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Please scroll down for CFPs for "Love, Marriage, and a Baby Carriage: Bonding and Parenthood in Film and Television," "Love and Violence: Action Heroes," "Lovers on the Side: Tramps and Rogues in Film and History," "Lust in Space: Love in Science Fiction Film and Television"
 
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Call for Papers:
"Love, Marriage, and a Baby Carriage: Bonding and Parenthood in Film and Television"
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 10-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
First Round Deadline: November 1, 2009
AREA: Love, Marriage, and a Baby Carriage: Bonding and Parenthood in Film and Television
 
What does it mean to be bound by love? Sometimes, the bonds of love supply bliss, and sometimes they demand sacrifice. Sometimes, experiencing love saves people, and sometimes it kills them. Being bound by love often engenders moral responsibility; in other cases, it enslaves and imprisons the soul. How does bonding-the dramaturgical center of most narratives-complicate our understanding of "love"? And how do film and television represent that complication?
 
This area looks at nuptial and familial bonding in film and television and seeks papers that discuss how the representation of this process revises, perpetuates, or deconstructs love in marriage and parenthood. Papers treating the mythologies of bonding are also welcome, as are papers that target specific characterizations, themes, or genres in film and television.  
 
Possibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
* Unwanted children/unexpected children (Just Another Girl on the IRT, Knocked Up, Juno)
* Doing the "right" thing (A Summer Place, 90210)
* Parenting with illness or disability (Stepmom, My Sister's Keeper, Mask)
* Protecting children (Heroes Seasons 1 &2, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
* Parenting after the death of a spouse (To Gillian on her 37th Birthday, Jersey Girl, Weeds)
* Work and parenthood (Kramer vs Kramer, Mr. Mom, Baby Boom, Motherhood, In the Motherhood, The New Adventures of Old Christine)
* Race, class, and single mothers (Bush Mama, Maid in America)
* Historical changes in acceptable ideas about responsible love
 
Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:
 
Laura D'Amore, Area Chair
Roger Williams University
Department of History and American Studies
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI  02809
Email: [log in to unmask] (email submissions preferred)
 
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).
 
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Call for Papers
"Love and Violence: Action Heroes"
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 11-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
First Round Deadline: November 1, 2009
AREA: Love and Violence: Action Heroes
 
Though often bullied into a narrative corner, love remains a powerful motivator in the action genre. Despite an atmosphere of danger, brutality, and death, heroes bend to moments of tender passions, consuming jealousy, blind devotion, and sexual chemistry. From an estranged husband's love in Die Hard and a dueling courtship in Batman Returns to Aragon's devotion to Arwen in Lord of the Rings and the longing between X-Men's Wolverine and Jean Grey, love is a complex interjection-sometimes a disruption-in a genre that typically rewards stoicism and aggression.
 
This area welcomes papers exploring the many representations of love and romance in the action genre, particularly focusing on action heroes. How does love-familial or romantic-drive the storyline?  Does it complicate or complement? How does love make an action hero accessible, realistic, or human? Conversely, how is love used to weaken a hero, color his or her judgment, or bring about a downfall? How does femininity/masculinity affect the expression of sentiment?  How do generic expectations dilute or bastardize love, especially when paired with forms of sexual violence (rape, masochism, sadism) or racism/sexism? What is the feminizing effect of love on heroes? How are threats of non-normative sexuality or love integrated or repressed? What sacrifices, consequences, or rewards are given in the name of love?  
 
Possibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
* Push-Pull Lovers: The Matrix; Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Batman Returns
* Mutant Love: Underworld; X-men; Fantastic 4; Heroes; Watchmen
* Love and Family: Die Hard; Lethal Weapon; Kill Bill; The Long Kiss Goodnight; The Punisher; Terminator; The Incredibles, Star Wars; Gladiator
* For the Love of a Good Woman (or Man): Spiderman, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, The Dark Knight
* Other considerations: sex scenes; absence, denial, or repression of love; homosocial partnerships; love as expression of cultural, social, or political setting
 
Please send your 250-word proposal to
 
Jennie M. Morton, Area Chair
English Department  
University of Northern Iowa / Baker 42
Cedar Falls, IA 50614
Email: [log in to unmask] (email submissions preferred)
 
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).
 
