Representations of Love in Film and Television 2010 Film & History Conference November 11-14, 2010 Hyatt Regency Hotel Milwaukee, WI www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory Deadline Extended! Second Round Deadline: March 1, 2010 Film & History invites proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables for our upcoming conference, "Representations of Love in Film and Television," to be held November 11-14, 2010, in Milwaukee, WI. Please see the list of active topic areas, below. The conference will look at how love - as psychology, as dramatic principle, as historical agent, as cultural stage, as ethical standard - has been represented in film and television. How has the depiction of love defined a society or a period? Which people - or institutions or ideas or animals - have been promoted as subjects (or objects) of love, and which ones have not? In what ways do we love or not love because of film and television? How has the screen represented the love of country, the love of one's neighbor, the love of God, or the love of family? How has it represented the repudiation or reformulation of love, and what are the historical ramifications? Questions about the nature of love define not just couples or parents and their children but whole communities and nations, shaping their religions, their economic policies, their media programming, their social values, their most powerful fears and ambitions. Love in each era defines the struggles worth enduring and the stories worth telling, from Gone With the Wind and Casablanca to Hamlet and Cleopatra, from The Jazz Singer and The Sound of Music to The Graduate and Boogie Nights, from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The Ten Commandments to Easy Rider and The Right Stuff, from The 400 Blows and Life Is Beautiful to Amelie and Muriel's Wedding. This conference will examine the aesthetic representations of love on screen and will assess their historical, cultural, and philosophical implications. Areas currently open for paper and panel submissions include: Affairs of Race Agape: Faith, God Mission America's Love Affair with Movie Gangsters L'Amour Noir An American Bromance Blaxploitation Films The Bond Girls Cinephilia The Dark Side of Love Different Bodies For the Love of the Fans The Intrusion of Love Jane Austen Jazz and Film Jewish-Gentile Romances The Landscape of Love Love (Early) American Style Loving the Machine Listening to the Music of Love Love and Commitment in Fraternity/Sorority Films Love in the Ancient World Love and Death Love and the Family Man Love and Food Love and Sex in the Graphic Novels of Alan Moore Love at the End of Life Love in a Time of War Love in the Golden Age of Television Love, Marriage, and a Baby Carriage Love Thy Leader Love and Violence Lovers on the Side Lust in Space Medieval Love and Sexuality Office Romance Patriotism in Film and Television Performing Love/Loving Performance Reality-TV Love Sex and Love in Asian Contexts Things of Love/The Love of Things Vampire Love Writers in Love (Additional area proposals continue to be welcome.) We are also delighted to welcome director and film theorist Dr. Laura Mulvey, as the conference's keynote speaker. Dr. Mulvey, professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, is widely known for her influential essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975), and is also the author of _Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image_ (2006), and _Fetishism and Curiosity_ (1996), along with numerous articles. Her films, co-written and co-directed with Peter Wollen, are recognized for their complex explorations of identity, symbolism, and the female experience. Please consult our website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory), or email Director of Communications, Cynthia Miller, at [log in to unmask], for additional information. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu