CFP: George Cukor: The Collaborative Auteur (9/10/04; NEMLA, 3/31/05-4/2/05)

Northeastern Modern Language Association
Boston, MA

In his many interviews, George Cukor fought two labels: the first,
placed on him by the media, that he was a "woman's director"; the
second, placed on him by the Cahier du Cinema crowd, that he was an
"auteur". Instead, Cukor read the process of producing filmic narrative
as a collaborative effort.

This panel seeks to explore Cukor's 50-year directing career as
collaborative effort; readings of one film or a series of films from a
variety of theoretical perspectives -- feminist, generic, Marxist, queer
-- that privilege this notion that Cukor believed in so strongly are
welcome.

Please send abstracts for 20-minute paper presentations to:

Scott F. Stoddart, Ph. D.
Executive Director of Special Programs
and Director, Center for Academic Advancement
Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71st Street Suite 462
New York, NY 10021
Office: 212 - 774 - 4821
Fax: 212 - 774 - 4839

or via email to <sstoddart_at_mmm.edu> by 10 September 2004.

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