Time:
20 Oct 2010 - 22 Oct 2010
San Francisco, California, United States
This conference seeks to explore the role of cinema in reflecting and contributing to concepts of historical events, identity politics, cultures, cults and celebrity.
Histories, as narratives of both personal and public events, identities and societies, are created, recreated, and deconstructed in film. This conference will explore how cinematic depictions of histories differ from that of other media and how cinema's depiction influences both society and other media. The relation between cinema and histories invites investigation from numerous perspectives, including but not limited to:
- From History to Histories: Global, local and hybrid histories in cinema
- New Identities in Media: Creating histories of differences and sameness
- Millennial Histories: 2000-2010 and representations of the "future"
- National Perspectives: Recreating war stories from opposing sides of the battlefield
- Queer History and Stereotypes Perpetuated in Film
- Creating Immigrant Identities in Film
- Exploring the Historical Evolution of Cinematic Genre
- Cinema, History and Memory: Representation of historical events in narrative and non-narrative film
- Theories of Consumption and Reception of Cinematic Histories
- Finding Truth in the Historical Epic
- Film Movements as Signs of Their Times
- Wars and Remembrance in the Persian Gulf
- Film as Historic Artifact
