CFP: Managing the Scene: Women in the Film Industry (6/1/14; 10/29-11/1/14)

From: Cynthia Miller <[email protected]>

CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: Managing the Scene: Women in the Film Industry
An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference:
Golden Ages: Styles and Personalities, Genres and Histories
October 29-November 2, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor=92s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
DEADLINE for abstracts: June 1, 2014

Area: Managing the Scene: Women in the Film Industry

Has there been a =93golden age=94 for women working behind the camera=97as=
 writers or directors, for example, or as producers, editors, =
choreographers, costume designers, or set decorators? Women represented =
only 18% of the primary film management of the top 250 domestic grossing =
films of 2012, and directed only 4% of the fiction films slated for =
release in 2014. Just four women have been nominated for an Academy =
Award as Best Director of a fiction film, and only one (Kathryn Bigelow =
in 2009) took home the trophy. Is the golden age of women as principal =
film managers gone, in a flicker? Or it is upon us? What traits =
characterize a film =93managed=94=97directed, produced, edited, written, =
choreographed, or even critiqued=97by a woman? And why might those =
traits be golden?

This area invites abstracts that trace=97or perhaps anticipate=97the =
histories of women operating behind the cameras, as directors, =
producers, assistants, scholars, and critics. Proposals might address =
topics such as

=95	 career paths and strategies adopted by women in the film =
industry
=95	 critical histories and controversies explored by feminist film =
scholarship
=95	 the participation of women in national cinemas
=95	 women filmmakers' roles in shaping the "women=92s film" and =
other genres aimed at female audiences (family melodrama, romantic =
comedy)
=95	 women's involvement in traditionally male-oriented film genres, =
from the action film to science fiction
=95	 creative innovation in feminist documentary, animation, and new =
media
=95	 gendered venues such as Women Make Movies and Lifetime Network
=95	 women as active audience members, fans, and remixers

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also =
welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, =
including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and =
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & =
History website (www.filmandhistory.org).

Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 June 2014 to the area =
co-chairs:

Debra White-Stanley
Keene State College
[email protected]

Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Central Connecticut State University
[email protected]=

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