Preliminary Conference Program Draft
2007 SCMS Conference
Media in the Public Sphere

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Schedule of Events At A Glance

Thu, March 8	12:00 noon - 1:45 pm	Session A
	2:00 - 3:45 pm	Session B
	4:00 - 5:45 pm	Session C
	6:00 - 8:00 pm	Plenary
	8:00 - 9:00 pm	Reception
Fri, March 9	8:15 - 10:00 am	Session D
	10:15 am - 12:00 noon	Session E
	12:15 - 1:15 pm	Members Meeting
	1:30 - 3:15 pm	Session F
	3:30 - 5:15 pm	Session G
	5:30 - 7:15 pm	Session H
	7:30 - 10:30 pm	Bollywood Reception

Sat, March 10	8:15 - 10:00 am	Session I
	10:15 am - 12:00 noon	Session J
	12:15 - 2:00 pm	Session K
	2:15 - 4:00 pm	Session L
	4:15 - 6:00 pm	Session M
	6:15 - 8:00 pm	Session N
Sun, March 11	8:15 - 10:00 am	Session O
	10:15 am - 12:00 noon	Session P
	12:15 - 2:00 pm	Session Q
	2:15 - 4:00 pm	Session R

Program Sessions

Thursday, March 8, 2007 12:00 noon - 1:45 pm (Session A)

A1: Queer U.S. Cinema

Room:

Chair: Dustin Goltz (Arizona State University)

Courtney Bates (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Camping at Midnight: Queer Audiences, Supertexts, and the Films of Russ Meyer"
Dustin Goltz (Arizona State University), "Aliens Don't Have a Future: Queer Potentials in Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalyptic Trilogy"
Jeremy Powell (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Machinic Visions of Lynch: On the Disembodiability of Information and the Queer Private Sphere"
Lisa Henderson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "The Look of Love and Money"

A2: National Cinemas and Planetary Information

Room:

Chair: Anustup Basu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Kirsten Strayer (University of Pittsburgh), "Evangelical Images: Transparency and Dissemination in New Latin American Cinema"
Abhijit Roy (Jadavpur University), "Televisuality and the ‘Urban’ Brand of Bengali Films"
Anustup Basu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Cinemas of Information and Societies of Globality"

A3: Workshop: Dynamic Duos: Building Academic-archival Partnerships

Room:

Chair: Jennifer Horne (Bryn Mawr College)
Co-chair: Janna Jones (Northern Arizona University)

Workshop Participants:
Mary Desjardins (Dartmouth College)
Barbara Hall (Margaret Herrick Library)
Scott Simmon (University of California, Davis)
Jennifer Horne (Bryn Mawr College)
Leslie Debauche (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point)

Sponsor: Media Archive Committee

A4: Intersections of Science and Technology in U.S. Animation

Room:

Chair: Susan Ohmer (University of Notre Dame)

Mark Langer (Carleton University), “From Relativity to Evolution: The Fleischer Scientific Films"
Susan Ohmer (University of Notre Dame), "The Very Model of Modernity: Disney’s Burbank Studio and the Industrial Space of Animation"
Sheila Murphy (University of Michigan), "Web Animation and the Do-It-Yourself Aesthetic"

A5: Mind Control!: Ideas about Media Influence in the Post-WWII Era

Room:

Chair: Charles Acland (Concordia University)
Co-chair: Kirsten Ostherr (Rice University)

Kirsten Ostherr (Rice University), "Public Relations and Public Health: Propaganda Versus Education in Postwar Instructional Films"
Heather Hendershot (Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center), "How the Old Christian Right Became the New Christian Right: Historical Revisionism and Billy James Hargis"
Zoë Druick (Simon Fraser University), "Controlling World Communication: UNESCO and the UN on Film"
Charles Acland (Concordia University), "Psychic Hucksterism: Tracing the 1957 Subliminal Communication Panic"

A6: Challenging the Status Quo: Latina/os, Media and the Transformation of the Public Sphere through Critical Pedagogy and Experiential Learning

Room:

Chair: Mari Castaneda (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Mari Castaneda (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Latina Media Studies: Transformative Learning Through Community Engagement"
Jean Lauer (University of Texas, Austin), "The Role of Academia in Shaping a Culturally Integrated U.S. Entertainment Industry"
Hector Amaya (Southwestern University), "Scapegoating Hollywood: How Latinas(os) Are Not Benefiting From Critical Media"
Katynka Martinez (University of Southern California), "With a Camera in Her Hand: The Boyle Heights Latina Independent Film Extravaganza and the Power of Creation"
Respondent:: Catherine Benamou (University of Michigan)

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

A7: The Ontology of the Body: Representing the Human Form in Documentary Media

Room:

Chair: Broderick Fox (Occidental College)

Margaret Schwartz (University of Iowa), "A Productive Remainder: Narrating the Corpse of Evita Perón"
Jeffrey Chown (Northern Illinois University), "Documentary Film and the Iraq War: Soldiers and Victims as Cinematic Signifiers"
Broderick Fox (Occidental College), "The Ontology of the Gay Male Body: A Contemporary Crisis in Self-Representation"
Michael Renov (University of Southern California), "Documentary, Contemporary Art, and the Ethical Function"

A8: Melodrama: Gender, Genre, Space, and Affect

Room:

Chair: Nathan Holmes (University of Chicago)

Nathan Holmes (University of Chicago), "’This Isn't What It Looks Like’: Stella Dallas and Melodrama's Cinematic Appearances"
Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba), "Containing Desire: Rose Hobart and Home Stories"
Megan Williams (Santa Clara University), "In the Ring with Mildred Pierce: Million Dollar Baby and the Revival of the 1940s Melodrama"
Joanna Hearne (University of Missouri, Columbia), "Cinematic Interventions and Political Reform in 1920s "Indian Dramas""

A9: Gender and Sexuality in Post-Colonial Hindi Cinema

Room:

Chair: Nandana Bose (University of Nottingham)

Meheli Sen (Emory University), "Debonair Dev: Genre, Masculinity and the Hindi Crime-melodrama"
Sreya Mitra (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "From Chakkas to Gays: The Changing Queer Dynamics in Mainstream Hindi Cinema"
Kevin John Bozelka (University of Texas, Austin), "Lesbian Representability in Bollywood Musical Numbers"
Nandana Bose (University of Nottingham), ""No Sex Please, We're Indians!" Censorship, Sexuality and the Hindu Right in 1990s Hindi Cinema"

A10: Workshop: Film and Video Within the Gallery Walls

Room:

Chair: Linda Ehrlich (Case Western Reserve University)

Workshop Participants:
Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader)
Charles Musser (Yale University)
Nancy Mathews (Williams College)
Jorge LaTorre (Universidad de Navarra)
James Quandt (Cinematheque Ontario)
Linda Ehrlich (Case Western Reserve University)

A11: British Cinema

Room:

Chair: Richard Koeck (University of Liverpool)

Richard Koeck (University of Liverpool) and Les Roberts (University of Liverpool), "The Archive City: Reading Liverpool’s Urban Landscape Through Film"
George Lellis (Coker College), "The Tableau within the Tableau: Brechtian Contradiction in Stephen Frears’s Mrs Henderson Presents"
Phillip Drummond (New York University London Programme), "Intercultural Identities in British Film and Television in the Era of New Citizenship: Shoot the Messenger and Yasmin"
Peter Limbrick (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Transnational Circuits of Imperial Production: the U.S./British Empire Film 1920-1940"

A12: Fifty Years of Movies (1957-2007): The Extraordinary Career of Sidney Lumet

Room:

Chair: Joanna E. Rapf (University of Oklahoma)

Stephen Prince (Virginia Tech), "Realism, Truth and Cinematic Style in the Work of Sidney Lumet"
Joanna E. Rapf (University of Oklahoma), "The ‘Basis of Everything’: Sidney Lumet and the Law"
Lester Friedman (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), "Remembrance and Atonement: The Jewish Cinema of Sidney Lumet"
Sarah Kozloff (Vassar College), "The Tragedies of Prince of the City"

A13: African Americans, Education, and the Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Christine Acham (University of California, Davis)

Christine Acham (University of California, Davis), "Negotiating Black Masculinity in the Black Revolution: Nothing But a Man (1964)"
Gregory Jay (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Uplifting the Spectator: Oscar Micheaux and the Black Public Sphere"
Marsha Orgeron (North Carolina State University), "'We Both Know You Can Do Better': Redirecting Black Anger in Riot-Era Educational Films"
Curt Hersey (Georgia State University), "Hood Films, The War on Drugs and the Condemnation of African-American Addicts"

A14: Special Effects/Special Affect

Room:

Chair: Kristen Whissel (University of California, Berkeley)

Alison Griffiths (City University of New York, Baruch College), "Spectacularis Effectus: A Medieval Pre-History of Cinematic Special Effects"
Anne Nesbet (University of California, Berkeley), "Visible Effects: Cinema’s Ecstatic Economics in the Soviet 1920s"
Russell Merritt (Independent Scholar), "Crying in Color: How Hollywood Coped When Technicolor Died"
Kristen Whissel (University of California, Berkeley), "The Digital Multitude”

A20: Special Event: Screening A

Room:

Trumpetistically Clora Bryant

(Zeinabu Irene Davis, USA, 2005, 56 min)

Sponsor: African/African American Caucus

A21: Special Event: Meeting A

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Thursday, March 8, 2007 2:00-3:45 pm (Session B)

B1: Close Encounters of the Synaesthetic Kind

Room:

Chair: Tarja Laine (University of Amsterdam)
Co-chair: Wanda Strauven (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Julian Hanich (Free University, Berlin), "(Dis)liking Disgust: A Phenomenology of the Cinematic ‘Ugh!’"
Tarja Laine (University of Amsterdam), "“It’s the Sense of Touch”: Skin in the Making of Cinematic Consciousness"
Jennifer Barker (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Spectacular, Spectacular: Synaesthesia in Contemporary Film Spectacle"
Wanda Strauven (University of Amsterdam), "The Force of Attraction: The Role of Distance in Vanya on 42^nd Street and Dogville"

B2: Cogntion and Experience

Room:

Chair: Charles Kronengold (Wayne State University)

Jeff Marker (Gainesville State College), "Character and Culture: Expanding Murray Smith’s Structure of Sympathy"
Mark Minett (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Anxious Moments: Returning Free-Floating Filmic Anxiety Safely to Earth"
Tim Smith (University of Edinburgh), "Seeing Eye To Eye: The Role of Attentional Synchrony in the Perception of Editing Continuity"
Charles Kronengold (Wayne State University), "Sensing Thinking in Cinema"

B3: Mainstream/Sub-culture

Room:

Chair: Aaron Sachs (University of Iowa)

Amanda Howell (Griffith University), "'. . . But We Did Get You, Chocolate City': Narrative Spaces, Narrative Address and the Role of Music in Blaxploitation Cinema"
Aaron Sachs (University of Iowa), "’You the Missionary and I'm the Native’: Cinematic representations of race and class in hip-hop and the function of Beat Street in the Mainstream Appropriation of the Subculture"
Ayana McNair (University of Southern California), "Hip-Hop and the Politics of the Black Gender Divide"
Josh Stenger (Wheaton College), "Ghetto/Superstar: Mediating Blackness in post-1965 'Watts'"

B4: Workshop: Queer Theory and Media Studies

Room:

Chair: Richard Cante (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Co-chair: Kara Keeling (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Workshop Participants:
Lynne Joyrich (Brown University)
Amy Villarejo (Cornell University)
Jonathan M. Hall (University of California, Irvine)
Sean Metzger (Duke University)
Kara Keeling (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Sponsor: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered/Queer Caucus

B5: Television Histories

Room:

Chair: Chuck Berg (University of Kansas)

Chuck Berg (University of Kansas), "Flirting with Fifties Jazz: Early Television's Engagement with 'America's Classical Music'"
Peter Kovacs (University of Arizona), "Toward an Advertiser-centered History of Early Television"
Kirsten Pike (Northwestern University), "Girls Gone Liberated? Negotiating Femininity, Power, and Independence on 1970s Teen TV"
Leshu Torchin (University of St. Andrews), "White Band’s Burden: Humanitarian Synergy, Live 8, and the Campaign to Make Poverty History"

B6: Television As Film / Film As Television

Room:

Chair: Sean O'Sullivan (Ohio State University)

Karen Hornick (New York University), "The End(s) of Television : A Cinematic Turn?"
Marit Knollmueller (University of Kent at Canterbury), "D-Dag: The Dogma Brotherhood Invades Danish Television"
Sean O'Sullivan (Ohio State University), "The Decalogue and the Remaking of American Television"
Respondent:: Christian Keathley (Middlebury College)

B7: Ambiguous Nations: Central Europe on Film

Room:

Chair: Meta Mazaj (University of Pennsylvania)

Meta Mazaj (University of Pennsylvania), "Between National and World Cinema: Cabaret Balkan (1998) on a Global Stage"
Vlastimir Sudar (University of St Andrews), "Examining 'Kara-sevda': Self-Exoticism or the Revival of Romanticism in the Balkan Cinema"
Laszlo Strausz (Georgia State University), "From the Aesthetics of Geometry Towards the Face: Public vs. Private Space in Miklós Jancsó’s The Red and the White and The Lord’s Lantern in Budapest"
Claudia Pummer (University of Iowa), "At the Border: Supplementation and Intertextuality in Edgar G. Ulmer’s foreign-language films The Singing Blacksmith and Cossacks in Exile"

B8: Silent Cinema in the Middle East

Room:

Chair: Kaveh Askari (University of California, Berkeley)
Co-chair: Hamid Naficy (Northwestern University)

Canan Balan (University of St. Andrews), "The Screen of Dreams: Pre-Cinema and the Public Sphere in Istanbul"
Kaveh Askari (University of California, Berkeley), "The Mitigated Success of Early Film Export to the Middle East"
Negar Mottahedeh (Duke University), "Collection and Recollection: Studying the History of National Cinemas"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

B9: Hollywood Remix: Transnational borrowings, Quotation or Citation

Room:

Chair: Reena Dube (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Yiman Wang (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Goddess, Hollywood ‘Before’ and Hong Kong ‘After’"
Melissa Lenos (Temple University), "Something More Than Just an Ape: The Myth of King Kong (1933, 1976, 2005)"
Iain Smith (University of Nottingham), "’So You Think Spiderman and His Gang Are in Turkey, Captain America?’: Transnational Media Flow and the Politics of ‘Borrowing’ U.S. Popular Culture"

