CALL FOR PAPERS: Film & History The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites papers examining all aspects of Film & History for its annual conference to be held February 13-17, 2002 at the Albuquerque Hilton in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Last year, this area was very popular and brought like-minded scholars together on a topic of common interest. Possible Areas for consideration include, but are not limited to: The West in Film The Western Myth and Popular Culture The Films of John Ford The Films of Sam Peckinpah The Holocaust and Film Documentary and Propaganda Celluloid Journalism Mexican Film and History Hollywood and Patriotism Film and the American Revolution The Civil War and Film D.W. Griffith and "The Birth of a Nation" The Hollywood Spectacle The Balkans in Film Terrorism and Film European and AMerican Film Markets American and European Documentary Max Ophuls'"Hotel Terminus" The Evolution of the American Gangster Film Comedy and the Great Depression The Immigrant Experience in Film The Films of Ken Burns Southern Authenticity and Film The Cohen Brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou" The "New" WWII Film Biography and Film Please send proposals for panels and individual papers (including a 100-word abstract and a one-page cv) by Decmber 10, 2001 to the Area Chair: James Yates Associate Professor of English Northwestern Oklahoma State University Box 242 NWOSU Alva, OK 73717 Phone: 580-327-8469 Email:[log in to unmask] For information on travel, hotel, and registration see www.swtexaspca.org ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu