I am interested in receiving abstracts for a panel for the Society for Cinema Studies conference in Chicago, March 9- 12, 2000 on the topic of Terrorism and the Media. The representational practices in film and television surrounding the issue of terrorism have a long history of research in the social sciences and in counterinsurgency studies, but they have not received sufficient attention in the field of media studies. For this panel, I am looking for papers which investigate a variety of representational practices related to terrorism. Possible topics include: –How are gender identities negotiated (e.g. the ‘feminization’ of terrorists)? –The representation of female terrorists. –Terrorism as transnational phenomenon and its challenges to the nation state. –How do film or television deal with terrorisms’ challenge to the violence monopoly of the nation state? –What is the connection between national broadcast systems and representations of terrorism? –How do the media attempt to define legitimate and illegitimate violence? –The politics of race and ethnicity in films about terrorism (e.g. True Lies or Delta Force). –The politics of covering domestic terrorism in the US (e.g. Oklahoma City). Email 300-400 word abstract by September 17, 1999 to: Prof. Olaf Hoerschelmann University of North Texas Dept. of Radio, TV and Film [log in to unmask] ________________________________ Olaf Hoerschelmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Radio, Television, Film University of North Texas Phone: (940) 369-7327 Fax: (940) 369-7838 ________________________________ ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite