CALL FOR PAPERS: NEW DEADLINE OF 10 January, 2001
The SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY AREA of Southwest/Texas Popular Culture =
Association and The Southwest/Texas
American Culture Association is accepting proposals for papers, =
discussion groups and panels. We have approximately 10 slots left for =
papers and presentions at this time. Please e-mail submissions and/or =
queries to smith_j@wvwc.edu.
C. Jason Smith, Area Co-chair
Science Fiction and Fantasy Area
West Virginia Wesleyan College
SOME PRESENTERS FOR 2001
"The Myth of Horror: Walter Benjamin, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The =
Blair Witch Project" Skelton, Shannon.
"Forget Your Safeword?": Intertextuality and S/M in Buffy the Vampire =
Slayer. Gillece, Jessica KS. Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Hellraiser: Paranoid Knowledge and the Rhetorical Structure of the =
Splatterpunk Film, Sparks, Doug. University of South Florida
"Between the Conscious and Unconscious: Shadow in Ursula K. Le Guin's =
The Telling"- Julie A. Sinn, University of Florida
"The Damage Done: Misinterpreting the Hero in Frank Herbert's Dune"
- J. Perry Lamson, University of Florida
"Traveling Through Science: Forever War and Coming of Age in the Quantum =
World"- Todd Reynolds, University of Florida
"MI, Mobile Infantry or Ministry of Information: Fascist Spectacle as =
Meaning in Brazil and Starship Troopers"- Brendan Riley
"Playing Ethos: Character(s) and Persona in Computer Gaming." David A. =
Georgina and Christine M. Silker
"Cyberutopias: Computer Games as Utopian Fictions." Henthorne, Tom. Pace =
University,=20
"Framing Photograph: The Use of Still Photographs in Blade Runner: The =
Director's Cut." King, Deborah J.=20
"This Was No Horror Show.This Was A Commercial" Marc Laidlaw's Televised =
Future. Oxoby, Marc. University of Nevada, Reno.
"Not Quite Human, But Not Quiet Alien: Mutable Bodies in Octavia =
Butler's _Xenogenesis_ Trilogy" Will Brannon
"Still in the Game: Transforming 'the New Flesh' in eXistenZ," Lia M. =
Hotchkiss, University of South Alabama.
"I Used to Know This Girl Named Pandora" Rob Carney
"(Dys)(Eu)(U)topia? Baum's Oz"-Richard Tuerk, Texas A&M =
University-Commerce.
"Mrs. Rodenberry: Star Trek's Other Woman" (Final title TBA) -Ximena =
Gallardo.
"Performance in Fantasy Gaming." (Final title TBA) Doug Rosson Florida =
State University.=20
"The Politics of Play: Sex, Gender, and Online Gaming" C. Jason Smith =
Area Chair, West Virginia Wesleyan College.
"Identity Becomes Pathology: Addiction and the Novels of Steven Barnes." =
Alyson Buckman, Austin College
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