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  SW/TX PCA/ACA
     
    Call for Presentations:
     
    Transgressive Cinema Panel
     
    Deadline for submission December  15, 2007
    Online: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html  
    The 29th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture  Associations
    February 13–16, 2008
    Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
    Albuquerque, New Mexico
     
    The area chairs are seeking submissions for presentations on any  aspect of Exploitation/Horror/Experimental film, although papers that  explicitly engage with the concept of “transgression” are strongly encouraged.
     
    If societies are defined by the limits they place on personal  behavior, then acts of transgression are necessary to identify just where those  limits lie.  Significantly, films that exist outside of the multiplex  mainstream often traffic in representations of such taboo breaking.  In  other words, this panel is seeking presentations that look at films that “push  the envelope to the point of tearing it.”  The types of films and  filmmaking that we are looking for are not limited to traditional horror films,  or even the many subgenres that can be described as “exploitation.”  Transgressive themes are frequently explored in experimental and arthouse  cinema as well.  Nevertheless, as a general rule these films all share a  penchant for content that disturbs more than it placates. 
     
    We encourage submissions to utilize a wide variety of  methodological approaches, from psychoanalysis to reception studies. 
     
    Some filmmakers to consider:
     
    Nick Zedd/Richard Kern/Genesis P. O and Psychic TV/Matthew  Barney/Herman Nitsch/Kenneth Anger/Dwain Esper/H.G. Lewis/ Ruggero  Deodato/Lucio Fulci/Dario Argento/Andy Milligan/Bunuel/Fellini/ Jörg  Buttgereit/ Jan Svankmajer/Ken Jacobs/Craig Baldwin/ Takashi Miike/ Abel  Ferrara/ Tony Tenser/Pete Walker/ Monika Treut/Jane Campion/Alfred  Hitchcock/David Cronenberg/Rob Zombie/Peter Greenaway
     
    These are only a FEW of the filmmakers one could look at.
     
    Co-chairs:
     
    Rob Weiner:
     
    Box 53841
    Lubbock, TX 79453
     
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    John Cline:
     
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    Conference Rates: Professionals, $140; Graduate students $120;  Spouse, partner $50
     
    Information about our areas of study, conference travel, lodging,  and the organization can be found on our regularly updated website: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html
     
    We look forward to seeing you this winter in sunny Albuquerque where we invite  you to explore  Route 66, local pueblos, hiking trails, museums, the  Sandia and Isleta casinos,  area ski resorts, and nearby Santa Fe.
     
    SW/TX PCA/ACA 2008 Conference
    February 13-16, 2008
     
    Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
    330 Tijeras
    Albuquerque, NM 87102
    Phone: 1.505.842.1234
    Fax: 1.505.766.6710
    This year’s keynote address will be given by Joy Harjo, an 
    internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician of the
    Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She has published seven books of acclaimed  poetry including She Had Some Horses, In Mad Love   and War, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, and her most recent How  We  Became Human: New and Selected Poems from W.W. Norton. Among her many awards  are the Lifetime Achievement Award
    from the Native Writers Circle of the  Americas, the Lila  Wallace Reader’s Digest Award, the New Mexico  Governor’s Award for  Excellence in the Arts, and the William Carlos Williams  Award from  the Poetry Society. 
    
       

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