Call for Papers: Film: Poetics versus Theory Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Montreal, Quebec April 7-11, 2010 Deadline: Sept. 20, 2009 This panel invites papers on film and film theory or cultural theory addressing Richard Allen's objection, in Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (2007), to theory-driven criticism. Allen favors "discovering" rather than "making" meaning through what David Bordwell calls "poetics." Or is all meaning "made" as Bordwell attests? Can an "ideological agenda" likewise prove uniquely qualified to "discover" meaning? Can theory and poetics learn to play well together for film's sake? For cultural studies' sake? Please send papers or abstracts of 250-500 words to Randall Spinks, [log in to unmask] For more information on the Northeast Modern Language Association, please visit http://www.nemla.org/ ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org