"Final Frontiers: Race and Gender in American Science Fiction Film"
a panel for the 2002 NEMLA Convention in Toronto, April 12 and 13, 2002.
The NEMLA website <www.nemla.org> is currently under renovation; in the
meantime, the full Call for Papers for the 2002 Convention in Toronto is
available at http://www.temple.edu/gradmag/cfp02.html .
This panel is interested in papers that examine the ways in which
science fiction films can complicate or add to critical race and gender
studies. I am particularly interested in papers that deal with the way in
which these two identity categories are combined with and/or set against
each other in these films. Science fiction consistently raises issues of
gender and race, taking form in works as varied as Nathaniel Hawthorne's
"The Birthmark," Ursula K. LeGuin's _Left Hand of Darkness_, the various
_Star Trek_ franchises, and a multitude of others. These artistic analyses
of gender and race are in turn combined with the social commentary that
comes to science fiction from its precursors in Utopian fiction. When
these generic issues are combined with issues raised by the formal aspects
of film--which have been variously theorized by feminist, queer, and race
scholars alike--along with the popularity, marketability, and rich history
of science fiction film, the importance of this cinematic genre to ongoing
gender and race criticism becomes apparent.
Papers could possibly address, among other things, individual
films, filmmakers, series, audience reception, etc., and can deal with any
period of American film history.
Send 250-word proposals (preferably electronically) to:
Jason Haslam
e-mail: jwhaslam@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
snail mail:
Dept. of English
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
N2L 3G1
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