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Asunto: Updated CFP: Comparisons in Non-Fiction Science Films and
Television Area (11/01/07:10/30/08-11/02/08)
Updated call for Papers
COMPARISONS IN NON-FICTION SCIENCE FILMS AND TELEVISION Area
2008 Film & History Conference
"Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond"
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
www.filmandhistory.org
First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007
Area: Comparisons: Science / Medical Films And Television
The time is ripe to begin to synthesize a broad historical account of
non-fiction science films and television. Up until recently, most
historians and media critics have tended to analyze science in film and
television through individual case studies, through micro-histories of
individual films or programmes, or through close accounts of singular
image artifacts (as with the series of articles by the late Roger
Silverstone and his book on Britain's BBC2 mainstay "Horizon"). Other
studies look at how science affects periods or genres, such as "New
Deal" films or animal films, or at how science in film and television is
shaped by different national cultures.
But, whether for the sake of broader understanding of the cultural
history of science, or to enhance scientific citizenship, or to enhance
pedagogy, it is necessary to build a broader account of the history of
science in non-fiction moving image media. Accordingly, this area
invites contributions that contain comparisons between different
non-fiction representations of science, technology and medicine, or
alternatively that deliberately offer themselves up for comparative
treatment.
Possible Comparative Questions:
Have co-production deals dissolved international differences in science
television documentary style?
Is television (or film) documentary influenced by scientists more in
some periods or places than in others?
Is science and medical documentary drama more significant in some eras
than others? If so, why?
Do some medical specializations get better coverage in one country or
era and not in another?
What similarities and differences are there between health-education
films from different countries and regimes in the same period?
Have nature films been effectively the same since 1900?
Do different kinds of audiences watch science films in different
countries?
Comparative topics:
Scale in science films: microscopic vs. macroscopic imaging
Clinical vs. Public Health films
Brain vs. Heart
Differential depictions of men and women, of different races, of animals
vs. people.
Please send initial enquiries at any time or a 300-word proposal by
November 1, 2007 to
Tim Boon
Chief Curator,
The Science Museum
London SW7 2DD UK
tim.boon at sciencemusuum.org.uk
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. Deadline for
first-round proposals: November 1, 2007
This area, comprising multiple panels, is a part of the 2008 biennial
Film
& History Conference, sponsored by The Center for the Study of Film and
History. Speakers will include founder John O'Connor and editor Peter C.
Rollins (in a ceremony to celebrate the transfer to the University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh); Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Visions of the
Apocalypse, Disaster and Memory, and Lost in the Fifties: Recovering
Phantom Hollywood; Emmy award-winning writer and producer John Rubin;
and
special-effects legend Stan Winston, our Keynote Speaker. For updates
and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film &
History
website
(<file:///exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.filmandhistory.org>http:/
/www.filmandhistory.org).
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Cynthia J. Miller
List Moderator
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