FINAL DAYS TO SUBMIT!!
FILM AND MYTH
September 26-30, 2012
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
www.filmandhistory.org
Deadline: June 1, 2012
The 2012 Film & History Conference will examine the power of myth in film, television, and the other moving-image arts. Myth operates somewhere between the waking consciousness of history and drowsy consciousness of mystery. Often it is both narrative and meta-narrative, trying to tell us what we know and how we might know it. And film is the most vibrant stage of mythmaking today. How do films exploit or succumb to certain myths? How do certain historical characters or events become legendary? How do they become mythic? What historical mutations have myths undergone in film? What myths are on the horizon?
Please send a brief description of your paper (200-250 words) to the appropriate area chair, listed on our website, or to Cynthia Miller, Area Chair Manager, by June 1, 2012. Areas currently seeking papers include the following, though papers on other Film and Myth topics are welcome:
Adventure! Danger! Romance!: Myths of Exploration
America's Pantheon: Superheroes and Sports Heroes in Film and Television
Ancient Egypt in Myth, History, and Religion
Animating History: Disney Americans and Other Myths
Bunnies, Bars, and Stews: Myths of 1950s-1970s Cultural History in the
Popular Present
Chicks with Brains: Representing Women's Intellect in Film
The Color of Myth: Aesthetics, Affect, Apprehension
Crime and Punishment: Mythologizing the Law
Food of the Gods: The Mythic Poetics of Food, Drink, and Eating in Film and
Television
Frontier Myth and Iconography in the Old West
Marriage and Family Myths in Film and Television
Medieval Magic: Myths and Legends in Film and Television
Music, Motifs, and Mythmaking
Myths, Inc.: The Business World in Film and Television
Myths of Stardom: Cultivating Star Identities
Myths R Us: Nationality in Film and Television
Mythic Characters and Places Made Real: TV and Film in Situ
Mythic Mother Nature: Storytelling and Myth-building Through the Moving
Image
Mythic Structures: Sacred Architecture and Ornamentation in Film
Mythical Movie Jews: Anti- and Philo-Semitic Stereotypes on the Silver
Screen
Mythos: Screening Classical Mythology in Film and Television
Queer Mythologies: Untangling Sex and Gender Myths
Science Fiction Myths: Travels through Time and Space
Storytelling 101: History as Myth on the Big Screen
War Myths: Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Film and Television
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