[ecrea] CFP: Hidden Cinema of the Southwest and Mexico, Oct. 5-6

*_CALL FOR PAPERS_*

*/ Second Hidden Cinema of the Southwest and Mexico/*

*October 5-6, 2012*

*University of Arizona, Tucson*

*Center for Creative Photography*

Building on the success of the inaugural Hidden Cinema Symposium in 
2011, we seek to further explore how amateur, scientific, educational, 
and independent films have captured the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico./ 
/We wish to cultivate a more comprehensive understanding of the 
Southwest's and Mexico's cinematic past by showcasing and analyzing the 
ways the region has been imagined in "hidden" and lesser-known films 
produced by non-Hollywood and amateur filmmakers during the last century. //

We invite interpretations of moving images that offer historical, 
cultural, global and critical understanding of the region. We also 
encourage discussions of cinema-going, exhibition, and distribution, 
cinema advertisement and ephemera, and the complex endeavor of 
filmmaking in the Borderlands and Mexico. Hidden, archival, or orphan 
films will come back to light in an appropriate and appreciative 
setting: the Center for Creative Photography in the heart of the 
Southwest and on the border of Mexico.

We define 'hidden cinema' broadly, but priority will be given to 
proposals that illuminate the region's hidden cinematic history and 
steer clear of widely distributed or well-remembered Hollywood films. We 
ask that presenters accepted to the program be able to provide visual 
components (moving images and/or photographs) to illustrate their paper 
presentations.

We invite scholars, archivists, filmmakers and students to submit 
proposals about hidden cinema in the US Southwest, Mexico, or the 
Borderlands. Please email your 250 to 300-word description of your 
proposed presentation, a brief description of the materials you wish to 
exhibit at the symposium, and a short biography to 
(submit /at/ hiddencinema.org) <mailto:(submit /at/ hiddencinema.org)> by * June 15, 
2010*. Symposium presentations will be 30-45 minutes in length.

*/Hidden Cinema: Southwest and Mexico/* is a collaboration between the 
University of Arizona Department of English 
<http://english.arizona.edu>, the Center for Creative Photography 
<http://www.creativephotography.org>, the UA Libraries Special 
Collections <http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/>, Northern Arizona 
University's School of Communication 
<http://www.nau.edu/sbs/communication> and Northern Arizona University 
Special Collections at Cline Library 
<http://library.nau.edu/speccoll/speccollection.html>.

Symposium organizers are: Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, associate professor of 
English at the University of Arizona, Dr. Janna Jones, professor of 
Communication at Northern Arizona University and Dr. Mark Neumann, 
professor of Communication at Northern Arizona University


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