On 9/9/96, Emily Davies wrote: >>The race issue (as well as the homophobia with Scar & general conservative >>& patriarchal politics on The Lion King) has been addressed in a number of >>popular press articles as well as some conference papers. It will be gone >>over again, hopefully using a different and useful angle, in a paper I'm >>giving at the upcoming Society for Animation Studies conference in Madison >>at the end of September. As far as I know, there's been nothing academic >>published on the topic, though there's an article in Camera Obscura #31 by >>Erin Addison on race & gender in Aladdin. Besides that, there's little >>focusing on animation & race, an issue that my conference paper grapples >>with (plug plug plug!). >> >>-Jason Mittell >> >It sounds fascinating to me. Will your paper be published? If so, when >and where? > >Many thanks, and good luck at the conference (BTW-Does this conference have >proceedings- I'm new to the area...) ============ I'll take this opportunity to invite everyone to check the Society for Animation Studies WEB site, which is part of the Animation World Network site at <http://www.awn.com>, for information on our upcoming conference (University of Wisconsin at Madison, September 25-29). We hope eventually to make at least some of the papers presented at this conference and at previous conferences available through that venue. I will also be happy to forward conference information to SCREEN-L subscribers by e-mail. Send inquiries to me at <[log in to unmask]>. Richard J. Leskosky President, Society for Animation Studies Richard J. Leskosky office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-2223 Unit for Cinema Studies University of Illinois 2117 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]