From: filmlit-AT-english.fsu.edu
Subject: 2005 Conference on Literature and Film
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:16:01 EST


Trans/National Film and Literature: 
Cultural Production and the Claims of History 

30th Annual Conference on Literature and Film 

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY 
TALLAHASSEE, FL 
January 27-29, 2005 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 
"Making Films with an Accent: Transnational, Transitional, and 
Translational Strategies" 
Hamid Naficy 
Department Chair and Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art History, Film and 
Media Studies 
Rice University 

SCREENING AND PRESENTATION 
"Making the Historical Documentary: Problems and Possibilities" 
Alan Rosenthal 
Documentary filmmaker; maker of over sixty films, including Day of Peace, 
Out of the Ashes, A Nation is Born, and On the Brink of Peace. Recipient 
of the Peabody Award for Journalism and the International Documentary 
Association Award for Scholarship. 

The thirtieth anniversary of FSU's Conference on Literature and Film 
presents the opportunity to consider the last three decades of literature 
and film and their study in today's national and transnational contexts. 
What are the historical claims made in and through trans/national film 
and literature? Are the borders between film and literature dissolving 
under the broader category of cultural production? How has the 
integration of commodity culture markets affected film and literature in 
the age of economic and cultural globalization? How do national or 
transnational frames refigure our sense of history in and through film 
and literature? And how do these frames introject different times, 
temporalities, and speeds into our sense of history and forms of cultural 
production? How are strategies of hybridity translating new cultural 
forms for cosmopolitan subjectivities? How is cultural production itself 
transformed in the response to life and death in a time of war, terror, 
and counter-terror? 


CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS 

The Conference Program Committee welcomes the submission of paper and 
panel proposals that address the conference agenda and any related 
issues, either through theoretical discussion or readings of particular 
aesthetic works. 
Possible topics include: 
 * Cinematic responses to (Counter)Terrorism 
 * Hybrid Identities, Traveling Cultures, and the Limits of Agency 
 * Historicizing Sexualities in Cultures of the Postcolony 
 * From Biopolitics to Necropolitics: Cultural Strategies of 
Governmentality under 
     Counter-terrorism 
 * Reframing the New Nationalist Rhetoric of Freedom in Recent Hollywood 
Blockbusters 
 * The Poetics of History, and the History of Poetics in Transnational 
Film and Literature 
 * The Death of the Nation? Patriotism and Culture in Non-Western Contexts 
 * Subjectivity and Religion in Transnational Film and Literature 
 * The Trans/National Text: Readings, Re-Readings, And Counter-Readings 
 * Trans/National Style In Literature And Film 
 * Crossing Borders: The Transmigration Of Cultural Forms And Practices 
 * Contemporary Identities: Race, Sexuality and Culture 
 * Ideology In A Postmodernist Era 
 * Trans/National Artists/Characters/Audiences 

Abstracts should be submitted by email to filmlit-AT-englishmail.fsu.edu by 
October 20, 2004. For further details about abstract guidelines and the 
conference, go to http://english3.fsu.edu/~filmlit2005/. 

Individual questions may be addressed to the conference organizers: 
Amit S. Rai (English): arai-AT-english.fsu.edu 
Frank P. Tomasulo (Film School): FTomasulo-AT-admin.fsu.edu 
Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya (Modern Languages): lwakamiy-AT-mailer.fsu.edu 



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