http:\/\/www.filmandhistory.org<\/a><\/p>\nDeadline: June 1, 2012<\/p>\n
Films that depict travel through time and space captivate us with tales of<\/p>\n
the past, the future, the distant, and the alien. These stories are shaped, however, not just by scientific principles, but by complex mythologies that reflect our collective anxieties. How fragile is \u201cour\u201d history? A seemingly trivial change to the past \u2014 a dropped book in Back to the Future, an act of kindness in The Butterfly Effect \u2014 can sweep away the present and replace it with something far worse (or far better). How do the alien forms of distant worlds beckon us (with a new Earth in Titan A.E.) or disappoint us (with pale imitations of Earth in Firefly) or terrify us (with the upside- down society of Planet of the Apes)? How do space- and time-travel myths give shape to our fears\u2014of loving the wrong person, of leaving home forever, of being forgotten, of entering a foreign world? How do these myths give shape to our hopes\u2014that the future is ours to shape, that the universe is full of wonders, that human experience might transcend time and space?<\/p>\n
This area, comprising multiple panels, will treat all aspects of the mythological underpinnings of space and time travel in science-fiction films and television programs. Papers that explore how such myths are played out in science fiction from outside the US and UK are especially welcome. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:<\/p>\n
Nomads: Cold Sleep, Relativity, and the Loneliness of Space Travel<\/p>\n
Generation Spaceships and the Ship-as-World (e.g., Alien, Pandorum)<\/p>\n
Time Travel and \u201cFixing History\u201d (e.g., Quantum Leap, 12 Monkeys)<\/p>\n
Love, Sex, and the Time Traveler (e.g., Back to the Future, Somewhere in Time)<\/p>\n
Who Are You?: Myth and Identity in Space and Time Travel<\/p>\n
Paradoxes in Time Travel: Killing Grandpa, and Other Bad Ideas<\/p>\n
Just Like California: \u201cAlien\u201d Worlds and Space Travel as Tourism<\/p>\n
Galactic Empires: Rome with Spaceships<\/p>\n
The Human(oid) Void: Myths of First Contact (e.g., Star Trek, Babylon 5)<\/p>\n
Homeward Bound: Myths of the Lost Earth (e.g., Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Wall-E)<\/p>\n
Wormhole Diplomacy: Bridging Cultural Spaces<\/p>\n
Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by June 1, 2012:<\/p>\n
A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Chair<\/p>\n
2012 Film & History Conference Area: \u201cScience-Fiction Myths\u201d<\/p>\n
Southern Polytechnic State University<\/p>\n
Email: bvanriper@bellsouth.net<\/p>\n
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