Preliminary Conference Program
2006 SCMS Conference
Media and the Americas
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Schedule of Events At A Glance
Program Sessions
Thursday, March 2, 2006 12:00 noon
- 1:45 pm (Session A)
A1: Identity and Subjectivity in Global Media
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: Alison Patterson (University of Pittsburgh)
Zala Volcic (University of Queensland, Australia), ""That's Me": Reality TV and its
democratic promise in former Yugoslavia"
Bjorn Ingvoldstad (Indiana University), "The paradox of "national cinema" in
Lithuania"
Willow Mullins (University of Missouri, Columbia), "Re-Presentation of Identity in
Modern Kyrgyz Film"
Alison Patterson (University of Pittsburgh), "To Think, To Eat, To Speak: The
‘Language’ of Jan Svankmajer’s Surrealist Cinema"
A2: Rethinking American Genres
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Mark Lynn Anderson (University of Pittsburgh)
William Siska (Northwestern University), "The American West in Film (Not the
Western)"
Jean O'Reilly (University of Connecticut), "CSI Tarrytown: Literary adaptation,
Sleepy Hollow, and the Detective Story Tradition"
Neal King (Virginia Tech University), "Hollywood Visions of Women Doing Men's
Work"
Mark Lynn Anderson (University of Pittsburgh), "Devastatingly Beautiful: Glamour,
Deviance, and *The Devil Is a Woman*"
A3: Class Issues in Reality TV
Room: Pavilion C
Chair: Susan Ryan (College of New Jersey)
Joy Fuqua (Tulane University), "Miracle Work and Real(ity) Estate:Extreme Makeover:
Home Edition’s Renovation of Class"
Beth Pentney (Simon Fraser University), "Inscribing Class onto the Female Body: North
American Reality-Based Makeover shows"
Helen Wood (University of Manchester, UK), "Telling the Classed Self: Reality
television and audience negotiations of ethics."
Brian Gibson (Independent Scholar), "Organizing Reality: Labor Struggles in Reality
TV"
Sponsor: Caucus on Class
A4: Performance, Affect, Fold: Deleuze In-Between
Media
Room: Pavilion D
Chair: Amy Herzog (Queens College, City University of New York)
Amy Herzog (Queens College, City University of New York), "Suspended Gestures:
Performance, Affect, and the Face in Cinema"
Elena del Rio (University of Alberta), "Mulholland Drive: Powers of Affection, Powers
of the False"
Laura Marks (Simon Fraser University), "Algorithmic Abstraction, Perceptual
Unfolding, and Artificial Life"
Suzanne Buchan (University College for the Creative Arts), "Mindscapes, Dreamscapes
and Impossible Places: The Spatial Imagination of Animation"
A5: Swedish Side Tracks: The Case of Experimental
Cinema
Room: Junior A
Chair: Astrid Widding (Stockholm University)
John Sundholm (Karlstad University), "Swedish Film Culture in the Early 50s: the open
discourse of experimental film and the closed discourse of film historiography"
Lars Gustaf Andersson (Lund University), "Movements and Mirrors: Peter Weiss and the
Emergence of Swedish Experimental Cinema"
Astrid Widding (Stockholm University), "Experimental film in Sweden – national
cinema or international avant-garde?"
Respondent: Sean Cubitt (University of Waikato)
A6: Film Theory in the Digital Age
Room: Junior B
Chair: James Tobias (University of California, Riverside)
Christopher Pavsek (Haverford College), ""Is the Mall a Prison? Digital Technology
and Cinema Practice According to Harun Farocki""
Jay Douglas (University of Southern California), "Narrative in the Age of Artificial
Intelligence"
Anton Soderman (Brown University), "The Index and the Algorithm"
James Tobias (University of California, Riverside), "Alice, at Play: Media
Transitions and Medial Agency, from the Photographs of Charles Dodgson to "American
McGee’s Alice""
A7: Exotic and Erotic
Room: Junior C
Chair: Drew Todd (San José State University)
Hoang Tan Nguyen (University of California, Berkeley), "GAM4SEX: Cruising Asian Male
Bodies Online"
Jo Smith (University of Auckland), "The Plasticity of Ethnicity: Maori Masculinity in
Hollywood Film"
Drew Todd (San José State University), "Pansies, Psychos, and Playboys: An
Historical Overview of Dandyism in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture"
A8: Workshop: A Future for Theory
Room: Junior D
Chair: Brian Price (Oklahoma State University)
Workshop Participants:
Catherine Benamou (University of Michigan)
Edward Branigan (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Meghan Sutherland (Northwestern University)
Amy Villarejo (Cornell University)
A9: Beyond the Passion and the Fury: The 'Everyday Sacred'
on Screen
Room: Parksville
Chair: Linda Ehrlich (Case Western Reserve University)
Linda Ehrlich (Case Western Reserve University), "Kore-eda Hirokazu and the
Paradoxical Everyday"
Patrick Brereton (Dublin City University), "'Everyday Sacred' and Childhood
Innoncence in "Into the West" and "In America""
S. Brent Plate (Texas Christian University), "The Footprints of Film: After Images of
Religion in American Topographies"
James Quandt (Cinematheque), "What the Devil? Bresson's "Le diable
probablement""
A10: Travelling Films: Film Festivals in the Gobal
Economy
Room: Granville
Chair: Soojeong Ahn (University of Nottingham)
Soojeong Ahn (University of Nottingham), "Contemporary South Korean Cinema and Pusan
International Film Festival"
Li Yang (University of Texas, Austin), "International Film Festivals and
China’s Two Art Waves"
Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham), "Genre films and Festival Communities:
Lessons from Nottingham, 1991-2000"
Elizabeth Czach (University of Rochester), "Official Selections:Film Festivals,
Canadian Film, and Globalized Networks of Film Distribution"
A11: Women of the International Star System
Room: Galiano
Chair: Antje Ascheid (University of Georgia)
Ethan de Seife (Wesleyan University), "The Director and the Bombshell: Jayne
Mansfield in the Films of Frank Tashlin"
Christopher Loftus (George Mason University), "“Like Water, Like Wine, Like
Life:” Monica Bellucci, the Italian Female Star, and the Ideology of the
Body."
Antje Ascheid (University of Georgia), "Post-War Princess: Romy Schneider and Sissi
as Political Myths"
A12: Racial Negotiations in Televiison and Film
Room: Orca
Chair: Miriam Petty (Rutgers University)
Adam Segal (New York University/Tisch), "Diluted "Blackness": The Rise of the Black
Urban Romantic Comedy"
Derek Kane-Meddock (New York University), "Never Touch a Black Man's Radio: "Rush
Hour" and the New Cultural Politics of the Biracial Buddy Film"
Josh Stenger (Wheaton College), "From Beach Parties to Blaxploitation: American
International Pictures, Exploitation Film and Geographies of Race"
Racquel Gates (Northwestern University), ""Sampling": A New Metaphor for
Understanding Black Film and Television"
A13: Asian Cinema in a Transnational Context
Room: Finback
Chair: Peter X Feng (University of Delaware)
Sangjoon Lee (New York University), "Transnational East Asian cinema productions and
inter-cultural representations – Windstruck (2004) and Love with an Alien
(1959)"
Brian Ruh (Indiana University), "Complicating Transnational Asian Cinema:
Nationality, Technology, and Authorship in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s "Last Life in
the Universe""
Ling Yen Chua (Nanyang Technological University) and Aquilia Pieter, "Globalization,
pan-Asian co-productions and Singapore national cinema"
Kim Worthy (Wagner College), "Magical Socialism: Vietnamese Cinema after
Reforms"
A14: Diaspora and Immigration
Room: Port Alberni
Chair: Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon)
Catherine Portuges (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Michael Curtiz: A
Budapest Emigre in Hollywood"
Vinay Swamy (University of Washington), "Marivaux in the Suburbs : Reframing Language
in Kechiche’s "L’Esquive" (2003)"
Karin Hamm-Ehsani (Union College), "No Home in Sight: Moving Images of Kurdish
Diasporic Experience in Yüksel Yavuz’ German Film "Kleine Freiheit" [A
Little Bit of Freedom] (2002)"
Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon), "The Mask: Transnational Stardom of Sessue
Hayakawa and Redefinition of Silent Film Acting"
A15: Utopias Lost and Found
Room: Port Hardy
Chair: Scott Bukatman (Stanford University)
Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz (University of Colorado, Boulder), "Chasing Che: The
Motorcycle Diaries and the new Pan American utopia."
Linda Robinson (Northwestern University), "Playground or Lost Utopia: The Nostalgia
of Walt Disney and Rod Serling for America's Turn-of-the-Century Small Town"
Steve Spence (Clayton State University), "New Media and Social Justice: Digitizing
Martin Luther King"
Scott Bukatman (Stanford University), "A Day in New York: On the Town and The
Clock"
A16: Space, Place, and Media: Lived Environments On Screen
and Off
Room: Beluga - Thursday only
Chair: David Coon (Indiana University)
Adrienne L. McLean (University of Texas, Dallas), "Our Eyes Met Across the
Footlights: Theatrical Space(s), Performance, and Intimacy in Hollywood Film"
David Coon (Indiana University), "Building Suspense: Architecture, Space, and Drama
in Psycho, Rear Window, and Lifeboat"
Emily Pugh (City University of New York Graduate Center), "Space, Film, and Urban
Identity: the Berlin State Library in Wings of Desire"
Max Dawson (Northwestern University), ""Do More. Miss Nothing." Television, New
Media, and Domestic Space"
Thursday, March 2, 2006 2:00-3:45
pm (Session B)
B1: Post-Auteur Auteurs
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: Corinn Columpar (University of Toronto)
Marwa Maziad (University of Washington), "Youssef Chahine's Cinema: "The Hospitable
Space between Self and Other.""
Imke Meyer (Bryn Mawr College), "Empire’s Remains: Michael Haneke’s Time
of the Wolf."
Katrina Boyd (University of Oklahoma), "Collision, Collusion and Collage in Beyond
the Sea, or Can the Biopic and the Musical Coexist in a Postmodern
Star-vehicle?"
