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>Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:02:06 -0500
>From: Anthony Enns <anthony-enns@uiowa.edu>
>Subject: CFP: Cinema & Disability (12/15; 3/26-3/28)
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>SCREENING DISABILITY
>A CONFERENCE ON CINEMA AND DISABILITY
>
>March 26-28, 1999
>The University of Iowa
>Iowa City, IA
>
>        The Cinema and Disability Group, associated with The Institute for
>Cinema
>and Culture at the University of Iowa, is soliciting abstracts for its 1999
>conference on Cinema and Disability.  The Cinema and Disability Group is
>searching to understand the portrayal, depiction and use of disabled
>individuals in cinema.  Through this conference, the Group hopes to
>actively initiate the interest and exchange of ideas in the fields of
>cinema studies, disability studies and critical theory.
>        Depictions and portrayals of persons in American popular films who live
>with disability have changed over time, sometimes influencing, at other
>times responding to, societal attitudes and beliefs.  The primary goal of
>the conference is to attempt to understand these films in a new way, giving
>attention to how they present the phenomenon of disability, what they
>contribute to our societyís perception of disability, and how we can use
>such films to understand the nature of being human.  Our mission is
>twofold: (1) we want to foster an environment where discussing, writing,
>and analyzing disability films as cinematic vehicles of meaning will occur,
>and (2) we are calling for a pursuit of a deeper understanding of the
>disabled experience.  As these goals converge, we can begin to question
>whether or not films have displayed an authentic disabled persona, as well
>as question whether such a task is even possible.
>
>Invited Speakers:
>
>Paul K. Longmore (San Francisco State University), author of several
>influential
>        articles and essays dealing with disability and the media
>Martin F. Norden (Massachusetts University in Boston), author of _The
>Cinema of
>        Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies_
>Billy Golfus, filmmaker, director of _When Billy Broke His Head_
>
>
>Topics may reflect the following emphases in terms of cinema and disability:
>
>ï  Structural, Psychoanalytical and/or Poststructuralist Approaches
>ï  Socio-Cultural Approaches
>ï  Issues of Gender and Sexuality
>ï  Cinematography and Technical Aspects
>ï  Sound
>ï  Queer Studies
>ï  World Cinema
>ï  Historical Approaches
>ï  Feminist Studies
>ï  Star Studies of Disabled Stars (Lionel Barrymore, Marlee Matlin, Tom
>Thumb, etc.)
>ï  Auteur Studies
>ï  Socio-Political Approaches
>ï  Methodological/Pedagogical Concerns (ie, how to study and teach cinema
>and disability)
>ï  Freaks, Carnivals and Cultural Exhibitions
>ï  Representations of Specific Disability (Blindness, Deafness, Physical,
>Mental Illness, etc.)
>ï  Portrayals of Disease (AIDS, Environmental Illness, Alcoholism, etc.)
>ï  Documentary Studies
>ï  Ethnographies
>ï  Reception Studies
>ï  Cinema and the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act
>
>The conference welcomes diverse and creative interpretations of its topics.
>
>
>Please send 1-2 page abstracts by December 15, 1998 to the following address:
>
>The Cinema and Disability Group
>c/o Christopher R. Smit
>Dept. of Communication Studies
>105 Becker Communication Studies Bldg.
>University of Iowa
>Iowa City, IA 52242
>
>For more information contact Christopher Smit at (319)351-6134 or
>christopher-smit@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
>
>
>
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