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CFP: Framing the Sixties: Retrospective Constructions of the 1960s
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
March 6-9, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.cmstudies.org
This is a CFP for a pre-constituted panel at next year's SCMS conference (this
information is also posted on the SCMS bulletin board). If interested, please
email 200-250-word abstracts and a brief bio by August 15th to Barry
Langford at [log in to unmask]
Summary:
With baby boomer candidates once again to the fore, the 2008 Presidential
race will doubtless provide another demonstration that the legacy and the
unfinished social, cultural and political business of the 1960s remain dynamic
and volatile presences in contemporary American society. 40 years after the
televised violence at the Chicago Democratic Convention crystallised the
frenzy of this talismanic and traumatic decade as an indissociably mediated
experience (“the whole world is watching”), this panel aims to explore the
ways in which American screens since 1970 have helped fashion the cultural
meanings and collective memory of “the Sixties”.
Against a backdrop of intensely partisan historiographical controversies,
literally dozens of film and television dramas and documentaries have proved
key agents in writing and rewriting the narrative of the 1960s, and have
consistently and strikingly illuminated how history is the subject to/of ongoing
ideological interpellation. Papers are sought on any aspect of the
retrospective construction of the 1960s in US film and television. Topics might
include: biopics and dramatic reconstructions of historical events from Camelot
to Kent State; fictional and documentary portraits of the era; “dramas of
retrospection” (Flashback, The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Field of
Dreams, etc.); “the Sixties” as trope; sexing the Sixties; etc.
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