Call for Papers
Counterfeits and Cons in American Cinema
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
Toronto, April 12-13, 2002
This session will focus on the ways in which American films use the figure of
the con artist and the tale of the fraud to chart the film industry's
ambivalent relationship with its product and performances.
Possibilities may include: fraud and performance theories; performances of
gender, race or class as cons; Film Auteurs as Con Artists; artist as
swindler; audience as mark; conjunctions between the confidence man and
disruption, excess, violence, nationality, performance, parody, faith;
postmodern "plagiarism" and appropriation; individual analyses of film
counterfeits or cons.
Please send abstracts by September 15 to:
Michelle E. Moore
Department of English
Box 194
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902
E-mail: memoore6@aol.com
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