UPDATE: Robert Flaherty (9/15/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 Film and History League Conference: "The Documentary Tradition"
8-12 November, 2006
Dolce Conference Center
Dallas, TX

AREA: Robert J. Flaherty

Traditionally considered to be documentary cinema's defining text,
Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922) has both an iconic and
problematic status in contemporary studies of non-fiction film.
Flaherty himself has been a figure similarly revered and reviled in
equal measure for his genre-defying mixture of observational
documentation and romantic reconstruction. As a flashpoint for debates
about documentary film ethics and ethnographic representation, as well
as a key figure in any consideration of the polymorphous category of
non-fiction film, Flaherty remains as significant a figure to
documentary studies as he was to the historical development of the
form. We are inviting submissions on all aspects of the work of Robert
Flaherty. Possible topoi include, but are not limited to:

—Flaherty and Anthropological/Ethnographic Display.
—The Ipsographic Imagination: Flaherty's Films of British, Irish and
American Industry, Agriculture and Labor
—Territorializing the Real: Geography and Authenticity
—Global Receptions and Revisions of Nanook
—Hybrid Visions: Intersections of Fiction and Non-Fiction in the work
of Flaherty and His Collaborators
—Between Commerce and Art: Flaherty and Material Culture
—Resistant Vision: Flaherty in the Era of Synchronized Sound
—Watching Flaherty through the Third Eye: Nanook, Moana and Elephant
Boy in the Postcolonial Frame.
—Flaherty and Grierson: Developing the Documentary Form.
—Constructing Paradise: Moana, Tabu and White Shadows of the South Seas
—Observing from the Margins: Frances Flaherty as (Nearly) Silent Partner
—Gender and Sexuality in Moana and Nanook
—Romance and Destitution in America: The Land and Louisiana Story
—Flaherty and Propaganda: Prelude to War
—Considerations of Flaherty's non-directorial achievements (Flaherty as
cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer).

The Film and History League conference details, including a list of
other areas to be represented at the conference, can be found at:
http://www.filmandhistory.org

The conference will run from 8-12 November, 2006 in the Dolce
Conference Center near the DFW airport. This year's featured artists
are D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus and the conference speakers will
be Betsy A. McLane and Raymond Fielding.

Send all inquiries and proposals (email ONLY; please be sure
documents are MS Word-compatible) by September 15, 2006 to:

Dr. Jared F. Green
Stonehill College
320 Washington Street
Easton, MA 02357
Phone: 508/565-1711
Email: jgreen_at_stonehill.edu

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