UPDATE: Luis Bunuel and the Documentary Tradition (9/10/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

Call for papers: Luis Bunuel and "The Documentary Tradition"
(Abstracts/ Proposals due by SEPTEMBER 10)

2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
November 8-12, 2006
Dolce Conference Center
Dallas, Texas

We are in the final planning stages of panels for presentations on the topic of
Luis Bunuel and "The Documentary Tradition." Many panelists have chosen to
focus on Bunuel's sole documentary, Land Without Bread (1933), but any
presentation about Bunuel's relationship to the documentary tradition or
documentary aesthetics is welcome. For example, we received one proposal
about Bunuel's use of a documentary aesthetic in the sound design of his later
(fictional) work: Some possible topics include:

-Land Without Bread as documentary and/or fiction

-the intersection of/relationship between narrative and documentary in Bunuel's
films

-LWB in the context of Bunuel's oeuvre

-Bunuel as documentarian/ Bunuel's "documentary style"

-the documentary tradition/ documentary style and Bunuel's early triptych: Un
chien andalou (1929), L'Age d'Or (1930), and LWB

-the documentary tradition/ documentary style in Bunuel's Mexican period
(1947-1960)

-Bunuel as ethnographer/ LWB as ethonographic documentary

-LWB and politics/ aesthetics/ history

Send 100-200 word presentation abstracts or proposals to:

Ted Nannicelli
Temple University-School of Communications and Theater
Annenberg Hall, FMA Department
2020 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Or by e-mail to: tnannic_at_temple.edu

Please pass this call along to friends and colleagues. For conference registration
and general conference inquiries, please visit: www.filmandhistory.org

At the conference, A special plenary session will be conducted by Raymond
Fielding
            Dean of scholars when it comes to the study of the newsreel and
            author of “The American Newsreel: A Complete History.”
 
            A plenary session will be conducted by Betsy McLane, co-author
            of “A New History of Documentary Film,” a major work in the
            field of the genre.
 
            A plenary session with Allen Mondell and Cynthia Salzman Mondell,
            documentary filmmakers with oeuvre devoted to the ethnic experience
in
            America and the experience of women. (www.mediaprojects.org)
 
            A plenary session with Glenn Marcus and historians who researched
            “March of the Bonus Army” for PBS. Will feature detailed discussions
            of writing history with the pen and the camera stylo.
 
            James Welsh, Editor (Emeritus) of the Literature/Film Quarterly
            will chair a special session of film journal editors to talk with
            participants about publication opportunities and goals.
 
            Scholars’ Choice will feature a broad spectrum of books by participants
and other presses, to include McFarland will have representatives
            at the meeting.

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