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Call for Papers
"Lovers on the Side: Tramps and Rogues in Film and History"
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 10-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
First Round Deadline: November 1, 2009
AREA: Lovers on the Side: Tramps and Rogues in Film and History
 
Temptresses and libertines, sirens and scoundrels, shady ladies and gigolos-these cinematic figures of stolen or corrupted passion have complicated, reinforced, deepened-or challenged, derailed, and redefined-our understanding of "love." What are the limits of love? When and why does it become wrong? What genres or historical periods of film and television have dominated our perception of those sometimes dangerous, often essential figures on the margins of love? And how has their service to morality and ethics changed over time, as these figures embody the thrills, heartbreaks, and consequences of illicit passion?
 
This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers and panel proposals that examine all forms and genres of films featuring the tramps and rogues who test the nature and boundaries of love.  Possibilities include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
* Complicated combinations (Gone with the Wind; The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover; Diary of a Seducer; Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
* Soiled Doves (McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Outlaw)
* The Tart with a Heart (Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity;  Satine in Moulin Rouge; Sera in Leaving Las Vegas)
* Men and Women of Mystery (Arthur Tracy,  Lynn Bari)
* Noir Lovers (Scarlet Street, The Big Sleep)
* Just a Gigolo  (Don Juan, Affairs of Anatol)
* Affairs of Office (The Apartment, An American Affair, The Special Relationship)
 
Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:
 
Cynthia J. Miller, Area Chair
Emerson College
Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
120 Boylston St.
Boston, MA  02116
Email: [log in to unmask] (email submissions preferred)
 
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).
 
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Call for Papers
"Lust in Space: Love in Science Fiction Film and Television"
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 10-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
First Round Deadline: November 1, 2009
AREA: Lust in Space: Love in Science Fiction Film and Television

Science fiction typically relegates matters of the heart to perfunctory sub-plots. As Dale Arden says in the 1980 remake of Flash Gordon: "Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!" Yet science fiction also places love, sex, and reproduction in provocative new contexts. What are the stakes in a "mixed marriage" when the partnership crosses species, not just races or religions? How does love or family thrive in a utopian (or dystopian) future defined by sleek machines and hyper-efficiency? Does sentience in a computer or robot entail the capacity to love? How do cinematic stories of time travel challenge the ethics of cultural, sexual, or technological interference?  Why are scientists, engineers, and astronauts so often sexless in film, and what happens when they do fall in love (or in lust)?  From the high seriousness of George Lucas' THX-1138 (in which love is the ultimate act of defiance in a totalitarian future) to the low comedy of Back to the Future (in which a teenaged time-traveler fends off the advances of his teenaged mother), this area will treat all cinematic and televisual forms-adventure, drama, farce, social commentary, allegory, and more-as it explores the role of love inside the boundless space of science fiction.

Topics that would naturally fall within this area include:

Human-alien couples in series television (Babylon 5, the Star Trek universe)
Human-alien one-night stands (Star Trek, Starman, Barbarella, Species)
Loving robots (AI, the Terminator universe, Bicentennial Man, Wall-E)
Strange pregnancies (Humanoids from the Deep, Demon Seed, Village of the Damned, Junior)
Love and Time Travel (Back to the Future, Time After Time, Forever Young)
Dystopian Love (THX-1138, Gattaca, Children of Men, Zero Population Growth, Fortress)
Love in Space (Rocketship X-M, Saturn 3, Mission to Mars, Red Planet)
The Family of the Future (Meet the Robinsons, Lost in Space, Phil of the Future)
Love in the Laboratory (The Desk Set, Creator, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk)
Man-Made Women: (Metropolis, Bride of Frankenstein, Weird Science, Simone)
 
Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:

A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Social and International Studies Department
Southern Polytechnic State University
1100 South Marietta Parkway
Marietta, GA 30060
Email: [log in to unmask] (email submissions preferred)
 
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory)
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