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>Subject: CFP: The Documentary Tradition: Public Health and Safety 
>(8/15/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)
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>From: "COULTER-SMITH Elizabeth" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>2006 Film and History League Conference
>The Documentary Tradition
>Call for Papers: Public Health & Safety
>www.filmandhistory.org
>
>8-12 November, 2006
>Dallas, Texas
>(please cross post where appropriate)
>
>>From the 1920s, early health and safety films closely paralleled 
>>documentary filmmaking; engaging in fictional and non-fictional 
>>narratives of public bodies and national identities. In the postwar 
>>era these films, generally government funded, popularized ideals of 
>>world health. Visual representations depicted, often 
>>scientifically, cultures degrading morality, racial impurity, or 
>>sexual degeneracy as being responsible for the spread of disease. 
>>The cinema of hygiene and injury has fed anxious populations who 
>>embraced alien invasions and feared invisible contaminants. Public 
>>health and safety films continue to evolve from this matrix of 
>>subtly changing cultural boundaries, shifting sexual identities, 
>>and ever growing global incursions into the private sphere of the 
>>public body.
>We are inviting submissions on all aspects of public health and 
>safety as it relates to the documentary tradition. Deadline for 
>submission is August 15, 2006.
>The Film and History League conference details can be found at 
>www.filmandhistory.org. The meeting will run from 8-12 November, 
>2006 in the Dolce Conference Center near the DFW airport.  A 
>spectrum of other areas will evolve on the web site over time.
>
>Send all inquires and proposals to:
>
>E. Coulter-Smith
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>+44 (0)  1782 294415
>+44 (0)  1782 294762
>Postal Address:-
>Faculty of Arts, Media and Design
>Staffordshire University
>P.O.Box 661
>College Road
>Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2XW
>United Kingdom
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>+44 (0)  1782 294762

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