Scholarly Studies and Uses of Media

Darryl Wiggers | 2 Apr 2007 23:39

CFP: State of the Art

From: Susan Morrison <smorr <at> the-wire.com>

This is a " call for papers" for issue #72 of CineAction, an  
international film journal published 3 times a year in Toronto,  
Canada. The theme of this issue is "State of the Art: Film and Film  
Criticism  Today".  The intent of such a broad theme is to encourage  
a variety of approaches, positions and topics on the subject of  
cinema at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Papers should be  
submitted in hard copy only, mailed directly to Susan Morrison, the  
editor of this issue. Once accepted for publication, the paper will  
then be emailed as a file attachment.
The deadline for submission is  June 15 , 2007.  It would be  
appreciated if a brief proposal be submitted as early as possible as  
an indication of intention to submit.
A style guide will be emailed on request.
Please address all queries and submissions to the issue's editor:

  Susan Morrison
314 Spadina Road
Toronto ON
Canada M5R 2V6
email: smorr <at> the-wire.com

Darryl Wiggers | 2 Apr 2007 23:40

CFP: Women in the Sciences (11/01/07; 10/30/08-11/02/08)

From: "Sally Hilgendorff" <smhilgendorff27 <at> juno.com>

Call for Papers
Women in the Sciences Area
2008 Film & History Conference
"Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond"
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
www.filmandhistory.org
First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007

Area: "Count Me In!": The Inclusion of Women in the Sciences

When former Harvard President Larry Summers asserted that women lack the
scientific mettle to compete with men, he provided only the latest  
example
of misogyny in the sciences.  Women continue to face real obstacles,  
even
at  research institutions like WISELI (Women in Science and Engineering
Leadership Institute).  Unfortunately, the occasional appointment of  
women
to high-ranking positions at technical universities (such as MIT and
Lehigh) does not offset these cultural hurdles, which draw so much of  
their weight
  from film and television.

Ranging from early book-to-film successes of Rachel Carson's "Silent
Spring" and Diane Fossey's "Gorillas in the Mist" to the solution- 
seeking
documentaries "The Gender Chip Project" and "Women Who Walk Through

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Darryl Wiggers | 2 Apr 2007 23:39

CFP: MPCA--Film and Literature

From: "Robert T. Self" <rself <at> niu.edu>

Call for Papers, Abstracts, and Panel Proposals

Midwest Popular Culture Association/ Midwest American Culture  
Association
Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2007

Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas City-City Center, 1301 Wyandotte Ave.,
Kansas City MO 64105

<http://www.radisson.com/kansascitymo_center>

Proposals for either papers or panels are welcome in

FILM/LITERATURE ADAPTATION

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

Novel and short story to film adaptations
Drama to film adaptations
Film to film adaptations
Adaptations based on television
Biography, autobiography, and nonfiction adaptations
Harry Potter adaptations
Fellowship of the Ring adaptations
Fiction of war on film
Graphic novels/comics/video games to film

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Darryl Wiggers | 2 Apr 2007 23:40

Re: Classic television ratings

From: Jeannette Sloniowski <jeanette <at> brocku.ca>

Thanks for the great suggestions!

I am working on the police show in the fifties and I am interested in  
TV genres.  I have gone through Brooks and Marsh and just counted up  
the shows that were in some way about crime/policing, including lots  
of westerns with a Sheriff or Bounty hunter as the lead character.   
But it would be nice to know how these shows ranked against each  
other and against other genres.

Jeannette

Darryl Wiggers | 2 Apr 2007 23:40

Thanks for "disease-of-the-week" responses

From: "Julie Passanante Elman" <jpass <at> gwu.edu>

Thank you, everyone, who responded on and off list to my query about an
origin/reading list for "disease-of-the-week" television specials.   
Thanks
so much for all of your help!!!

Julie

--

-- 
Julie Passanante Elman
Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies Department
The George Washington University
2108 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052

Kenneth S Nolley | 3 Apr 2007 07:36

CFP: Curator and Context - Invisible Culture (5/20/07; journal issue)

From:    "Aviva" <adovevie <at> mail.rochester.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROJECTS

Invisible Culture, Issue 11, Fall 2007
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/

Deadline for Papers: May 20, 2007

Issue 11: Curator and Context

In his 1965 book Museum Without Walls , André Malraux critiques museum
conventions of display that deaden art of the past. In fact, over time
the artworks have morphed, affected by their surroundings, and taken on
new lives as different kinds of aesthetic objects. Three years later,
Roland Barthes would identify the death of the author and the emergence
of the reader in the making of meaning. These writers' prescient
articulations of the fusions - and confusions - of art object, context,
artist, and viewer foresaw today's hyper-interaction of art media and
the overlapping of roles in the museum and beyond.

What these texts leave out is the seemingly unmarked presence of an
intermediary between the artwork and the viewer  the curator  and the
world she has traditionally inhabited  the museum. The gallery space
is no longer neutral,' wrote Brian O'Doherty in 1976, at a time when
artistic practice turned the ideology of the gallery space upon its
head. While underlining the pertinence of the museum's physical and
contextual impact on the reception of art, he too neglects the curator.
Douglas Crimp's seminal text On the Museum's Ruins laid bare the
changing state of the museum by examining shifts in art practice and the

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Kenneth S Nolley | 3 Apr 2007 23:59

Call for Reviewers for Doc on Iranian Cinema History

MODERATOR'S NOTE:  ANY TAKERS?  SOUNDS LIKE AN INTERESTING OPPORTUNITY...
k
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From:    "Agnes Varnum" <agnes <at> frif.com>

Dear H-Film Subscribers: I don't believe I heard from any of you about NOTES
ON MARIE MENKEN, so I wanted to re-up that offer should anyone wish to
review the film. In addition to that film, we have another new release about
Iranian cinema history that you might find valuable to your teaching and
research. Please let me know if you are interested in reviewing either one.

