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The 2010 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Join us next spring, as a returning or first-time participant, at this regional popular culture conference that draws an international roster of participants. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all panel areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtexaspca.org. A number of graduate student awards are given each year, and graduate student travel grants are also available.
Proposals are now being sought for review in the Film Theory Area. Review begins immediately and continues until December 15, 2009. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are also welcome:
Precinema and its influence on film theory
Quest-ce que le cinema? Classical Film Theory and its Discontents
Montage and Editing/ Practice as Theory
Walter Benjamin/Mechanical Reproduction
Apparatus Theory
Spectatorship and Stars
Auteur Theory
Semiotics, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Beyond
Genre Theory
Theories of Third Cinema
Emerging theories of film in the digital age
Intersections of Film Theory and cultural, literary, or fine arts theory
Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to Jennifer L. Jenkins at the email address below no later than December 15, 2009. Please include a current curriculum vitae and a working bibliography for your paper.
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