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Kenneth S Nolley | 2 Aug 2005 18:25
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CFP: SSCA in Dallas/Addison April 5-9; Deadline Sept. 15.

From:    "J. Emmett Winn" <winnjoh <at> auburn.edu>

CFP: SSCA in Dallas/Addison April 5-9; Deadline Sept. 15. The Southern
States Communication Association invites submissions for its 76th Annual
Convention to be held in Dallas/Addison, Texas April 5-9, 2006.  The
convention features plenary addresses by Roderick P. Hart, Dean of the
College of Communication at the University of Texas, and Mary Anne
Fitzpatrick, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of
South Carolina.  The complete call for papers can be found at the
association website: http://ssca.net/convention/2006/info.htm All
submissions are due September 15.  Inquires may be directed to the
convention planner, Charles H. Tardy at charles.tardy <at> usm.edu ;
601-266-4278; or The University of Southern Mississippi, Department of
Speech Communication, 118 College Drive #5131; Hattiesburg, MS
39406-0001.
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Darryl Wiggers | 5 Aug 2005 18:30

Hollywood and the President

From: Erica Sheen [e.sheen <at> sheffield.ac.uk] 

I'm sure members of this list will have many suggestions to make on this
topic.  When did the 'special relation' between Hollywood and the
American presidency begin? By this, I'm concerned less with
extra-diegetic affiliations like Reagan's career as an actor, Sinatra's
relationship with JFK or Spielberg's friendship with Clinton, than with
the assimilation of the figure of the American president into the
generic range of Hollywood narratives (sf, political thrillers, romantic
comedy, etc). How far back does this go, and what kind of political job
do people think it does (and for whom)? I'd be grateful for examples,
ideas or illustrations.

Erica Sheen
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Darryl Wiggers | 5 Aug 2005 19:52

Re: Hollywood and the President

From: FilmGene <at> aol.com [FilmGene <at> aol.com] 

The association of the film industry with the Presidency began in the
silent 
era - during the First World War in fact. The best documentation of this
is in 
Gore Vidal's novel "Hollywood". David Shepard also made a superb
documentary 
called "The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War" which documents the 
government's film activities in great detail and with wonderful
examples.

Remember, Lenin at about this time said "For us, the cinema is the most 
important of the arts." From all evidence, he was clearly not the first
nor the 
last political leader to see this.

Gene Stavis, School of Visual Arts - NYC
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Darryl Wiggers | 5 Aug 2005 20:36

Re: Hollywood and the President

From: sisters77 <at> mediaprojects.org [sisters77 <at> mediaprojects.org] 

I would recommend checking out the book AMERICAN POLITICS AND HOLLYWOOD
FILM by Ian Scott. It was required reading for my film and politics
class and it has a huge chapter dedicated to the very quest to capture
the mediated image of the american president as built through fictional
narrative film. - He lists many great examples, though i think even
further analysis is possible. Good luck!

Angela C. Abbott
M.F.A. Candidate Film Studies
Boston University
MJStylo <at> aol.com
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Darryl Wiggers | 5 Aug 2005 23:02
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From: "Jonathan Auerbach" <auerbach <at> umd.edu>

Goes back further. Try 1896, when American Mutoscope and Biograph  
Company debuted its moving picture technology by showing Republican  
campaign film of William McKinley running for President. The film was  
arranged by McKinley's brother who was a heavy investor in Biograph.

Jonathan Auerbach
Department of English
University of Maryland, College Park
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Darryl Wiggers | 6 Aug 2005 00:39
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Re: Hollywood and the President

From: Tanya Roth <tanya.roth <at> gmail.com>

I don't have any information on exactly how far back it goes, but at  
least
one Shirley Temple film (is it "The Little Rebel," perhaps?) includes  
her
interacting with Lincoln. Admittedly, the picture is historical and is
situated during the Civil War, so that might give it more cause than  
other,
more recent uses.
--

-- 
Tanya L. Roth
Graduate Student, Department of History
Washington University
(Research interests: gender and American warfare)
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Darryl Wiggers | 6 Aug 2005 04:20
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Re: Hollywood and the President

From: <JBISSON <at> deltacollege.edu>

The portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Birth of a Nation is an early and  
interesting
example of  Hollywood's interaction with the presidency.  All of the  
former
Confederacy's "troubles" start with the martyrdom of Lincoln.

Joe Bisson
San Joaquin Delta College
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Darryl Wiggers | 7 Aug 2005 02:47
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From: "Mira Binford" <mirabin <at> comcast.net>

Check out Hollywood's White House : the American presidency in film  
and history / edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor,   
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2003

Mira Binford
Professor of Communications
School of Communications
Quinnipiac University
Hamden CT 06518
mira.binford <at> quinnipiac.edu
(203) 582-5330
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Darryl Wiggers | 7 Aug 2005 02:48
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Re: Hollywood and the President

From: RollinsPC <at> aol.com

Dear Scholars,

John O'Connor and I produced two anthologies on specific films about the
presidency:

HOLLYWOOD'S WHITE HOUSE (UP of Kentucky, 2003)
and
THE WEST WING (Syracuse UP, 2003).

The former has a detailed list of "presidential films" in chronological
order, a
resource produced by John Shelton Lawrence.

THE COLUMBIA COMPANION TO AMERICAN HISTORY ON FILM (2004) has
a number of entries on specific presidents.

Finally, TELEVISION'S VIETNAM: THE IMPACT OF MEDIA (Dir. Peter  Rollins,
1986)
is an hour-long program which explores the tension between the  
presidency
and the
press--in this case, during the Vietnam Conflict.

A number of the recent CD-ROMs from Film & History have multiple   
essays on
the
topic.  _www.filmandhistory.org_ (http://www.filmandhistory.org)
(Continue reading)

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Darryl Wiggers | 9 Aug 2005 17:46

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From: emily Carman [ecarman <at> ucla.edu] 

See also Charles Eckert's work about the connections between the 
presidency/Washingto and the major Hollywood studios in the 1930s
(Warner 
Bros. and FDR/ the New Deal, Louis B. Mayer of MGM and Herbert Hoover
for 
example).  He elaborates on these topics in his two essays, "The Carole 
Lombard in the Macy's Window" and "Shirley Temple and the House of 
Rockefellar."  Both are found in STARDOM: INDUSTRY OF DESIRE ed. by 
Christine Gledhill. Danae Clark's book NEGOTIATING HOLLYWOOD also
discusses 
FDR's intervention into Hollywood labor strikes (particularly with the 
Screen Actor's Guild) in the 1930s as well.

Good luck!

Emily S. Carman
PhD Candidate, Critical Studies
UCLA/ Dept. of Film, Television, and Digital Media
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/7Eecarman/emilypg1.htm
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