Call for Reviewers for Doc on Iranian Cinema History
We are seeking North America based scholars who will write and submit a
finished documentary film review to journals (academic print or online),
association newsletters, email listservs, etc.

Reviewers must have a publication(s) in mind, confirm with the editors that
it will publish film reviews, and will be responsible for corresponding with
the editors.  [First Run/Icarus Films cannot submit the review.]

Please see the following short description. Click on link for full synopsis.
Interested persons should contact me directly, off-list to arrange a review
copy of the film at agnes <at> frif.com.

IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION
A Film by Nader Takmil Homayoun
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in
the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films
which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance. IRAN: A

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Kenneth S Nolley | 5 Apr 2007 00:01

possible name confusion in 1937 Hollywood?

From:    "Prof Steven P Hill" <s-hill4 <at> uiuc.edu>

Dear colleagues:

Pardon a trivial footnote to film history, and possible cross-posting.
Once upon a time, in 1937, two films were made in Hollywood, one
a classic, one long forgotten: "Stage Door" (RKO) and "Girl with Ideas"
(Universal).  Far down in the cast list of the former film is a minor
actress whose name is spelled "Mary Jane SHOWER" (?).  Far down
in the cast list of the latter film is a minor actress spelled "Mary
Jane SHAUER" (?).

That is all.  No other data resembling the above two names, which
might be one actress with two variant spellings of the same surname.
Or might be two unrelated people whose surnames happen to sound
the same.  And no biographical information about either.  Those 2
names just appear once each, and disappear forever...

During and just after WW2 a third studio (20th-Cen. Fox) signed a
contract with a minor actress who happened to be the daughter of
minor director Lynn Shores.  ( Lynn Shores [1893-1949] did some
of Fox's Charlie Chan detective series, and was also RKO's
location manager for Welles' "It's All True" down in Brazil in '42.)
Lynn Shores' daughter was named "Mary Jane SHORES" (1925- ).
In her brief Hollywood career ('44-'47), Mary Jane Shores spoke
one line of dialog, once only, in "Forever Amber," and perhaps
her greatest claim to fame is that her still photo is displayed in
"Laura" (as the mystery girl "Redfern," whose resemblance to
Gene Tierney has serious consequences.)

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Kenneth S Nolley | 5 Apr 2007 00:19

CFP: Environmental Documentaries: Assessing the Reel Environment

From:    "Cynthia J. Miller" <cymiller <at> tiac.net>

Call for Papers
Environmental Documentaries:  Assessing the Reel Environment
2008 Film & History Conference
Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
<http://www.filmandhistory.org>www.filmandhistory.org
First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007

AREA: Environmental Documentaries

With An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore proved the power of documentary to
teach a public audience about environmental issues, a power that was taken
seriously by the Motion Picture Academy of the Arts.  Lesser-known
environmental documentaries, often used in science classes or shown on
television, deserve critical attention, as well.  Films like Cane Toads,
Blue Vinyl, and Up Close and Toxic invite significant methodological,
aesthetic, and political questions: How do filmmakers translate
science/scientific issues for public consumption? How do documentary and
fictional treatments of similar environmental topics compare with each
other? How can grassroots documentary films be used for political change?

This area invites analyses of all varieties of environmental documentaries,
including international films (e.g., Taj Mahal--Beyond the Love Story,
India; Washed Away, Canada; A Big Lake, Belgium) and films on topics
ranging from pollution, recycling, transportation, energy, food, land
management, radiation, toxicity, etc.  Presentations may feature analyses
of individual films and/or TV programs from historical perspectives (Nanook

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Kenneth S Nolley | 5 Apr 2007 00:22

Announcing Visible Evidence Listserv

From:    "Cynthia J. Miller" <cymiller <at> tiac.net>

Announcing a new Visible Evidence Listserv

The Visible Evidence community is happy to announce the birth of a new
mailing list and archive.  The Visible Evidence Listserv is unmoderated and
aims to continue to grow the community by providing a forum on documentary
images, sounds, and situations in film, television, on the internet, in
journals, in museums, in galleries, and on billboards (to name just a
few).  The goals of the Listserv are:

1.	To provide a space of discussion for conference matters, including
        basic pragmatic concerns (travel, accommodation, and language
        queries, for example), format issues, conference size, and degrees
        of selectivity.
2.	To expand and maintain contact for the Visible Evidence community
        by providing a space for discussion of a range of historical,
        critical, theoretical, and pedagogical issues.
3.	To offer a space for announcements and questions concerning
        publications, distributions, festivals, retrospectives,
        installations, etc
4.	To make available a centralized, archived, searchable database that
        will serve as a resource for everyone, including those with
        interests in documentary but who choose not to be regular
        subscribers to the Listserv.

To subscribe to the Listserv:
Email tvogan at indiana.edu.  In the subject line, type subscribe
        VE list.
A confirmation message with instructions on how to post messages to and

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