B10: Orientalism, Nation, and the Moving Image

Room:

Chair: Delia Konzett (University of New Hampshire)

Charles Musser (Yale University), "Long Live Titay Molina, Edward Meyer Gross and Filipino Film Culture: or, A Reconsideration of Early Cinema in the Philippines"
Delia Konzett (University of New Hampshire), "War, Hysteria, and the Model Minority"
Geoffrey Hill (Quinnipiac University), "Orientalism, Race Performance, and the Time-Image in The Tea House of the August Moon"
Matthias Konzett (Tufts University), "European Migrants: Fatih Akin’s Head-On and Michael Haneke’s Caché"

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

B11: Narrative and Narration in Film Theory

Room:

Chair: Patrick Keating (Hofstra University)

Patrick Keating (Hofstra University), "Classicism and the Corporation: The Problem of the Goal-oriented Narrative and the Group-oriented Protagonist"
Daniel Steinhart (University of California, Los Angeles), "Time Travel: Long Takes and Non-linear Narratives in Elephant, Irreversible, and Russian Ark"
Rodger Frey (Duke University), "Return to Duration"
Andras Balint Kovacs (National Audiovisual Archive), "Analysis of Causal Sequences in Classical Narratives"

B12: Private Parts in Public: Cult Cinema Reception in the Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia)

Jamie Sexton (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), "A Hybrid Journey into the Future: The Cult Recuperation of Space is the Place"
Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia), "Big Head Goes Boom: Scanners and the Public Reception Trajectory of a Cult Film"
Geoff King (Brunel University), "Mainstreaming Cult: Multiple levels of viewer Investment in Kill Bill"
Respondent:: Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader)

B13: The City Universal: Work, Politics and Utopia in Early Hollywood

Room:

Chair: Shelley Stamp (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Co-chair: Mark Cooper (Florida State University)

Mark Cooper (Florida State University), "“’Where Work Is Play and Play Is Work’”"
Jennifer Bean (University of Washington, Seattle), "The Imagination of Early Hollywood: ‘Movie-Land’ and the Magic Cities"
Denise McKenna (New York University), "The Ties that Bind: Constructing Universal’s Corporate Family"
Shelley Stamp (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Universal Suffrage"

B14: Global TV Formats – An International Agenda for TV Studies - Part I

Room:

Chair: Michael Kackman (University of Texas, Austin)

Michael Kackman (University of Texas, Austin), "Selling Difference: The Cisco Kid, 1950s Television, and Emergent Media Globalization"
Sharon Sharp (California State University, Los Angeles Pepperdine University), "Global Franchising, Gender, and Genre: The Case of Domestic Reality Television"
Chiara Ferrari (University of California, Los Angeles), "American Television Formats and the Development of Italian National Identity in Broadcasting"
Respondent:: Joe Straubhaar (University of Texas)

Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group

B20: Special Event: Screening B

Room:

Just a Click Away from Home

(Silvia Mejia, USA, 2006, 52 min)

B21: Special Event: Meeting B

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Thursday, March 8, 2007 4:00-5:45 pm (Session C)

C1: Queer Theory/HistoryMedia

Room:

Chair: Matthew Ramsey (Stephen F. Austin State University)

Hollis Griffin (Northwestern University), "Television and the Performativity of Citizenship: Cable Narrowcasts to the Gay Consumer-Citizen"
Nick Davis (Northwestern University), "The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Queer Cinema"
Joseph Wlodarz (University of Rochester), "Tell Me If You Can: Masculinity and Queer (In)Visibility in American Network Television of the 1970s"
Matthew Ramsey (Stephen F. Austin State University), "“I’m Not the Other Woman in this Case”: Murder!, Queer Performance and Sound"

C2: Reality Television, Television Genres

Room:

Chair: Yael Sherman (Emory University)

Ethan Thompson (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi), "Comedy Verite? The Documentary Aesthetic and the Televisual Sitcom"
Karen Backstein (Independent Scholar), "I Can’t Dance…Please Ask Me!: Choreography and Representation in Dancing with the Stars"
Yael Sherman (Emory University), "Vision, Power and the Self in What Not to Wear"

C3: Gods, Techies, Bloggers, and Bollywood: India, Diaspora, and Cyberculture

Room:

Chair: Aswin Punathambekar (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Madhavi Mallapragada (University of Texas, Austin), "Desktop Deities: Virtual Technologies and Temple Cultures in the US"
Aswin Punathambekar (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Monetizing Citizenship: Bollywood, Dotcoms, and the NRI Market"
Rohit Chopra (Emory University), "Regional Selves, Global Citizens: Particularistic Notions of Indian Selfhood in Cyberspace"
Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University), "Why the World is Not Flat: Examining Local/Global, Rural/Urban, Virtual/Real intersections in South Asian Digital Diasporas"

C4: Class on the Border: Screening the Multitudes

Room:

Chair: Susan Ryan (College of New Jersey)

Camilla Fojas (DePaul University), "Border Cinema and Global Labor"
Patricia Keeton (Ramapo College), "Recent Documentary and Grassroots Media in Argentina: The Global Context Shaping Contemporary Immigrant Experience"
Martin O'Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent), "Fragments in Collision: the Disenfranchised and the Displaced"
Susan Ryan (College of New Jersey), "Documenting the Undocumented"

Sponsor: Caucus on Class

C5: Brazilian Cinema: Between Hollywood and Latin America

Room:

Chair: Stuart Davis (University of Minnesota)

Salome Skvirsky (University of Pittsburgh), "The Forgotten Utopia of Brazilian Film: Palmares, the State, and the Black Movement"
Sean Griffin (Southern Methodist University), "Mamae Eu Quero: Carmen Miranda Performing Maternal Abundance"
Fernando Mascarello (UNISINOS, Brazil), "“What Do We Need a Brazilian Cinema for?” – Brazil’s Post-1994 Film Production and Its (Lack of) Local Audiences"
Stuart Davis (University of Minnesota), "Interrogating the Cultural Foundations of Underdevelopment in Brazilian Cinema Novo"

C6: Issues in Contemporary French Cinema

Room:

Chair: Scott Nygren (University of Florida)

Scott Nygren (University of Florida), "Cinema as Concept: Film in Recent Paris Exhibitions"
Peter Baxter (Queen's University), "Imagining the National: Today's French Dilemma in Two Recent Films"
Jonathan Buchsbaum (Queen's College), "Guardians of Cinephilia: the Cinemas d’Art et Essai and the Multiplexes in France"

C7: Copyright and Fair Use

Room:

Chair: Richard Paterson (British Film Institute/University of Stirling)

Richard Paterson (British Film Institute/University of Stirling), "Creativity, Intellectual Property Rights and the Public Sphere"
Jennifer Lynde Barker (Stanford University), "Animating Racial Representation: Censorship, Copyright and ‘Fair’ Use"
Lindsay Fullerton (University of Pennsylvania), "Captives of Copyright: The Fates of Documentaries in the Digital Age"
Mark Benedetti (Indiana University), "Encoding Piracy: CAP Code and Deleuze's Simulacrum"

C8: Documentary and the Abject: Representing Recent Aberrations

Room:

Chair: Kevin McDonald (University of Iowa)

Kristopher Fallon (University of California, Berkeley), "“In My Life I Have Seen Wars”: Memory, War Crimes and the Visual Artifact in Errol Morris’ The Fog of War"
Kevin McDonald (University of Iowa), "On the Face of Death: Silverlake Life as Minor Cinema"
Benedict Stork (University of Minnesota), "’He Liked to Look at Pictures of Boys’: Tracing the Contours of the Abject in Capturing the Friedmans"
Respondent:: Bill Nichols (San Francisco State University)

C9: Japanese Cinema and Culture

Room:

Chair: Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon)

Brian Ruh (Indiana University), "America’s Anime, Japan’s Anime: Identifying Japanese Animation in Global Circulation"
Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon), "Japanese Men with Movie Cameras: 'Lights, Camera, Nation!'"
Akira Lippit (University of Southern California), "At the Center of the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere"
Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick), "Unsettled Visions. Space, Time and Modernity in Imamura Shohei's Vengeance is Mine (1979)"

C10: Necessary Revisionism: Northern European Media

Room:

Chair: Shannon Mattern (The New School)

Shannon Mattern (The New School), "A Public Sphere of Poetic Engagement: Alvar Aalto’s Woodberry Poetry Reading Room"
Thomas Waugh (Concordia University), "Joris Ivens: Canonicity, Stagnation and Revisionism"
Jennifer Fleeger (University of Iowa), "The Dialectics of Hearing: Copenhagen, Silent Cinema, and Walter Benjamin"
Mariah Larsson (Lund University), "Filmic Freedom in the Public Sphere – Swedish Film Censorship Debate in the Late 1960s"

C11: Public Privacy: Indeterminate Spaces

Room:

Chair: Pamela Wojcik (University of Notre Dame)

Margot Bouman (The New School), "Video Technologies, Private Acts and the Public Sphere: Ghost Hunting on the Bridge"
Amy Herzog (Queens College/City University of New York), "From Jukebox Films to Peepshow Loops: Intimacy, Corporeality, and Perversity in the Public Sphere"
David Coon (Indiana University), "’Look Closer’: Negotiating the Public/Private Binary in Suburban Narratives"
Pamela Wojcik (University of Notre Dame), "A Primer in Urbanism: Public Privacy and Rear Window Ethics"

C12: Configurations of Emergence: Proliferation and Synergy of Approaches in Early Cinema Studies

Room:

Chair: Nicolas Dulac (Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Louis Pelletier (Concordia University), "Film Descending a Staircase: For a Dynamic Approach to Early Cinema Filmographies"
Pierre Chemartin (Université de Montréal), "Are Ideas Copyrightable? Copyright, Piracy and Intermediality in Early French Cinema"
Philippe Gauthier (Université de Montréal), "Searching for Alternation in Magic Lantern Shows, Early Comic Strips and Optical Toys: An Intermedia Point of View on the Emergence of Crosscutting in Cinema"
Nicolas Dulac (Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle), "Persistence of 'Pre-Cinema': Optical Toys, Early Film and the Determinist Discourse"

C13: Workshop: Walking the Talk: Media Literacy in Theory and Practice


Chair: Miriam Petty (Princeton University)

Workshop Participants:
Aniko Imre (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Bambi Haggins (University of Michigan)
Darrell Newton (Salisbury University)
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade (University of Arizona)

Sponsors: African/African American Caucus, Media Literacy and Outreach Interest Group, Asian/Pacific American Caucus, Latino/a Caucus

C14: Beyond the Infinite: New Journeys into the Worlds of Stanley Kubrick

Room:

Chair: Jason Sperb (Indiana University)

Robert Kolker (University of Virginia), "Rage for Order: Kubrick’s Fearful Symmetry"
James Naremore (Indiana University), "The Uncanny, the Fantastic, and Stanley Kubrick"
Susan White (University of Arizona), "The Power of Acting Bad: Performance in Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut"
Jason Sperb (Indiana University), "Effect-ively Kubrick: Regenerating Stanley Kubrick in a Life After-Life"

C20: Special Event: Screening C

Room: Lake Michigan

A Long Palestinian Film [Film Filastini Taweel]

(Sobhi Al-Zobaidi, Palestine, 2005, 60 min)

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

C21: Special Event: Meeting C

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Thursday, March 8, 2007 6:00-8:00 pm (Plenary)

Plenary Session: Media in the Public Sphere

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Thursday, March 8, 2007 8:00-9:00 pm (Reception)

Opening Reception

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Friday, March 9, 2007 8:15-10:00 am (Session D)

D1: Postcolonial and Diasporic Filmmaking

Room:

Chair: William Watson (University of Arizona)

William Watson (University of Arizona), "Whose War Was It, Anyway?: Moustapha Akkad's The Lion of the Desert and the Italian Fascist Reconquest of Libya"
Liora Moriel (University of Maryland), "Weddings as Political Tropes in Recent Mid-East Movies"
Cécile Boex (Institute Aix en Provence), "When Cinema Becomes an Alternative Space for Public Expression : The Experience of ‘Auteur Cinema’ in Syria"
Yesim Burul (Istanbul Bilgi University), "Migrant Cinema in the Third Space: Young Turkish Filmmakers in Germany"

D2: What If...

Room:

Chair: Frances Gateward (University of Illinois)

Stan Beeler (University of Northern British Columbia), "What If the Fantasy Continued?"
Robert Cagle (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "What If There Really Were Such a Thing as a Second Chance?"
Frances Gateward (University of Illinois), "What If the Black Characters Made It to the Last Reel? Redefining Race and the Genre of Speculative Fiction"
Craig Fischer (Appalachian State University), "What If All our Teaching about Visual Culture Really Mattered?"

D3: Bus 174 and the Future of Documentary: Prismatic Perspectives

Room:

Chair: Amy Villarejo (Cornell University)

Esther Hamburger (University of Sao Paulo), "Performance, Television and Film: Bus 174 As A Perverse Case of Appropriation of the Means of Constructing Spectacular Audiovisual Form"
Cecilia Sayad (New York University), "With a Little Help from Fiction: Performing for Life in Bus 174"
Marina Moguillansky (Universidad de Buenos Aires), "Documentaries and Narrative: An Analysis of Bus 174 as a Life History"

D4: Workshop: Trends and Tendencies in Recent Latin American Cinema

Room:

Chair: Carla Marcantonio (New York University)

Workshop Participants:
Tamara Falicov (University of Kansas)
Federico Windhausen (California College of the Arts)
Luisela Alvaray (University of New Mexico)
Scott Baugh (Texas Tech University)
Mariana Johnson (New York University)

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

D5: Multi-medias

Room:

Chair:

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (University of Aberdeen), "Enacting the Interactive"
Malte Hagener (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet), "Split-Space. Omni-directional Space and Multiple Screens in Video Installation Art"
Shana MacDonald (York University), "The Performative Function of Film: Carolee Schneemann's Mixed-Media Installations"

D6: Zizek: the Panel

Room:

Chair: Angelo Restivo (Georgia State University)

Peter Paik (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "A Legend Beyond Zizek?: Schlöndorff’s Rita and Militant Subjectivity"
Jaime Rodríguez-Matos (Washington University), "The Subject at the Movies, or Not: Zizek's Changing Stances Toward Cinema"
Angelo Restivo (Georgia State University), "Zizek for Queers"
Richard Cante (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Zizek for Deconstructionists?"

