New deadline: 9/15/02
Call for Papers: THE ANTI-WESTERN
The Film & History Conference in November 2002 looks at "American
West(s) in Film, TV, and History." The special Area on THE ANTI-WESTERN
(e.g., Little Big Man, Westworld, Once Upon a Time in the West,
Unforgiven) will consider the aesthetic, cultural, and historical
attempts to dismantle the archetypal Western. Why does this type
persist, or are its days numbered? When do we resist it? When does it go
underground? What other guises does it then adopt? What literary or
cultural forces does it respond to in its anti-thetical form? Is a
feminine aesthetic at the heart of the anti-Western film?
The Area will consider a broad range of questions about the nature and
function of the "anti-Western" film. Other critical inquiries into this
type of cinema or television are therefore most heartily welcome. The
scholarly pioneer John Cawelti will be with us to share his insights.
Beware, though: only dead folks pony up their proposals after September
15, 2002.
The conference will hole up in the Kansas City Marriott, Kansas City,
MO, November 2002. They say the water's good there. Here's the link for
extra bullets: www.filmandhistory.org
Please e-mail a brief proposal (~200 words) and an even briefer
biographical note to this Area's neighborly sheriff:
Dr. Loren Quiring
Department of English
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
quiring@uwosh.edu
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