[Bilimsel Haber] Updated CFP: The Atomic Age (11/01/07; 10/30/08-11/02/08)

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Updated Call for Papers
THE ATOMIC AGE Area
2008 Film & History Conference
"Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond"
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois

<http://www.filmandhistory.org>www.filmandhistory.org
First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007

AREA: The Atomic Age

After the creation of the atom bomb and its use against Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in World War II, nuclear arms, energy, and science were the
subject of countless films across a wide range of genres, from Godzilla
and Dr. Strangelove to The China Syndrome, The Day After and 24. How did
the movies respond to the atomic age? How did they represent nuclear
science and scientists? Did Atomic Age films exaggerate or dismiss the
dangers of nuclear weapons and energy? How did social or political
events concerning atomic energy make their way into film?  And, in turn,
how did such films affect national policy or civic character? These are
just a few questions to be addressed in this area, which investigates
the impact of the nuclear age (1945 to the present) on society as
portrayed through film and television. Presentations can, for example,
feature analyses of individual films and/or TV programs from historical
perspectives, surveys of documents related to the production of films,
or investigations of nuclear history and culture as explored through film.

Genres could include films attempting to define atomic history,
Hollywood blockbusters, TV programs or mini-series, science-fiction,
propaganda, instructional films, documentaries, docudramas, newsreels
and broadcast media, war films, westerns, national cinemas, music
videos, avant-garde films, actualities, and direct cinema.

Paper topics might include atomic war, national security and secrecy,
atomic espionage, ethics and morals, reel representations of atomic
science and scientists, peaceful applications of nuclear power, atomic
fantasies, nuclear dystopia, atomic themes in westerns, civil defense,
myths, nuclear terrorism, government and institutions, the anti-nuclear
movement, nuclear accidents and near-disasters, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
in memory and post-memory, health, safety, environment, gender,
ethnicity, race, class, etc.

Please send your 200-word proposal by November 1, 2007 to:

Christoph Laucht, Chair of the Atomic Age Area
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
University of Liverpool
Chatham Street
Liverpool
L69 7ZR
United Kingdom

Phone: ++44(0)151-794-2404
Email: <mailto:c.laucht at liv.ac.uk>c.laucht at liv.ac.uk

Panel proposals for up to four presenters, are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. Deadline for
first-round proposals: November 1, 2007

This area, comprising multiple panels, is a part of the 2008 biennial
Film & History Conference, sponsored by The Center for the Study of Film
and History. Wheeler Winston Dixon, James Ryan Professor of Film Studies
at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and author of Visions of the
Apocalypse and Disaster and Memory, will be a Featured Speaker. For
updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the
Film & History website
(<http://www.filmandhistory.org>http://www.filmandhistory.org).