Corinn Columpar (University of Toronto), "Substantiating the Superficial: The
Politics of Beauty in Sally Potter's The Man Who Cried"
B2: Aesthetics of the Contemporary Hollywood
Blockbuster
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Warren Buckland (Chapman University)
Alison McMahan (Homunculus Productions), "The Pataphysical Films of Tim Burton"
Bradley Schauer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Critics, Clones, and Narrative in
the Franchise Blockbuster"
Warren Buckland (Chapman University), "The Secular Magic of Steven Spielberg"
Barbara Klinger (Indiana University), "Sending Up the Blockbuster: Film Shorts and
the Internet Parody Industry"
B3: Audiences, Space, and Cultural Geographies of
Fandom
Room: Pavilion C
Chair: Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Co-chair: Jonathan Gray (Fordham University)
Will Brooker (Kingston University), "I Want To Believe: The X-Files and Symbolic
Pilgrimage"
Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Story World, Cultural Citizenship,
and the Public Sphere: Fan Navigation of Institutional Spaces in 24"
Brian Longhurst (University of Salford), "Audiences, Cultural Change and the
Performance of the Ordinary"
Kimberly Schimmel (Kent State University), Denise Bielby (University of
California, Santa Barbara) and C. Lee Harrington (Miami University),
"Fandom: Sport Studies and Fan Studies Perspectives"
B4: Educational Film: Spectatorship, Film Culture, and
Cinematic Knowledge
Room: Pavilion D
Chair: Elizabeth Wiatr (Boise State University)
Jennifer Horne (Bryn Mawr College), "“Borrowing Privileges: The Post-theatrical
Film, The Public Library, and Educational Viewership”"
Anna McCarthy (New York University), "Mortimer Adler, Thor Heyerdahl, and Stanley
Milgram: Experimental Filmmakers of the Cold War"
Charles Acland (Concordia University), "Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday
Projectionists:"
Elizabeth Wiatr (Boise State University), "Documentary's Other: Educational Sound
Film and Citizenship"
B5: Italian Cinema and Media
Room: Junior A
Chair: Lance Rhoades (University of Washington)
Michela Ardizzoni (University of Louisville), "GLOBAL FORMATS, REGIONAL ACCENTS: WHEN
TELEVISION REINVENTS THE NATION."
Gloria Monti (Independent Scholar), "Blasetti & Rossellini: The Two Italies of
1945"
Lance Rhoades (University of Washington), "Joined at the Ship: Opera and Politics in
Fellini’s E la nave va"
B6: Media Convergence across the Americas: Myths,
Contradictions and Challenges
Room: Junior B
Chair: John McMurria (DePaul University)
Vanda Rideout (University of New Brunswick), "Social Impact of Canada’s
Communication Convergence Policy"
John McMurria (DePaul University), "Regulatory Legacies and Recent Challenges to the
Neo-liberal Consensus in Media Convergence Policies in the US"
Alison Beale (Simon Fraser University), "Creative Cities and Gender: Toward an
Evaluation of Policy"
Alex M. Saragoza (University of California, Berkeley), "Televisa and the
Transnational Spanish-language Broadcasting Market: Challenges to Mexico’s
Dominant Media Conglomerate"
B7: Indian Cinema
Room: Junior C
Chair: Aswin Punathambekar (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Jyotika Virdi (University of Windsor), "Ominous Beginnings in Nishant/Night’s
End (Shyam Benegal, 1975)"
Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh), "Immortal Story or Nightmare? [ital] Dr.
Kotnis [ital] Between Art and Exploitation"
Meheli Sen (Emory University), "Debonair Dev: Genre, Masculinity and the Hindi
Crime-melodrama"
Aswin Punathambekar (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Filmi Addas: Indian Cinema,
New Media, and Participatory Culture"
B8: Workshop: The Public Intellectual in the 21st
Century
Room: Junior D
Chair: Marsha Cassidy (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Co-chair: Norma Coates (University of Western Ontario)
Workshop Participants:
Anne Penman (Independent Scholar)
Michael Kackman (University of Texas, Austin)
Sarah Churchwell (University of East Anglia)
Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University)
Virginia Wexman (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group
B9: The Culture of Torture
Room: Parksville
Chair: Julia Lesage (University of Oregon)
John Mowitt (University of Minnesota), "Retaking THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS"
Sasha Torres (University of Western Ontario), "The Culture of Torture: 24 and Threat
Matrix"
Julia Lesage (University of Oregon), "LAW AND ORDER and Abu Ghraib"
B10: Television, Reality, and the Limits of Reality
TV
Room: Granville
Chair: Christine Sprengler (University of Western Ontario)
Julie Russo (Brown University), "Inside Out: Television on Television"
Jennifer Bottinelli (Kutztown University), "Claiming Authenticity: Documentary Film,
Reality Television, and Folklore"
Elizabeth Nathanson (Northwestern University), "“You Dirty, Dirty
People”: Contemporary Television Shows Us How To Clean Up Our Act"
Christine Sprengler (University of Western Ontario), "Consumer Capitalism, Postwar
Television and the Aesthetics of the New Nostalgia Film"
B11: Comedy, Gender, and Transgressive Bodies
Room: Galiano
Chair: Emily Fox-Kales (Northwestern University/Harvard Med School)
Linda Mizejewski (Ohio State University), "“Queen Latifah and Josephine Baker:
Race, the Unruly Woman, and Romantic Comedy”"
Emily Fox-Kales (Northwestern University/Harvard Med School), "“How Shallow is
Shallow Hal? : Defending Against the Big Mama”"
Raphael Raphael (University of Oregon), "“Our Exceptional and Grotesque Body:
Considering the Grotesque"
Respondent: Kathleen Karlyn (University of Oregon)
B12: New Views on African American Films and
Filmmakers
Room: Orca
Chair: Tonia Edwards (Indiana University)
Elizabeth Reich (Rutgers University), "Doing Time in the Post-9/11: Race and Time and
American Space in Spike Lee's "25th Hour""
Tommy Gustafsson (Lund University), "The visual re-creation of black people in a
“white” country. Oscar Micheaux in Swedish film culture in the
20s."
Michael Gillespie (New York University), "Blackness, Noir, and the Absurd: Devil In A
Blue Dress, Deep Cover, and Clockers"
Tonia Edwards (Indiana University), "Counter Narratives: Zora Neale Hurston,
Ethnographic Filmmaking, and a Hyperrealist Everyday"
B13: “Media Asia”: Transmedia Interactions in
East Asian Cinema
Room: Finback
Chair: James Udden (Gettysburg College)
Co-chair: Jinhee Choi (Carleton University)
Jinhee Choi (Carleton University), "(Impossible) Romance of Their Own? Korean
Romantic Teen Pics and the Guiyeoni Syndrome"
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University), ""Documenting New Japan: Trans-Media
Aesthetic in the Contemporary Japanese Cinema""
Hiroshi Kitamura (College of William and Mary), "Eiga no tomo, Hollywood Fandom, and
Post-World War II Japan"
James Udden (Gettysburg College), "Brink of Extinction: Can Taiwanese Television Save
the Local Film Industry?"
B14: Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
Room: Port Alberni
Chair: Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson (Temple University)
Kelly Harrison (Trent University), "From Wumpa to Katchwa: Indigenous Knowledge and
the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network"
Christine Ramsay (University of Regina), "APTN’s Moccasin Flats: Masculinity,
Race, and Aboriginal Identity in Regina’s Urban ‘Hood"
Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson (Temple University), "The Social Mandate of APTN"
Doris Baltruschat (Simon Fraser University), "Featuring First Nations’
Narratives in International Film and TV Co-productions"
Marian Bredin (Brock University), "APTN and Its Audiences"
B15: New Research in (Screen) Performance Studies
Room: Port Hardy
Chair: Cynthia Baron (Bowling Green State University)
Martin Shingler (Staffordshire University), "The Moon and the Stars at the end of
_Now Voyager_: Performing Melodramatic Dialogue in the Studio Era"
Philip Drake (University of Stirling), "Re-conceptualizing Method acting: stars and
supporting characters in _The Godfather_ (1971)"
Kevin Esch (University of Iowa), "On the Synthespian: Digital Acting and
Proprietary Culture"
Cynthia Baron (Bowling Green State University), "Strasberg’s Method: A Fraction
of the Stanislavsky System"
B16: The geopolitics of art cinema: postwar cinema,
history, and the political image.
Room: Beluga - Thursday only
Chair: Rosalind Galt (University of Iowa)
Co-chair: Karl Schoonover (Independent Scholar)
Karl Schoonover (Independent Scholar), "'Inevitably Obscene:' Or How the Corporeal
Defined Neorealism"
Manishita Dass (Swarthmore College), "Dwelling in Loss: Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinema
of Displacement"
Rosalind Galt (University of Iowa), "Negative spaces: Catalan identity, historical
trauma and the Barcelona School."
Respondent: Adam Lowenstein (University of Pittsburgh)
Thursday, March 2, 2006 4:00-5:45
pm (Session C)
C1: The Moving Picture: Cinematic Motion and
Emotion
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: Patrick Keating (Washington University, St. Louis)
Co-chair: Lisa Dombrowski (Wesleyan University)
Jennifer Barker (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Running Like a Girl"
Kaveh Askari (University of California, Berkeley), "On the Contemplation of Static
Pictures in Early American Film Theory"
Lisa Dombrowski (Wesleyan University), "Adrift in Time: Free Floating Camera
Movement, Memory, and Loss"
Patrick Keating (Washington University, St. Louis), "The City in Motion: Dynamism,
Simultaneity, Seriality"
C2: Resituating Film Noir
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Kevin Hagopian (Penn State University)
John Orr (University of Edinburgh), "Californian Noir - Is it European?"
Sam Mithani (University of Southern California), "Giving Voice to Ben Chaplin:
African-American Representation in Abraham Polonsky’s Body and Soul
(1947)"
Joshua Hirsch (University of North Texas), "Ideological Hermeneutics of Force of
Evil"
Kevin Hagopian (Penn State University), ""'We're Both Part of the Same Hypocrisy,
Senator':"
C3: Advertising and Promotion
Room: Pavilion C
Chair: Amy Lawrence (Dartmouth College)
Melanie Selfe (University of East Anglia), "Going West with 'Stetson': The pioneering
role of product placement in marketing 'Whoopee!' and its New York icons across
America."
