Please note upcoming deadline. The Web site has all information you need about our conference: The American West(s): Film, TV, History. Peter Rollins [log in to unmask] www.filmandhistory.org _________________________________________________ THE AMERICAN WEST(s) IN FILM, TELEVISION, AND HISTORY November 7-10, 2002 at the Kansas City Marriott near the historic Country Club Plaza. This conference is sponsored by The Film and History League, Film & History, the journal, and by The Historians Film Committee of the American Historical Association. Send proposals by 15 August to Area Chairs who are listed on the web site: www.filmandhistory.org Featured speaker is John Cawelti, author of The Six-Gun Mystique(1971), a pioneering work of popular culture studies and the Western. Cawelti's publisher, Ray B. Browne (of the popular press), will be present to comment on this breakthrough publication and the ripple effects which followed. As one of the Editors of The Journal of Popular Film and TV, Jack Nachbar will speak about how he, Mike Marsden, Gary Edgerton, and Sam Grogg carried on the tradition into our own times. There are over 30 Subject Areas, ranging from Icons of the Western to Western Noir--and many traditional topics in between. Do you have a quarrel with Frederick Jackson Turner? Bring it to our meeting and see what others have to say in response. Have you been watching "Frontier House" on PBS? What do you think of it? Tell us. (See the web site for the details concerning subject areas and the contact points to go with them.) What about music and its messages in Westerns or the portrait of the West in cartoons? The web site has a plethora of information. If you still have questions after consulting it, contact Peter C. Rollins at [log in to unmask] www.filmandhistory.org Be there or be square! ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]