[ecrea] CFP: Film and History Conference: Mythical Movie Jews Proposals

Call for 
Papers                                                                                                                                                                                       
"Mythical Movie Jews: Anti- and Philo-Semitic Stereotypes on the Silver 
Screen."                                                                             
An Area of Multiple Panels for the Film and History Conference on "Film 
and Myth: September 26-30, 
2012                                                                                                                      
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.                                          
                                   www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory        
                    
                                                                                 Deadline: June 8, 2012
Feature films usually have projected stereotypical motivations and 
traits onto characters belonging to ethnic, racial, and religious 
minorities.  Thus, the individual antagonist or protagonist typifies his 
or her group. The cinematic image of Jews, in particular, has been 
shaped by the legacy of Christianity's views of Jews and Judaism, the 
economic and professional roles Jews have been associated with, and the 
conspiratorial or constructive goals Jews pursue to subvert or 
strengthen modern nation states and their economic and political 
systems. These stereotypes have changed dramatically over the course of 
the 20th century as the status of Jews has been transformed by the 
attainment of de jure civic equality in liberal and socialist societies, 
the Holocaust, the establishment of the state of Israel, and the rise of 
multiculturalism. The panels in this area will explore the traditional 
and modern stereotypes of Jews that have informed cinematic depictions 
of Jews as threatening others, fellow citizens or loyal allies.  It will 
also examine how Jews personify various gender orientations. Possible 
topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
The Jew in Christian Theology (King of Kings, The Passion, Jesus Christ 
Superstar)                                                                The 
Jews as Usurer (The Merchant of Venice, The Pawnbroker, The House of 
Rothschild)                                The Jewish American Princess 
(Marjorie Morningstar, Goodbye Columbus, Private 
Benjamin)                            The Orthodox Jewish Man (The 
Chosen, A Stranger Among Us, Kadosh, Crossing 
Delancey)                                                                      
Smart Jews (Independence Day, Bee Season, Barton Fink, Insignificance, 
Quiz 
Show)                                                                                    
Jewish Radicals (Street Scene, Daniel, Norma Mae, Running on Empty, The 
Way We 
Were)                                                                     The 
Neurotic Jew (Annie Hall, Miami Rhapsody, The Hebrew Hammer, Curb Your 
Enthusiasm)        Jewish Parvenus(The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 
Chariots of Fire, 
Disraeli)                                                                               
Passive Jews (The Diary of Anne Frank, Fiddler on the Roof, Schindler's 
List)                                                                 
Tough Jews (Exodus,  Inglourious Defiance, Basterds, Munich, Bugsy, The 
Young 
Lions)                                                                      
My Son the Doctor (Symphony of Six Million, The Last Angry Man, Northern 
Exposure),                                                                                                                           
The Independent Jewish Woman (The Way We Were, Meet the Fokkers, 
House)                                                      Images of 
Israelis (Exodus, The Little Drummer Girl, Walk on Water, Waltz with 
Bashir)                      The Jew as Athlete (His People, Body and 
Soul, Chariots of Fire, Berlin 
1936)                                                                                                                                        
The Gay Jew (Boys in the Band, Torch Song Trilogy, Kissing Jessica 
Stein, The Bird Cage)
Proposals for complete panels (related presentations) are welcome, but 
they must include an abstract and contact information, including an 
e-mail address, for each presenter. Please e-mail your 200 word paper 
proposal or panel proposals by June 1, 2012 to:
Lawrence Baron, Area Chair, 2012 Film and History 
Conference                                                                          
"Jewish Monotheism in the Movies: From Abstraction to 
Personification"                                                            
San Diego State University                                        
 (lbaron /at/ mail.sdsu.edu)

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