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>From: Center for Biographical Research <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Narrative Cinema as Autobiographical Act (8/15/05; 
>journal issue)
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>Call for Papers. „Narrative Cinema as Autobiographical Act¾
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>The Winter 2006 issue of _Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly_ (28.1)
>will be a Special Issue on "Narrative Cinema as Autobiographical Act." Guest
>Editor Linda Haverty Rugg invites essays examining narrative
>(non-documentary) cinema as autobiography. Theorist Philippe Lejeune argued
>against the possibility of narrative films as autobiography, while Elizabeth
>Bruss speculated that viewing narrative films as autobiographies would lead
>to a redefinition not only of autobiography as a genre, but selfhood as a
>construct. In a kind of manifesto for cinematic auteurism, the young
>FranÁois Truffaut wrote in 1959: „The film of tomorrow appears to me as even
>more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a
>confession, or a diary. The filmmakers will express themselves in the first
>person and will relate what has happened to them. . . . The film of tomorrow
>will resemble the person who made it.¾ What does it mean for a film to be
>made in the first person? How can a film 'resemble the person who made it'?
>How can a collaborative work of art (like most narrative films) be
>recognized as the autobiographical work of an individual? What is the
>relationship between the director and his or her actors in such a scenario?
>Contributors could consider these questions and others related to the
>construction of selfhood through the cinematic medium, the relation of
>photography in film to memory and history, the use of documentary clips in
>„fictional¾ films, the presence of the director in „fictional¾ films, the
>representation of memory and childhood in films, and more. Essays on
>fictional filmmakers ranging from well-known cinematic auteurs (Truffaut
>himself, Malle, Bergman, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Fassbinder, Allen, etc.) to
>experimental filmmakers are welcome.
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>Manuscripts should be between 2,500 and 7,500 words, and may be submitted
>either electronically, as an e-mail attachment to [log in to unmask], or as
>a paper copy to the Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i,
>1800 East-West Road #325, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA. _Biography_ follows a
>double-blind submission policy; the author's name should not appear on the
>manuscript but in an accompanying cover letter. Consultation on manuscript
>ideas is welcome. For more information, contact the Center for Biographical
>Research at [log in to unmask] Deadline for submissions: 15 August 2005.
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