Stephen Groening (University of Minnesota), "Virtual Shopping versus Actual
Merchandising: The (New) Spaces and Places of Television Consumption"
Paul Young (Vanderbilt University), ""How far is realism to be carried?": An
Intermedia Approach to Realism in Early U.S. Cinema"
Amy Lawrence (Dartmouth College), "The Beating Human Heart: GE and the Image
Archive"
C4: Professing Film Studies: Disciplinary Explorations
Room: Pavilion D
Chair: Michael Zryd (York University)
John Frankfurt (Columbia University), "Cinema Studies in the Age of Digital
Learning"
Fernando Mascarello (UNISINOS, Brazil), "Film Studies in Brazil: Textualism and
Glauberianism"
Elizabeth Conley (University of Utah), "Film Studies Under Attack: Academic Integrity
in conflict with students' sincerely-held core beliefs"
Michael Zryd (York University), "Non-fiction Film and the Development of North
American Film Studies in the 1960s"
C5: The Undercurrents of Danish Dogma Style
Room: Junior A
Chair: Johannes Riis (University of Copenhagen)
Torben Grodal (University of Copenhagen), "Dogma, Heresy, and Lars von Trier’s
Anti-Realism"
Johannes Riis (University of Copenhagen), "Acting Styles in Recent Danish Cinema: Two
Approaches to Improvisation"
Hanna Laakso (Concordia University), "The impact of Strindberg’s theatrical
legacy on the Danish Dogma films"
Jan Simons (University of Amsterdam), "Dogmatic Games"
C6: Workshop: Workshop: Not Just Funny Bunnies: The
Interdisciplinary Futures of Animation Publishing and Opportunities for New
Scholarship
Room: Junior B
Chair: Suzanne Buchan (University College for the Creative Arts)
Workshop Participants:
Bob Rehak (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Janeann Dill (New College of University, Alabama)
Leslie Bishko (Emily Carr Institute of Art, Design and Media)
C7: Auteurs of Film Music
Room: Junior C
Chair: Neil Lerner (Davidson College)
Daniel Yezbick (Peninsula College), "Citizen Thane: Bernard Herrmann’s scores
for the Mercury Text recordings and their influence on the soundscapes of Orson
Welles’ Citizen Kane"
Nathan Platte (University of Michigan), "The Sound of Prestige: Erich Wolfgang
Korngold, Warner Bros. and the Score for "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"
(1935)"
Carol Vernallis (Communication / Wayne State University), "Audio-Visual Connection,
Experience and Emotion in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
Neil Lerner (Davidson College), "The Horrors of the Left Hand: Music and Disability
in The Beast With Five Fingers"
C8: Science and the Cinema
Room: Junior D
Chair: Jackie Stacey (Lancaster University)
Marie-Luise Angerer (Art Academy of Media, Cologne), "Let's Be Moved: Affect and
Desire"
Lisa Cartwright (University of California, San Diego), "A New Theory of the Subject:
The Science of Affect in Psychoanalytic Film Theory"
Valerie Hartouni (University of California, San Diego), "Technocolor
Technoscience"
Jackie Stacey (Lancaster University), "Genetic Visions: The Uncanny Architectures of
Intimacy in Code 46"
C9: Revisiting the Local-Global, Popular Culture, and
Stephen Chow
Room: Parksville
Chair: Xiangyang Chen (New York University)
Xiangyang Chen (New York University), "Stephen Chow, Moleitau Comedy and the Question
of Nativism"
Kin Yan Szeto (Appalachian State University), "Chinese Comedy Film and the Fantasy of
Globalization: A Comparative Study of Stephen Chow and Feng Xiaogang"
Shi-Yan Chao (New York University), "Stephen Chow at a Local-Global
Intersection"
Li Zeng (Northwestern University), "Dahua Fan Culture on Chinese University Campus:
Reception of Stephen Chow’s Da Hua Xi You"
C10: Four of a Kind: Analyses of TV Poker
Room: Granville
Chair: Scott Ruston (University of Southern California)
Scott Ruston (University of Southern California), "Going All In: TV Poker and
American Television"
Susan Pearlman (University of Texas, Austin), "That's Edutainment! Celebrity as
Teacher in Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown""
Joanna Slimmer (University of Texas, Austin), "TV Poker, Gender, and the Unfriendly
Confines of Sports Programming"
Tom Galaraga (University of Southern California), "Poker Evolved: Decoding the
Panoptic Gaze of the Lip-Stick Camera"
C11: Rethinking Shock Value: Contemporary Representations
of Sexuality
Room: Galiano
Chair: Jean Ma (Bard College)
Susan Ericsson (Northwestern University), "Libidinal Disillusionment: Youth Sexuality
in US Cinema"
Jean Ma (Bard College), "Discordant Desires: The Piano Teacher"
Jonathan M. Hall (University of California Irvine), "Birth of the Precocious
Adult"
Respondent: Tim Palmer (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
C12: Workshop: Welcome to the Archives: New Opportunities
for Research
Room: Orca
Chair: Eric Schaefer (Emerson College)
Co-chair: Snowden Becker (Academy Film Archive)
Workshop Participants:
Janna Jones (University of South Florida) and Mark Neumann (University of South Florida)
Mark Quigley (University of California, Los Angeles)
Lindy Leong (Visual Communications)
Julie Buck (Harvard Film Archive)
Margaret Compton (Walter J. Brown Media Archive)
Sponsor: Media Archive Committee
C13: New Discourses in sub-Saharan African Cinema
Room: Finback
Chair: Sheila Petty (University of Regina)
Sheila Petty (University of Regina), "New Genres, New Modes of Expression: the
Emergence of the African Musical in “Karmen Gei” and “Madame
Brouette”"
Sada Niang (University of Victoria), "The Contexts of African Films: Institutional
and Artistic"
Alexie Tcheuyap (University of Calgary), "Between Myth and Tragedy: Some Intertextual
Constructions of African Cinema"
C14: Latin American Media
Room: Port Alberni
Chair: Cristiani Bilhalva (University of Southern California)
Mary Leonard (University of Puerto Rico), "New Directions in Latin American
Television"
Mario Alfonso Murillo (Hofstra University), "Indigenous Communication in Colombia:
Community Radio, Civil Conflict and Popular Resistance by the Nasa People of Northern
Cauca"
Chad Beck (Indiana University, Bloomington), "Telesur: The Latin American al
Jazeera"
Cristiani Bilhalva (University of Southern California), "The Zapatistas and the
Internet: a Case Study on Voice, Agency, and the Media"
C15: On Michael Haneke
Room: Port Hardy
Chair: John David Rhodes (University of York)
Mattias Frey (Harvard University), "Reading Michael Haneke’s Transnational
Cinema from the Pages of the Feuilleton"
Brian Price (Oklahoma State University), "Pain and the Commodity Character of
Art"
John David Rhodes (University of York), "Haneke, the Long Take, Realism"
Christopher Sharrett (Seton Hall University), "Michael Haneke and the Discontents of
European Culture"
Thursday, March 2,
2006 6:00-8:00 pm (Plenary 1)
Plenary Session 1: Media and the Americas
Room: Pavilion D
Speakers:
TBA
Thursday, March 2,
2006 8:00-9:00 pm (Reception)
Opening Reception
Room: Junior D
Friday, March 3,
2006 7:30-8:30 am (Meetings)
African/African-American Caucus
Room: Granville
Women's Caucus
Room: Galiano
European Scholars Interest Group
Room: Orca
Friday, March 3, 2006 8:30-10:15
am (Session D)
D1: Coming of Age in a Post-Feminist World
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: Kathleen Karlyn (University of Oregon)
Mary Wiles (University of Canterbury), "NARRATING THE FEMININE NATION: THE
COMING-OF-AGE GIRL IN CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND CINEMA"
HIlary Radner (University of Otago), "Educating the girl after feminism: films for
“femmes”, 1989-2004"
Susan Crutchfield (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse), "Blonde Ambitions: Britney
Spears as Madonna's "Heiress Apparent""
Kathleen Karlyn (University of Oregon), "Film as Cultural Antidote: Thirteen, an
Anti-Epic"
D2: Making Comedy Central: Re-Evaluating the Importance of
Keystone
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Simon Joyce (College of William and Mary)
Simon Joyce (College of William and Mary), "Genre Parody and Comedic Burlesque:
Keystone's Meta-Cinematic Satires"
Joanna E. Rapf (University of Oklahoma), "‘A Monstrous World’: Roscoe
“Fatty” Arbuckle's Evolution at Keystone"
Rob King (University of Michigan), "“Uproarious Inventions”: The Keystone
Film Company, Modernity, and the Art of the Motor"
Jennifer Bean (University of Washington-Seattle), "The Art of Falling Apart: Keystone
Slapstick"
D3: Television beyond borders: Transnational television
industries and globalization theory
Room: Pavilion C
Chair: Tim Havens (The University of Iowa)
Barbara Selznick (University of Arizona), "Between Borders of Theory and Practice:
Understanding International Co-Productions"
Serra Tinic (University of Alberta), "Trading in Culture: The Cultural Economy of
Canadian Television"
Tim Havens (The University of Iowa), "The Cultural Economics of Transnational
Television Exchange"
Denise Bielby (University of California, Santa Barbara) and C. Lee Harrington (Miami
University), "Genre, Aesthetic Elements, and the Global Market for Television"
D4: Are Docs, Blogs, and Other Online Media Changing
Political Discourse?
Room: Pavilion D
Chair: Ruma Sen (Ramapo College of New Jersey)
Susan Ryan (College of New Jersey), "Politicizing the Archive: “Found”
Footage and Documentary Discourse"
Kelly Dolak (Ramapo College of New Jersey), "Documentary in the Age of Corporate and
PR Journalism"
Wazhmah Osman (New York University), "The Packaging of Third World Voices for First
World Audiences"
Lynne Jackson (St. Francis College), "Micromovies and New Possibilities for the
Documentary"
Sponsor: Caucus on Class
D5: Contemporary Spanish Comedy
Room: Junior A
Chair: Jay Beck (DePaul University)
Miguel Fernandez Labayen (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), "Playing with
the Beast: Modes, codes and loans in contemporary Spanish comedy"
Vicente Rodriguez Ortega (New York University), "Exorcising his Rights: Multi-generic
Appropriations in Alex de la Iglesia's El Dia de la Bestia"
Jay Beck (DePaul University), "The Law of Diminishing Returns: Pedro Almodóvar
and Comedy"
Respondent: Steven Marsh (University of South Carolina)
Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus
D6: Melodrama Worldwide
Room: Junior B
Chair: Carl Plantinga (Calvin College)
Carol Donelan (Carleton College), "Titanic Media and the Unsinkable Mode of
Melodrama"
Billy Vermillion (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Politics and "Decent People":
The Family Melodrama and East European Art Cinema"
Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba), "The Trial of Motherhood: The Ethics of
Murder in the Maternal Melodrama"
Carl Plantinga (Calvin College), "The Traumatic Pleasures of "Titanic""
D7: Media and Society in the Digital Age
Room: Junior C
Chair: Susan Murray (New York University)
Vanessa Bertozzi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "“Unschooled:
Homeschoolers on New Media”"
Mark Wolf (Concordia University, Wisconsin), "The Subcreation of Transmedia
Worlds"
Shazia Iftkhar (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Working for Netflix: Technology
and Consumer Labor on the Web"
Susan Murray (New York University), "Digital Images and Our Changing Notions of
Everyday Aesthetics"
D8: Lost in The Fifties: Culture, Gender and Social
Construction
Room: Junior D
Chair: Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), "The Passion of Fred F.