D7: Digital Media in the Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Michelle Cho (University of California, Irvine)

Michelle Cho (University of California, Irvine), "’The Use of Illusion’: Reality, Subjectivity, and Digital Video in Taxi Blues and 10"
Pavel Skopal (Masaryk University), "'The Adventure Continues on DVD' – Franchise Movies as Home Video"
Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), "The Digital Divide--The Moving Image in the 21st Century"
Richard Edwards (Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis), "The Politics of Remix: Digital Media and Civic Engagement"

D8: Post-Wall German Cinema

Room:

Chair: Peter Lutze (Boise State University)

Mattias Frey (Harvard University), "Birth of a Nation: The Miracle of Bern (2003) and Postwall Germany’s Cinema of Retro-flection"
Peter Lutze (Boise State University), "Learning Process with Democratic Outcome: Kluge, Idaho and the Public (Access) Sphere"
Marco Abel (University of Nebraska), "Imaging Germany: The (Political) Cinema of Christian Petzold"
Catherine Wheatley (Oxford University), "Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? The Critical and Commercial Reception of Michael Haneke’s Le Temps du Loup"

D9: Workshop: The Practitioner Interview in Film and Television Studies

Room:

Chair: Christine Cornea (University of East Anglia)

Workshop Participants:
Linda Ruth Williams (University of Southampton)
Brett Mills (University of East Anglia)
Christine Cornea (University of East Anglia)

D10: Not So Silent Stars: Questions in Feminist Historiography

Room:

Chair: Vicki Callahan (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Co-chair: Gregory Jay (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Kristen Anderson Wagner (University of Southern California), "’An Inferiority Complex in a One-Piece Bathing Suit:’ Beauty, Femininity, and Silent-Era Comediennes"
Victoria Duckett (Università Cattolica, Milano), "Defying Disciplinary Limits: Film History, Feminism and the Theatrical Film"
Vicki Callahan (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Picturing Film History: (Re)Framing Mabel Normand"
Giuliana Muscio (University of Padua), "Tina Modotti in Hollywood: Italian Emigrant and Mexican Maid"
Monica Dall'Asta (University of Bologna), "The Singular Multiple: Francesca Bertini as Star and Director"

D11: Early Comedy

Room:

Chair: Rob King (University of Michigan)

Jane Greene (Denison University), "Sophisticated Comedy, Censorship, and the Early Sound Era"
Susan Linville (University of Colorado, Denver), "Buster Keaton's Uncanny Comedy"
Rob King (University of Michigan), "’The Camera Is a Monumental Liar’: From Slapstick to Stop-Motion and Back Again in the Films of Charley Bowers"

D12: The International Film Festival Network: From Center to Periphery

Room:

Chair: Liz Czach (Brock University)

Marijke de Valck (University of Amsterdam), "Understanding the Complex Connections in the Festival Network"
Christian Jungen (University of Zurich), "What Can Films Do for a Festival? How New Hollywood Promoted the Cannes Film Festival"
Dina Iordanova (University of St. Andrews), "What Are Film Festivals For?"
Liz Czach (Brock University), "’Hollywood is Coming!’ The Toronto International Film Festival and the Spectacle of Celebrity"

D13: Media and Public Spheres

Room:

Chair: Richard Butsch (Rider University)

Zach Schiller (University of California, Davis), "The ‘Fruitful Perversity’ of Community Radio"
Virginia Nightingale (University of Western Sydney), "Lost in Space: Television’s Missing Publics"
Peter Lunt (Oxford University), "Emotions and Engagement in the Mediated Public Sphere"
Shawn Shimpach (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Representing the Public of the Cinema’s Public Sphere"
Respondent:: Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

D14: Filmi Noir: Action and Crime in Popular Indian Cinema

Room:

Chair: Corey Creekmur (University of Iowa)

Rosie Thomas (University of Westminster), "A Woman and a Whip: Fearless Nadia and the Action Films of 1930s India"
Corey Creekmur (University of Iowa), "The Indians Are Making Dark Films Too: The Case for 1950s Bombay Noir"
Lalitha Gopalan (Georgetown University), "Speed and Movement in Ramgopal Varma's Company (2002)"
David Desser (University of Illinois), "Noir as Global Currency: Oldboy from Manga to Mumbai"

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

D15: Global TV Formats – An International Agenda for TV Studies: Part II

Room:

Chair: Sharon Shahaf (University of Texas, Austin)

Sharon Shahaf (University of Texas, Austin), "A Globalized Outlook for Television Genre Theory - Negotiating Nationalism and Commercialism through Global Formats in Israeli Television”
Dana Heller (Old Dominion University), "So We Think We Can Dance?: The Global Appeal of Competitive Dance Formats"
Tasha Oren (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "…With Just a Pinch of Local Spice: Looking Beyond ‘Culture Blend’ in the Global Television Format"
Marwan M. Kraidy (American University), "De-Westernizing Reality Television Studies"

Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group

D16: Media, Trauma, and Public Spheres

Room:

Chair: Rebecca Bell-Metereau (Texas State University)

Rebecca Bell-Metereau (Texas State University), "Post-traumatic Media Fatigue, New Expressionism, and the Carnivalesque"
Sasha Torres (University of Western Ontario), "Thinking After 9/11: Television's ‘Reality-Based’ Communities"
Allison Perlman (University of Texas, Austin), "Conservatism and the Public Interest: The Media Research Center's Battle with the ‘Liberal Media’"
Mark Bartlett (San Francisco Art Institute), "Three Fates of Anxious Media: Efficacy, Relevance, and Complicity"

D17: European Film Culture and Industry

Room:

Chair: Alejandro Pardo (University of Navarra)

Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp), "Cinephilia in the European City. A Study on Art House Audiences in Antwerp and Discourses on Film Experiences in Context"
Karla Oeler (Emory University), "A Tale of Two Hamlets, or Cinema and Inwardness"
Alessandra Meleiro (University of London), "The Film Industries in Europe: A Development Strategy"
Alejandro Pardo (University of Navarra), "Hollywood on the European Sphere: Cultural and Economic Policies Abroad"

D18: Conner, Warhol, Snow and Co.: Problems of Periodization and Categorization

Room:

Chair: James Kreul (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)

Ben Singer (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Expressionism, Popism, Structuralism, and Inconvenient Fusions Thereof"
James Kreul (University of North Carolina, Wilmington), "Up Against the Cactus, Getting Pricked Here and There: The Cases For and Against Andy Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys"
Eric Crosby (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Style and Substance: Reconsidering Andy Warhol’s Camerawork"
Bart Testa (University of Toronto), "Michael Snow’s Film Encyclopedias, 1991-2005"

D19: Topophilia and/as Cinephilia

Room:

Chair: Elena Gorfinkel (New York University)
Co-chair: John David Rhodes (University of Sussex)

John David Rhodes (University of Sussex), "Pasolini and Slum Love"
Hugh Manon (Oklahoma State University), "Living Dead Spaces: The Desire for the Local in the Films of George Romero"
Elena Gorfinkel (New York University), "Tales of Times Square: Sexploitation’s Secret History of Place"
Ara Osterweil, "The Last Place on Earth: The Confrontation of Western Space and Third World Place in Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie"

D20: Special Event: Screening D

Room:

The Hermitage Dwellers

(Aliona van der Horst, Netherlands, 2003, 73 min)

To Be Seen

(Alice Arnold, USA, 2005, 30 min)

D21: Special Event: Meeting D

Room:

Graduate Student Organization Meeting

Friday, March 9, 2007 10:15 am - 12:00 noon (Session E)

E1: Documentary Encounters in the War Zone

Room:

Chair: Suzanne Gauch (Temple University)

Selmin Kara (Wayne State University), "War Zones and the Cultural Logic of Globalization in Middle East Documentaries"
Joanne Nucho (University of California, Los Angeles), "A Cinema of Traces: Lebanese Artists Re-examine the Real"
Mark Westmoreland (University of Texas, Austin), "Lebanese Video: Deconstructing the Documentary"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

E2: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood: investigating the Work of Contemporary Foreign Filmmakers Overseas

Room:

Chair: Serena Formica (University of Nottingham)

Gérard Kraus (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), "Pol Cruchten, Boys on the Run and its Pan-Atlantic Reception"
Serena Formica (University of Nottingham), "The Four Acts of “Peter Weir/Hollywood” Drama: Exploring the Reasons for Its Success"
Peter Urquhart (University of Nottingham), "Minor National Film Cultures and Hollywood’s Internationalism: Considering Ivan Reitman’s Career"

E3: Radio in the Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Daniel Yezbick (Peninsula College)

David Uskovich (University of Texas, Austin), "Radio-Friendly Paradigm Shifter: The Politics of Student Broadcasting in the 1980s"
David Jenemann (University of Vermont), "The Sound of Sight: The Architecture of Radio Vision"
Shawn VanCour (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Bridging the Cultural Divide: 1920s American Radio and the Popularization of Classical Music"
Joshua Shepperd (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "In-listening: A Husserlian Cognitive Approach to Radio Studies"
Daniel Yezbick (Peninsula College), "The Ear-Minded Audience: Early American Radio Fans and the Remediated Dramas of NBC’s 1929 Hour with Shakespeare"

E4: Cinema and Gaming

Room:

Chair: Adam Lowenstein (University of Pittsburgh)

Adam Lowenstein (University of Pittsburgh), "Cinema, Gaming, Interactivity: Between eXistenZ and Un Chien andalou"
Aubrey Anable (University of Rochester), "'Come Out to Play': The Warriors Video Game, Moral Panic, and the Remaking of the Decaying American City"
Erin Hill (University of California, Los Angeles), "Achievement Time: Chronotopic Interpenetration of Real and Game Time-Space in World of Warcraft"
David Golumbia (University of Virginia), "Games, Codes, and Cultural Studies"

E5: Fabián Bielinsky and Juan Pablo Rebella In Memoriam: New Cinemas in the Southern Cone

Room:

Chair: Catherine Benamou (University of Michigan)

Ana Ros (University of Michigan), "Beyond Three Dudes Wandering in the Neighborhood: 25 Watts and the Challenge of a New Relationship with Time and History"
Tamara Falicov (University of Kansas), "Fabián Bielinsky and Juan Pablo Rebella: Symbols of Newer Trends in Southern Cone Cinema"
Luisela Alvaray (University of New Mexico), "Uruguayan Films in Sight: 25 Watts and Whisky Transcend Aesthetic and National Borders"
Dona Kercher (Assumption College), "Fabián Bielinsky’s Debt to Late Hitchcock"

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

E6: Narratives of National Identity in the Aftermath of U.S. Occupation

Room:

Chair: Edward Chan (Kennesaw State University)
Co-chair: Patricia Ventura (Spelman College)

Jennifer Fay (Michigan State University), "Dead Subjectivity: White Zombie and the Culture of Occupation"
Patricia Ventura (Spelman College), "Gunner Palace, Technologies of Representation, and the War on Terror"
Juhwan Kim (Emory University), "Serving the U.S., Teaching English"
Shana Higgins (University of Redlands), "Constructing the (Post) Colonial Nation: Mi Puerto Rico (1995) and Brincando El Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican (1994)"

E7: Censoring Cinema

Room:

Chair: Tom Kemper (Crossroads School)

Kathy Fuller-Seeley (Georgia State University), "’One Movie a Week for Children:’ The Struggles of the Atlanta Better Films Committee to Control the Child Audience in the 1920s"
Tim Palmer (University of North Carolina, Wilmington), "Blacklist Grey: Emmet Lavery, HUAC, and the Screen Writers’ Guild Witchhunt"
Tom Kemper (Crossroads School), "Viewing Rights & Voting Rights: Censorship, Civil Rights, and Cinema"
Candace Moore (University of California, Los Angeles), "Spy vs. Queer: Cold War TV’s McCarthy-Army Hearings and the Early Queer Press"

E8: Workshop: Developing a Teaching Philosophy: A Tool for Success on the Job Market

Room:

Chair: Michele Torre (University of Southern California)

Workshop Participants:
Manjunath Pendakur (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
Richard Edwards (Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis)
Zhen Zhang (New York University)
Charles Ramirez Berg (University of Texas, Austin)
Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont)

Sponsor: Graduate Student Organization

E9: The National in the Transnational: Ventriloquism in Korean Cinema

Room:

Chair: JungBong Choi (New York University)

Hye Jean Chung (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Historicization of Personal Testimony: The Reclamation of Voice in The Murmuring"
Sangjoon Lee (New York University), "Rewriting ‘Korean National Cinema’ in the Age of Transnational Imaginary: The First Period of Shaw Brothers/Shin Film Co-productions during the 1960s"
Sueyoung Park-Primiano (New York University), "The Roundabout: National Identities in Transnational Korean Culture"
HyunHee Park (University of Chicago), "Between Korea and Japan: On Yoichi Sai’s Cinematic Instability"

E10: French Film Theory

Room:

Chair: Grace An (Oberlin College)

Boaz Hagin (Tel Aviv University), "The Cinematic Thing: Bazin’s ‘Ontology’ and Deleuze’s Critique of the Phenomenology of Film"
Jonathan Haynes, "The French Hitchcock"
Sulgi Lie (Freie Universität Berlin), "Creatural Cinema. On Robert Bresson’s Animal Images"
Grace An (Oberlin College), "’They'll Never Forgive Us For This’: A Brief Film History of Hiroshima Mon Amour"

E11: Rethinking Feminist Film and Media Studies

Room:

Chair: Paula Massood (Brooklyn College/City University of New York)

Heidi Schlipphacke (Old Dominion University), "Big Love: Polygamy and Postfeminist Kinship Models"
Rebecca Sullivan (University of Calgary), "Representing Virginal Sexual Independence in Peyton Place"
Sarah Crymble (University of Michigan), ""Messy Like Life – Not Like TV": Quality Television, Audience Pleasure, and Ambiguity in Sex and the City"
Margaret McFadden (Colby College), "’To Choice’: The Politics of Feminism in The L Word"

E12: Queer(ing) Melodrama

Room:

Chair: Mark Harper (Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis)

Mark Harper (Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis), "The Violent Act of Femininity: Truffaut and the Queer Melodrama"
Hiram Perez (William Paterson University), "Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification"
Sarah Sinwell (Indiana University), "Eight Desiring Bodies Multiplied: Queering Family Melodrama in Todd Solondz’s Palindromes"
Milan Pribisic (Loyola University Chicago), "Not So Brief Encounter: Fassbinder, Melodrama and Queer"

