[ecrea] CFP: Cinematic Journeys of Identity—2015 Film & History Conference

CFP: Cinematic Journeys of Identity—2015 Film & History Conference
(Nov. 4-8, 2015, Madison, WI)

http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/conference/2015/CFP/Journeys_of_Identity.php

In keeping with this year’s focus of “Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns,”
we seek to explore film as a visual technology that works to
formulate, map, image, and indeed, imagine identity. While cinematic
journeys can come to us explicitly in the form of a traveling
filmmaker or a narrative that itself is about traveling, there is also
the journey of the audience, taking flight and following the itinerary
charted by the film. In this regard, this area is interested in what
Tom Conley calls the “cartographic impulse.”

Identities, however, are often in flux. In the current period of
increased globalization and transnational communications and media for
example, the identification of the self, and “other” has become more
complex. What role then, does cinema play in the formulation and
negotiation of these identities? Open to a wide understanding of
cinematic journeys, possible topics include, but are not limited to,
the following:



·       The representation of identity in expedition and travel films
(Encounters at the End of the World; Y Tu Mama, También)

·       National and transnational identities in cinema (Dirty, Pretty
Things; Colonel Redl, The Bus)

·       Structures of identity in ethnographic and anthropologic
cinema (in the work of both early and contemporary filmmakers, from
Martin and Osa Johnson to D. A. Pennebaker)

·       Diasporic cinema and cinema of migration (Half of a Yellow
Sun, Sin Nombre)



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 June 1, 2015, to the area chairs:

Jessica DePrest
UCLA
(Jess.deprest /at/ gmail.com)

Saundarya Thapa
UCLA
(saundarya /at/ gmail.com)



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