Sears"
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), "Housewife With A Gun:
Barbara Stanwyck's Gender Instabilities in "Crime of Passion""
Rebecca Bell-Metereau (Texas State University), "Architecture of Anxiety: Spatial
Dynamics in American Film of the 1950s"
Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona), "“Psychopaths sell like
hotcakes”: Performance of Mental Instability in Selected 1950s films"
D9: Contemporary Documentary
Room: Parksville
Chair: Qi Wang (University of California, Los Angeles)
David Johnson (Salisbury University), "“You Must Never Listen to This”:
Aural Mysteries and Werner Herzog’s _Grizzly Man_"
Elizabeth Affuso (University of Southern California), "Adoption Autobiography and the
Search for Self: "Finding Christa" and "First Person Plural""
Lindy Leong (Visual Communications), "Ethnographic Spectacle and Documentary in
Post-War Vietnamese Films"
Qi Wang (University of California, Los Angeles), "Negotiating Space and Power in
Contemporary Chinese Documentaries"
D10: Sound-tracking: Music and Affect in Contemporary
Media
Room: Granville
Chair: Lucas Hilderbrand (New York University)
Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara), "The Mellifluous Illogics
of “Bollywood Musicals”"
Michelle Stewart (State University of New York, Purchase College), "The Sounds of
Sex: Music and Affect in Recent Feminist Cinema"
Lucas Hilderbrand (New York University), "The Playlist's the Thing: The O.C., Youth
and Compilation Affects"
Jose Freire (New York University), "“History Is for Pissing On”: Punk
Rock in the Period Piece"
D11: Movie Masculinity
Room: Galiano
Chair: Jill Dione (University of Pittsburgh)
Timothy Shary (Clark University), ""Man to Mann: Masculine Crisis in the Crime Films
of Michael Mann""
Jacqueline Reich (State University of New York at Stony Brook), ""The Thrill of
Victory: Fascism, Masculinity, and Sports in Italian Cinema, 1930-1943""
Donna Peberdy (University of Nottingham), ""ŒSticking Feathers Up Your Butt
Does Not Make You a Chicken¹ Performing the Wild Man in 1990s Masculinity
Crisis Narratives""
Jill Dione (University of Pittsburgh), ""From Global to Microscopic: The Shifting
Focus of the Turn-of-the-Millennium Movie Hero""
D12: Ethnicity and Nation in American Film Music
Room: Orca
Chair: Caryl Flinn (University of Arizona)
Kathryn Kalinak (Rhode Island College), ""How the West was Sung: STAGECOACH and
American Folk Song""
Caryl Flinn (University of Arizona), "Ethel Merman: Not Quite White"
Krin Gabbard (State University of New York, Stony Brook), "Autobiography as
Transformation: The Case of Miles Davis"
Respondent: David Lugowski (Manhattanville College)
D13: North-African cinemas: aesthetics, politics, and
economy.
Room: Finback
Chair: Laura Marks (Simon Fraser University)
Robert Lang (University of Hartford), "It Takes A lot of Madmen to Make a People
Free: Allegories of Resistane in Nadina El Fani’s Bedwin Hacker (Tunisia,
2002)"
Suzanne Gauch (Temple University), "Alternate Exit: Farida Benlyazid’s A Door
to the Sky"
Kevin Dwyer (American University in Cairo), "Distinctive Features: National and
International Aspects of Moroccan and Egyptian Cinemas"
Sponsor: Middle East Caucus
D14: Deleuze and 'Other' Cinemas
Room: Port Alberni
Chair: David Martin-Jones (University of St. Andrews)
Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam), "‘The Invention of
Identities’ in Moroccan and Amazigh Cinema"
Bill Marshall (University of Glasgow), "Deleuze, Quebec and Cinemas of Minor
Frenchness"
David Martin-Jones (University of St. Andrews), "Deleuze, Narrative and National
Identity in recent South Korean Cinema"
Luiz-Felipe Soares (Universidade do Sul de, Santa Catarina), "Genital impacts"
D15: Workshop: Interviewing Filmmakers: Making the
Encounter Meaningful
Room: Port Hardy
Chair: Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto)
Workshop Participants:
Anne Ciecko (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Laurence Green (York University)
Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto)
Kass Banning (University of Toronto)
Friday, March 3, 2006 10:30-12:15
am (Session E)
E1: Mixed Race in Hollywood Film and Performance
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: Camilla Fojas (DePaul University)
K. Gibel Azoulay, "Miscegenation on Screen in Retrospect: Reassessing ‘The
Invisibility of Whiteness’ Argument"
Mary Beltran (University of Wisconsin), "Hollywood’s Mixed Race/Mestiza Latina,
From Ramona (1910+) to Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)"
Camilla Fojas (DePaul University), "Mixed-Race on the Border: Westerns and National
Identity"
Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee), "Fill in the Blanks: Keanu Reeves, Mixed
Race, and Post-Method Minimalist Performance"
Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus and African/African American Caucus
E2: The Canadian Imaginary: Paradise in the North or Cheap
Labor Market?
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Dennis Broe (Long Island University)
Camille Johnson-Yale (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Hollywood versus
the World: A Rhetorical History of Runaway Production in the U.S."
Shaun Huston (Western Oregon University), "Geopolitics/Film Politics: the BC Film
Commission and the Meaning of the U.S.-Canadian Border"
John McCullough (York University), "Localism, Humanism, and Representations of
Canadian Space"
Kia Afra (Brown University), "Global vs. Local in the Cinematic City: Making
Vancouver (In)Visible in the New Entertainment Economy"
Sponsor: Caucus on Class
E3: Television Histories
Room: Pavilion C
Chair: Janet Staiger (University of Texas, Austin)
Daniel Steinhart (University of California, Los Angeles), "Independent Voice: The TV
Work of Jon Alpert"
Mary Wilson (University of Southern California), "Television Archiving: Examining
Choices in Preservation"
Larissa Faulkner (Brock University), "An Inside Job: Race, Media and Belafonte
Productions"
Janet Staiger (University of Texas, Austin), "The Fans of Perry Mason, or the Case of
What People Write to Famous Authors"
E4: The Work of Cinephilia in the Age of CGI
Reproduction
Room: Pavilion D
Chair: Scott Balcerzak (University of Florida)
Co-chair: Jason Sperb (Indiana University)
Tobey Crockett (University of California, Irvine Visual Studies), "The Camera as
Camera: How CGI Changes the World as We Know It"
Jun Okada (University of California, Los Angeles), "Amélie Pas Jolie: The
Digital Contamination of Analog Pleasures"
Jenna Ng (University College London), "The Inspiration of Pleasure: Cinephilia as
Epiphany"
Elizabeth A. Lathrop (Independent Scholar), "An Orchid in the Land of Technology: The
Aura of the Human in the Age of Digital Cinema"
E5: Italian Political Cinema: Beyond Neorealism
Room: Junior A
Chair: William Watson (University of Arizona)
Marguerite Waller (University of California, Riverside), "Flutists and Fascists:
Aesthetics, Politics, and the Production of Space in Fellini and Nichetti"
Carlo Testa (University of British Columbia), "The Political Nature of Memory: A
Gramscian-Pasolinian View about Asymmetrical Recording of Violence in Post-WWII
Italian Cinema"
William Watson (University of Arizona), "Free Kitty: The Conflation of Feline and
Feminine as Political Metaphor in Wertmüller’s Love and Anarchy and
Bertolucci’s 1900"
Tamao Nakahara (University of California, Berkeley), "Adultery in the Middle Ages,
Italian Style"
E6: Workshop: Youth Culture in Global Cinema
Room: Junior B
Chair: Timothy Shary (Clark University)
Co-chair: Alexandra Seibel (New York University)
Workshop Participants:
Mick Broderick (Murdoch University)
Sarah Projansky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Mary Wiles (University of Canterbury)
Kimberley Monteyne (New York University)
Stephen Tropiano (Ithaca College)
E7: Workshop: Fair Use, Intellectual Property and Copyright
in the Information Age: Should SCMS Take a Stand?
Room: Junior C
Chair: Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Workshop Participants:
Andrew Miller (Sacred Heart University)
Anne Friedberg (University of Southern California)
James Castonguay (Sacred Heart University)
Peter Krapp (University of California, Irvine)
Mark Poster (University of California, Irvine)
Sponsor: Information Technology Committee
E8: Business and Pleasure: the Movie Palace Revisited
Room: Junior D
Chair: Charles Berg (University of Kansas)
Ronald Wilson (University of Kansas), "“An Environment of Illusion: The
Atmospheric Theatre Design of John Eberson”"
Paul S Moore (University of Chicago), ""Imagined Real Estate: Promoting Unbuilt Movie
Palaces""
Charles Berg (University of Kansas) and Chris Robinson (University of Kansas),
"“The Silent Film ‘Jazz’ Band and the Jazz Age Film: Highbrow vs.
