EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!! -- Visit www.filmandhistory.org to register today! CALL FOR PAPERS – ALL AREAS Representing “Home”: The Real and Imagined Spaces of Belonging The Hilton, Milwaukee City Center Milwaukee, WI (USA) November 1-5, 2017 DEADLINE for abstracts: June 1, 2017 (early decision) July 1, 2017 (general decision) Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites paper and panel presentations in all topic areas for the annual Film & History Conference, to be held November 1-5, 2017, at the Hilton Milwaukee, in Milwaukee, WI (USA). The 2017 Film & History Conference will explore all aspects of film—from production and distribution to exhibition and reception—that concern the representation of “home.” Perhaps the most familiar image on screen, “home” is a reflection of cultural ideals and a refraction of complex ideologies. It can be the easy site of privacy and belonging or the difficult site of pain and longing. What stories—of nations and ethnicities, of genders and classes, of technologies and economies—do films present in their depictions of “home”? Is it a historical and ideological anchor, an aesthetic weapon, a psychological escape? When is the representation of "home" a critical doorway into a film, a genre, an artist, or a culture? Topics for this year's conference include, but are not limited to: At Home with TV Families Australia on Screen: A Home for Whom? Behind Closed Doors: Biopics, Documentaries, and the Domestic Be/Longing: Women and the American Home Classical Antiquity: Between nostos and exilium Defending the Homeland: War and Nationalism on Screen Far From Home: Migrants, Refugees, Expats, and Returnees Fourth Cinema: Indigenous Perspectives on Home Home, Home on the Screen—And in the Cloud as Well Home is Where the Homo Is: Creating LGBTQ Media Families Home, Unsweet Home: Invasions into Private and Safe Spaces Homelessness and the Media Horror is Where the Heart Is: Representations of Home in the Horror Genre Independent Film: A Place to Call Our Own Jewish Cinema: Community, Family, and State as Home Melodrama: Home is Where the Heart Is No Place Like Home -- In the Film Musical Our Shared Home: The Environment on Film Race, Ethnicity, and the Home: A Peaceful Place to Lay My Weary Body Science Fiction: Homes -- and Homelands -- of the Future Shakespeae: Representations of Home and Space The Studio System Westerns: Where the Deer and the Antelope Play Please consult our website (www.filmandhistory.org) for individual CFPs and contact information. Proposals for other relevant topics may be sent directly to the area chair coordinator. Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information, see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org). Cynthia J. Miller Emerson College [log in to unmask] ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org