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Paper proposals are invited for a panel on institutions of documentary media
at the 18th Visible Evidence Conference, taking place in NYC from August
11-14th, 2011.


The panel will investigate and/or historicize the very institutions that
make viewing, exhibiting, and researching documentary and nonfiction media
possible.  With this purpose in mind, papers might consider the diverse
institutional frameworks that allow us to see and study documentary film by
examining the intersections of non-fiction media production, distribution,
promotion, education, exhibition, and preservation with particular
political, historical, economic, technological, and cultural contexts.



The research presented might take an exploratory approach to the history,
organizational goals, and/or functions of a cinema, archive, media arts
center, distributor, or educational organization of particular
interest.  Papers
could also take up a comparative method to consider how different political,
historical, economic, and technological specificities shape how non-fiction
media circulates in, responds to, and influences cultures, nations,
disciplines, and communities.



The overall quality of the proposal is of primary importance, but given the
VE tradition of drawing upon the conference location and the incredibly rich
non-fiction media history of NYC, papers addressing institutions that are
based in or were started in New York will be particularly welcome.



Possible questions or subjects to address include (but are not limited to):



-What kinds of mechanisms and networks enable documentary media to reach
particular audiences and what are the significant challenges or hindrances
within these mechanisms?

-By what means has a specific film, media arts, or educational organization
facilitated the production, distribution, or exhibition of documentary
media?  How do we characterize the aims and implications of those practices?

-How do certain institutional formations reflect, reinforce, or re-tool the
relationships that documentary media has with political and social
movements?

-How do issues around access and archiving shape documentary’s presence in
academic scholarship and new media practices?

-In what ways and under what guises has suppression or outright censorship
of certain documentaries—or histories of documentary—been instantiated under
different historical and cultural circumstances?

-Libraries, archives, museums, and documentary heritage

-Individual organizations like Newsreel, Young Filmmakers Foundation (which
became Film/Video Arts in 1985), Women Make Movies, etc.

-PBS P.O.V., Paper Tiger Television, GritTV, ITVS, or other television
outlets

-Specialty cinemas, clubs, film societies or other exhibition contexts that
focus on non-fiction media

-Documentary film financing and grant foundations

-Documentary’s relationship to the film festival circuit and doc-specific
festivals, such as Uniondocs, IDFA, Docfest, etc.

-First Run/Icarus, Tribeca Film Institute’s “Reframe” Program, or other
distribution paradigms

-Documentary film, university libraries, and educational marketing



Please email a 250-word abstract or proposal (in the body of the email, not
as an attachment), a brief bibliography, and bio to Kristen Fallica at kmf33
(at) pitt.edu and write “VE Proposal” in the subject line.



Deadline for proposals is January 1, 2011; all submitters will be notified
by Friday, January 7, 2011, so that those who will not be on the proposed
panel can apply to the open call.


For more information on Visible Evidence, visit http://visibleevidence.org.


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Kristen Fallica
Department of English/Film Studies
University of Pittsburgh
526 Cathedral of Learning
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

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