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>From: J Castonguay <[log in to unmask]>
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>Call for Papers
>Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge
>a conference at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies
>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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>April 29 - May 1, 1999
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>This conference will focus on the production of knowledge within global
>media culture. It will consider not only how scholars have come to know
>media culture, but how media and mass cultural forms have themselves
>instituted various forms of knowledge. It will explore how print, film,
>television, and electronic cultures have generated particular ways of
>knowing, with their own epistemological and pedagogical practices,
>standards of evidence and authority, operations of perception and
>cognition, truths and blindspots. How have popular media forms and genres
>shaped our ways of thinking, including our ways of thinking about mass
>culture itself? To frame an encounter between academic knowledges of
>mass-mediated culture and media culture's own epistemological objects and
>procedures--to consider not just how we think about popular media but how
>we think through them--the conference will bring together those who study
>popular narratives and genres, film, television, and new technologies with
>media practitioners in those fields (film and video producers, interactive
>media artists, web and video game designers).
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>Papers and presentations may consider such topics as: constructions of
>truth, identity, and experience within media and technological forms; the
>creation and documentation of various realisms and realities; mediated
>perceptions of space and time, history and community; relations between
>global and local knowledge; shifts in information access, storage, and
>circulation; changing literacies and new forms of "common sense";
>encounters between media and academic genres; the use of popular forms as
>models for scholarly work; the implications of thinking through various
>genres (such as the documentary, the detective narrative, science fiction,
>melodrama, comedy) and voices (sensationalized, personalized, paranoid,
>networked); the drive toward and/or refusal of knowledge within mass
>cultural texts; the production (or over-production) of knowledge in such
>things as conspiracy and millennial theorizing; media pedagogies and
>philosophies.
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>Invited speakers:
>Mark Amerika (novelist/digital artist, Boulder, CO)
>Susan Burgess (political science/women's studies, UW-Milwaukee)
>Lawrence Cohen (anthropology, UC, Berkeley)
>John DiStefano (film/video producer, School of the Art Institute
> of Chicago)
>Mary Ann Doane (film studies, Brown Univ.)
>Bernard Gendron (philosophy/music studies, UW-Milwaukee)
>Herman Gray (sociology/African-American studies/media studies, UC,
> Santa Cruz)
>Todd Haynes (filmmaker, New York City)
>Lynne Joyrich (film/television studies, UW-Milwaukee)
>Robert McChesney (media studies, UW-Madison)
>Patricia Mellencamp (film/television studies, UW-Milwaukee)
>Constance Penley (film/television studies, UC, Santa Barbara)
>Stephen Wilson (art/new technologies, San Francisco State Univ.)
>Mimi White (television studies, Northwestern Univ.)
>Mark Williams (film/television studies, Dartmouth)
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>Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 1998
>Please send proposals (no more than 3 pages) and vita to:
>Lynne Joyrich, Conference Organizer
>Center for Twentieth Century Studies
>P.O. Box 413
>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
>Phone: (414) 229-4141; Fax: (414) 229-5964; email: [log in to unmask];
>http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/20th.
>
>Selected papers from the conference will be considered for inclusion in a
>book planned for publication in the Center series Theories of Contemporary
>Culture with Indiana University Press.
>
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