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    Subject: 1999 Visible Evidence Confernece Call for panels

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    From: James Friedman <jimf@UCLA.EDU <mailto:jimf@UCLA.EDU> >
    Subject: 1999 Visible Evidence Confernece Call for panels

    CALL FOR PANELS:

    VISIBLE EVIDENCE SEVEN:
    STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES IN DOCUMENTARY FILM AND VIDEO
    Presented by the UCLA Film and Television Archive
    The seventh annual Visible Evidence Conference
    UCLA
    Thursday-Sunday, August 19-22, 1999

    Deadline for PANEL & WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: February 1, 1999
    (Call for individual papers will follow)

    Visible Evidence is a major interdisciplinary event focused on the role of
    film and video as witness to and voiced for lived, social reality. It spins
    out from a center in non-fiction documentary to encompass issues of
    ethnography, journalism, medical imaging, the law and visible evidence,
    advocacy, biography and autobiography, and the art of social representation.
    We welcome a wide range of perspectives including: anthropology,
    architecture, media studies, urban studies, ethnic studies, fine arts, gay
    and lesbian studies, law, literature, history, journalism, medicine,
    philosophy, political science, sociology and women's studies.
    This announcement is a CALL FOR PANEL, WORKSHOP, AND SCREENING PROPOSALS.
    We seek panel and workshop proposals from interested participants. Once
    panels and other events are selected, a general call for papers and
    presentations will follow.
    Possible panel or workshop topics might include, but are not limited to, the
    following:
    * The New Truth: storytelling, the "true story" and documentary in
    both film and television.
    * Others representing Others: issues of self-representation with
    people of color
    * Gay and lesbian representation
    * Documentary spectatorship
    * Issues in selection and preservation of newsreels and other
    non-fiction materials
    .
    * The role and status of home movies.
    * Surveillance technologies on television and in new media
    * Right Time/Right Place: amateur footage and historic events
    * Urbanites, Urban Sites: representations of the city
    * Critical theory/cultural studies: new directions in social
    representation
    * Rockumentary-hootchie-koo: the rock documentary and its influences
    from its origins to MTV
    * The ethnographic impulse: self-reflection and cultural
    representation
    * Evidence in institutional discourses of the Real: visual evidence
    and argument in law, medicine, science, others
    * Disclosure and confession: the personal and the social from
    tele-exploitation to self-revelation
    * Evidence of the subjective element: the rise of subjectivity and its
    relation to generic convention (e.g. The Devil Never Sleeps and The Thin
    Blue Line)
    * The Sell: evidence, argument, rhetoric in advertising, MTV,
    political campaign films, CSPAN, News programming, etc.
    * Music, sound effects, manipulation in the non-fiction film
    * Evidence of history: problems of presenting the Past
    * Transnational documentary and the global economy
    * Documentary ethics: beyond victimization

    To propose a panel or workshop:
    1) provide a 25-50 word statement on the main focus; 2) describe the
    theme or topic you wish to see addressed in 200-250 words; 3) include a
    brief bibliography and 4) some indication of your expertise in the proposed
    area. If you are proposing a workshop, indicate how many active participants
    you would want to include.

    To propose material for screening, provide the title(s), director, country,
    running time, and theme(s).
    Submit proposals by e-mail to James Friedman at:
    Jimf@ucla.edu <mailto:Jimf@ucla.edu>
    (if you are attaching a document be sure to indicate the application the
    file was created in)

    or submit hard copy to:
    James Friedman
    UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Archive Research and Study Center
    46 Powell Library
    Box 951517
    Los Angeles, CA 90095

    For more information, contact jimf@ucla.edu <mailto:jimf@ucla.edu>
    DEADLINE FOR PANEL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS IS FEBURARY 1, 1999.
    Approximately 20 minutes from LA Airport, UCLA is located in the village of
    Westwood. A variety of on-campus housing facilities will be available.
    Details will follow.
    The Archive would like to acknowledge the support of the UCLA Department of
    Film and Television and the USC School Cinema-Television.

    James Friedman
    Manager, Archive Research and Study Center
    UCLA Film and Television Archive
    310-206-5388
    310-206-5392 (fax)
    jimf@ucla.edu <mailto:jimf@ucla.edu>

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