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CFP: The Presidency on Film and TV



Call for Papers:  AMERICAN PRESIDENTS IN FILM AND TV


    Papers and panels are invited for the forthcoming
conference on American Presidents in Film, November 10-12,
2000 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.  Sponsored by
the Film and History League, this event already has panels on
Lincoln, Roosevelt, JFK, and "imaginary presidents."  Join such
famous scholars as John Tibbetts, Jim Welsh, Ernest Giglio,Ron Briley,
Gary Edgerton, Bruce Dennett in a three-day event which will lead
 to publication (of selected articles) in an anthology from a major
university press.

    Our planning committee came up with this list of suggested
topics for our poster:

Actual Presidents, 1789-present.
Imaginary Presidents and first families.
First Ladies.
The Imperial Presidency.
The White House as mise en scene.
Documentary studies of the Presidency.
Satires of the Presidency.
TV and the Presidency: shaping the public mind.
International perspectives on the Presidency.
White House staffers...



Inspect the long announcement at the Film & History web site;
http://h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis   An on-line registration form is at the
web site along with details about the meeting.

A national secondary school film contest on the subject of The
Presidency will be held concurrently with the finalists shown at
the conference.  Contact for the film conference is Ron Briley
at snrbrile@nedcomm.nm.edu  Full information is also available
at the Film & History web site.

    This conference is being held in cooperation with the Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library; The Film and History League; and
the journal Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and
Television Studies.  (The RRPL is located in Simi Valley, 41 mins northwest
of LAX.   The meeting itself will be conducted at the Westlake
Hyatt, a facility near the RRPL grounds.)

Here is a recap of current topics on the basis of early registration and
discussions.
(If you have a related topic or film, please start with the contact person
listed.)

The Manipulation of Film by Presidents McKinley and TR
        (believe it or not!)

William Jefferson Clinton
    Primary Colors: Fact of Fiction?
    Wag the Dog: Screen Scapegoating?

FDR     (Contact: Susan Broderick at SLBroderic@aol.com)
    FDR image in the 1930s
    Franklin and Eleanor


Thomas Jefferson  (Contact: Jim Welsh at JXWelsh@ssu.edu)
    Ken Burns on Jefferson
    The Sally Hemings Controversy
    Jefferson in Paris

JFK  (Geoff Weiss GCDenn0@pop.uky.edu)
    The Zapruder film as History
    Jackie Kennedy and the New Image of the White House


Imaginary Presidents: Reel vs. Real  (Contact: Ernest Giglio at
Giglio@lycoming.edu)
    Gabriel Over the White House
    The President Vanishes
    Frank Capra's Image of the Presidency
    Images in Feature Films Since 1980

Special Area for the film Independence Day
    (Wendell S. Broadwell: wbroadwe@gpc.peachnet.edu)


Special Area of the theme: The Imperial Presidency
     (Isabelle Freda: igf9078@is6.nyu.edu)




International Perspectives
    The Presidency as Seen From Australia (2 papers)

West Wing (NBC series) (Contact: James N. Yates at jnyates@nwosu.edu)
    Any episode or themes of the series.
    Creative talents from the series have been invited for a screening and
panel

First and Second Ladies
    Images: Princess Diana and Monika Lewinsky
    Feminism, Film Theory, and First Ladies in Film

USIA Images of the Presidency
    Years of Lightning Days of Drums (on JFK)

Filmmakers
    Three interested in attending.  TBA



WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, GO TO THE FILM & HISTORY WEB SITE:

        http://h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis

Primary contact is Susan W. Rollins:

Susan Rollins

FlmHisLeag@aol.com

Historically yours and the secondary contact:

Peter Rollins


Peter C. Rollins, Editor
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
    Film and Television Studies
RR 3  Box 80
Cleveland, OK  74020
RollinsPC@aol.com
(918)243-7637 and fax 5995
Web site: http://h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis

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