E13: Workshop: SCMS and the Future of Fair Use

Room:

Chair: Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)

Workshop Participants:
Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania)
John Belton (Rutgers University)
Stephen Prince (Virginia Tech)
Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Patricia Aufderheide (American University)

Sponsor: Public Policy Committee

E14: Translating Film/Media Texts Across Language, Culture, and Class

Room:

Chair: Kyle Conway (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Anna Sofia Rossholm (Stockholm University) and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (Örebro University), "Terje Vigen/A Man There Was: Intertitles, Translation and Adaptation in a Swedish and Transnational Context"
Ramona Curry (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "’A Rebel Lion Breaks Out’: (Re)parsing the 1960s U.S. Film Critical Discourse about Dubbing vs. Subtitling"
Kyle Conway (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "’Faut que le Quebec Become Independent’: The Promise and the Pitfalls of Translation in the Public Sphere"

E15: Fathers

Room:

Chair: William Rothman (University of Miami)

Marcia Landy (University of Pittsburgh), "In the Name of Todd Haynes's Fathers"
Christopher Sharrett (Seton Hall University), "Patriarchy, Family, and the Deceit of Bourgeois Life: Haneke’s Caché"
Adrienne L. McLean (University of Texas, Dallas), "Papa, Won’t You Play With Me? Postwar Hollywood and Fan-Magazine Fatherhood"
Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University), "Fathers and Sons in Hollywood’s Araby"

E16: Animation

Room:

Chair: Scott Bukatman (Stanford University)

Scott Bukatman (Stanford University), "The Mystery of the Animator's Hand: McCay and Picasso"
Katherine Lawrie (University of California, Los Angeles), "Abstraction and Aestheticization: The Exorbitant City in Animated Cinema"
Satomi Saito (The University of Iowa), "Between Cinema and Animation: Animeic Reproduction of Reality in Mamoru Oshii"
Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto), "Swing, You Sinners: Vaudeville, the Coming of Sound, and Self-Reflexivity in Early American Animation"

E17: Rethinking Genre I

Room:

Chair: Barbara Brickman (University of West Georgia)

Erika Balsom (Brown University), "'Saving the Image': Scale and Duration in Contemporary Art Cinema"
Dennis Bingham (Indiana University/Purdue University), "Lost in the Mountains: Gorillas in the Mist and the Female Biopic"
Barbara Brickman (Unversity of West Georgia), "Riot in Girls Town: Remaking, Revising, and Redressing the Teenpic"
Derek Kane-Meddock (New York University), "Trash Comes Home: Recycled Genres/Domestic Spaces/John Waters"

E18: Bergson and Film Theory

Room:

Chair: Malcolm Turvey (Sarah Lawrence College)

Jinhee Choi (Yale University/Carleton University), "The Bergsonian Vogue and Epstein’s theory of Photogénie"
Malcolm Turvey (Sarah Lawrence College), "Bergson and Vertov"
Dudley Andrew (Yale University), "The Movies in Sartre's Imagination"

E19: New Approaches to the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Room:

Chair: Christine Sprengler (University of Western Ontario)

Janet Wondra (Roosevelt University), "Hitchcock’s Ejaculatory Endings: Narrativity and the Gendered Pleasures of the Denouement"
Victor Fan (Yale University), "Pathology and Negotiations of Homosexual Tension in Early Hitchcock Cinema"
Christine Sprengler (University of Western Ontario), "Vertigo in the Gallery: Hitchcock and Contemporary Art"

E20: Special Event: Screening E

Room:

A Brief History of Chicago’s Video Date Bank

(Various, Various, Various, 80 min)

[Includes Q and A]

E21: Special Event: Meeting E

Room:

African/African American Caucus Meeting

Friday, March 9, 2007 12:15-1:15 pm (Members Meeting)

Members' Business Meeting

Room:

Friday, March 9, 2007 1:30-3:15 pm (Session F)

F1: On the Ground in Asia and Asia/America: Film Festivals, Community Organizations, and Local Media Production

Room:

Chair: Sudarat Musikawong (Arizona State/University of California, Santa Cruz)

Tammy Robinson (San Francisco Art Institute), "Cross-circuits"
Chalida Uabumrungjit (Thai Film Foundation), "Short on the Move: The History of Thai Short Films and Video Festivals"
Sudarat Musikawong (Arizona State/University of California, Santa Cruz), "On the Ground in Los Angeles: Asian/American Community Based Media Production"

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

F2: Disability and Film: Representation, Ideology, and Non-Normate Bodies

Room:

Chair: Russell Meeuf (University of Oregon)

Raphael Raphael (University of Oregon), "Staring at Beautiful Monsters: Freakshow Spectatorship, Film and the Grotesque Body"
Russell Meeuf (University of Oregon), "John Wayne as “Supercrip”: Disability, Masculinity, and Demobilization in The Wings of Eagles"
Kathleen LeBesco (Marymount Manhattan College), "For Whose Good? Disability and the Politics of Contemporary Euthanasia Films"
David Mitchell (University of Illinois) and Sharon Snyder (University of Illinois, Chicago), "’How Do We Get All of These Disabilities in Here?': Disability Film Festivals and the Politics of Atypicals"

F3: Andy Warhol

Room:

Chair: Leanne Gilbertson (University of Rochester)

Carlos Kase (University of Southern California), "Psychodrama at the Chelsea: Andy Warhol and the Cinema of Provocation"
Leanne Gilbertson (University of Rochester), "Moving Time: Performing Intimacy Queerly on Screen in Stage at Warhol’s Factory and Judson Memorial Church"
John Lay (University of North Texas), "Desperate, Dangerous, and Homosexual: Cinematic Representations of the Male Prostitute as Fallen Angels in Andy Warhol's My Hustler and Richard Stockton's The Meatrack"
David Resha (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "The Art of Interrogation: Andy Warhol, 1965"

F4: Workshop: “Screen Decades: American Cinema and the 1910s”

Room:

Chair: Ben Singer (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Co-chair: Charlie Keil (University of Toronto)

Workshop Participants:
Rob King (University of Michigan)
Lee Grieveson (University College London)
Richard Abel (University of Michigan)
Scott Simmon (University of California, Davis)

F5: Videogame Mechanics: The Structural Components of a New Medium

Room:

Chair: Robert Buerkle (University of Southern California)
Co-chair: Christopher Hanson (University of Southern California)

Robert Buerkle (University of Southern California), "Threshold Bodies: A Primer on Avatars"
Zach Whalen (University of Florida), "Heads-Up Display, Text, and the Videogame Interface"
David Parisi (New York University), "Gamic Touch: The Haptic Semiotics of Force Feedback"
Christopher Hanson (University of Southern California), "Time After Time, Space After Space: Replay in Video Games"

F6: European Art and Popular Cinema

Room:

Chair: Ian Olney (York College of Pennsylvania)

John Fawell (Boston University), "Artiste and Artisan: Bresson, Tarkovsky and the Classic Hollywood Film"
Ian Olney (York College of Pennsylvania), "Making Trouble Every Day: From Euro-trash to a Cinema of Abjection"
Romaric Vinet-Kammerer (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), "Defamiliarized Postmodernity. Depopulated American Cities in 1970s European Cinema"
Olof Hedling (Lund University), "Don’t Interrupt My Movie! – On Intellectual Property Rights as an Impediment for the Expansion of European Cinema"

F7: Institutions and Counter-institutions: The Circulation of Images and the Creation of a Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Dan Leopard (Saint Mary's College of California)

Mariana Baltar (Universidade Federal Fluminense), "Public Images, Private Memories"
Alice Lovejoy (Yale University), "Film Exchanges and the Idea of the Nation in Communist Czechoslovakia"
Noah Shenker (University of Southern California), "The Holocaust Museum as Affective Community: The Circulation of Survivor Testimony and the Public Sphere"
Dan Leopard (Saint Mary's College of California), "Mobilizing Affect: Agency, Emotion, and the Politics of Interactivity in Military New Media"

F8: Auteurs and Border-crossings in Middle East Cinemas

Room:

Chair: Dorit Naaman (Queen's University)

Shuli Chen (University of Washington), "Filmic Indeterminacy, Aesthetic Reflexivity: Junkspace in Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry"
Gayatri Devi (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania), "The Border and the Cave: Sight and Sound in The Wind Will Carry Us"
Chris Lippard (University of Utah), "Reconfiguring Alliances: Constructing Alternative Identities in Chahine’s The Other"
Janice Morris (University of British Columbia), "’That’s What I Need to Believe’: Atom Egoyan’s Ararat and the Heuristic Potential of Diaspora"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

F9: Sports in the Media

Room:

Chair: Jean O'Reilly (University of Connecticut)

Jean O'Reilly (University of Connecticut), "The Women’s Sports Film as Family Melodrama"
Thomas Oates (Penn State University, New Kensington), "’Win or Lose Like a Man’: Race, Gender, and Hierarchy in Any Given Sunday"
Margaret Duncan (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Body Status and Discourse in Televised Sport"

F10: Rethinking Genre II

Room:

Chair: Joseph Schaub (College of Notre Dame)

Joseph Schaub (College of Notre Dame), "When Cute Becomes Scary: Images of the Young Female in Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema"
Rebecca Gordon (Reed College), “’It’s a New System. I Wanted Us All to Discover It’: Crafting a Post-Feminist Horror Mythology in The Descent"
Donald LaCoss (University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse), "A Fistful of Fanon: Postcolonial Politics & the Spaghetti Western"
Jeff P. Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Film and the Musical Analogy: Rethinking an Old Theoretical Concept"

F11: Rethinking Early Cinema

Room:

Chair: Thomas Slater (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Anne Morey (Texas A&M University), "The Late Silent/Early Sound Circus Film—A Forum for the Exploration of Genre"
Devan Goldstein (University of Pittsburgh), "Bodies at Rest, Bodies in Motion: The Early Cinematic Corpse as Agent of Attraction"
Michael Hammond (University of Southampton), "Women Write the War: Women Scenario and Scriptwriters and the Hollywood Great War Film 1920-1930"
Thomas Slater (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), "The Vision and the Struggle: June Mathis's Work on Ben-Hur"

F12: Workshop: Does Media Policy Matter?

Room:

Chair: Allen Larson (Penn State University)

Workshop Participants:
Steven Classen (California State University, Los Angeles)
Cynthia Chris (College of Staten Island/CUNY)
Steve Macek (North Central College)
Yeidy Rivero (Indiana University, Bloomington)
John McMurria (DePaul University)

F13: Film and the Brass Section: Trumpters, Divas, and the Cavalry

Room:

Chair: Kathryn Kalinak (Rhode Island College)

Krin Gabbard (State University of New York, Stony Brook), "Regendering the Trumpet"
Caryl Flinn (University of Arizona), "Ethel Merman: Gabriel’s Trumpet"
Kathryn Kalinak (Rhode Island College), "Trumpeting John Ford: Men, Music, and Masculinity in the Cavalry Trilogy"
Respondent:: David Lugowski (Manhattanville College)

F14: Black Images in Television

Room:

Chair: Eric Pierson (University of San Diego)

Aniko Bodroghkozy (University of Virginia), "Televising Civil Rights in 1963: The Movement as Media Event"
Racquel Gates (Northwestern University), "Knitting and Etiquette and Bible Study- Oh My!Whiteness and Whiteface on FX’s Black.White"
TreaAndrea Russworm (University of Chicago), "Hey, Hey, Hey!‚: Fat Albert, Black Omnipotence, and the Politics of Cultural Mirroring"
Juanita Anderson (Wayne State University), "Beauty, Hip-Hop and Soul: Mainstreaming Blackness on Reality TV"
Jonathan Cohn (University of California, Los Angeles), "What is Lost and Gained in Racial Differance: Postponing the Answer to the Race Question Ad Infinitum"

Sponsor: African/African American Caucus

F15: Reinvestigating Slow Motion

Room:

Chair: Eivind Røssaak (University of Oslo)

Trond Lundemo (University of Stockholm), "A Temporal Perspective: Jean Epstein’s Theory of Movement in Cinema"
Christa Blümlinger (University of Sorbonne Nouvelle), "Series of Standstills and Logics of Interruption"
Kjetil Jakobsen (University of Bergen), "Film as Observing System"
Eivind Røssaak (University of Oslo), "Between the Still and the Moving: Bill Viola’s The Passions"
Respondent:: Mary Ann Doane (Brown University)

F16: Godard: A Retrospection

Room:

Chair: Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit (Bordeaux 3)

Daniel Morgan (University of Chicago), "Nature, History, and Cinema in Godard’s Late Work"
Michael Walsh (University of Hartford), "Godard’s Politics"
Maureen Turim (University of Florida), "Abject Voyages towards the Sublime"
Christopher Pavsek (Simon Fraser University), ""As the Shades of Night Gather": Alphaville, AllemagneNeuf Zero, and Cinematic Historiography in Godard"

Sponsor: French and Francophone Scholarly Interest Group

F17: Korean Media and the Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Jihoon Kim (New York University)

Eun Ha Oh (Southern Illinois University), "Alternative Media in Korean Public Sphere"
Jihoon Kim (New York University), "The ‘RIS’ of the Real in Contemporary Transnational Korean Cinema: Imaging the Nation and the Empire in Joon-ho Bong’s The Host"
Eunsun Cho (University of Southern California), "Park Chan-Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy and Transnational Korean Cinema"

F18: Law & Order: Representing Justice on Television

Room:

Chair: Hilary Radner (University of Otago)

Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Branding Law & Order: Televisual Neo-Noir and the Hyperrealism Aesthetic"
Hilary Radner (University of Otago), "The Just Man: Enforcing the Law in the 21st Century"
Janet Staiger (University of Texas, Austin), "The Law & Order of Television Genres"
Respondent:: Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona)

F19: Star Studies I

Room:

Chair: Kirsten Pullen (University of Calgary)

Heather Addison (Western Michigan University), "’Chop-Socky(ing)’ from Beyond: Bruce Lee and the Hollywood Hereafter"
Kirsten Pullen (University of Calgary), "More than a Mermaid: Esther Williams, Performance, and the Body"
Gheorghita Tres (Oakland University), "Struggling Hypermasculinity: The Films of Javier Bardem"

F20: Special Event: Screening F

Room:

Mixed Greens

(Michelle Citron, USA, 2004, 90 min)

Sponsor: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered/Queer Caucus

F21: Special Event: Meeting F

Room:

Friday, March 9, 2007 3:30-5:15 pm (Session G)

