[ecrea] Trash/Art/Exploitation Cinema

>Call for Papers Transgressive/Trash/Exploitation/Art Cinema
>
>PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
>Joint Conference
>April 20-23, 2011
>San Antonio, TX
>http://www.swtxpca.org
>Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010
>Conference hotel: Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio
>101 Bowie Street
>San Antonio, Texas 78205 USA
>Phone:  1-210-223-1000
>
>
>The area chairs are pleased to be seeking submissions for paper
>presentations on â¬STransgressive Cinema⬝ for our fifth year at the
>SW/TX PCA/ACA conference, and our first as part of the national
>PCA/ACA conference.  We encourage submissions on any aspect of
>â¬Stransgressive⬝ film, whether they be in the realm of horror films,
>experimental/art cinema, or classic and contemporary exploitation
>movies, among others.  We especially encourage papers that engage with
>the theoretical concept of â¬Stransgression⬝ in their presentations.
>This area at PCA/ACA has expanded a great deal since our first panel
>five years ago, and we hope to continue to use this conference as a
>forum for scholarly discussion of this often-neglected area of film
>studies.
>
>In addition, this year we will also be continuing our well-received
>pairing of a film screening followed by a roundtable discussion panel.
>  Last year, we looked at Herbert Bibermanâ¬"s 1954 Salt of the Earth,
>with a focus on how ideas about social justice that are today
>considered normative were in the past taboo-breaking.  This year, we
>will be screening Dwain Esperâ¬"s 1934 film, Maniac and S.F. Brownriggâ¬"s
>Donâ¬"tâ¬" Look in the Basement (1973), with an eye towards how portrayals
>of mental illness have been used in both art and exploitation film to
>explore societal boundaries.  If you are interested in being a part of
>this roundtable, please contact us.  (Weâ¬"d also love to see individual
>papers dealing with the general topic of mental illness in film.)
>
>The limits of what can and cannot be said, done, or shown in a society
>are prone to change.  Consequently, the risqué nickelodeon films of
>the early 20th century seem quaint, with their images of bare female
>legs long having lost the ability to induce gasping titillation.
>Nonetheless, taboos regarding violence, sexuality, race, and political
>beliefs (among others) persist even in this age of post-everything.
>We are looking for papers that examine films from the past and the
>present, from â¬Sstag movies⬝ shown at 
>American Legion â¬Ssmokers⬝ in the
>â¬Ü50s to todayâ¬"s multiplex down the street.  And weâ¬"re looking for
>papers that take up the question of how such filmmaking helped
>redefine societal limits, for better or worse.  The list of films that
>could fall under this category is very large, from the mass of
>low-budget horror films to rare experimental shorts.  We also
>encourage submissions that come from a wide variety of disciplinary
>and methodological backgrounds, from classical Freudianism to Critical
>Legal Theory.
>
>Hereâ¬"s some topics that might help give you an 
>idea of what weâ¬"re looking for:
>
>*Mondo films, especially ones that â¬Sexploit⬝ a culture for the sake of
>spectacle (we might even think of Flahertyâ¬"s Nanook of the North in
>this regard)
>
>*Pornography, including anything that crosses racial or class
>boundaries (the persistent popularity of, say, Lexington Steele in
>this â¬Spost-racial⬝ era, for instance)
>
>*Films that fall to the extreme political right or left wing,
>including films whose message has been assimilated into todayâ¬"s
>political mainstream (anti-Communist propaganda, â¬Shygiene⬝ films
>depicting the homosexuality, sympathetic portrayals of minorities, etc.)
>
>*Extreme violence in cinema (documentary footage of death,
>controversial scenes of sexual violence on film, the â¬Srealism⬝ of
>blood and gore on screen, etc.)
>
>
>These are just some general ideas; we eagerly anticipate discovering
>what you have to say about this surprisingly broad and complicated set
>of topics.
>
>
>Please send us title and 250-word abstract by December 15th, 2010
>
>Co-chairs:
>
>Rob Weiner
>Humanities Librarian Texas Tech University Library
>Box 40002
>18th and Boston
>Lubbock Texas
>79409
>
>(Rweiner5 /at/ sbcglobal.net)
>
>John Cline
>2200 S. Pleasant Valley Rd. Apt 808
>Austin, TX 78741
>(john-cline /at/ mail.utexas.edu)
>
>http://www.swtxpca.org
>

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