[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: The Art of the Real (9/30/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

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From: Loren Baybrook <baybrook@uwosh.edu>

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Call for Papers
ART OF THE REAL Area
2006 Film & History Conference
The Documentary Tradition
8-12 November, 2006
Dolce Conference Center
Dallas, TX
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Art of the Real

When is a film no longer art but merely a recording, an audio-visual 
document?
It is tempting to evade the question by claiming that, because every 
document is
the product of choices, conscious or not, those choices must amount to 
some form
of art, be it individual or cultural. But aesthetic questions revolve 
around the
quality and kind of choices, not the mere fact of them. When do we say 
that one
documentary--a war film, a reality TV program, a cinematic expose on drug
dealers in City Hall--is aesthetically superior to another documentary? 
Can we
compare documentaries apart from their topics? Ever since Aristotle, 
literary
critics do more than measure the scandal quotient or assess the politics 
of a
text. Topicality runs shallow. What formal and/or thematic components make a
documentary artful, not just true or false? If the documentary is a 
unique art
form, like the lyric poem or the tragic drama, then its generic 
boundaries can
be violated. A putatively documentary film can fail--or even 
reject--itself as a
documentary. How? Has a new documentary genre emerged in the last decade 
or two,
requiring different aesthetic criteria, or has the genre remained 
consistent?
How much "reality" must a documentary program contain to remain a 
"documentary"?
  And what depictions of reality--as well as the rhetorical or cinematic 
devices
generating them--qualify as generic?

Formal analyses of fictional documentaries or historical fictions
Meta-narrative film treatments of history
Genre and aesthetics theory

Send your proposal (200-400 words) to Dr. Loren PQ Baybrook, Area Chair,
Department of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901.
Phone: 920-424-2253. E-mail: baybrook@uwosh.edu. Panel proposals, for up 
to four
presenters, are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own
paper proposal.

This Area, comprising multiple panels, is a part of the Film and History 
League
The Documentary Tradition conference for 2006. See the Film & History 
web site
(www.filmandhistory.org) for details about the upcoming meetings and 
about other
areas of scholarship.

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Loren PQ Baybrook, Ph.D.
Department of English
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901



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