*American Media in Interdisciplinary Perspectives*
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*Call for Proposals*
The Middle Atlantic American Studies Association invites proposals for
its annual conference to be held in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Lehigh
University on Friday and Saturday, April 2-3, 2004. Proposals may
include individual papers, panels, forums, and workshops. The program
committee encourages sessions that develop sharp historical perspective
of North American media and communications. Conference organizers
understand media to include journalism, literature, and print culture;
film, radio, Hollywood, television, and video culture; new media, the
internet, and cyberspace. Possible subject areas for proposals are wide
and diverse. They include war and nationalism; the Lehigh Valley--from
the German press to images of industrialization & de-industrialization;
globalization; reality TV; electoral politics and the news; sex,
pornography, and gender; privacy and censorship; visual culture of New
York City; spectatorship; marketing and the creation of target
audiences; media and historical consciousness; underground press and
internet; youth culture; and social movements and political activism in
and through media.
The keynote address will given by Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of
Culture and Communication at New York University and author of /Boxed
In: The Culture of TV/ (1988) and /The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations
on a National Disorder/ (2002).
Submit a one-page description of the proposal for individual
presentations or panels, along with a CV by DECEMBER 31, 2003 to:
John Pettegrew,
American Studies Program
Lehigh University
9 W. Packer Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3081
jcp5@lehigh.edu <mailto:jcp5@lehigh.edu>
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