(Proposals due November 2, 2007)
We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the Alternative
Visions: Trash/Cult/Experimental/Avant-Garde/Extreme Cinema and
Television Conference, to be held at Plymouth State University
(Plymouth, New Hampshire) April 11-12, 2008. The members of the
conference committee are seeking contributions that examine
noteworthy non-, counter-, and/or anti-mainstream cinematic and
televisual artifacts from the birth of film and television to the
present, and from any area across the globe. Participants are
encouraged to interpret the conference theme broadly and
innovatively. Individual presentations will be limited to 20 minutes
in length. We also invite innovative examples of such offerings for
screening and discussion at this conference.
We encourage submissions from scholars, educators, students, and
filmmakers/videographers at all levels, and from disciplines
including anthropology, communication, cultural studies, film
studies, history, journalism, LGBT studies, media studies, popular
culture, sociology, and television studies. We intend to publish
selected papers (with author’s permission) in a special anthology
pertaining to the conference theme. As a bonus, please note that the
conference dates allow presenters to take advantage of a much-needed
weekend getaway before the end-of-semester “insanity” kicks in!
Persons submitting individual-paper or screening proposals are asked
to submit a one-page abstract/description of project with complete
contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail
addresses, daytime telephone number). Panel proposals (featuring
three paper-presentations total) should include panel title, brief
description of panel theme, name of the panel chair, one-page
abstracts of each paper in the panel, and complete contact
information for each presenter on the panel (name, institutional
affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, daytime telephone number).
In order to be considered, all proposals must be received no later
than November 2, 2007.
Please mail or e-mail conference proposals to: Alternative Visions
Conference, Attn: Kylo-Patrick Hart, Department of Communication and
Media Studies, Plymouth State University, 17 High Street, MSC 60,
Plymouth, NH 03264; krhart@plymouth.edu
