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FILM & HISTORY SESSIONS FOR PCA/ACA
NATIONAL MEETING, SAN ANTONIO, APRIL 7-10, 2004.
(More on Film & History at www.filmandhistory.org)
There are four sessions on our chosen subject.
(Questions and comments to Robert Fyne at RJFyne@aol.com)
Section #1. Cinema and the Second World War
Chair:
David Lancaster
Room 6. 14-B
Worsley Building
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
d.p.lancaster@leeds.ac.uk
"Fred Zinnemann and the Salvaging of Germany."
Lawrence Suid
19-C Hillside Road
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
LHSuid@aol.com
"Children's Time to 'Carry on:' Images of the Youth of Britain
in World War II Workers Newsreels."
Erwin F. Erhardt, III,
Thomas More College
333 Thomas More Parkway
Crestview Hills, Kentucky 41017
erwin.erhardt@thomasmore.edu
“Heavy Doses of Patriotism: Marion Morrison and Iwo Jima”
Robert Fyne
English Department
Kean University
Union, New Jersey 07083
RJFyne@aol.com
Section #2. American Culture and Motion Pictures.
Chair:
David Lancaster
Room 6. 14-B
Worsley Building
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
d.p.lancaster@leeds.ac.uk
“Arthur Miller versus Columbia Pictures: The Strange Case of "‘Career of a Salesman’"
Kevin Kerrane
Department of English
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716
kkerrane@udel.edu
“Open Range: The Post 9-11 Western"
Ron Briley
Sandia Preparatory School
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113
rbriley@sandiaprep.org
"Filming in Florida: Hollywood before Hollywood"
Gretchen Bisplinghoff
108 Reavis Hall
Department of Communication
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
gbisplin@niu.edu
Section #3. Visions and Perspectives
Chair:
David Lancaster
Room 6. 14-B
Worsley Building
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
d.p.lancaster@leeds.ac.uk
"Three Films, Three Flags"
Jennifer E. Moore
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Minnesota
111 Murphy Hall
206 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
moor0088@umn.edu
“Revisioning Contemporary History in the Age of Al Capone"
J.E. Smyth
Yale University
Depts. of Film Studies and American Studies
Box 207223
New Haven, CT 06520
jennifer.smyth@yale.edu
“Heroines and Hillbillies: Songcatcher and the History of an American Folk”
Deborah L. Blackwell
Texas A&M International University
Department of Social Sciences
5201 University Boulevard
Laredo, TX 78041-1900
dblackwell@tamiu.edu
“Jesus, Mel, and Josephus: Faith, Politics, and History
in Gibson’s The Passion”
Frank Klapak
Professor of Corporate and Political Communication
Seton Hill University
Greensburg, PA 15601
klapak@setonhill.edu
Michael Cary
Professor of History and Political Science
Seton Hill University
Greensburg, PA 15601
cary@setonhill.edu
Section #4 Workshop on The West Wing TV Series
Workshop Moderator: Peter C. Rollins, Editor,
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal…..
(www.filmandhistory.org)
Participants in the workshop will be assigned various facets
for discussion—both thematic and cinematic. The episode to be shown (sans
commercials) is entitled "Evidence of Things Unseen…"(Season 4, Episode 420;
broadcast on 30 October, 2003. This episode is redolent of religion and
politics.) This workshop will be a recreational event and not a test!
For details see http://westwing.bewarne.com/fourth/420evidence.html.
For more on the national meeting, go to our website.
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