[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Middle East Film and Media (8/5/06; SCMS, 3/8/07-3/11/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
March 8-11, 2007
Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.cmstudies.org

The SCMS Middle East Caucus is sponsoring the following call for papers.
Please send 150-200-word proposal and brief bio statement by August 5, 2006.

Proposals are sought for a panel on contemporary issues in Middle East
film and media. Possible topics include: effects of (neo)colonialism on
national film production; formal and generic transformations within
Syrian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Moroccan cinemas; (mis)representations
of gender and sexuality, religion and race in Arab, Israeli, and Central
Asian film; Israeli-Palestinian conflict cinema; media and documentary
reportage of U.S. regional invasions and related policies; diaspora
cinemas (Turkish, Palestinian, Iranian); experimental interventions.

Send proposals to:
Terri Ginsberg, Ph.D.
Co-chair, SCMS Middle East Caucus
t.ginsberg.1 at alumni.nyu.edu

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