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CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS: TELEVISION, VIDEO, and FEMINISM
CALL FOR PAPERS
5th Annual Conference
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 25-28, 1996
Conference theme: Fighting back-lashes - global and local perspectives
(Papers may also be on other topics)
Console-ing Passions welcomes paper proposals that foreground questions of
sexual and other cultural differences. Preconstituted panels accepted.
Possible areas include feminist perspectives on:
--Conference theme: fighting back-lashes
--TV & contemporary theory
--TV in African American culture
--TV in Latino cultures
--International TV
--TV audiences & ethnography
--TV & social history
--TV institutions & industries
--Video art & independent video
--TV & queer theory
--TV & constructions of ethnicity, race and sexuality
--Media pedagogy
--TV & children
Please send 250 word proposals only [with name(s), institution(s),
address(es), email(s), phone(s), paper/panel title] to:
1. Preferred choice: world-wide web
a. http://www.pitt.edu/~cptv/cphome.html (home page)
b. http://www.pitt.edu/~cptv/proposal/prop-sub.html (proposal form)
2. Second choice: email
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3. Third choice: mail
Department of English
526 Cathedral
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
4. International Emergencies Only: fax
Julie D'Acci (608) 262-9953
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS NOVEMBER 3, 1995
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Julie D'Acci, 1996 Conference Coordinator
6142 Vilas Communication Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
FAX: 608-262-9953
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Advisory Board: Dianne Brooks, Phebe Chao, Julie D'Acci, Jane Feuer
Dee Dee Halleck, Mary Beth Haralovich, Marsha Kinder, Lauren Rabinovitz,
Ellen Seiter, Lynn Spigel, Mimi White.
10% of the American public would pay $5 to see Senator Orrin
Hatch (R - Utah) fight a big mean dog on Pay TV. 86% of all
viewers would root for the dog. 100% of women viewers would
root for the dog.
- TV Nation Poll
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