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> From: Mark Jancovich
> Reply To: Mark Jancovich
> Sent: Wednesday September 6 2000 8:13 PM
> To: mecssa
> Subject: cfp: film and popular memory
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> Call for Papers: Film and Popular Memory
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> It has been argued that in the last three decades of the twentieth
> century, memory was commodified and aestheticized as never before. This
> has been linked to various factors, including diversifying markets for
> memory, the growth of the heritage industry, the proliferation of
> technologies of time-shifting and digital reproduction, and a
> representational economy of recycling and pastiche. In a time when it is
> claimed that metanarratives of history and progress have, themselves, been
> severely undermined, and when the past has become increasingly subject to
> cultural mediation, textual reconfiguration, and ideological contestation
> in the present, memory has developed a new discursive significance.
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> This call for papers is for a collection of essays that will explore the
> place of memory in popular film (from early cinema to the present),
> especially as it relates to the articulation, and negotiation, of cultural
> identity. Writing of particular transformations in American film since the
> 1970s, Robert Sklar suggests in Movie-Made America that historical memory
> has become the touchstone of a moviešs cultural power, replacing "a
> traditional rhetoric of myths and dreams." I am seeking proposals for
> essays that broadly explore the form and status of the "memory film" and
> that also, at some level, engage with Marita Sturkenšs pointed suggestion
> that "cultural memory is a field of cultural negotiation through which
> different stories vie for a place in history." However, I am also
> interested in work that examines the relation of film and popular memory
> prior to the 1970s and that may even challenge Sklaršs sense of
> periodicity.
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> Several works have looked specifically at the way that Hollywood revisits
> and rewrites the historical past, notably Robert Burgoynešs Film Nation:
> Hollywood Looks at U.S. History (1997) and Robert Brent Toplinšs History
> by Hollywood (1996). The proposed volume will look more broadly at the
> intersection between film and popular memory. I would especially welcome
> essays that:
> * Thematically consider areas within memory studies such as trauma,
> nostalgia, tradition, commemoration, amnesia, heritage etc.
> * Historically consider particular moments or periods such as civil
> rights, Vietnam, World War One, World War Two, the South, the West, the
> Kennedy assassination (and other national traumata), labor history, the
> 1950s, 1960s, etc.
> * Discursively approach the subject from perspectives such as cultural
> studies, film studies, American studies, history, media studies,
> sociology, and other relevant disciplines.
> * Critically approach the subject in terms of production history, textual
> analysis, marketing, critical reception, audience studies, cultural
> politics.
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> Abstracts should be sent by NOVEMBER 15, 2000 to:
> Dr. Paul Grainge
> Department of American Studies
> School of Humanities, Languages and Law
> University of Derby
> Kedleston Road DE22 1GB, UK.
> Or send as an attached word document to [log in to unmask]
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