FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE APPROACHING! Designing Culture and Character: Technology in Film, Television, and New Media 2019 Film & History Conference November 13-17 Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club Madison, WI (USA) On screen, “technology” is simply information. What have filmmakers done with it? What stories have we told ourselves through our tech? How have those stories changed, even as the technology on and off screen has changed? When does a gun or a computer or a hand-stitched suit define a hero or a villain? How are plotlines or directorial styles affected not just instrumentally by period technologies but by the ideologies that underwrite them? Is the history of film essentially the history of technology? The 2019 Film & History Conference, to be held November 13-17, at The Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI, USA), invites 200-word proposals for papers or panels (three papers, united by a theme) that examine the role of technology on and off the screen. Please send your one-page area proposal to the Director of Communications, Cindy Miller, at [log in to unmask] by June 1. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: *Art vs. Technology in Film, TV, and New Media *History as Technology Periodization *Artificial Intelligence: Theorizing the Self *Geeks as Heroes, Icons, and Hi-Tech Villains *Gadgets and Gidgets: Women with Tech *Alternative Cultures: Strange Technology *Technology and the Representation of Race *Machines and Men: Re-examining Masculinity *Science vs. Technology in Film, TV, and New Media *Classy Tech: Social Stratification *Sell Phones: Individualism and Mass Markets *Pyramids and Catapults: Representing Ancient Cultures *Luddites and other Anti-Technology Cultures in Film, TV, and New Media *The Eagle Has Landed: Film and Television Before and *After Armstrong *Utopian and Dystopian Tech *Machines as Monsters *Representations of Medical Technology in Film, TV, and New Media *The Technology of Character: Costume and Makeup *Queer Gear: Tech and Sexuality in Film, TV, and New Media *Toy Stories: Children and (Non-)Technological Cultures Our Keynote Speaker will be DEBORAH NADOOLMAN LANDIS, Founding Director and Chair of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design, UCLA. Nominated for an Academy Award for Coming to America (1988), Professor Landis also served as Costume Designer for Michael Jackson’s landmark video Thriller (1983), for John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Animal House (1978), and for Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). From 2001-2007, Landis served as two-term president of the Costume Designers Guild, Local 892. She is the author of six books, including Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design (2007), FilmCraft: Costume Design (2012), Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration (2012), and the catalogue for her landmark exhibition, Hollywood Costume, which she curated at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She is the editor-in-chief of the upcoming Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design (2019) and is presently curating an exhibition on science and science fiction opening in 2019 at the Science Museum, London. Landis sits on the Board of the National Film Preservation Foundation and is a past Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. ---- 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]