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Please scroll down for CFPs for "Agape: Faith, God, Mission"; "America's Love Affair with Movie Gangsters"; "L'Amour Noir: Fear and Danger in Romance"
 
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Call for Papers
"Agape: Faith, God, Mission"
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 10-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
First Round Deadline: November 1, 2009
AREA: Agape: Faith, God, Mission
 
"The cinema has always been interested in God." Thus begins Andre Bazin's essay "The Cinema and Theology," noting that portrayals of religious stories and elements were interwoven with cinema from its very origins. Filmmakers love religious topics, venues, characters, and even values. From the customs of the Mexican Mennonites in Silent Light to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Persepolis to the insulation of the Catholic hierarchy in Angels & Demons, religion pervades the films of every nation.  
 
This area invites papers that examine the intersections between religion and film, both thematically and structurally. How does the cinema fictionalize the love of God ("agape")? How does it re-draw relationships within a community? How does it portray religious groups either inside or outside the popular culture? When and why is the "love" of God redefined to provoke sympathy or judgment? 
This area seeks a global perspective, for, although agape is associated with Christianity, all papers on faith communities that explore the cinematic representation of the love of the Divine are welcome.
 
Please send your 200-word proposals by e-mail to the area chair:
Zachary Ingle, Area Chair
University of Kansas
Oldfather Studios
1621 W 9th St
Lawrence, KS 66048
[log in to unmask] (e-mail submissions preferred)
 
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal.  For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).
 
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Call for Papers
"America's Love Affair with Movie Gangsters"
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 10-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
First Round Deadline: November 1, 2009
 
AREA: "America's Love Affair with Movie Gangsters" 
 
How does the Gangster Film deepen or disturb our understanding of a nation's identity? The United States of America, for example, prizes law and order, not least in its television programming, but the nation also loves its mobsters and gangsters. Some viewers experience a romantic flutter or toy with the lure of forbidden fruit, while others are drawn in by morbid curiosity, adrenaline-pounding fear, or patriotic pride. Is this love affair an extended national reflex after Prohibition? Or do profounder attractions guide Americans?
 
This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers and panel proposals that examine the major appeals behind the gangster film or gangster television show. Possibilities include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
 
??Bloody Biopics:  The Romantic Gangster Anti-Hero (Little Caesar, Public Enemy, Dillinger, "American Gangster" on BET, Mobsters, Lansky)
??Violence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (Scarface, Pulp Fiction, Road to Perdition, Gangs of New York, Goodfellas, The Departed)
??But He Was Always Good to his Mother  (White Heat, The Public Enemy, "The Sopranos," Ma Barker's Killer Brood, Public Enemies)
??Mobster Family Values:  Murder, Yes; Divorce Never (Prizzi's Honor, Kingpin, Married to the Mob, "Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife")
??Eye Candy: Bracelet of Diamonds or Heart of Gold? (Marked Woman, Virginia Hill: Mistress To the Mob, Connie and Carla, Bound) 
??Equal Opportunity Molls (Bonnie and Clyde, Lady Scarface)
??For the Love of God: Religion in Gangster Movies  (Angels with Dirty Faces, Once Upon a Time in America, Godfather Trilogy)
Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:
 
Beverly M. Kelley, Area Chair
California Lutheran University
60 W. Olsen Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Email: [log in to unmask] (email submissions preferred)
 
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory <http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory> )
 
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Call for Papers
L'Amour Noir: Fear and Danger in Romance, 1920-1960
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 11-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
First Round Deadline: November 1, 2009
AREA: "L'Amour Noir: Fear and Danger in Romance"
 
The femme fatale long precedes hardboiled-detective fiction and its filmic offspring, yet was love ever so thoroughly defined by the tension between attraction and danger as in the period between World War I and the 1950s? What is the range of dangerous women presented in these films? Why did the linking of fear with desire appeal to audiences so strongly? Is there a comparable homme fatale figure? Can the historical moment convincingly explain the representation of love as so destabilizing? Beyond film noir, how does the paradigm play out in melodrama, horror films, and other genres? Was masculinity significantly redefined during this period? How does society's fear, represented by censorship and the Production Code, relate to the dangers in the "noir" representation of love? What variations of it do we find over longer periods of time and across national boundaries?
 
This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers and panel proposals that examine the anxiety of dangerous love in films from 1920-1960.  The topics below suggest just a few of the directions panelists might take, including topics that account for more current versions of the mid-20-century noir movement:
 
* Locating the Evil (Double Indemnity; Chinatown)
* From Asia with Love (Realm of the Senses; Ju Dou)
* Questions of Identity (L.A. Confidential; Blade Runner)
* The Changing Times of Noir and Neo-Noir (The Postman Always Rings Twice; Mildred Pierce; Body Heat; The Last Seduction)
* From Europe with Love (The Blue Angel; Breathless)
* Dangerous Women and Queer Villains (Laura; Gilda; The Maltese Falcon)
* The Perfect Man (The Stranger; Letter from an Unknown Woman; Les Bonne Femmes;) 
* Aftershocks (Fatal Attraction; Basic Instinct; Breaking the Waves)
 
Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:
Bill Mooney, Area Chair
Fashion Institute of Technology
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York, NY 10001-5992
Email: [log in to unmask] (email submissions preferred)
 
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).
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