G1: Playing the War on Terror

Room:

Chair: Matthew Payne (University of Texas, Austin)

Nina Huntemann (Suffolk University), "Playing with Fear: Catharsis and Resistance in Military-Themed Video Games"
Helga Tawil Souri (New York University), "From the Enemy’s Perspective: An Analysis of Pro-Arab Video Games"
Matthew Payne (University of Texas, Austin), "Field Generals of the Military-Entertainment Complex: The Video Game Producer as a New Media Cultural Broker"
Joshua Smicker (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Future Combat, Combating Futures: Digital War Games and the Performance of Proleptic Histories"

G2: Documentary and the Archive: Temporality, Restoration, and the Construction of Historical Memory

Room:

Chair: Jaimie Baron (University of California, Los Angeles)

Oyvind Vagnes (University of Bergen), "‘A Collector’s Item For All Americans’: The Contested History of Zapruder’s Footage"
Ilona Hongisto (Turku University), "Temporality, Materiality and the Documentary Image"
Steven Ricci (University of California, Los Angeles), "Saving or Rebuilding: An Archival Reconstruction of a World That Never Was"
Jaimie Baron (University of California, Los Angeles), "Contemporary Documentary and ‘Archive Fever’: History, the Fragment, the Joke"

G3: Video Game Theory and Practice

Room:

Chair: Mark J. P. Wolf (Concordia University Wisconsin)

Mark J. P. Wolf (Concordia University Wisconsin), "Arcade Video Games of the 1980s"
P. Konrad Budziszewski (Indiana University), "When New Media Get Old: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in the Retrogaming Movement"
Vered Pnueli (Brunel University), "’Latte Power-ups and Customized Wardrobes’: Challenging Action Norms in the Convergence of Girls’ TV Shows and Online Games"
Suzanne Scott (University of Southern California), "Navigating the Fantasy Kingdom: Mapping Meaning in Kingdom Hearts"

G4: Workshop: State/Antistate/Media Practices

Room:

Chair: Philip Rosen (Brown University)

Workshop Participants:
Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University)
Thomas Keenan (Bard College)
Wendy Chun (Brown University)
Philip Rosen (Brown University)

G5: Beyond Indexicality: Italian Cinema’s Landscapes and Bodies

Room:

Chair: Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan)
Co-chair: Jacqueline Reich (State University of New York, Stony Brook)

Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan), "National (and Racial) Landscapes and the Photographic Form"
Jacqueline Reich (State University of New York, Stony Brook), "Framing the Muscular Body: Classical Imagery and the Strong Men of Italian Silent Cinema"
Maurizio Viano (Wellesley College), "Ferreri’s Rembrandt"

G6: In a Man’s World: Working Women and the City in Classical Hollywood Film

Room:

Chair: Philippa Gates (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Bita Mahdaviani (McGill University), "The Emotional Life of Modernist Design: Women in the Office Melodramas of Pre-Code Hollywood"
Philippa Gates (Wilfrid Laurier University), "Sob Sisters in the City: Women, Surveillance, and Urban Space in Depression-Era Hollywood Film"
Robert Miklitsch (Ohio University), "Sound Scape, Sound Space: Jive, Hepcats, and the Tutti-Frutti-Hat in Phantom Lady"
Hilary-Anne Hallett (Rutgers University), "The Rise and Fall of the Classical Hollywood Actress"

G7: American Independent Cinema

Room:

Chair: Michael Newman (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Drew Morton (University of California, Los Angeles), "Twin Cinema: The False Binary Of ‘Hollywood’ and ‘Independent’ Explored within the Films Of Steven Soderbergh"
Lisa Dombrowski (Wesleyan University), "Indie Ups and Downs: Historical Cycles of Independent Production"
Bradley Schauer (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Scary Movies, Spy Kids, and Christopher Lambert: The Production Strategies of Dimension Films, 1992-2005"
Michael Newman (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Indie Culture: In Pursuit of the Authentic Autonomous Alternative"

G8: Historical Trajectories in Cross-Border East Asian Cinemas

Room:

Chair: Hyung-Sook Lee (University of Southern California)
Co-chair: Stephanie DeBoer (SSRC/Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo)

Dong Hoon Kim (University of Southern California), "Benshi across the Borders:Benshi and Byonsa in Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule"
Charles Leary (New York University), "The Didactics of Cathay Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity"
Hyung-Sook Lee (University of Southern California), "Transnational Filmmaking and Oscillating Names: The Case of Chung Chang-Wha"
Stephanie DeBoer (SSRC/Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo), "Asian Beat: Omnibus Asia at the Limits of the Link"

G9: Looking Relations and the Age of Multiculturalism: Native Media in the Americas

Room:

Chair: Freya Schiwy (University of California, Riverside)

Freya Schiwy (University of California, Riverside), "Selling Out? Indigenous Media, Ayni, and the Global Market"
Beverly Singer (University of New Mexico), "A Film Trust for Natives"
Michelle H. Raheja (University of California, Riverside), "It Starts with a Whisper: Indigenous Film and Humor as Decolonizing Feminist Methodologies"

G10: Film Dialectics

Room:

Chair: Brent Keever (Centre parisien d'éudes critiques, CIEE)

Matthew Tierney (Brown University), "On Loving and No Longer Loving the Cinema: Drive, Politics, Film Theory"
Zoran Samardzija (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "The Frankfurt School Revisited: Anachronisms and the Post-Communist Public Sphere in Jan Svankmajer’s Lunacy"
Larson Powell (Texas A&M University), "Bordwell and Habermas: Theory in the Public Sphere?"

G11: Globalization and Transnationalism

Room:

Chair: Jeongsuk Joo (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Jeongsuk Joo (State University of New York, Buffalo), "Foreign is No Longer Foreign: The Globalization of Hollywood"
Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University, Turkey), "Global Hollywood, Global Talent: Positioning ‘Foreign’ Directors in New Hollywood"
Lisa Lynch (Catholic University), "Radation, A Slow Death, War And Peace, and the Globalization of Radiation Danger"
Steve Spence (Clayton State University), "Moving Images: Cultural Globalization and the Civil Rights Movement"

G12: Special Effects: Digital/Optical

Room:

Chair: Julie Turnock (University of Chicago)

Julie Turnock (University of Chicago), "Special Effects’ Lost Years: Independent Optical, Title and Effects Houses in the early 1970s"
Paul Malcolm (University of California, Los Angeles), "Slow Dissolve: The Optical Printer, Technological Change and Craft Identity in Hollywood Visual Effects Production"
Tanine Allison (University of Pittsburgh), "More than a Man in a Monkey Suit: Andy Serkis, Motion Capture, and Digital Realism"
Ted Kafala (Manhattan College), "Cinematic Visual Effects: The Conflict and Play between Cartesian Perspective and Synaesthesia [An Art Historical Approach]"
Respondent:: Scott Bukatman (Stanford University)

G13: Mexican Cinema of the 1970s

Room:

Chair: David Cook (Emory University)

Kerry Hegarty (Miami University of Ohio), "Canoa (1975) and the Displacement of Government Guilt in post-1968 Mexico"
Evan Lieberman (Emory University), "Sex, Sharks and Tequila: The Anxiety of a Mexican Tourist Economy in René Cardona Jr.’s Tintorera"
David Cook (Emory University), "Transgressing the Borders: The Imaginary Mexico of Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

G14: Unruly Signifiers/Cult Television

Room:

Chair: Ina Hark (University of South Carolina)

Ina Hark (University of South Carolina), "’I've Been Dead Before’: 40 Years Out, Is Star Trek Obsolete?"
David Sidore (Macon State College), "The Gods (and Their Followers) Must Be Crazy: How Religion is Deployed in 1990s Television"
Mary Wilson (University of Southern California), "Soap Fans as Historians: How Fans Are Preserving Soaps’ Narrative History Through Private Archiving"
Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona), "Fireworks in Film & Television: Making Meaning with Unruly Signifiers"

G15: Brokeback Mountain: Genre, Gender, and Reception

Room:

Chair: Steven Cohan (Syracuse University)

Harry Benshoff (University of North Texas), "Brokering Brokeback Mountain: A Local Reception Study"
Steven Cohan (Syracuse University), "The Gay Cowboy Movie: Queer Masculinity on Brokeback Mountain"
Alexander Doty (Lehigh University), "Brokeback Mountain as Melodrama"
Respondent:: Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University)

Sponsor: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered/Queer Caucus

G16: Workshop: What Journals Want: Publishing Television and Media Scholarship

Room:

Chair: Amanda Lotz (University of Michigan)

Workshop Participants:
Steve Jones (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Jon Lewis (Oregon State University)
Lisa McLaughlin (Miami University, Ohio)
Toby Miller (University of California, Riverside)
Paddy Scannell (University of Michigan)

Sponsors: Television Studies Interest Group, Graduate Student Organization, Cinema Journal

G17: Animation in the Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Suzanne Buchan (University College for the Creative Arts)

Steve Fore (City University of Hong Kong), "Notes on the Archaeology of Computer Animation: Vanderbeek and Knowlton in the Realm of ‘Art and Technology’"
Suzanne Buchan (University College for the Creative Arts), "Between Artifact and Moving Image: Traditional and Digital Animation in Museums and Galleries"
Patrik Sjöberg (Karlstad University), "Viewing the Absent - Remarks on Forensic Animation Film"
Kia Afra (Brown University), "What if Dinosaurs Never Walked the Earth?—CGI and the Aesthetics of Computerization in Live-Action Cinema of the Early 1980s"

G18: The Cinematic Life of Objects

Room:

Chair: Andrey Gordienko (University of California, Los Angeles)
Co-chair: Agustin Zarzosa (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania)

Agustin Zarzosa (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania), "Money and the Melodrama of Exchange"
Vivian Sobchack (University of California, Los Angeles), "Chasing The Maltese Falcon: On the Fabrications of a Movie Prop"
Amelie Hastie (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Making Sense at the Movies: Popcorn, Beer, and Red Vines"
Andrey Gordienko (University of California, Los Angeles), "Dalí in Wonderland: The Surrealist Object in Jan Svankmajer’s Alice"

G19: Pornography Studies I

Room:

Chair: Karen Hall (Ithaca College)

David Andrews (Independent Scholar), "Does Porn Need Sex, or is S-e-x Enough? Toward an Analytic Definition of Pornography"
Katrien Jacobs (City University of Hong Kong) and Chantal Zakari (School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), "Soft Arousal Latex Party: Web Affairs and Pornification in The Twilight Zone"
Young Eun Chae (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Visualizing Female Pleasure on the World Wide Web: Internet Pornography in South Korea, Japan, and the United States"
Karen Hall (Ithaca College), "Covering the Iraq Netwar: War Pornography and the Occupation in Public Space"

G20: Special Event: Screening G

Room:

Still Life

(Cynthia Madansky, USA, 2004, 15 min, DVD)

The PSA Project

(Cynthia Madansky, USA, 2005, 21 min, DVD)

Sponsor: The Middle East Caucus

G21: Special Event: Meeting G

Room:

French and Francophone Scholarly Interest Group Meeting

Friday, March 9, 2007 5:30-7:15 pm (Session H)

H1: When Media Forms Collide: Popular Music and the Disruption of Film and Television Genre

Room:

Chair: Kyle Barnett (Bellarmine University)

Benjamin Aslinger (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Looking for the Real Rufus and the Music of Merritt: Queering Musical Travel"
Erica Bochanty (University of California), "Special Musical Episodes on Television: Cross-Genre Wanderings from Chicago Hope to Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Norma Coates (University of Western Ontario), "Fluxing Up The Mike Douglas Show: Yoko Ono's Feminist Performance Art and Music on The Mike Douglas Show"
Kyle Barnett (Bellarmine University), "Iggy Does Dinah!: The Politics of Musical Performance on TV Talk Shows"

H2: Race on Television

Room:

Chair: Jeffrey Middents (American University)

Karen Beavers (University of Southern California), "Blacks In Motion: How Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte used ‘60s television"
Jeffrey Middents (American University), "It’s Not Easy Bein’ Brown: Rita Moreno, Lena Horne and The Muppet Show"
Elspeth Kydd (University of the West of England), "’Stained’: Wentworth Miller/Michael Scofield, Racial Embodiment and Performance in Prison Bread"
Brenda Weber (Indiana University), "’Perception is Kind of Everything, Man.’ Making Over the Black Male Body on Reality TV"

H3: Rethinking Film Noir

Room:

Chair: Jesse Schlotterbeck (University of Iowa)

Karen Williams (New York University/ Fordham University), "A History of Violence: White Masculinity and the American Paranoid Gothic in Film Noir"
Jerome Christensen (University of California, Irvine), "Anti-noir: MGM, Battleground, and the Construction of a Postwar Audience"
Jesse Schlotterbeck (University of Iowa), "Killing Noir? – The Voice, the Body, and the Adaptation of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers to Radio"
Hiaw Khim Tan (University of Chicago), "Sound and the Uncertainty of the World in Robert Siodmak's Criss Cross and The Spiral Staircase"

H4: Workshop: What's up with Crash? Race, Pedagogy, and Cinema

Room:

Chair: Sylvia Chong (University of Virginia)

Workshop Participants:
Miriam Petty (Princeton University)
Chris Lippard (University of Utah)
Aaron Magnan-Park (University of Notre Dame)
Ruma Sen (Ramapo College)
Mia Mask (Vassar College)
Gerald Sim (University of Iowa)
Pamela Brown Goodacre (Wayne State University)

Sponsors: Asian/Pacific American Caucus, Middle East Caucus, Caucus on Class, Latino/a Caucus, African/African American Caucus

H5: Identity and Contradiction in Film and Media of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

Room:

Chair: Terri Ginsberg (Ithaca College)

Sobhi Al-Zobaidi (Simon Fraser University), "Palestinian/Israeli Cinematic Encounters and the Production of New Identities"
Helga Tawil Souri (New York University), “Crossroads of Competing Narratives: Trends in Palestinian Filmmaking”
Lori Allen (Harvard University), "Suffering and the Media: A Particular History of Palestinian Nationalism"
Terri Ginsberg (Ithaca College), "Political Aesthetics and the Palestinian Perspective in Still Life"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

H6: Networked Publics

Room:

Chair: Michael Graziano (Northwestern University)

