Final Reminder
Call for Proposals:
The Second Annual
Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference
at the University of Notre Dame
April 11-12, 2008
The Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference offers undergraduate
students the opportunity to present papers representing their best
work in film and media studies. The conference will take place on the
campus of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana on April 11-12,
2008. Students will deliver papers on any aspect of film and media
history, criticism, or theory, and the papers will be given in twenty
minute slots.
Students who wish to participate in the conference must submit a
title and abstract (maximum 200 words) describing their paper, as
well as a brief biographical statement (maximum 50 words) stating
their interest in film and media studies and their academic goals.
Proposals should also include technical needs (DVD, VCR, and
PowerPoint will be available) and contact information. To provide
this information, students must use appropriate the submission form,
included below and also available online at
<http://www.nd.edu/~ftt/submission.doc>http://www.nd.edu/~ftt/submission.doc.
Deadline for proposals: February 15, 2008
A panel comprised of faculty from Notre Dame's Department of Film,
Television, and Theatre will select papers from among the proposals received.
Note: This is not an undergraduate film festival but an academic
conference. Do not send student films. Student films may, of course,
form part of a paper presentation but they will not be screened
outside the 20-minute time allocation.
At the First Annual conference, participants included students from
Notre Dame, Iowa, Tennessee, the Art Institute of Chicago, Denison,
Ohio State, Southern Illinois, Purdue, Columbia College, Illinois,
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Calvin College. Selected paper titles
included: "The Wire: Institutions and Anti-Romanticism," "Beneath
Physical Reality: The Emergence of Death and Holocaust Trauma in
Kracauer's Theory of Film," "Oldboy: South Korean Culture in the
Context of the Masculine Western," "Spoiled by the Media: TV, the
Internet, and the Teenage Consumer," "Madness in the Hills:
Hollywood's New Wave of Slasher Killers," "Taking the 'Nation' Out of
National Tragedy: Paul Greengrass's Transnational Documentary Style,"
and "Locating Violence: A Critical Analysis of the Western Image in A
History of Violence and Last Days."
For more information on the conference, contact: Christine Becker,
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask], 574-631-7592
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Second Annual Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference
Submission Form
Your name:
Your email address:
Your college or university:
Your major:
Your paper title:
3-4 key words that would help categorize your paper (i.e. genre
study, stardom, Hong Kong cinema, etc.):
Description of paper (in 200 words or less, please describe your
paper's argument. Note: Do NOT send the full paper):
Biographical Information (50 words or less):
Equipment Needs (check all that apply):
DVD __
VCR __
Powerpoint __
Please specify: MAC __ PC __
Send completed form to Christine Becker via email
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
using subject heading "undergraduate conference"
Or mail to:
Undergraduate Film Conference
c/o Christine Becker
230 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Deadline for submission is February 15, 2008
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