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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
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* 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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