Michael Graziano (Northwestern University), "Screened Space: Cellular Networks and the Narativization of New Technology"
James Tobias (University of California, Riverside), "Ethical Address: Affective Interfaces in Networked Publics"
Josh Jackson (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "’Glom Together’: iTunes and the Intersection between Commerce and Personal Digital Expression"
Tim Anderson (Denison University), "Networking the Scene: What Popular Music Scenes Can Teach Us About ‘New Media’ and ‘Social Networks’"

H7: Asian Cinema: Gender, Sexuality, Nation

Room:

Chair: Arnika Fuhrmann (University of Chicago)

Hoang Tan Nguyen (University of California, Berkeley), "The Politics of Starch: Queer Asian Experimental Video and the Re-education of Desire"
Hyon Joo Murphree (Syracuse University), "The Aesthetics and Politics of the Postcolonial Cinema: The Case of Korean and Taiwanese National Cinema"
Minh-Ha Pham (New York University), "’You May Know Kung Fu, But You're Still a Fairy’: Comic Recuperations of Transpacific Masculinity"
Arnika Fuhrmann (University of Chicago), "Flirting with Death: Contingency, Fantasy, and the Performance of Impossible Intimacies in the Video Work of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook"

H8: African Media Events

Room:

Chair: Olivier Tchouaffe (University of Texas, Austin)

Kristin Skare Orgeret (University of Oslo), "Narrating the New Nation through Celebration. A Tale of Three Presidential Inaugurations and Moment of Nationhood in Post-apartheid South Africa"
Olivier Tchouaffe (University of Texas, Austin), "Cinema and New Indigenous Archives in Africa: Reflecting on Molaade (2004), Hotel Rwanda (2004) and Les Saignantes (2005)"
Raphael Lambert (Tsukuba University), "The Middle-Passage Narrative On Page and On Screen"
Carmela Garritano (University of St. Thomas), "Ghanaian Video Goes Global"

H9: Mobile Imaginations: Intersecting Space, Event and Story

Room:

Chair: Scott Ruston (University of Southern California)

Elizabeth Evans (Royal Holloway, University of London), "The Mobile Television Audience"
HyeRyoung Ok (University of Southern California), "New Screen/Old Contents: The Challenges of Mobile Television in Korea"
Eric Freedman (Florida Atlantic University), "Trauma and the Cellular Imaginary"
Scott Ruston (University of Southern California), "’Dial ‘M’ for ‘Mobisode’: Televisual Narrative on the Mobile Phone"

H10: The Fantastic Avant-garde

Room:

Chair: Janani Subramanian (University of Southern California)

Michele Pierson (King's College London), "Avant-garde vs. Cult: Historical Re-enactment in the films of Bill Morrison, Gustav Deutsch, and Guy Maddin"
Janani Subramanian (University of Southern California), "The Future(s) of Representation: The Fantastic Avant-garde"
Van Kelly (University of Kansas), "Godard's Introspections on Violence and Resistance: The Axiom of the Exception and the Rule, or Montage et Mixage, Ses Beaux Soucis"
Michele Forman (University of Alabama, Birmingham), "“Voyeurizing the Voyeurs”: The Gaze of the Animal and Technological Other in Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil"

H11: The Director's Craft

Room:

Chair: James Morrison (Claremont McKenna College)

James Morrison (Claremont McKenna College), "Todd Haynes in Theory and Practice"
C. Kyle Stevens (University of Pittsburgh), "Acting and Subtext in Mike Nichols' Films"
Michael Meneghetti (University of Iowa), "Feeling Your/self Disintegrate: Martin Scorsese’s Histories"
Nicole Richter (University of Miami), "The Collaborative Authorship of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp"

H12: Spaces of Reception in Early Cinema

Room:

Chair: Carol Donelan (Carleton College)

Amy Shore (State University of New York, Oswego), "Modernizing Rural Reception: The State Fair and Early Cinema"
Carol Donelan (Carleton College), "The ‘Movie Situation’ in Northfield, Minnesota, 1908-1917"
Sabine Haenni (Cornell University), "’A City...Where the Public is Invited’: The 1915 San Francisco World’s Fair and the (Re-)Launching of Hollywood"

H13: Making Cinema Useful in the Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Haidee Wasson (Concordia/Harvard University)

Lee Grieveson (University College London), "Visualizing Citizenship"
Ron Greene (University of Minnesota), "Public Education: The YMCA Motion Picture Bureau and the Modernization of Pastoral Power"
Haidee Wasson (Concordia/Harvard University), "Shaping the Modern Mind: Mobile Movie Theaters, 16mm Projectors and WWII"

H14: Workshop: The Art of Teaching the Business: Media Industries and the Critical Studies Curriculum

Room:

Chair: Alisa Perren (Georgia State University)
Co-chair: Jennifer Holt (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Workshop Participants:
Caroline Frick (University of Texas, Austin)
Toby Miller (University of California, Riverside)
Cynthia Meyers (College of Mount Saint Vincent)
Jennifer Holt (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Alisa Perren (Georgia State University)

H15: Television Interfaces

Room:

Chair: Max Dawson (Northwestern University)

James Bennett (London Metropolitan University), "Windowing the World: The Discursive Formation of Interactive Television in the UK"
Daniel Chamberlain (University of Southern California), "Televisual Interfaces: From Non-places to Media Spaces"
Roberta Pearsonre (University of Nottingham), "Interfacing the Expanded Narrative: Video Games and Character Construction"
Max Dawson (Northwestern University), "Fingering the ‘Digital’: Embodying TV Interfaces"
Respondent:: Tara McPherson (University of Southern California)

Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group

H16: Torn Curtain: Redefining the Cold War Mediascape

Room:

Chair: William Martin (University of Chicago)
Co-chair: Brigitta Wagner (Harvard University)

Brigitta Wagner (Harvard University), "There’s a Place for Us: Cold War Berlin Films and Postwall Revival Culture"
Stefan Soldovieri (University of Toronto), "Adjudicating the Past, Justifying the Present: Legal “Reelism” in the Cinemas of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR"
Lihi Nagler (Sapir Academic College/Tel –Aviv University), "Under Eastern Eyes: East European Filmmakers in Search of West German Vergangenheitsbewältigung"
Mariana Johnson (New York University), "Contact in the No-Contact Zone: Cuban Cinema, the Cold War, and the Politics of Isolation"
Respondent:: Dina Iordanova (University of St. Andrews)

Sponsor: Central/East/South European Interest Group

H17: Gender and French Cinema

Room:

Chair: Brigitte Humbert (Middlebury College)

Tijana Mamula (King's College London), "’An Ethics of Respect for the Irreconcilable’: Matricide, Indexicality and Abstraction in Chantal Akerman’s News from Home and Là-Bas"
Brigitte Humbert (Middlebury College), "Filming France’s Colonial Past on the Way to Political Parité: Women ‘Wearing the Pants’ in Outremer and Indochine"
Nam Lee (University of Southern California), "Re-Representing the Feminine: Agnès Varda's Cinematic Portrait/Self-portrait in Jane B. par Agnès V. and The Gleaners and I"
Mary Wiles (University of Canterbury), "Seductive Doubles: The Contemporary French Cinema of Catherine Breillat and Eric Zonka"

H18: Demonic Media

Room:

Chair: Alexander Galloway (New York University)
Co-chair: Eugene Thacker (Georgia Tech University)

Eugene Thacker (Georgia Tech University), "Towards a Demonology of Swarms; or, 'I Am Legion'"
Alexander Galloway (New York University), "Starcraft, or, Balance"
Wendy Chun (Brown University), "Of Daemons, Wizards and other Interface Beliefs"

H19: Digital Environments

Room:

Chair: Zabet Patterson (University of California, Berkeley)

Gerda Johanna Cammaer (Independent Scholar), "Slug: From Obsolete Fill from the Analogue Film Age to Obscure but Fun Film Experiments in the Digital Age"
Zabet Patterson (University of California, Berkeley), "Collapse into Stillness: Jim Campbell and the Digital Image"
Vinzenz Hediger (Ruhr University Bochum), "The Long Tail Fallacy. Digital Archives, Online Access, and the Future of Film Culture"

H20: Special Event: Screening H

Room:

Playing the News

(Jeff Plunkett/Jigar Mehta, USA, 2005, 20 min)

South of Ten

(Liza Johnson, USA, 2006, 10 min)

Drawings and War: The Testimony of the Children of Uganda
(Daniel Garcia, USA/Uganda, 2006, 32 min)

H21: Special Event: Meeting H

Room:

SPECIAL OFFSITE MEETING 7:30-9:00 pm

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus Meeting

Location: The Minibar (http://minibarchicago.com/index.html), in the center of Boystown, Chicago.

3341 North Halsted, Chicago, IL 60657 (Phone: 773-871-MBAR). Accessible by bus, taxi or walkable from Belmont Station on the Redline “L.”

SPECIAL OFFSITE EVENT

Media Literacy Outreach

Sponsor: African/African American Caucus

Location: TBD

Friday, March 9, 2007 7:30-10:30 pm (Bollywood Reception)

Bollywood Screening and Reception

Room: Location TBD

Saturday, March 10, 2007 8:15-10:00 am (Session I)

I1: Thinking Queer in East Asian Cinema

Room:

Chair: Chia-Chi Wu (National Taiwan Normal University)

Jeeyoung Shin (Amherst College), "More than Meets the Eye: The King and the Clown and the Representation of Homosexuality in Contemporary South Korean Cinema"
Chunchi Wang (University of Southern California), "Formula 17: The Possibility of Mediation"
Jean Ma (Stanford University), "From Flânerie to Cruising: Tsai Ming-liang's Queer Modernity"
Chia-Chi Wu (National Taiwan Normal University), "Queering Chinese Language Cinemas"

I2: Silent to Sound in French Cinema

Room:

Chair: Tami Williams (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Laura Spear (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Tracing the Criminal Presence in Louis Feuillade’s Belle Epoque Serials"
Chris Robinson (University of Kansas), "The Rooster Changes Its Feathers: The Pathe Bulletins of 1911 and the Succesful ‘Americanization’ of Pathé"
Sarah Keller (University of Chicago), "Poetry as a Model for Cinema: Germaine Dulac and French Critical Thought on Filmmaking in the 1920s"
Colin Roust (University of Michigan), ""Say it with Georges Auric": Apollinaire’s Esprit Nouveau in René Clair’s A Nous, la Liberté!"

I3: Media, Old and New

Room:

Chair: Michele White (Tulane University)

Paul Torre (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), "Will Hollywood’s Big Trucks Clog the Series of Tubes?: Big Media Invades the Internet"
Katarzyna Chmielewska (Indiana University), "Surfing the Net, Spinning the Thaumatrope: Zoe Beloff’s Illusions and Revisions of Media History"
L. S. Kim (University of California, Santa Cruz), "The Revolution Will Be Blogged: YouTube, MySpace, and angryasianman"
Michele White (Tulane University), "When Genitals are Cultural and Viewing Goes ‘Wrong’: Selling ‘Lesbian Interest,’ Butch, and Drag Vintage Photography on eBay"

I4: New Developments in the Contemporary Genre Cinema

Room:

Chair: Anne Gjelsvik (Norwegian University of Science & Technology)
Co-chair: Rikke Schubart (University of Southern Denmark)

Rikke Schubart (University of Southern Denmark), "Daddy Soldier: Generic Change and the Representation of Fatherhood in Savior, Three Kings, and We Were Soldiers"
Anne Gjelsvik (Norwegian University of Science & Technology), "’Old Fathers and New Ways’ – Fatherhood in the Contemporary American Road Movie"
Leger Grindon (Middlebury College), "From the Grotesque to the Ambivalent: Recent Developments in the Romantic Comedy, 1996-2006"
Marimar Azcona-Montoliu (Universidad de Zaragoza), "Love in the Multiple Choice Culture: The Use of Multi-Protagonist Narrative Patterns in Contemporary Romantic Comedies"

I5: Two Worlds Collide: 'Hollywood Memory' and Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

Room:

Chair: Lesley Harbidge (University of Glamorgan)

Steven Rawle (York St. John University), "Reconstructing the Past: Visual Virtuality in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
Lesley Harbidge (University of Glamorgan), "A New Direction in Comedian Comedy?: Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind & the Post-classical Rom-com"
Alan Dodd (University of Aberdeen), "Re-appraising the Performer: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Contemporary Female Stardom"

I6: Radio and Publicness

Room:

Chair: Bill Kirkpatrick (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Jennifer Wang (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "’Programs for Forgotten Women’: Clubwomen, Network Radio, and the Public Sphere"
Alexander Russo (Catholic University of America), "Minority Markets and Segmented Tastes: Radio Redefines Programming in the Public Interest in the Post-War Period"
Kate Lacey (University of Liverpool), "On the Listening Subject and the Subject of Listening in the Public Sphere"
Shane Gunster (Simon Fraser University) and Paul Saurette (University of Ottawa), "Ears Wide Shut: Talk Radio and the Privatization of Political Debate"

I7: Global Economies/Global Publics

Room:

Chair: Enrique Garcia (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Sangita Gopal (University of Oregon), "The NGO Flick: Governing a Global Public"
Ellen Scott (University of Michigan), "Outside the Studios' Shadow: The Production, Censorship and African American Reception of African Americans in Postwar Foreign and Independent Films"
Eleftheria Thanouli (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki), "Mapping the Narration in World Cinema: Towards a New Model of Cinematic Flows"
Enrique Garcia (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "The Convergence of AfroCuban and Communist Exoticism in Benito Zambrano’s Habana Blues"

I8: Global Television

Room:

Chair: Michela Ardizzoni (University of Louisville)

Michela Ardizzoni (University of Louisville), "Neighborhood Television Channels in Italy: The Case of Telestreet"
Bruce Williams (William Paterson University), "The Rich Also Babble: The Short-Circuiting of Meaning in the International Space of the Telenovela"
Paul Rixon (Roehampton University), "Assimilating American Programmes: a British Perspective"
Mark Hayward (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Good Workers: Television Documentary, Migration and the Italian Nation, 1956-1964"

I9: Experimental Filmmaking

Room:

Chair: Jeffrey Menne (Vanderbilt University)

Peter Thomas (University of Sunderland), "As Above, So Below: Competition for U.S. Experimental Film and Video in the UK"
Jeffrey Menne (Vanderbilt University), "Georges Méliès: An Avant-garde or Auteurist Filmmaker?"
Elizabeth Walden (Bryant University), “Animality and ‘Zoemorphism’ in the Animated Films of Daniel Sousa"
Elaine Roth (Indiana University, South Bend), "Sentimental/Experimental: Bodies, Revenue and the Public Sphere"

I10: Workshop: SCMS, Media Literacy, and the Media Reform Movement: How Can SCMS Get More Involved?

