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Please scroll down for CFPs on Managing the Scene: Women in the Film Industry; Auteurs and Authorship; and Black Hollywood’s Golden Age


CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: Managing the Scene: Women in the Film Industry
An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference:
Golden Ages: Styles and Personalities, Genres and Histories
October 29-November 2, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2014

Area: Managing the Scene: Women in the Film Industry

Has there been a “golden age” for women working behind the camera—as writers or directors, for example, or as producers, editors, choreographers, costume designers, or set decorators? Women represented only 18% of the primary film management of the top 250 domestic grossing films of 2012, and directed only 4% of the fiction films slated for release in 2014. Just four women have been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Director of a fiction film, and only one (Kathryn Bigelow in 2009) took home the trophy. Is the golden age of women as principal film managers gone, in a flicker? Or it is upon us? What traits characterize a film “managed”—directed, produced, edited, written, choreographed, or even critiqued—by a woman? And why might those traits be golden?

This area invites abstracts that trace—or perhaps anticipate—the histories of women operating behind the cameras, as directors, producers, assistants, scholars, and critics. Proposals might address topics such as

•	 career paths and strategies adopted by women in the film industry
•	 critical histories and controversies explored by feminist film scholarship
•	 the participation of women in national cinemas
•	 women filmmakers' roles in shaping the "women’s film" and other genres aimed at female audiences (family melodrama, romantic comedy)
•	 women's involvement in traditionally male-oriented film genres, from the action film to science fiction
•	 creative innovation in feminist documentary, animation, and new media
•	 gendered venues such as Women Make Movies and Lifetime Network
•	 women as active audience members, fans, and remixers

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).

Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 July 2014 to the area co-chairs:

Debra White-Stanley
Keene State College
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Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Central Connecticut State University
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CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: Auteurs and Authorship
An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference on Golden Ages
October 29-November 2, 2014
Madison Concourse Hotel 
Madison, WI USA
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2014

AREA: Auteurs and Authorship

Debates concerning authorship and the auteur theory have long divided the film and media studies scholarly community.  A history of film criticism cannot be told without due attention to the auteurist critics and those critical of their cinephilic enthusiasm.  Even before the “Golden Age” of the auteur theory (1950s-1960s), certain directors, producers, writers, and even stars were recognized for inserting an authorial presence into their films.  The rise of the auteur theory was contemporaneous with the birth of film studies within the academy, helping it to legitimize itself as an art form worthy of study.

What is the future of authorship in the field, particularly in regards to television and new media?  Should we look for authors in the televisual landscape?  Does it still matter?  Papers examining individual auteurs or authorship debates in film criticism and theory are all welcome.

Here are some topics for further exploration: 

Classic auteurs (Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra)
International auteurs (Ingmar Bergman, Yasujiro Ozu, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard)
Studio authorship (Warner Bros., Pixar)
Indie auteurs (John Cassavetes, Jim Jarmusch, John Sayles, Richard Linklater)
“Gutter” auteurs (Ed Wood, Doris Wishman, Jess Franco, Andy Milligan)
Golden age of auteurist criticism (Cahiers du Cinema, Andrew Sarris-Pauline Kael debates)
TV authors (Joss Whedon, Norman Lear, Seth MacFarlane, Tyler Perry)
Early auteurs (Alice Guy, Georges Méliès, D. W. Griffith)
Women auteurs (Agnes Varda, Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow)
African-American auteurs (Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee)
Latino auteurs (Gregory Nava, Robert Rodriguez)
Queer auteurs (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Derek Jarman, Su Friedrich)
Transnational auteurs (Luis Buñuel, Lars von Trier, Roman Polanski, Michael Haneke)

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).


Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 July 2014, to the area chair:

Zachary Ingle
University of Kansas
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CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: Black Hollywood’s Golden Age
An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference:
Golden Ages: Styles and Personalities, Genres and Histories
October 29-November 2, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2014

AREA:  Black Hollywood’s Golden Age

Defining a Golden Age for Black Hollywood is complex and problematic.  Even with a number of very successful black stars in Hollywood today, African Americans still face barriers and stereotyping in the movie industry.  Certainly finding a Golden Age in the past is even more difficult.  However, we can examine various points along the road to a future Golden Age for blacks in Hollywood.

This area invites 20-minute papers dealing with all aspects of how the concept of a "Golden Age" relates to blacks in Hollywood, on both sides of the camera.  Proposals can focus on a single star, actor, director, or film, along with the social, cultural, and political complexities that arose—or were suppressed—in the course of a given career or body of work. Similarly, papers might discuss a genre or era in black film, such as the race movies of the early 20th century or 1970s Blaxploitation.  

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

•	The politics of success: Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar – but for portraying a mammy.
•	The impact of pathbreakers: Sidney Poitier; Oscar Micheaux; Halle Berry 
•	Hollywood and Civil Rights:  Attempts by Walter White and the NAACP to change the movie industry both for audiences and for black workers in the industry.
•	Looking back in anger: Spike Lee, Harry Belafonte, Whoopie Goldberg, and other activist actors and filmmakers
•	Contemporary figures and influences: Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Oprah, and others

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).


Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 July 2014, to the area chair:

 Deborah Kitchen-Døderlein
University of Oslo
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