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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE APPROACHING!

Designing Culture and Character: Technology in Film, Television, and New
Media
2019 Film & History Conference
November 13-17
Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)

On screen, “technology” is simply information. What have filmmakers done
with it? What stories have we told ourselves through our tech? How have
those stories changed, even as the technology on and off screen has
changed? When does a gun or a computer or a hand-stitched suit define a
hero or a villain? How are plotlines or directorial styles affected not
just instrumentally by period technologies but by the ideologies that
underwrite them? Is the history of film essentially the history of
technology?

The 2019 Film & History Conference, to be held November 13-17, at The
Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI, USA), invites 200-word proposals for
papers or panels (three papers, united by a theme) that examine the role of
technology on and off the screen. Please send your one-page area proposal
to the Director of Communications, Cindy Miller, at
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Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

*Art vs. Technology in Film, TV, and New Media
*History as Technology Periodization
*Artificial Intelligence: Theorizing the Self
*Geeks as Heroes, Icons, and Hi-Tech Villains
*Gadgets and Gidgets: Women with Tech
*Alternative Cultures: Strange Technology
*Technology and the Representation of Race
*Machines and Men: Re-examining Masculinity
*Science vs. Technology in Film, TV, and New Media
*Classy Tech: Social Stratification
*Sell Phones: Individualism and Mass Markets
*Pyramids and Catapults: Representing Ancient Cultures
*Luddites and other Anti-Technology Cultures in Film, TV, and New Media
*The Eagle Has Landed: Film and Television Before and *After Armstrong
*Utopian and Dystopian Tech
*Machines as Monsters
*Representations of Medical Technology in Film, TV, and New Media
*The Technology of Character: Costume and Makeup
*Queer Gear: Tech and Sexuality in Film, TV, and New Media
*Toy Stories: Children and (Non-)Technological Cultures

Our Keynote Speaker will be DEBORAH NADOOLMAN LANDIS, Founding Director and
Chair of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design, UCLA. Nominated for
an Academy Award for Coming to America (1988), Professor Landis also served
as Costume Designer for Michael Jackson’s landmark video Thriller (1983),
for John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Animal House
(1978), and for Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).

From 2001-2007, Landis served as two-term president of the Costume
Designers Guild, Local 892. She is the author of six books, including
Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design (2007), FilmCraft: Costume
Design (2012), Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration
(2012), and the catalogue for her landmark exhibition, Hollywood Costume,
which she curated at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She is the
editor-in-chief of the upcoming Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and
Television Costume Design (2019) and is presently curating an exhibition on
science and science fiction opening in 2019 at the Science Museum, London.
Landis sits on the Board of the National Film Preservation Foundation and
is a past Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

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