[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Cold War Documentary

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From: Chris Dixon [mailto:Chris.Dixon at newcastle.edu.au]

Call for Papers
2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
Dallas 8-12 November, 2006
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Cold War Documentary

 From the onset of the Cold War, filmmakers from both sides of this
momentous conflict used film to analyze, persuade, and propagate.
"Documentary" films were thus an important aspect of the cultural battle
for hearts and minds that was played out in cinemas, and particularly on
television screens, for four decades from the 1940s. Of course, not all
documentary films devoted to the Cold War have been propaganda: indeed,
a large body of work, produced during and since the Cold War, has
focused on specific aspects of the conflict from a range of
perspectives.  Significant, too, are documentaries devoted to specific
flashpoints of the era, when the label "Cold War" seemed a misnomer.

Submissions on all aspects of Cold War documentary film are welcome.

Possible themes include:

Causes of the Cold War
The Korean War
McCarthyism and the Red Scare
Cold War Leaders and Leadership
The Cold War and Decolonization
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Atomic testing
The Vietnam War
Détente
Cold War culture
The end of the Cold War

Deadline for submissions is July 25, 2006.

Please direct all enquiries and abstracts (250 words, accompanied by a
one-page CV) to:

Dr.  Chris Dixon, University of Newcastle (Australia)
Chris.Dixon at newcastle.edu.au

Dr. Chris Dixon
Area Chair for the "The Documentary Tradition: The Cold War," at the
"2006 Film and History Conference," to be held 8-12 November, 2006,
Dolce Conference Center, Dallas
http://www.filmandhistory.org/

History Discipline Convenor
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
McMullin Building
University of Newcastle
Callaghan  NSW
2308
Australia

PH: 61-2-4921-5212
Fax: 61-2-4921-6933

Chris.Dixon at newcastle.edu.au