**Apologies for Cross Posting** American Folklore Society 2004 Conference Salt Lake City, Utah, October 13-17, 2004 http://afsnet.org/annualmeet/index.cfm Folklore and Film This is a call for papers and presentations for a proposed series of panels exploring the relationship between film and folklore from a variety of perspectives and filmic forms. Since 1989, when Bruce Jackson decried the dearth of debate from folklorists in exploring popular film and television texts, much work has been produced. In “Folklore Studies and Popular Film and Television: A Necessary Critical Survey” [Journal of American Folklore 116.2 (2003): 176-195], Mikel Koven took stock of these debates, charting much of the work that has appeared in both folklore and film studies since Jackson. Rather than looking backward, folklorists interested in popular film, and film and television scholars interested in folklore need to move these debates forward. This proposed series of panels on folklore and film/television has three main agendas: 1. to cast our scholarly nets as broadly as possible in order to see who is producing scholarly work which falls under this very general rubric of film and folklore, with the possibility of putting together either a special issue of a journal or an edited volume after the conference; 2. to establish, under the American Folklore Society, a special sub-section on Folklore and Film, which would then meet each year at the AFS meetings. On this last point, there are a variety of Society rules governing the establishment of new sub-sections, but one of those rules is to demonstrate considerable interest within the society by the proposal of a series of related panels during the same meeting. This is also what I am trying to do with this call for papers. 3. However, at the very least, I would also like to meet with interested scholars to see about the formation of an international research network in this subject area, with the aim of developing further projects. To facilitate these aims, I am calling for proposed papers and presentations on any aspect of the film/folklore intersection, including, but not limited to, the following: * Folklore representation in film and television; including myth, Märchen, legend, folksong and ballad, belief and custom, etc. * Film and television texts as folkloristic forms; including issues of variant texts, dissemination of beliefs/narratives, film/television as storytelling, etc. * Audience ethnographies/fan studies * Ethnographic (documentary) films * Children’s media and its relationship to folklore Please send both short paper/presentation proposals of 75-100 words, and a longer proposal of 250-500 words, by April 10, 2004 (sorry for the short notice on this) to Mikel J. Koven, [log in to unmask] The panel proposals need to be with the AFS organizers by the middle of the month, so I cannot accept any proposals after the 10th and hope to get the panel(s) accepted. Dr. Mikel J. Koven Dept of Theatre, Film and TV University of Wales, Aberystwyth (01970) 621605 [log in to unmask] http://users.aber.ac.uk/mik http://users.aber.ac.uk/mikstaff ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu