Call for Papers
THE FUTURE OF GENOCIDE AND REPRESSION Area
“Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond”
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
<http://www.filmandhistory.org/>www.filmandhistory.org
First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007
The atrocities and injustices of communism, imperialism, Nazism, and
religious fanaticism have become models for how film and television portray
the future of totalitarian regimestheir economic exploitation, genetic
engineering, indoctrination, oppression, genocide. References to current
or historical repressive policies appear in the dialogue, images, plots,
and soundtracks of films like Alien Nation, Blade Runner, A Clockwork
Orange, Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaiden’s Tale, The Island, 1984,
Ultraviolet, V for Vendetta, and X-Men.
This area examines how cinema and television connect human rights abuses in
future societies with past or present crimes against humanity. Panel
presentations can interpret how individual films, programs, or series draw
these parallels and advocate forms resistance to such policies. Papers
also could compare and contrast how several films, programs, or series have
handled the same topic. Another approach might analyze the influence of
genre (i.e. action adventure, comedy, drama, horror, science fiction, etc)
on the portrayal of these themes.
Paper topics might include ecological decimation, encounters between
indigenous and alien societies, eugenic attempts to create inferior and
superior classes, euthanasia, genocide, medical experimentation, robotics,
technological surveillance, terrorism, and war.
Please send your 200 word proposal by November 1, 2007 to
Lawrence Baron, Chair, “Future of Genocide and Repression” Area
Department of History, San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182 USA
Phone: 619-594-5338
Email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. Deadline for
first-round proposals: November 1, 2007
This area, comprising multiple panels, is a part of the 2008 biennial Film
& History Conference, sponsored by The Center for the Study of Film and
History. Speakers will include founder John O’Connor and editor Peter C.
Rollins (in a ceremony to celebrate the transfer to the University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh); Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Visions of the
Apocalypse, Disaster and Memory, and Lost in the Fifties: Recovering
Phantom Hollywood; Emmy award-winning writer and producer John Rubin, and
special-effects legend Stan Winston, our Keynote Speaker. For updates and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History
website (http://www.filmandhistory.org).
----
Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex
podcast:
http://www.screenlex.org
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.0.0/752 - Release Date: 4/8/2007 8:34 PM
----
Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex
podcast:
http://www.screenlex.org
|