Lowbrow Musical Practices in the American Silent Film""
William Boddy (Baruch College/City University of New York), "The Archeology of
Electronic Cinema"
E9: Todd Haynes in Theory and Practice
Room: Parksville
Chair: James Morrison (Claremont McKenna College)
Joan Hawkins (Indiana University Bloomington), ""Now is the Time of the
Assassins""
Alex Juhasz (Pitzer College), ""From the Scenes of Queens: Genre, AIDS, and Queer
Love""
Todd McGowan (University of Vermont), ""Relocating Our Enjoyment of the 1950s: The
Politics of Fantasy in `Far from Heaven'""
Respondent: Patricia White (Swarthmore College)
E10: Taking Aim at HBO's Deadwood
Room: Granville
Chair: Susan White (University of Arizona)
Amanda Klein (University of Pittsburgh), "The Civilized, The Savage and Al
Swearengen: Analyzing the Western Syntax of Deadwood’s Opening Credits"
David Diffrient (University of Michigan), "Deadwood Dick: The Western (Phallus)
Reinvented"
Susan White (University of Arizona), "Topographies of Nation and Gender in HBO's
Deadwood"
E11: Age and Generation in Postfeminist Film and
Television
Room: Galiano
Chair: Diane Negra (Brown University)
Sadie Wearing (London School of Economics and Political Science), "Chronological
Propriety in Post Feminist Narratives of Aging"
Suzanne Leonard (Univerisity of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Prematurely Gray: The
'Post-Sexual' Married Thirtysomething of Recent Cinema"
Diane Negra (Brown University), "Postfeminist Melancholia and the Reincarnation
Romance"
Sarah Churchwell (University of East Anglia), "Back to the Future: Re-Generating the
Past in the Postfeminist Hollywood Film"
E12: Sounding Out Cinema: Sound Theory & Film
Room: Orca
Chair: Michael Baker (McGill University)
Jonathan Auerbach (University of Maryland, College Park), ""A Continuous Opera":
Sounding the Origins of Cinema"
Michael Baker (McGill University), "“This Film Should Be Played Loud!”
:Concert Films, Fallacies and Sound Theory"
Paul Théberge (Carleton University), "Listening to Metropolis: Rethinking the
Role of Technology Through the Musical Score by Gottfried Huppertz"
Senta Siewert (University of Amsterdam), "Rhythm of Youth. Contemporary German films:
new anti-heroes, pop music and cinematic experience"
E13: Asian Cinema and Film Theory
Room: Finback
Chair: Priya Jaikumar (University of Southern California)
Ben Singer (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "The Position of Hyperposition in
Ozu"
Yuriko Furuhata (Brown University), "The Problematic of “Actuality” in
Japanese Film Discourses of the 1950s and 1960s"
Donald LaCoss (University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse), "Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
Situationists and Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema"
Priya Jaikumar (University of Southern California), "A New Universalism: Terrorism
and Film Language in Mani Ratnam’s "Peck on the Cheek" (Tamil 2002)"
E14: Settler/Postcolonial Theories, Films, and Media
Room: Port Alberni
Chair: Peter Limbrick (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Peter Limbrick (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Settler Colonialism, Empire,
and White Masculinity in John Ford Westerns."
Minette Hillyer (University of California, Berkeley), "We Are All Third Generation:
Postwar Homemaking in a Postcolonial America"
Christopher Gittings (University of Western Ontario), "One Family: A Dream of Real
Things: Branding or ‘bringing the empire alive’ on Film"
Thierry Jutel (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zeraland), ""LAN of the long
white cloud”: Landscape, Settler Anxiety, and Post-Colonial Virtualities in
Aotearoa/New Zealand"
E15: Science and Celebrity
Room: Port Hardy
Chair: Rebecca Sullivan (The University of Calgary)
Mary Nucci (Rutgers University), "When the technology is the star: science in large
format"
Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University), "Celebrity science: iconic images, the sublime
and inter-mediality"
Rebecca Sullivan (The University of Calgary), "Sex, Science and the Psyche in
Kinsey"
Friday, March 3,
2006 12:15-1:15 pm (Meetings)
French/Francophone Special Interest Group
Room: Granville
Caucus Coordinating Committee
Room: Galiano
Central/East/South European Interest Group
Room: Orca
Friday, March 3, 2006 1:15-3:00 pm
(Session F)
F1: Documentary at the Margins
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: Michael Renov (University of Southern California)
Walter Metz (Montana State University, Bozeman), ""The Avant-garde Among the Animals:
Toward the Re-invention of Science and Natural History Filmmaking""
Paul Arthur (Montclair St. University), "Parasites, Hosts, and Wolves in Corporate
Clothing: The (un)Making-Of Documentary"
Tung-Hui Hu (University of California, Berkeley), "Documenting Emptiness: Nuclear
Test Films and Conceptual Art, 1968-1973"
Michael Renov (University of Southern California), "First-Person Films: Some Theses
on Self-Inscription"
F2: Studies in Adaptation
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Peter Dickinson (Simon Fraser University)
Alexander Russo (The Catholic University of America), "Father May Know Best, But What
Does He Know About TV?"
Ryan Trimm (University of Rhode Island), "Redressing Heritage: Adaptations of The
Tempest in the Crystalline Regime"
Karen Williams (New York University/ Fordham University), "Gothic Intimacies and the
Americanization of Jane Eyre: Re-Writing the Affect-Nation in I Walked with a Zombie
(Jacques Tourneur 1943) and Dragonwyck (Joseph Mankiewicz 1946)"
Peter Dickinson (Simon Fraser University), "Feminism, Fidelity, and the Female
Gothic: The Uncanny Art of Adaptation in Kamouraska, Surfacing, and Le Sourd dans la
ville"
F3: “The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema”
Room: Pavilion C
Chair: Daniel Bernardi (Arizona State University)
Lester Friedman (Hobart William Smith Colleges), "Black Like Him: Steven
Spielberg’s The Color Purple"
Celine P. Shimizu (University of California at Santa Barbara), "Master Slave
Sex-Acts: "Mandingo, Drum and the Race-Sex Paradox"
Aaron Baker (Arizona State University), "Whiteness, Italian American Film, and
Authorship"
Priscilla Pena Ovalle (University of Southern California), "Framing Jennifer Lopez:
Mobilizing Race From the Wide Shot to the Close-Up"
F4: Workshop: “An Economy of the Gift”: Should
Scholarship Be Available for Free?
Room: Pavilion D
Chair: Jeremy Butler (University of Alabama)
Workshop Participants:
Christopher Lucas (University of Texas, Austin)
Avi Santo (University of Texas, Austin)
Chuck Kleinhans (Northwestern University)
Jon Lewis (Oregon State University)
John Willinsky (University of British Columbia)
Sponsor: Graduate Student Organization
F5: “To borrow the good and healthy”: American
Influences on Soviet Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
Room: Junior A
Chair: Vincent Bohlinger (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Maria Belodubrovskaya (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Mob God or Cinematic
Genius? Early Chaplin as Viewed by Soviet Intellectuals."
Alyson Hrynyk (University of Chicago), "“The Famous Triangle Style”:
Boris Barnet's Serial Aesthetic"
Brinton Tench Coxe (Columbia University), "Adventures in the Capital of the
Bolsheviks"
Vincent Bohlinger (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Socialist Realism and
Classical Film Style: The Case of Chapayev"
F6: Popular Music and the Media
Room: Junior B
Chair: Norma Coates (University of Western Ontario)
Benjamin Aslinger (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Rocking Prime Time: Music, The
WB, and Teen Culture"
Kyle Barnett (University of Texas, Austin), "Hillbilly Radio, 1925-1935"
Sarah Florini (Indiana University), "“Fight the Power!” with
Transformative Commemoration: Re-Defining Hip Hop and “Blackness” in
VH1’s Hip Hop Honors"
Norma Coates (University of Western Ontario), ""It's What's Happening, Baby:" Popular
Music on Television's Skirmish in the War on Poverty"
F7: The Outer Spaces of Media Studies
Room: Junior C
Chair: James Schwoch (Northwestern University)
Jody Berland (York University), "Optics in Space: Toward a New Visual Economy of
Outer Space"
James Schwoch (Northwestern University), "Media and the Americas: TELSTAR,
Satellites, and Cold War Security from the Historical and Geographical Viewpoint of
Johnston Atoll"
Lisa Parks (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Obscure Objects of Media
Studies: Echo, Hotbird and Ikonos"
James Hay (University of Ilinois), "The Invention of Air Space, Outer Space, and
Cyber-space"
F8: Locating Chinese Cinemas
Room: Junior D
Chair: Hsiu-Chuang Deppman (Oberlin College)
Co-chair: Ping Fu (Dickinson College)
Grace An (Oberlin College), "“What Time Is It Over There?: Tsai Ming-Liang,
François Truffaut, and a Par-asian Cinematic Encounter”"
Hsiu-Chuang Deppman (Oberlin College), "A Time to Live, A Time To Kill: The Poetics
of Time in the Works of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Chu Tien-wen"
Ping Fu (Dickinson College), "Cinematic Aura of the local-global in The World and
When Ruo Ma Was Seventeen"
Jenny Lau (San Francisco State University), "Can China Say No? Hollywood, Capital,
and Chinese"
Respondent: E. Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University)
Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
F9: Homeland Insecurity: Image Cultures of Risk, Testing,
and Surveillance, Before and After 9/11
Room: Parksville
Chair: Jonathan Kahana (New York University)
Rebecca Baron (California Institute of the Arts), "How Little We Know Of Our
Neighbours"
Karen Beckman (University of Pennsylvania), "Since Weekend: The Disastrous
‘60s"
Tess Takahashi (Brown University), "The Speculative Archive: Investigations into the
Long History of Homeland Insecurity"
Jonathan Kahana (New York University), "Screening Testing: Documentary and National
Insecurity"
F10: And Now, the HBO Original Series
Room: Granville
Chair: Liz Weis (Brooklyn College/City University of New York)
Lori Lees (University of Northern British Columbia), "Carnivalesque Calvinism:
Calvinist Theology in HBO's "Carnival""
Angie Chiang (Carleton University), "“Sex and the City” – An
Embodiment of Third-Wave Feminist Discourse"
Jennifer Petersen (University of Texas, Austin), "Liberal Trauma and Docudramatic
Therapy"
Steven Woodward (Clemson University), "The Comedy of Failed Enthusiasm: Larry David
as Innocent"
F11: Women Directing and Other Forms of Difference
Room: Galiano
Chair: Homay King (Bryn Mawr College)
Catherine Zimmer (Pace University), "Approaching The Watermelon Woman: Cinematic
Reflexivity and the Marginalized Subject"
Homay King (Bryn Mawr College), "Translating Orientalism: Leslie Thornton’s
Adynata"
Patricia White (Swarthmore College), "Women’s Cinema as Art Cinema:
Transnational (Post)feminism and Niche Exhibition"
Shelley Stamp (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Re-Reading Lois Weber's Late
Career: Stardom and Professionalism in 1920s Hollywood"
F12: OneTtwo, One Two: Black TV, Representation and
Subversion, Part I
Room: Orca
Chair: Beretta E. Smith-Shomade (University of Arizona)
Devorah Heitner (Northwestern University), "The Subversive Power of the Local:
Reading 'Say Brother’s Radical Pedagogy"
Bambi Haggins (University of Michigan), "Dancing Like Nobody’s Watching:
Chappelle’s Show & De Facto Crossover in the Post Network Era"
Zeinabu Davis (University of California, San Diego), "Coding and Appropriation for
the Preschool Set in Nick Jr’s 'The Backyardigans'"
Sponsor: African/African American Caucus
F13: Experiences of Displacement in and of the Middle
East
Room: Finback
Chair: Chris Lippard (University of Utah)
Olga Gershenson (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), "Immigrant Cinema: The
Russian-Israeli Filmmakers"
Rebecca Romani (San Diego State University), "The Pomegranate of Memory:
Arab-American Video and Film"
Chris Lippard (University of Utah), "Sound as Prosthetic Object in the Cinema of Amir
Naderi"
Azadeh Saljooghi (University of Utah), "Measuring Exile: Mona Hatoum’s Measures
of Distance"
Sponsor: Middle East Caucus
F14: Point of View, Parody and Self-Reflexive Narratives
in Contemporary Latin American Documentary and Fictional Films
Room: Port Alberni
Chair: Corseuil Anelise (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
Corseuil Anelise (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), "Parody and Exoticism:
Forms of Representation of Latin America in "El Che: Investigating a Legend" and
"Motorcycle Diaries"."
