UPDATE: Trans/National Film and Literature (10/20/04; 1/27/05-1/29/05)

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Trans/National Film and Literature:
Cultural Production and the Claims of History

30th Annual Conference on Literature and Film

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
TALLAHASSEE, FL
January 27-29, 2005

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"Making Films with an Accent: Transnational, Transitional, and
Translational Strategies"
Hamid Naficy
Department Chair and Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art History, Film and
Media Studies
Rice University

SCREENING AND PRESENTATION
"Making the Historical Documentary: Problems and Possibilities"
Alan Rosenthal
Documentary filmmaker; maker of over sixty films, including Day of Peace,
Out of the Ashes, A Nation is Born, and On the Brink of Peace. Recipient
of the Peabody Award for Journalism and the International Documentary
Association Award for Scholarship.

The thirtieth anniversary of FSU's Conference on Literature and Film
presents the opportunity to consider the last three decades of literature
and film and their study in today's national and transnational contexts.
What are the historical claims made in and through trans/national film
and literature? Are the borders between film and literature dissolving
under the broader category of cultural production? How has the
integration of commodity culture markets affected film and literature in
the age of economic and cultural globalization? How do national or
transnational frames refigure our sense of history in and through film
and literature? And how do these frames introject different times,
temporalities, and speeds into our sense of history and forms of cultural
production? How are strategies of hybridity translating new cultural
forms for cosmopolitan subjectivities? How is cultural production itself
transformed in the response to life and death in a time of war, terror,
and counter-terror?

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS

The Conference Program Committee welcomes the submission of paper and
panel proposals that address the conference agenda and any related
issues, either through theoretical discussion or readings of particular
aesthetic works.
Possible topics include:
 * Cinematic responses to (Counter)Terrorism
 * Hybrid Identities, Traveling Cultures, and the Limits of Agency
 * Historicizing Sexualities in Cultures of the Postcolony
 * From Biopolitics to Necropolitics: Cultural Strategies of
Governmentality under
     Counter-terrorism
 * Reframing the New Nationalist Rhetoric of Freedom in Recent Hollywood
Blockbusters
 * The Poetics of History, and the History of Poetics in Transnational
Film and Literature
 * The Death of the Nation? Patriotism and Culture in Non-Western Contexts
 * Subjectivity and Religion in Transnational Film and Literature
 * The Trans/National Text: Readings, Re-Readings, And Counter-Readings
 * Trans/National Style In Literature And Film
 * Crossing Borders: The Transmigration Of Cultural Forms And Practices
 * Contemporary Identities: Race, Sexuality and Culture
 * Ideology In A Postmodernist Era
 * Trans/National Artists/Characters/Audiences

Abstracts should be submitted by email to filmlit_at_englishmail.fsu.edu by
October 20, 2004. For further details about abstract guidelines and the
conference, go to
http://english3.fsu.edu/~filmlit2005/.

Individual questions may be addressed to the conference organizers:
Amit S. Rai (English): arai_at_english.fsu.edu
Frank P. Tomasulo (Film School): FTomasulo_at_admin.fsu.edu
Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya (Modern Languages): lwakamiy_at_mailer.fsu.edu

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