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DEADLINE for abstracts: June 1, 2014

Emerging during World War II and reaching its peak in the decade that followed, film noir emerged from the seamy underbelly of popular culture. It drew from pulp detective stories and the hard-boiled crime novels of authors like James M. Cain, flouting the dictates of the industry’s moral guardians and embracing violence, blatant sexuality, and societal conflict. This style forced audiences to re-examine American values, including traditional gender roles, race, and sexuality; and as its social context changed, so too did film noir’s critique.

What can be said about the effects that film noir has had upon traditional Western societies? What cultural or historical factors affected audience perceptions of these stories, and their subsequent pleasures? How did female spectatorship figure into postwar narratives? How has the anti-hero figured prominently in the deconstruction of patriarchy, if at all? This area, comprising multiple panels, explores the concept of Golden Ages across the production systems surrounding Film Noir. Topics might include the following:

•Decoding the Production Code through Film Noir
•Feminism, female sexuality, and fandom
•Gay, Lesbian characters and Queer considerations
•Racial relations, and social disruption
•The existence, or non-existence, of Neo-Noir
•The Family in Film Noir
•The military man or woman in wartime Films Noir
•The recognizable star vs. the unknown actor in Films Noir
•The Tough Guy guise, and the fascination with the Femme Fatale
•Wet, dangerous, and dark: the visual tropes of the Film Noir city

Proposals for individual papers should include a 200-word abstract and the name, affiliation, and contact email of the presenter. 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 June 2014, to the area chair:

Darrell M, Newton
 Salisbury University
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Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor
The Department of Communication Arts
Salisbury University
260 Fulton Hall
Salisbury, MD 21801
(410) 677-5060 Office
(410) 543-6229 Department
http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
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Subject: [SCREEN-L] New issue of Film History

[Apologies for cross-posting--]

Hello all,

The latest issue of Film History (vol. 26, no. 1) is now available, featuring a variety of new articles that may be of interest to readers, including:

  * Film, Cultural Policy, and World War I Training Camps: Send Your Soldier to the Show with Smileage (Sue Collins)
  * The Myth of Evangeline and the Origin of Canadian National Cinema (Zoë Constantinides)

  * Marketing Rebellion: The Chinese Revolution Reconsidered (Kim Fahlstedt)
  * Millhouse: The Problems and Opportunities of Political Cinema (Mark Minett)
  * Splitsville: Independent Exhibitors Court Federal Intervention in the American Film Industry, 1975-1988 (Deron Overpeck)

This issue also contains the inaugural installment of a new recurring feature called "Re-Readings," featuring historiographic reevaluation of important pre-1960 works of film history:

  * "What Movie Tonight?": Margaret Thorp between the Aesthetics and the Sociology of American Cinema (Dana Polan)

We hope you will enjoy reading this issue, which can be accessed on JSTOR or Project MUSE:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/filmhistory.26.issue-1
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/film_history/toc/fih.26.1.html

All the best,

David Church, Managing Editor
Film History
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Department of Communication and Culture
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Indiana University
Bloomington IN 47405

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