Genilda Azeredo (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil), ""Narrators from
Javé": The powers of telling and showing a story"
Antonio João Teixeira (Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa), "Chronically
unfeasible or ultimately challenging? – the films of Sérgio
Bianchi"
Jeffrey Menne (Vanderbilt University), "A Mexican New Wave? Recreating the New Wave
in a Global Moment"
F15: Americanization, Cultural Transpositions, and Media
Politics
Room: Port Hardy
Chair: Marina Dahlquist (Stockholm University)
Jan Olsson (Stockholm University), "Nickel Lessons: Theatrical Tutoring under the
Lens of Americanization"
Chon Noriega (University of California), "Reel Chicanos"
Marina Dahlquist (Stockholm University), "Teaching Citizenship via Celluloid"
Friday, March 3, 2006 3:15-5:00 pm
(Session G)
G1: Classical Film Theory
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: C. Kyle Stevens (University of Pittsburgh)
Ludovic Cortade (Harvard University), "The aesthetic of immobility and the suspension
of disbelief in fiction film"
Marc Glöde (Freie Universität, Berlin), "Getting Involved - The Colour of
Film as a Non-Perspectival Space Experience"
Lee Grieveson (University College London), "Mimesis at the movies: on the human
sciences and cinema"
C. Kyle Stevens (University of Pittsburgh), "The Invisible Face: Muensterberg, Darwin
and the Close-Up"
G2: Oops, They Did It Again: Investigating the Hollywood
Remake
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Mark Gallagher (University of Nottingham)
Mark Gallagher (University of Nottingham), "“Solaris/Solaris:
Soderbergh/Tarkovsky”"
Nina Martin (Emory University), "Revisiting Stepford: The House that Postfeminism
Built"
Denise Mann (University of California, Los Angeles), "Repackaging Difference:
Hollywood Remakes Asia"
Meghan Sutherland (Northwestern University), "Undead Stories: The Structural Politics
of Zombie Remakes"
G3: The Male Body Trapped Between Potency and
Impotency
Room: Pavilion C
Chair: William Luhr (Saint Peter's College)
Julie Codell (Arizona State University), "Paul Robeson's Body: Africa, Empire and the
Spectacle of Black Masculinity"
Peter Lehman (Arizona State University) and Susan Hunt (Santa Monica College), "The
Naked and the Dead: The Jewish Male Body in Sunshine and Enemy at the Gates"
William Luhr (Saint Peter's College), "Film Noir’s Post-Mortem Men"
Robert Eberwein (Oakland University), "“Masculinity at Risk: Symbolic Male Rape
in Full Metal Jacket and Saving Private Ryan”"
G4: Workshop: Complicating the "M" in SCMS: Internet and
Contemporary Digital Studies
Room: Pavilion D
Chair: Michele White (Tulane University)
Workshop Participants:
William Boddy (Baruch College/City University of New York)
Mark Williams (Dartmouth College)
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College)
Tara McPherson (University of Southern California)
Charles Tryon (The Catholic University of America)
G5: Aboriginal Media: Western Canada and Beyond
Room: Junior A
Chair: Jennifer Gauthier (Randolph-Macon Woman\'s College)
Kathleen Buddle (University of Manitoba), "Radio Resistance and the Amplification of
Aboriginal Voices in Alberta: Inscribing Insurgency in Native Media Practice"
Theresa Scandiffio (University of Chicago), "Political Documentary and Canadian First
Nations Media: a discussion of ‘Namgis filmmaker Barbara Cranmer’s
work"
Denise Cummings (Rollins College), "Questions of Style and Cinematic Practice in the
films of Independent American Indian Filmmaker Randy Redroad"
Brian Woodman (University of Kansas), "Living Traditions: Alternative Video and
Native American Activism in the Upper Midwest"
Respondent: Pamela Wilson (Reinhardt College)
G6: American Politics and the Media
Room: Junior B
Chair: Robert Burgoyne (Wayne State University)
Broderick Fox (Occidental College), "From Al (Gore) to ZeD: Democratizing Rhetoric
and the Digital Revolution"
Heather Hendershot (Queens College/City University of New York), "“A Strong
Reek of the Not-Quite-Crackpot: H.L. Hunt, Dan Smoot, and Cold War Right-Wing
Broadcasting”"
Matt Yockey (Indiana University), "The Road to Utopia: The Tumbler as Redemptive
Vehicle in "Batman Begins”"
Debra White (University of Arizona), "“Someone Has To Die”: Over
There’s Uncanny Aesthetic"
G7: Color Cinema from the Silent Era to the Digital Age:
Introductions, Circulations, Transformations
Room: Junior C
Chair: Sarah Street (University of Bristol)
Joshua Yumibe (University of Chicago), "Color Cinema, Color Theory:
1896–1912"
Sarah Street (University of Bristol), "Exporting the Rainbow: Technicolor films in
Britain"
John Belton (Rutgers University), "Painting by the Numbers: Digital Intermediate and
the Return of Colorization"
Scott Higgins (Wesleyan University), "Digital Technicolor: Hybrid Color Aesthetics in
The Aviator"
G8: Workshop: Introducing Students to Film: Best Practices
and Plaguing Pedagogical Questions
Room: Junior D
Chair: Cynthia Lucia (Rider University)
Workshop Participants:
Alice Cross (Horace Greeley High School)
Paula Massood (Brooklyn College/City University of New York)
Charles Ramirez Berg (University of Texas, Austin)
Jackie Byars (University of Texas, Austin)
Glenn Man (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
Liz Weis (Brooklyn College/City University of New York)
Mark Langer (Carleton University)
G9: Conflict and Trauma
Room: Parksville
Chair: Andrew Martin (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Caroline Bainbridge (Roehampton University) and Candida Yates (University of East
London), "Everything to play for: Masculinity, trauma and the pleasures of DVD
technologies"
Silvia Tandeciarz (The College of William and Mary), "An Archaeology of Identity:
Documentary Filmmaking in Post-Dictatorship Argentina"
Moira O'Keeffe (University of Pennsylvania), "The absent narrative: Documentary,
memory, and the Desaparecidos of Argentina"
Paul McEwan (Muhlenberg College), "Lawyers, Research, and the Klan: D.W.
Griffith’s Resources in the Censorship Battles Over The Birth of a
Nation."
G10: The communicative body in/of makeover-themed reality
television.
Room: Granville
Chair: Derek Foster (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Brenda Weber (Indiana University), "Ticket to Ride: How Television Makeover Shows
Make Good Looks a Prerequisite to Democratic Citizenship"
Derek Foster (Wilfrid Laurier University), "The reality of makeover television: How
to rhetorically integrate into the media culture of the Americas."
