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 ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]