From: Roger Beebe (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2007 - 16:21:38 PDT
For those interested in scholarly work...
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>
>
> Call for Papers: Alternative Visions in Cinema and Television
> Conference
> (Proposals due November 2, 2007)
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>
> We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the Alternative
> Visions:
> Trash/Cult/Experimental/Avant-Garde/Extreme Cinema and Television
> Conference,
> to be held at Plymouth State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire)
> April 11-12,
> 2008. The members of the conference committee are seeking
> contributions that
> examine noteworthy non-, counter-, and/or anti-mainstream cinematic
> and
> televisual artifacts from the birth of film and television to the
> present, and
> from any area across the globe. Participants are encouraged to
> interpret the
> conference theme broadly and innovatively. Individual
> presentations will be
> limited to 20 minutes in length. We also invite innovative
> examples of such
> offerings for screening and discussion at this conference.
>
> We encourage submissions from scholars, educators, students, and
> filmmakers/videographers at all levels, and from disciplines including
> anthropology, communication, cultural studies, film studies, history,
> journalism, LGBT studies, media studies, popular culture,
> sociology, and
> television studies. We intend to publish selected papers (with
> author?s
> permission) in a special anthology pertaining to the conference
> theme. As a
> bonus, please note that the conference dates allow presenters to
> take advantage
> of a much-needed weekend getaway before the end-of-semester ?
> insanity? kicks in!
>
> Persons submitting individual-paper or screening proposals are
> asked to submit a
> one-page abstract/description of project with complete contact
> information
> (name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses,
> daytime telephone
> number). Panel proposals (featuring three paper-presentations
> total) should
> include panel title, brief description of panel theme, name of the
> panel chair,
> one-page abstracts of each paper in the panel, and complete contact
> information
> for each presenter on the panel (name, institutional affiliation,
> mail and
> e-mail addresses, daytime telephone number). In order to be
> considered, all
> proposals must be received no later than November 2, 2007.
>
> Please mail or e-mail conference proposals to: Alternative Visions
> Conference,
> Attn: Kylo-Patrick Hart, Department of Communication and Media
> Studies,
> Plymouth State University, 17 High Street, MSC 60, Plymouth, NH 03264;
> email suppressed
>
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> Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Ph.D.
> Chair and Associate Professor
> Department of Communication and Media Studies
> Plymouth State University
> 17 High Street, MSC 60
> Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264
> (603) 535-3122
> email suppressed
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