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes (York University, COMCULT), "The Flesh Image: Plastic Surgery
and the Body as Interface to the Image"
Bernadette Wegenstein (The University at Buffalo), "The Construction of a Cosmetic
Gaze in Reality Television Makeover Shows"
G11: Reimagining Kinship: Diasporic Queers in New Queer
Documentary
Room: Galiano
Chair: Julianne Pidduck (Université de Montréal)
Co-chair: Margaret DeRosia (University of Western Ontario)
Julianne Pidduck (Université de Montréal), "New queer documentary and
the ‘substances’ of queer kinship"
Lily Cho (University of Western Ontario), "Underwater Signposts: Enabling Nostalgia
and Richard Fung’s Islands"
Margaret DeRosia (University of Western Ontario), "Queer Migrations from and to
Family Trauma in Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation and Lourdes Portillo’s The
Devil Never Sleeps"
Sponsor: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered/Queer Caucus
G12: One Two, One Two: Black TV, Representation, and
Subversion, Part II
Room: Orca
Chair: Eric Pierson (University of San Diego)
Shannon Gore (Northwestern University), ""Is Anyone Watching? The Significance of The
American Revolution of 1963 and the Movement it's Based On""
Eric Pierson (University of San Diego), "“The Promises of Roots”"
Yvonne Sims (South Carolina State University), "“From Homeboys, Flying Saucers
and Buffoonery to Kevin Hill and the Courtroom: UPN: The Evolution of One Television
Network”"
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade (University of Arizona), "“Use Me: Hip-Hop, BET, and
the Rub”"
Sponsor: African/African American Caucus
G13: Hanryu Mansae [Long Live Korean Fever]: Critical
Perspectives on the Globalization of South Korea's Entertainment Industry
Room: Finback
Chair: Robert Cagle (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Co-chair: Aaron Magnan-Park (University of Notre Dame)
Aaron Magnan-Park (University of Notre Dame), "En-Gendering Re-Gendered Romance of
Multiple Lives"
Min Han (University of Southern California), "A 'Winter' Fan: The Economic and
Cultural Impact of Popular Korean Drama in the International Market"
Hye Jean Chung (University of California, Santa Barbara), "The Depiction of
Transgressive Women in Two"
Robert Cagle (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Laughter, Tears, and Rage:
Melodrama and the Melodramatic in Contemporary Korean Film"
Chul Heo (San Francisco State University), "Cultural Politics of Globalization in
Korean Film Industry"
G14: Styles of New Orientalism
Room: Port Alberni
Chair: Jane Park (University of Oklahoma)
Sylvia Chong (University of Virginia), "Yellowface of a Different Color: Performing
the Japanese Enemy in American World War II Films"
Sean Metzger (Duke University), "Refashioning the Old West? Fetishism and Frontier
Orientalism in Shanghai Noon"
Jane Park (University of Oklahoma), "The Ambivalent Politics of East-West Friendship
in The Karate Kid, Gung Ho, and Black Rain"
Delia Konzett (University of New Hampshire), "Yellowface, Blackface, and Orientalism
in Hollywood WWII film"
Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
G15: Varda + Demy
Room: Port Hardy
Chair: Kelley Conway (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Claudia Gorbman (University of Washington, Tacoma), ""Place Settings""
Richard Neupert (University of Georgia), ""Color and Individual Style: Umbrellas of
Cherbourg v. Le Bonheur""
Rodney Hill (Georgia Tech University/University of Kansas), ""Reconciling the French
New Wave and the Tradition of Quality: the Musicals of Jacques Demy""
Kelley Conway (University of Wisconsin, Madison), ""Cleo at the
Ciné-Club""
Sponsor: French Francophone Special Interest Group
Friday, March 3, 2006 5:15-7:00 pm
(Session H)
H1: The Archive and the Collection
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: Nathan Carroll (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Janna Jones (University of South Florida), "The Library of Congress Film Project:
Film Collecting and a United State(s) of Mind"
Mark Betz (King's College, London), "Little Books"
Linda Chiu-han Lai (The City University of Hong Kong), "Constructivist Animation for
a Disappearing City: Hong Kong's McDull series"
Nathan Carroll (Indiana University, Bloomington), "Digital Disruptions: DVDs and
Cultural Archives"
H2: Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic
Transformations in the Horror Film
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Jay McRoy (University of Wisconsin, Parkside)
Jay McRoy (University of Wisconsin, Parkside), "Our Reaction Was Only Human:
Monstrous Becomings in Abel Ferrara’s _Body Snatchers_"
Ruth Goldberg, "'In the Church of the Poison Mind': Adapting the Metaphor of
Psychopathology to Look Back at the Mad, Monstrous ‘80s"
Guy Crucianelli (University of Wisconsin, Kenosha), "The Fissure in the Genealogical
House of Usher: Jean Epstein’s _La Chute de la maison usher_"
Amy Kushner (Carthage College), "Re-imaging Ringu: Hideo, Verbinski, and the Politics
of Transnational Adaptation"
H3: Stars and Hypes All Over The World
Room: Pavilion C
Chair: Tamar Jeffers McDonald (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College)
Co-chair: Alisia Chase (SUNY College at Brockport)
Gaylyn Studlar (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "‘That peculiar
stage’: Selling Shirley Temple as a 1940s Bobby-Soxer"
Christopher Howard (University of London), "The Suave Samurai: Luxury Goods
Consumption in Japan"
Tamar Jeffers McDonald (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College), "Marketing a
persona, performing a role: Katie Holmes’ problematic virginity"
Alisia Chase (SUNY College at Brockport), "Scent of a Cinematic Woman: France,
Fragrance, & Iconic Femininity"
H4: Database/Narrative: The Forms of Digital Media
Room: Pavilion D
Chair: Roger Hallas (Syracuse University)
Roger Hallas (Syracuse University), "Animated Photojournalism: Old and New Media in
the Work of Gideon Mendel"
Enid Blader, "Small-Time Digital Apocalypse Narratives: American Analog Declension
Times"
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College), "Documenting the Self: Blog as Narrative
Archive"
Ian Bogost (The Georgia Institute of Technology), "Procedural Criticism: Code as
Culture"
H5: Workshop: Do Look Back: American Cinema and the
1960s
Room: Junior A
Chair: Barry Keith Grant (Brock University)
Co-chair: Christopher Sharrett (Seton Hall University)
Workshop Participants:
James Morrison (Claremont McKenna College)
Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Harry Benshoff (University of North Texas)
David Slocum (New York University)
Leslie Abramson (DePaul University)
Joe McElhaney (Hunter College)
H6: Philosophy and Film
Room: Junior B
Chair: Jennifer Hammett (San Francisco State University)
Beverley Best (Simon Fraser University), "Capitalism, Depression and
Representation"
Erika Balsom (Brown University), ""The Age of the Last Machine": Filmic Metahistory
and the End of Celluloid"
Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University), "Frank Capra and Emmanuel Levinas: Time,
Transcendence, and Renewal in Two Film Classics"
Jennifer Hammett (San Francisco State University), "Class, Gender and the Politics of
Sublime Masochism"
H7: Playing Where the Shadows Lie: Blockbuster Properties
and Digital Franchises
Room: Junior C
Chair: Stefan Hall (Bowling Green State University)
Leonie Naughton (University of Melbourne), "Parallel Universes: Hollywood and Silicon
Valley"
Trevor Elkington (University of Copenhagen), "Too Many Cooks: Media Convergence and
Self-Defeating Design"
Paul Booth (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Robert Brookey (Northern Illinois University), "Restricted Play: Synergy and the
Limits of Interactivity in The Lord of the Rings/Return of the King Video Game"
Marc Ruppel (University of Maryland College Park), "Transmediation and the Ideal
Narrative of Batman Begins"
H8: Theorizing the Auteur Today
Room: Junior D
Chair: Jack Boozer (Georgia State University)
Sarah Kozloff (Vassar College), "Wyler's Women"
Glenn Man (University of Hawaii, Manoa), "Robert Altman's Multiple Narratives"
Caitlin McGrath (University of Chicago), "The Spaces In-between: Heterotopias in
Josef von Sternberg's Films"
Jack Boozer (Georgia State University), "Authorship & Auteurism in Adaptation:
Eyes Wide Shut"
H9: COUNTER-CULTURE: Religious Right vs. Hollywood
Left
Room: Parksville
Chair: Jorie Lagerwey (University of Southern California)
Karen Cooper (University of British Columbia), "“Thinking Christians”:
Engaging in the Mainstream Through a New Venture in Vancouver"
Jorie Lagerwey (University of Southern California), "How the “Hollywood
Left” Gets God: From Revelations to Laguna Beach"
Martha Crealock (York University), "Counter-Culture: Religious Right vs. Hollywood
Left"
Respondent: Hilary-Anne Hallett (Rutgers University)
H10: Understanding Makeover Television: Realities
Transformed
Room: Granville
Chair: Dana Heller (Old Dominion University)
Amber Watts (Northwestern University), "'Queen for a Day': Remaking Consumer Culture,
One Woman at a Time"
Ron Becker (Miami University), ""SUPERNANNY and NANNY911: Giving the Straight Family
a Fresh Start""
Joanne Morreale (Northeastern University), ""FAKING IT and the Transformation of
Personal Identity""
June Deery (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), "Interior Design: Commodifying Self
and Place in EXTREME MAKEOVER, EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION, and THE SWAN"
H11: Historicizing New Political Documentary
Room: Galiano
Chair: Jason Middleton (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Jason Middleton (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "History, Memory, and
the Documentation of Atrocity"
Tony Grajeda (University of Central Florida), "“’For y’all this is
just a show but we live in this movie’: Vietnam, Iraq, and the War
Documentary”"
James Castonguay (Sacred Heart University), "Intermedia and the War on Terror:
Documenting War in the Digital Age"
Eden Osucha (Duke University), "Trauma Sex and Abu Ghraib: Documenting Deviance in
Post-9/11 Political Histories"
Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College), "Digital Deployments"
H12: Hispanic Exploitation Auteurs
Room: Orca
Chair: Dolores M. Tierney (Tulane University)
Co-chair: Victoria Ruetalo (University of Alberta)
Dolores M. Tierney (Tulane University), "Abel Salazar and ABSA Studios: Nurturing
Mexploitation Cinema"
Tatjana Pavlovic (Tulane University), "Transgressive Bodies/Horror Bodies: the Films
of Jess Franco"
Victoria Ruetalo (University of Alberta), "The Eye Behind the Camera: Bo in the
Sarli-Bo Partnership"
Andy Willis (University of Salford), "Leon Klimovsky, Narsisco Ibáñez
Serrador and Latin American influences in Spanish horror cinema of the early
1970s"
Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus
H13: Introducing Thai Cinema: Identity, History, and
Change
Room: Finback
Chair: Adam Knee (Ohio University)
Sudarat Musikawong (University of California at Santa Cruz), "Mediating Memories of
the 1970s Political Violence in Thai Cinema"
Arnika Fuhrmann (University of Chicago), "Nang Nak — Ghost Wife: Rhetorics of
Loss in Contemporary Thai Film and State Sexual Politics"
Oradol Kaewprasert (University of Essex), "The Iron Ladies and The Iron Ladies II:
The Early Years – The Second Wave of Thai Queer Cinema"
Adam Knee (Ohio University), "Urban Images in Contemporary Thai Film and Music
Video"
H14: Argentine and Latin American Post-Crisis Cinema: From
Memories of Underdevelopment to Strategies of Revolt
Room: Port Alberni
Chair: Patricia Keeton (Ramapo College, New Jersey)
Gerard Dapena (Macalester College), "STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL IN CONTEMPORARY
ARGENTINE CINEMA"
Marcos Soares (University of Sao Paulo), "Images of modernity in Recent Brazilian
Film"
Alessandra Meleiro (Universidade de São Paulo), "Audiovisual Industry in
Mercosur under an Economic Perspective"
Margaret Schwartz (University of Iowa), "HOLY WATER: LUCRECIA MARTEL’S
EMANCIPATORY INTERIORITY"
Sponsor: Caucus on Class
H15: Stan Douglas and the Peripatetic Site of Contemporary
Film Art
Room: Port Hardy
Chair: Andrew Uroskie (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Maeve Connolly (Institute of Art Design and Technology), "Biennials and Blockbusters:
The Peripheral Spaces of Artist’s Film and Video"
Andrew Uroskie (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Stan Douglas and the Peripatetic
Site of Contemporary Film Art"
Warren E. Crichlow (York University), "Playing the Double: Mining Hors-champs
Sound/Image Improvisation"
Dana Anderson (Maine Maritime Academy), "Godard's In Praise of Love - The Cinema as
Concert Hall"
Friday, March 3, 2006 7:15-9:00 pm
(Session I)
I1: The Photograph in Theory
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: Greg Taylor (Purchase College/ State University of New York)
Adam Lowenstein (University of Pittsburgh), "Bazin and Barthes: The Surrealism of the
Photographic Image"
Kirsten Strayer (University of Pittsburgh), "The Polaroid as the Material Trace of
Post-National Power: The Photograph in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s
Intacto."
