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CfP- 2017 SCMS - 1968 + Political Cinema - 3/22-3/26/17 - Chicago, Illinois

1968 and Political Cinema
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
Chicago, March 22 - 26, 2017

Plenty of scholarship exists on the late 1960s New Waves, especially on the French New Wave vis-à-vis May '68 in Paris. Well-known are the celebrated productions of the French New Wave, especially Truffaut, Godard and Marker; the British New Wave and the so-called Angry Young Men; Brazilian cinema novo, especially of Rocha; and the Czech New Wave. However, scholarship that puts the political cinemas of 1968 into dialogue with one another across national boundaries is surprisingly lacking.

To some extent, this dearth reflects the disciplinary boundaries set by departments each devoted to a national linguistic, literary and cinematic tradition. Yet political cinemas around 1968 often engaged — drew inspiration from and in turn inspired — the new wave of another country, in politics content and aesthetic innovations.

This proposed panel seeks to remedy this gap by examining this interplay in cinemas of the global sixties. It is our wager that it could generate a variety of new insights into film history and film style.

Possible paper topics might include but are not limited to the following:

- the long sixties (not solely "1968" proper)
- the interplay among cinemas of disparate geographic spaces
- minor or sub-national cinemas
- gender and the sixties
- sexuality and the sixties
- class and the sixties
- sound and sixties new waves
- the sixties and experimental cinema

Please submit a 250-word abstract, 5 bibliographic sources (articles or books); and a brief bio (2-3 sentences) to both Christina Gerhardt at [log in to unmask] and Sarah Hamblin at [log in to unmask] Deadline: August 14, 2016.

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