Room:

Chair: James Castonguay (Sacred Heart University)

Workshop Participants:
Jeremy Butler (University of Alabama)
Carole Gerster (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Vincent Rocchio (Northeastern University)
Sara Ross (Sacred Heart University)
Juan Devis (University of Southern California)

Sponsor: Media Literacy and Outreach Interest Group

I11: Cinema and the Public Sphere in the State of War: Ideology, Technology, and Resistance

Room:

Chair: Jyotsna Kapur (Southern Illinois University)

Jyotsna Kapur (Southern Illinois University), "Labor against War: The Aesthetics of War and the Repressed Narratives of Labor in Contemporary American Cinema"
Virginia Keller (DePaul University), "’What Do You Call This?’ Picturing Nonviolence and Reframing Palestinian Resistance"
Deborah Tudor (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), "The New American Cinematic Warriors"

I12: The Edge of Montage: Politics and Perception between Tokyo and Shanghai, 1929-1941

Room:

Chair: Chika Kinoshita (University of Western Ontario)

Chika Kinoshita (University of Western Ontario), "Tokyo, 1929-1930: Mass Culture of Agitprop Montage"
Weihong Bao (Ohio State University), "’Transparent Shanghai’: Montage and a Left-Wing Culture of Glass"
Sharon Hayashi (York University), "Montage of Sympathy: The Wartime Documentaries of Kamei Fumio"
Respondent:: William Schaefer (University of California, Berkeley)

I13: Public Relations and Interwar Hollywood: Beyond Censorship

Room:

Chair: Catherine Jurca (California Institute of Technology)

Mark Lynn Anderson (University of Pittsburgh), "Like Nobody’s Business: Investigating Adolph Zukor in the Early 1920s"
Eric Smoodin (University of California, Davis), "’What a Power for Education!’ Hollywood Cinema and the Sites of Learning in the 1930’s"
Catherine Jurca (California Institute of Technology), "Hollywood, 1938: Motion Pictures’ Worst Year"
Respondent:: Kathy Fuller-Seeley (Georgia State University)

I14: Rethinking Film Theory

Room:

Chair: Anne Friedberg (University of Southern California)

Rosalind Galt (University of Iowa), "Pretty, or the Problem of Aesthetics in Film Theory"
Temenuga Trifonova (University of New Brunswick), "Kracauer’s Film Theory: The Aestheticization of Physical Reality"
Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University), "Rotoscoping the Real: From Bazin to Linklater"
Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University), "Time and Philosophy in the Cinema of Redemption"

I15: Workshop: Publishing on Sexually Explicit Materials: Legal and Practical Issues

Room:

Chair: Janet Staiger (University of Texas, Austin)

Workshop Participants:
Ken Wissoker (Duke University Press)
Leslie Mitchner (Rutgers University Press)
Linda Williams (University of California, Berkeley)
Daniel Bernardi (Arizona State University)
Eric Schaefer (Emerson College)
Thomas Waugh (Concordia University)
Peter Lehman (Arizona State University)

I16: Blockbuster Revisionist: New Frontiers in the Films of Peter Jackson

Room:

Chair: Scott Balcerzak (University of Florida)

Barry Keith Grant (Brock University), "Bringing It All Back Home: Peter Jackson’s Films and New Zealand National Cinema"
Jenna Ng (University College London), "Ghosting the Image: Motion Capture and Ontology in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings"
Scott Balcerzak (University of Florida), "Performing Kong: Andy Serkis as Actor and Body in Peter Jackson’s King Kong"
Cynthia Erb (Wayne State University), "King Kong’s Melancholy"


I17: Digital Video and the Documentary

Room:

Chair: Ohad Landesman (New York University)

Bjorn Sorenssen (Norwegian University of Science & Technology), "Digital Video and Alexandre Astruc's Camera Stylo: The New Avant-garde in Documentary Realized?"
Marit Kathryn Corneil (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), "Digital Video Orchids and the ’Ciné-Eye-Ear’: Documentary in the Age of High Definition Home Video"
Ohad Landesman (New York University), "Digital Video and the New 'Hybrid Documentary'"
Christin Dammen (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology), "Computer Generated Images in Documentary"

I18: Televisualizing Blackness

Room:

Chair: John Caldwell (University of California, Los Angeles)

Bambi Haggins (University of Michigan), "In The Wake of ‘The Nigger Pixie’: Dave Chappelle and the High Cost of De Facto Crossover"
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade (University of Arizona), "FUBU: The Declining Significance of Race in Media Ownership?"
Felicia Henderson (University of California, Los Angeles), "Everybody hates UPN: How Everybody Hates Chris Became the 2005-2006 TV Season’s Biggest Comedy Hit on the Least Watched Network"

Sponsor: African/African American Caucus

I19: Star Studies II

Room:

Chair: Angela Dancey (Ohio State University)

Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University), "Passion and Apocalypse, Public and Private: The Agonies of Mel Gibson"
Damian Sutton (Glasgow School of Art), "Form Follows Fiction – Designing Fred and Ginger"
Angela Dancey (Ohio State University), "Film Stardom and the Makeover: Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Julia Roberts and the Contradiction of the ‘Ugly Star’"
Christina Lane (University of Miami), "Viewing Gable and Lombard's Marriage through the Movie Lens: It Happened One Night and My Man Godfrey"

I20: Special Event: Screening I

Room:

The Color of Olives [El Color De Los Olivos]

(Carolina Rivas, Mexico/Palestine, 2006, 97 min)

Sponsors: Middle East Caucus, Latino/a Caucus

I21: Special Event: Meeting I

Room:

Women Film Pioneers Meeting

Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:15 am - 12:00 noon (Session J)

J1: The Face: Physiognomies and Technologies of Representation

Room:

Chair: Carrie Rentschler (McGill University)

Will Straw (McGill University), "Scales of Presence: Bess Flowers and the Hollywood Extra"
Bronwen Wilson (University of British Columbia), "The Early Modern Face: Representation and Resemblance"
Kelly Gates (Queens College-CUNY), "Automated Facial Expression Analysis and the Truth About Lying"
Carrie Rentschler (McGill University), "The Faces of Murder"

J2: Formal Conventions and Textual Relations

Room:

Chair: Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame)

Dan Russek (University of Victoria), "Politics of the Image: Modern Media in the Literary Works of Julio Cortázar and Tomás Eloy Martínez"
Greg Wright (Michigan State University), "Provocative Developments: Photographic Logic and Quantum Uncertainty in the Multiple Forms of The Big Sleep"
Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University), "Effacing Nationality: Hollywood's Adaptation of Contemporary Japanese Films"
Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame), "The Office: An American Success Story"

J3: Cinema and Translation: Technologies, Styles and the Politics of Language Transfer

Room:

Chair: Natasa Durovicova (University of Iowa)

Sheila Skaff (University of Texas, El Paso), "Intertitles and Language Conflict in Bydgoszcz, El Paso and Juarez, 1908-1920"
Charles O'Brien (Carleton University), "Dubbing Technique and Its Stylistic Consequences: The Translation into French of Alfred Hitchcock’s Waltzes from Vienna (1934)"
Joshua First (University of Michigan), "Making Socialist Cinema Multi/National: The Politics of Film Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960-1980"
Mark Nornes (University of Michigan), "Dangerous Liaisons: Traders, Traitors and the Film Festival Network"

J4: Radical Media in Chicago

Room:

Chair: Steve Macek (North Central College)

Jon Bekken (Albright College), "Building a Democratic Communication Sphere: Lessons from Chicago's Immigrant Labor Press"
Angela Aguayo (Eastern Illinois University), "Radical Labor Documentary and Social Change: A Case Study in the Films of the Kartemquin Film Collective"
Larry Duncan (Labor Beat), "Rank-and-File TV: The Politics of Chicago’s Labor Beat"
Judy Hoffman (University of Chicago/Kartemquin Films), "Kartemquin Films and the Making of Political Documentaries"
Tracy Van Slyke (In These Times), "Welcome to the Media Revolution"

Sponsor: Caucus on Class

J5: Sounds and Music

Room:

Chair: Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh)

Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh), "Beyond the Song Sequence: Theorizing Sound in Indian Cinema"
Jessica Miller (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire), "Chanson Populaire in René Clair’s Sous les toits de Paris"
Cory Messenger (Griffith University), "What’s It All About, Allah? East is East, the Pop Soundtrack, and British Youth Film Nostalgia"

J6: Filming German History

Room:

Chair: Stefanie Harris (Northwestern University)

Stefanie Harris (Northwestern University), "The Wonders of Wireless: Karl Hartl’s F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht (1932)"
Daniel H. Wild (University of Pittsburgh), "Reïnscriptions of the Displaced: Writing in Wolfgang Staudte’s Postwar ‘Rubble Films’"
Isabelle Freda (New York University/Free University), "The Marshall Plan Film Unit and Post-war German Identity"
Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Postwar Phantoms: Public Memory and Film in East Germany -- Konrad Wolf’s I was 19 (1968)"

J7: After the Avant-garde: Experiments in the Moving Image from the Austria, the GDR, and the FRG.

Room:

Chair: Randall Halle (University of Pittsburgh)

Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins University), "From Action-Work to Film-Work: Austrian Contributions to contemporary Experimental Cinema"
Randall Halle (University of Pittsburgh), "Tendentious Art and Radical Politics: New Media Experiments in the Moving Image from Etoy Corporation to Social Impact"
Reinhild Steingrover (Eastman School of Music, University at Rochester), "“Blackbox DDR”- Experimental GDR Film beyond the ‘Wende’"

J8: New Approaches to ‘70s Audiences

Room:

Chair: Sarah LaBeau Delahousse (Wayne State University)

Katherine Lehman (University of New Mexico), "The Limits of Liberation: Single Women and Sexuality in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)"
Royanne Smith, "Hurray for Zombiewood: George Romero's Night of the Living Dead Tetralogy and the New Hollywood Era"
Byron Craig (Indiana University, Bloomington), "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: Soundtracks in African American Film as a Source of Pride and Identity"
Sarah LaBeau Delahousse (Wayne State University), "’It’s Alright. It’s Organic’: Ashby’s Harold and Maude, New Hollywood and the Youth Audience"

J9: Workshop: Interactive Documentary and Experimental Media-making

Room:

Chair: Grace Epstein (University of Cincinnati)

Workshop Participants:
Grace Epstein (University of Cincinnati)
Antoinette Larkin (Dublin City University)
Ted Kafala (Manhattan College)

J10: American Geographies/American Screens

Room:

Chair: Susan Courtney (University of South Carolina)
Co-chair: Homay King (Bryn Mawr College)

Gregory Flaxman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "The Geography of Morals"
Susan Courtney (University of South Carolina), "Projecting Region/Imagining Nation: Dredging up the Hollywood Legacy of Tennessee Williams"
Homay King (Bryn Mawr College), "The Shanghai Gesture"
Catherine Zimmer (Pace University), "Mapping the Virtual in Science-Fiction Film"

J11: Russian and Eastern European Cinema

Room:

Chair: Maja Manojlovic (University of California, Los Angeles)

Thomas Odde (University of Florida), "Cinema Is a Health: Bodies Out of Time in Andrey Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice"
Maja Manojlovic (University of California, Los Angeles), "Russian Ark: History and Discontinuity in the Context of Digital Aesthetics"
William Siska (University of Utah), "Spirituality Abounding in Recent Films of Agniezska Holland"
Jasmijn Van Gorp (University of Antwerp), "National Cinema and Film Policy in Russia (1996-2006)"

J12: Brazilian Bodies: Nationality Through Skins, Muscles and Movement

Room:

Chair: Luiz-Felipe Soares (Universidade do Sul de, Santa Catarina)

José Gatti (Universidade Federal de, Sao Carlos), "Strong, Graceful or Miserable: Screen Records of Male Bodies of the 20th century"
Samuel Paiva (Universidade Federal de São Carlos), "Body as a Transcultural Figure: Orson Welles in Brazil"
Luiz-Felipe Soares (Universidade do Sul de, Santa Catarina), "The Miserable, Buffed Up (and Possibly Fascist) Brazilian Body"

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

J13: Technologies of Early Cinema

Room:

Chair: Michael Aronson (University of Oregon)

Amy Borden (University of Pittsburgh), "Marketing Early Cinema Projectors (Through X-Ray Vision)"
Joshua Yumibe (University of Chicago), "Harmonious Sensations of Sounds by Means of Colors: Moving Color Abstractions in Silent Cinema from Francis Jenkins to Loyd Jones"
Michael Aronson (University of Oregon), "Secret Cinematographers: The Hidden Life and Labor of Early Hollywood Cameramen"
Ted Hovet (Western Kentucky University), "The Screen as Frame: Containing the Image in Early Cinema and Beyond"

J14: Performance, Projection, and the Asian Diaspora

Room:

Chair: Peter X Feng (University of Delaware)

Peter X Feng (University of Delaware), "King vs. Chairman, or the Comedy of Extreme Sports: Translating Japanese Television for U.S. Audiences"
Ju Yon Kim (Stanford), "Playing the Part, Burying the Body: Racial Performance and Performativity in Better Luck Tomorrow"
Steven Lee (Stanford), "Viktor Tsoi at Sundance: Soviet Counterculture and the Korean Diaspora"

J15: Workshop: Diversifying Television Theory: Beyond U.S. and UK Contexts

Room:

Chair: Tim Havens (University of Iowa)

Workshop Participants:
Michael Curtin (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Marwan M. Kraidy (American University)
Tim Havens (University of Iowa)
Serra Tinic (University of Alberta)
Shanti Kumar (University of Texas, Austin)

Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group

J16: New Questions in Arab Cinema

Room:

Chair: Ellen Seiter (University of Southern California)

Anne Ciecko (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Jordan’s Film Culture(s) and Questions of National Cinematic Identity"
Suzanne Gauch (Temple University), "Cultural Politics and Recent Tunisian Film"
Robert Lang (University of Hartford), "Sexual Allegories of the Political: Tunisian Cinema since 1986"
Ellen Seiter (University of Southern California), "Viewing Films Across Cultures: Perceptions of Egyptian and American Cinema"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

J17: Interactive/Hybrid Television

Room:

Chair: Patricia Gilbert (The University of Chicago)

