. Please submit a 300 word abstract, a 5 item bibliography, and a brief bio to [log in to unmask] by August 10, 2011. Justin Owen Rawlins PhD Candidate Communication and Culture American Studies Indiana University [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu