Final Call for Area Chairs: Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen (3/18/13; 11/20-24/13)

From: Cynthia Miller <[email protected]>

**Call for Area Chairs**

Making Movie$
The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA), November 20-24, 2013

Film & History still has a few openings for conscientious Area Chairs, in
the areas of:

* Money and Race
* Distribution/Local Theaters/Preservation
* Money Behind the Scenes (make-up, costuming, location filming)
* Auteurism
* The Price of Imagination: Animation
* Money and Genre Films (individual genre areas, such as Horror or Science
Fiction)

Area chairs are responsible for soliciting and evaluating paper proposals,
issuing decisions, creating cohesive panels, and maintaining contact with
presenters and Film & History conference organizers.  Chairing an area
presents a wonderful opportunity to help shape the conference, network with
other film and history scholars, and develop conference organizing skills.
 Reduced registration benefits are also available.

**About the conference**

Keynote speaker: We are honored to have film theorist and film historian
David Bordwell join us as our keynote speaker.

Whether on or off screen, money is more than an image or a transaction; it
is a set of assumptions—usually powerful, often hidden. It figures in
almost everything that happens with a film, from the internal narrative
world to the external systems of production, distribution, consumption, and
appropriation. Money pushes and pulls on writers, directors, actors, and
audiences. It defines characters, storylines, set designs, whole genres.
More deeply than in almost any other artistic medium, money makes movies.

How does money—as material, metaphorical, or heuristical figure—shape the
creation, circulation, and reception of moving-image media? What structural
or thematic role does it play in romantic comedies or science fiction
adventures or documentaries? When Harry meets Sally or Elizabeth meets
Darcy, how does money determine the cinematic logic of love? How do
assumptions about money influence the spiritualism in Star Wars or the
ethics in The Graduate or the style of The History Channel? As money is
mediated through film, how does it create or contest our perceptions of
sex, of ethnicity, of personhood, of labor and family, of religion or
education or technology? When is money disguised by the film medium, and
when is it advertised? Why does money sometimes fail—as image, as means, as
principle—and for whom?

The 2013 Film & History Conference will explore the figure of money in
film, television, and the other moving-image arts. Our annual conference
will be held at The Madison Concourse Hotel (in the heart of downtown
Madison, WI, next to the historic Capitol), November 20-24, 2013. Attendees
will receive specially-discounted room rates for this premier hotel. Travel
to Madison may be arranged conveniently through the international airports
at Madison, Milwaukee, or Chicago.

Deadline for Proposals from Area Chairs (organizers of multiple panels):
March 18, 2013
Deadline for Proposals from Panelists (single presenters): July 1, 2013

Send your proposal (~200 words) to [email protected] by
the deadline above for full consideration.