Call for Papers
ANIMAL Area
2008 Film & History Conference
“Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond”
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
www.filmandhistory.org
First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007
Area: Animal Films
From Bambi to March of the Penguins, animal films have represented human
values, recorded life in the non-human world, and influenced perceptions of
animal nature. Just as the medium of film connects its audience with
faraway or fantastical places in other genres, so does it provide glimpses
of animal lives they might otherwise not knowgeographically and temporally.
This area seeks paper and panel proposals that examine images of animals
and address the broader implications of these constructions. Have fictional
representations affected the work of documentary film-makers? What value
does wildlife footage have for animal science and conservation? What
relationships do animal films form or dissolve with humans?
Paper topics might include:
Animals in fiction and the socio-cultural effects of such “nature fakery”
The construction of animal lives in documentaries
The role of animal films in environmentalism and wildlife
conservation
Portrayals of pets, tamed animals, and wildlife
Human relationships with animals
Role of visual and audio techniques and technologies in field
photography
Please send your 200-word proposal by November 1, 2007 to:
Kelly Enright, Chair of the Animal Area
Department of History
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1004
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Panel proposals for up to four presenters are welcome. Each presenter must
submit his or her own paper proposal. Deadline for first-round proposals:
November 1, 2007.
This area, comprising multiple panels, is a part of the 2008 biennial Film
& History Conference, sponsored by The Center for the Study of Film and
History. Speakers will include founder John O’Connor and editor Peter C.
Rollins (in a ceremony to celebrate the transfer to the University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh); Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Visions of the
Apocalypse, Disaster and Memory, and Lost in the Fifties: Recovering
Phantom Hollywood; Emmy award-winning writer and producer John Rubin, and
special-effects legend Stan Winston, our Keynote Speaker. For updates and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History
website (http://www.filmandhistory.org).
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