UPDATE: Cons in American Cinema (9/21/01; NEMLA, 4/12/02-4/13/02)

From: Memoore6@aol.com
Date: Sat Sep 15 2001 - 14:14:50 EDT

I have extended the deadline for this panel until Friday, September 21.

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 21 to:

Michelle E. Moore
Department of English
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902
E-mail: memoore6@aol.com

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