CFP: Final Days for Submissions! Film & History (6/1/12; 9/26-30/12)

From: Cynthia Miller <[email protected]>

FINAL DAYS TO SUBMIT!!

FILM AND MYTH

September 26-30, 2012
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
www.filmandhistory.org
Deadline: June 1, 2012

The 2012 Film & History Conference will examine the power of myth in film,
television, and the other moving-image arts. Myth operates somewhere
between the waking consciousness of history and drowsy consciousness of
mystery. Often it is both narrative and meta-narrative, trying to tell us
what we know and how we might know it. And film is the most vibrant stage
of mythmaking today. How do films exploit or succumb to certain myths? How
do certain historical characters or events become legendary? How do they
become mythic? What historical mutations have myths undergone in film? What
myths are on the horizon?

Please send a brief description of your paper (200-250 words) to the
appropriate area chair, listed on our website, or to Cynthia Miller, Area
Chair Manager, by June 1, 2012. Areas currently seeking papers include the
following, though papers on other Film and Myth topics are welcome:

•       Adventure! Danger! Romance!: Myths of Exploration
•       America's Pantheon: Superheroes and Sports Heroes in Film and
Television
•       Ancient Egypt in Myth, History, and Religion
•       Animating History: Disney Americans and Other Myths
•       “Bunnies, Bars, and Stews”:  Myths of 1950s-1970s Cultural History
in the
         Popular Present
•       Chicks with Brains: Representing Women's Intellect in Film
•       The Color of Myth: Aesthetics, Affect, Apprehension
•       Crime and Punishment: Mythologizing the Law
•       Food of the Gods: The Mythic Poetics of Food, Drink, and Eating in
Film and
        Television
•       Frontier Myth and Iconography in the Old West
•       Marriage and Family Myths in Film and Television
•       Medieval Magic: Myths and Legends in Film and Television
•       Music, Motifs, and Mythmaking
•       Myths, Inc.: The Business World in Film and Television
•       Myths of Stardom: Cultivating Star Identities
•       Myths R Us: Nationality in Film and Television
•       Mythic Characters and Places Made Real: TV and Film in Situ
•       Mythic Mother Nature: Storytelling and Myth-building Through the
Moving
        Image
•       Mythic Structures: Sacred Architecture and Ornamentation in Film
•       Mythical Movie Jews: Anti- and Philo-Semitic Stereotypes on the
Silver
        Screen
•       Mythos: Screening Classical Mythology in Film and Television
•       Queer Mythologies: Untangling Sex and Gender Myths
•       Science Fiction Myths: Travels through Time and Space
•       Storytelling 101: History as Myth on the Big Screen
•       War Myths: Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Film and Television