AAASS 2008 film and history panel DISCUSSANT NEEDED

[Elena Vasilyeva]

Dear SEELANGers, 

we are still looking for a discussant on the film and history panel. If you
would like to serve as a discussant for the panel, please contact me off
list today! 
Here is a brief summary of the panel:

Western scholarship has given considerable attention to the treatments of
history in film, covering a range of issues from the type of historical
material selected to foreground specific contemporary issues to modes of
emplotment of the historical past to rhetorical manouevers that bring the
national past closer and thus foster ties of national identity or create a
cultural distance from the traumatic events and effectively suppress
possible parallels with the present. In our panel “History on Film: the
Return of the Repressed” we discuss the ways, in which Soviet and Russian
cinema has taken on the challenge of portraying the past, while issuing
forth authoritative statements about the present. Areas of interest for this
panel are national identity, continuity and ruptures with the past, the role
of individual in history. We are looking at how film in its own
medium-specific ways participates in the public consensual understanding of
history and its constant re-negotiation. 

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