Paper submissions are now open for the 2012 Film & History Conference:

FILM AND MYTH

September 26-30, 2012
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
www.filmandhistory.org

Deadline: June 1, 2012

The 2012 Film & History Conference (Sept. 26-30, Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee, USA) will examine the power of myth in film, television, and the other moving-image arts. As a collective pattern, myth transcends the individual, yet it provides structure to our most personal feelings and assumptions. It can be subtle or obvious, shallow or complex. It can move nations to attack each other—or to reconcile. It can induce affection or ridicule or longing. Myth operates somewhere between the waking consciousness of history and drowsy consciousness of mystery. Often it is both narrative and meta-narrative, trying to tell us what we know and how we might know it. And film is the most vibrant stage of mythmaking today. How do films exploit or succumb to certain myths? Why do audiences embrace one mythic pattern over another—in romance or tragedy or comedy? Who or what controls mythmaking in film and television? How do certain historical characters or events become legendary? How do they become mythic? What historical mutations have myths undergone in film? What myths are on the horizon?

Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites proposals for papers addressing all aspects of film, television, myth, and mythmaking. Active calls for papers from wide range of topic areas are available on our website.  Papers addressing topics related to FILM AND MYTH outside these areas are also very welcome. 

Please send a brief description of your area (200-250 words) to the appropriate area chair, listed on our website, or to Cynthia Miller, Area Chair Manager, by June 1, 2012. Areas currently seeking papers include: 

•	Adventure! Danger! Romance!: Myths of Exploration
•	America's Pantheon: Superheroes and Sports Heroes in Film and Television
•	Ancient Egypt in Myth, History, and Religion
•	Animating History: Disney Americans and Other Myths
•	Chicks with Brains: Representing Women's Intellect in Film
•	The Color of Myth: Aesthetics, Affect, Apprehension 
•	Food of the Gods: The Mythic Poetics of Food, Drink, and Eating in Film and Television
•	Marriage and Family Myths in Film and Television
•	Medieval Magic: Myths and Legends in Film and Television
•	Music, Motifs, and Mythmaking 
•	Myths, Inc.: The Business World in Film and Television
•	Myths R Us: Nationality in Film and Television
•	Mythic Characters and Places Made Real: TV and Film in Situ
•	Myths of Difference: Disability, Illness, Disfigurement & Iconographies of Film
•	Mythic Mother Nature: Storytelling and Myth-building Through the Moving Image
•	Mythic Structures: Sacred Architecture and Ornamentation in Film
•	Mythical Movie Jews: Anti- and Philo-Semitic Stereotypes on the Silver Screen
•	Mythos: Screening Classical Mythology in Film and Television
•	Queer Mythologies: Untangling Sex and Gender Myths
•	Science Fiction Myths: Travels through Time and Space
•	Storytelling 101: History as Myth on the Big Screen
•	War Myths: Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Film and Television

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