Greg Taylor (Purchase College/ State University of New York),
"“Kracauer’s Error? The ‘Photographic’ in Ceylan’s
Distant”"
I2: The Enduring Power of Horror
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Robert Spadoni (Case Western Reserve University)
Tarja Laine (University of Amsterdam), "Cinema as Second Skin"
Jonathan Walley (Denison University) and Jane Greene (Denison University),
""Contemporary American Horror and the Female Spectator""
Sophia Harvey (Independent Scholar), "Fractured Visions: Locating the pan-Asian gaze
in The Eye"
Robert Spadoni (Case Western Reserve University), "“Memories of Love and Crime
and Death”: Horror and Unspeakable Silence in THE MUMMY"
I3: Sex Sells
Room: Pavilion C
Chair: Stan Beeler (University of Northern British Columbia)
Elena Gorfinkel (New York University), "Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the
Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere"
Arthur Knight (College of William and Mary) and Kevin Flanagan (College of William
and Mary), "Porn Goes to College: Campus Debates on Pornography, 1969-1973"
Candace Moore (University of California, Los Angeles), "Having It All Ways: The
Tourist, the Traveler, and the Local in "The L Word""
Stan Beeler (University of Northern British Columbia), "Dominance, Submission and
Machine Love: Sexual Politics in the new Battlestar Galactica"
I4: Animation and Theory
Room: Pavilion D
Chair: Ramona Curry (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Steve Fore (City University of Hong Kong), "Romancing the Rotoscope: Self-reflexivity
and the Reality Effect in the Animations of Jeff Scher"
Alanna Thain (Duke University), "Inbetween Movements: The germinal films of Norman
McLaren and William Kentridge"
Victoria Meng (University of California, Los Angeles), "Theorizing the Frame:
Microstructures in Animation and Other Frame-Centered Films"
Ramona Curry (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "“Mulan” Remade:
A Legend of Transculturalization"
I5: Transnational Approaches to the Cinema of the UK
Room: Junior A
Chair: Daniel Smith-Rowsey (University of Nottingham)
Richard Paterson (British Film Institute/University of Stirling), "Conflicting
Objectives? - British Film Policy and Hollywood"
Peter Thomas (University of Sunderland), "As Above, So Below: the Problem of US
Dominance in the UK Experimental Film Market"
Jessica Scarlata (George Mason University), "Holy Marxists!: The On-Screen
Sacralization of Rebels and Revolutionaries"
I6: International Perspectives on Urban Spaces
Room: Junior B
Chair: Michael Walsh (University of Hartford)
Katherine Lawrie (University of California, Los Angeles), "City Limits and City
Films: Exorbitant Period Pieces and Uncanny Remakes"
Shuli Chen (University of Washington), "Narrative Arteries, City Conjunctives: the
Haphazard Encounter in Taiwanese and Mexican Urban Films"
Bruce Williams (William Paterson University), "Brazil’s Open Cities: Mimicry in
the Urban Landscape of Cinema Novo"
Michael Walsh (University of Hartford), "The Disaffection of the English Working
Class: Mike Leigh’s Naked and Hanif Kureishi’s London Kills Me."
I7: Youth-Made Media in the Americas
Room: Junior C
Chair: Mary Kearney (The University of Texas at Austin)
Danny Leopard (University of Southern California), "Slap that, Bastard! Aggressive
Masculinity as Evidence and Expression in Student-Produced Media"
Bryce McNeil (Georgia State University), "When the “Scene” Goes Online:
“Prosuming” the CBLocals Text"
Mimi Nguyen (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "Missing Persons: Race, Sex and
Reimagining Punk Rock's Archive"
Mary Kearney (The University of Texas at Austin), "Girls’ Web Design, Distro
Style!"
I8: Contemporary Crime Television: Politics, Violence,
Bodies
Room: Junior D
Chair: Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia)
Allison McCracken (DePaul University), "Ripped from the Headlines: The Politics of
Authenticity in NBC's Law and Order"
Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia), "Crime television and homeland security:
Law and Order and terror TV"
Elke Weissmann (University of Glasgow), "Measuring the Horror of Crime: CSI and
Forensic Pathology"
Respondent: Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University)
Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group
I9: La Camera-stylo: Film Scholarship and the Video
Essay
Room: Parksville
Chair: Christian Keathley (Middlebury College)
Eric Faden (Bucknell University), "Visualizing Theory: Media Stylo"
Michael Jarrett (Penn State University, York Campus), "Found! Godard’s Lost
Remake of Elvis Presley’s King Creole (The Borges Remix)"
Christian Keathley (Middlebury College), "Bits of Business"
Respondent: Timothy Corrigan (University of Pennsylvania)
I10: Quality TV and the Qualities of TV
Room: Granville
Chair: Jonathan Nichols-Pethick (Depauw University)
Robert Cavanagh (Northwestern University), "Television Without Pity: Fan Culture,
Irony, and Textual Meaning"
Monica Champagne (Carleton University), "Taking it in the Face: Liberating the Unruly
Woman in "Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy""
Katarzyna Chmielewska (Indiana University), "“Jumping the
Shark…Already?” Articulations of quality in the marketing and reception
of Showtime’s !Huff"
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick (Depauw University), "Doing the Right Thing: Model Citizens
and the Melodramatic Mode in the Television Police Drama"
I11: When Women Are Made Over
Room: Galiano
Chair: Laura Portwood-Stacer (University of Southern California)
Natasha Patterson (Simon Fraser University), "Earth Mothers, Ghetto Girls, and the
Fairy God-Model: Exploring constructions of race and gender in America’s Next
Top Model"
Shana Heinricy (Indiana University), "The Ultimate Eve: Televised Plastic Surgery and
the Display of the Female Body"
Jacquelyn Vinson (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Body Work: Documenting
Real(ity) Transformations in "Extreme Makeover" and "America's Next Top Model""
Laura Portwood-Stacer (University of Southern California), "Radical Transformation:
Cosmetic Surgery, Reality TV, and the Post-feminist Body"
I12: African American Divas
Room: Orca
Chair: Susan Courtney (University of South Carolina)
Karen Beavers (University of Southern California), "Everybody Has a Mammy or Why We
Should Gaze at Louise Beavers"
Jennifer Jones (University of Arizona), "The Size of Stardom: Queen Latifah's
Celebrity Transformation and the Obesity Crisis"
Terri Francis (Yale University), "The Josephine Baker Museum: Paris, Performance,
Cinema"
Kristen Grant (University of Texas, Austin), "TyraVision: TV and the African American
Female Authorial Voice"
I13: Class and Gender in Chinese Media
Room: Finback
Chair: Sheldon Lu (University of California, Davis)
Zhen Sun (University of Utah), "Blogging Issues in China: From Mu Zimei to Sister
Furong"
Donghui He (University of Tennessee), "Agile Daughters in the Father's House: The
Media Representation of Professional Women in Contemporary China"
Sheldon Lu (University of California, Davis), "Globalization and Class in
Contemporary Chinese Independent and Popular Cinema"
I14: Postcolonial Cinema
Room: Port Alberni
Chair: Robert Silberman (University of Minnesota)
Carolin Overhoff Ferreira (Portuguese Catholic University), "Transnationality and its
Discontents – Luso-African co-productions after independence"
Enrique Garcia (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "A Coproduction about
Coproductions: Sexuality and the Colonial Other in the Cuban-Spanish Film Aunque
estés lejos"
Jose Capino (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "STAGING THE AFTERMATH OF THE
AMERICAN EMPIRE:"
Robert Silberman (University of Minnesota), "3rd World Hero: Satire and Reflexivity
in the Historical Biopic"
I15: Memory and Its Vicissitudes
Room: Port Hardy
Chair: Carol Siegel (Washington State University, Vancouver)
Susan Felleman (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), "A Little Infidelity:
Cinematic Memory and the Vicissitudes of Intertextuality in Unfaithful and La Femme
Infidèle"
Charles R. Warner (University of Pittsburgh), "Montage Without Walls: Memory and
Psychogeography in Late Godard"
Natalia Brizuela (University of California, Berkeley), "Revelations From The Zone:
Marker and Tarkovsky’s Memories For/Of The Future"
Carol Siegel (Washington State University, Vancouver), "Irreconcilable Feminisms and
the Construction of a Cultural Memory of Virginity's Loss: À ma soeur! and
Thirteen"
Friday, March 3,
2006 9:00-10:00 pm (Meetings)
Asian/Pacific American Caucus
Room: Granville
Women's Film History Project
Room: Galiano
Graduate Student Organization
Room: Orca
Saturday, March 4,
2006 7:30-8:30 am (Meetings)
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer Caucus
Room: Granville
Television Studies Special Interest Group
Room: Galiano
Middle East Caucus
Room: Orca
Saturday, March 4, 2006 8:30-10:15
am (Session J)
J1: Exhibition Then and Now
Room: Pavilion A
Chair: Mirella Jona Affron (College of Staten Island/CUNY)
Dina Smith (Drake University), "On-Location: the Historical Role of the Travel
Trailer in Production and Exhibition"
Bjorn Sorenssen (Norwegian University of Science & Technology), "Norwegian
Itinerant Cinema Exhibition in the U.S. Midwest During the 1920 and 1930s."
Meredith Ward (Northwestern University), ""Home(s) of the Seventh Art: Social Aspects
Movie-Going in the Age of the Home Theater""
Donna de Ville (University of Texas, Austin), "The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema:
Reclaiming the Cult Experience"
J2: Double Take: New Views on Screen Couples
Room: Pavilion B
Chair: Martha P Nochimson (Independent Scholar)