Jennifer Gillan (Bentley College), "Hybrid TV: Overflow from Netlets to Networks"
Mark Andrejevic (University of Iowa), "The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!"
Christopher Lucas (University of Texas, Austin), "The End of Craft?: Digital Production, Craft Cultures, and the New Televisuality"
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick (DePauw University), "The Ties That Bind: Networks and Affiliates at the End of Broadcasting"

J18: Proliferating Platforms: Studies in Post-Broadcast Film and TV

Room:

Chair: William Boddy (Baruch College/City University of New York)

William Boddy (Baruch College/City University of New York), "Electronic Cinema and the Confounding of Domestic and Public Reception"
Stephen Groening (University of Minnesota), "’The World as Your Living Room’: Cellular Phones as Mobile Television Platform"
Lucas Hilderbrand (University of Southern California), "Your Site of Shows: YouTube as a Popular Access Medium"
Allen Larson (Penn State University), "Mediating the Super-Consumer: The Case of FX and Nip/Tuck"

J19: Failure Is an Option

Room:

Chair: Jason Landrum (Oklahoma State University)
Co-chair: Scott Krzych (Oklahoma State University)

Ryan Dirks (University of Oregon), "Doubly Perverse: Douglas Sirk, Roland Barthes and the Bliss of Failure"
Jason Landrum (Oklahoma State University), "Hurt. Agony. Pain. Love It.: Prohibition and Enjoyment in the Criminal Profiler Film"
Todd McGowan (University of Vermont), "’Something Is Lost’: The Ethics of Failure in 21 Grams"
Scott Krzych (Oklahoma State University), "They Know Not What They Do: The Failure of Faith in Left Behind"

J20: Special Event: Screening J

Room:

Brother to Brother

(Rodney Evans, USA, 2004, 94min)

Sponsors: African/African American Caucus, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered/Queer Caucus

J21: Special Event: Meeting J

Room:

Media Archives Committee Meeting

Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:15-2:00 pm (Session K)

K1: The South: Publics, Fantasies, Politics

Room:

Chair: Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Publicity, Plasticity and the ‘Southern Gesture’"
Rolando Tolentino (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "Globalizing Poverty and Documentary Film Collectives in the Philippines"
Bishnupriya Ghosh (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Documentary Publics and Activist Icons: Translating the Environmentalism of the Poor"
William Mazzarella (University of Chicago), "The Erotics of E-governance"

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

K2: Rethinking Radio's Public

Room:

Chair: Biswarup Sen (University of Oregon)

Cynthia Conti (New York University), "Low-power FM and Radio’s Local Audience: Attempts to Preserve Localism in U.S. Broadcasting"
Andrea Wenzel, "’Speak with Many Voices’: Inventing a New Radio ‘Public’"
Biswarup Sen (University of Oregon), "All-India FM: Narrowcasting the Local"

K3: Latin American Telenovelas and the Politics of Class, Race, and Gender Identities.

Room:

Chair: Mauro Porto

Jaime Nasser (University of Southern California), "Happily Ever After? Race, Class, Gender and Nationalism in Mexican Cinderella Telenovelas"
Joe Straubhaar (University of Texas), "Challenging the Primacy of the Telenovela as a Cultural Forum in Brazil"
Mauro Porto, "Telenovelas and National Identity in Brazil"
Carolina Acosta-Alzuru (University of Georgia), "Transgressing the Telenovela Beauty Code and Critiquing a National Obsession: The Case of Venezuela’s Ciudad Bendita"
Respondent:: Cristina Venegas (University of California, Santa Barbara)

K4: American Film and the Public Sphere in the 1930s: Production, Regulation, and the Archives

Room:

Chair: Chuck Maland (University of Tennessee)
Co-chair: John Raeburn (University of Iowa)

Chuck Maland (University of Tennessee), "’Did Not Shoot. Mr. Chaplin Resting at Home Following Illness’: The Making of City Lights"
Richard Jewell (University of Southern California), "Two Hollywood Joes: Von Sternberg Shows Breen the Way"
Amy Wood (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Fury, Censorship, and the Politics of Lynching"
Thomas Doherty (Brandeis University), "“Uncensorable Subtlety”: Ernst Lubitsch and the Breen Office"

K5: Women’s Roller Derby Hits the Small Screen: Critical Analyses of A&E’s Rollergirls

Room:

Chair: Mary Kearney (University of Texas, Austin)

Alexis Carreiro (The University of Texas-Austin), "Rollergirls: The Narrative Strategy of Superhero Discourse in Reality Television"
Mary Kearney (University of Texas, Austin), "Melodrama and Televised Sports Reconsidered: The Case of Rollergirls"
Kelly Mendoza (Temple University), "Rollergirls: Skating the Lines of Identity by Embracing Contradiction"
Deanna Shoemaker (Monmouth University), "The Mixed Messages of and Responses to Rollergirls as Reality TV: Spectacular Trash or Feminist Sport?"

Sponsor: Women's Caucus

K6: Authoritarianism, Homoeroticism and the “Dominant” Cinema

Room:

Chair: Daniel Humphrey (Keene State College)

Maria San Filippo (University of California, Los Angeles), "Power Play: Allegories of Class Privilege in Female Bi-sexploitation Films"
Guo-Juin Hong (Duke University), "Theatrics of Cruising: Bath Houses and Movie Houses in Tsai Ming-liang’s Films"
Peter Hobbs (University of Rochester), "Doing Hard Time: the Homoeroticism of Prison"

K7: The Trouble With Alfred: Hitchcock Studies Today

Room:

Chair: John Bruns (College of Charleston)
Co-chair: Ned Schantz (McGill University)

Amy Monaghan (Clemson University), "Female Vocality as Hitchcockian Blot in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)"
Dion Tubrett (York University), "Psycho-babble: The B film, Hitchcock, and the Rationale of Self-destruction"
John Bruns (College of Charleston), "“One Might Call Marnie a Sex Mystery: Hitchcock’s Trailer Games""
Ned Schantz (McGill University), "R is for Hitchcock"

K8: Bringing the War Home: Allegorizing Vietnam in American Film and Television

Room:

Chair: Scott Combs (University of California, Berkeley)

Sylvia Chong (University of Virginia), "The Other Living-Room War: Urban Race Riots as Racial Primal Scene in 1960s Television News"
Franny Nudelman (Carleton University), "Trouble at Home: Documenting War Crimes in Winter Soldier"
Scott Combs (University of California, Berkeley), "The Other Within: Poor Whites and the Purging of American Identity"
Sarah Hagelin (University of Virginia), "Rape in the Uncanny Valley: The Specter of Vietnam in Battlestar Galactica 2003"

K9: Classical Legacies in Contemporary Genres

Room:

Chair: Scott Higgins (Wesleyan University)

Scott Higgins (Wesleyan University), "Cutting to the Chase: Historical Continuities and the ‘Post-Classical’ Action Film"
Sara Ross (Sacred Heart University), "The Domestication of the Romantic Comedy: Genre Hybridization in the Contemporary ‘Chick Flick’"
Ethan de Seife (Wesleyan University), "Rock 'n' Roll Creation: This is Spinal Tap and the Hollywood Musical"
Jonathan Frome (University of Central Florida), "Melodrama and the Psychology of Tears"

K10: Italian Directors

Room:

Chair: Joseph Tompkins (University of Minnesota)

Joseph Tompkins (University of Minnesota), "The Violence of Audio-Vision in Dario Argento's Opera"
Lisa Patti (Cornell University), "Metanational Space, Metanational Cinema: Language and Landscape in Antonioni’s The Passenger"
Peter Brunette (Wake Forest University), "Luchino Visconti as Anti-Realist Opera Queen"
Sam Ishii-Gonzales (New York University and Hunter College), "Pasolini’s ‘Form in Movement,’ or Film as a Structure that Wants to Be Another Structure"

K11: European Cinema in Postwar America

Room:

Chair: Karl Schoonover (Michigan State University)
Co-chair: Chris Cagle (Temple University)

Chris Cagle (Temple University), "The Mature Prestige Film in the Social Field: On the Beach as Europeanized Hollywood"
Karl Schoonover (Michigan State University), "How Italian Neorealism Corrupted American Spectatorship"
Mark Betz (King's College/University of London), "Blow-up: The End"
James Tweedie (University of Washington), "Beach Blanket Belmondo: The New Wave on American Shores"
Respondent:: Barbara Selznick (University of Arizona)

K12: Workshop: Teaching on a Wire: Pedagogies and Information Technologies

Room:

Chair: Matthew Tinkcom (Georgetown University)

Workshop Participants:
James Castonguay (Sacred Heart University)
Peter Limbrick (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Andrew Miller (Sacred Heart University)
Jamie Poster (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Eric Smoodin (University of California, Davis)

Sponsor: Information Technology Committee

K13: Media Theories/Media Practices

Room:

Chair: Sandra Braman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Kenneth Rogers (University of California, Riverside), "From Alternative Broadcast to Tactical Media: Comparative Models of Access and Independent Distribution"
Margaret Flinn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Digitextuality and Convergence in Question"
Josh Heuman (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Creative Industries and/or Cultural Sovereignty: Making Sense of the National Media System in Arguments over Foreign Satellite Signals in Canada"
Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College), "Teaching Media Praxis: Integrating Theory, Production and Politics"

K14: Thinking Through The Image: Benjamin and Film

Room:

Chair: Catherine Russell (Concordia University)

Jodi Brooks (University of New South Wales, Australia), "Slipping into the Break: Film, Time, and the Caesura"
Catherine Russell (Concordia University), "Walter Benjamin, Film Criticism and Historiography"

K15: Faking Life: The Aesthetics and Politics of Documentary Re-enactment

Room:

Chair: Jonathan Kahana (New York University)

Bill Nichols (San Francisco State University), "Performing the Past/Reforming the Present"
Irina Leimbacher (University of California, Berkeley), "Tell and Show: Testimony and Re-enactment in the Production of Documentary Knowledge"
Liza Johnson (Williams College), "South of Ten"
Jonathan Kahana (New York University), "As Themselves: Credits, Credibility and United 93"

K16: Workshop: Incorporating Television and New Media Aesthetics within Introductory Film/Media Studies Courses

Room:

Chair: Kevin Sandler (University of Arizona)

Workshop Participants:
Sarah Childress (Vanderbilt University)
David Crane (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Brian Goldfarb (University of California, San Diego)
Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Frank P. Tomasulo (Florida State University)

Sponsor: Teaching Committee

K17: Comic Books and Culture

Room:

Chair: Benjamin Schneider (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Brad Chisholm (St. Cloud State University), "Colonizing the Comic Book Industry"
James Thompson (University of Southern California/Duke University), "The San Diego Comic-Con: "I'm the Juggernaut, Bitch!""
Jason Zingsheim (Arizona State University), "X-Identity: Mutant Ideologies of the X-Men films"
Bart Beaty (University of Calgary), "Hiding The History of Violence: Role-playing in the Work of David Cronenberg"

K18: Screen Media and the Public Sphere: Vernacular Modernism and the Second Modernity

Room:

Chair: Eileen Jones (Chapman University)

Laurence Knapp (Oakton Community College), "Say Goodbye to the Postclassical: Tony Scott, Man on Fire, and Domino"
Miriam Hansen (University of Chicago), "Pig Sty Alley on a Global Scale: Kung Fu Hustle and Vernacular Modernism"
Eileen Jones (Chapman University), "’A Pirate's Life for Me’: Poaching on Modernity in Pirates of the Caribbean"
Felipe Gutterriez (University of California, Berkeley), "From Metropolis to Paradigm City: Rewriting Modernity in the Digital Age"

K19: Women and Stardom

Room:

Chair: Alison Trope (University of Southern California)

Maureen Larkin (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Fascinating Virgins: Pre-marital Sex Comedies of the 1950s"
Sarah Churchwell (University of East Anglia), "’Minding Her Own Business’: Disavowing the Working Girl’s Desire in Classical Hollywood Romantic Comedy"
Margaret Ervin Bruder (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität), "Bridget's Bottom: The Role of Embarrassment in Mass-Mediated Identity Formation"
Alison Trope (University of Southern California), "Mother Angelina: Conspicuous Philanthropy and Contemporary Stardom"

K20: Special Event: Screening K

Room:

Curated Shorts: Microcinema

(Curator: Jenny Stark, USA, 2006, 75 min)

Buffalo Common

Bill Brown, USA, 2001, 22 min)

Local

(Enid Baxter Blader, USA, 2006, 30 min)

Land Marked/Marquette

(Thomas Comerford, USA, 2005, 23 min)

Happy Crying Nursing Home

(Niklas Sven Vollmer, USA, 2005, 30 min)

K21: Special Event: Meeting K

Room:

Middle East Caucus Meeting

Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:15-4:00 pm (Session L)

L1: Forgotten Histories

Room:

Chair: James Kendrick (Baylor University)

James Kendrick (Baylor University), "Phantom Cinema: Illuminating the Structuring Absences of Film History"
Avi Santo (Old Dominion University), "Transmedia Brand Licensing Prior to Conglomeration: Developing the Lone Ranger Brand, Managing Cross-media Interaction and Cultivating Child Consumers, 1933-1938"
Eric Dewberry (Georgia State University), "Jake Wells: The South’s First Motion Picture Mogul"
Janna Jones (Northern Arizona University), "Reconsidering the 1980s Colorization Conflict and its Impact on Cinematic Heritage"

L2: Subjective Narrative in Film

Room:

Chair: Richard Ness (Western Illinois University)

Richard Ness (Western Illinois University), "Projectile Dysfunction: Persona, Fight Club and the Unstable ‘Frame’ of Mind"
Charles Tryon (Fayetteville State University), "Rebooting the System: Documenting Amnesia in Unknown White Male"
Erik Marshall (Wayne State University), "Just Kidding: Unreliable Narration and Digital Media"

L3: Cinema and the City

Room:

Chair: Elizabeth Affuso (University of Southern California)

Margaret DeRosia (University of Western Ontario), "Millennium Approaches: Re-envisioning New York in Angels in America and Rent"
Vojislava Filipcevic (Columbia University), "New York City Skyline in Documentary and Fiction Films, 1920s-1940s: A Theoretical Contribution to the Visual and Narrative Reinvention of Cinematic Space"
Elizabeth Affuso (University of Southern California), "The New Town, The Old Ways: Representations of New Urbanism in The Truman Show"
Kevin Flanagan (Independent Scholar), "Alex Cox’s Three Businessmen: Transnational Anxieties in the Postmodern City"

L4: Indian Cinema in the Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Carol Vernallis (Wayne State University)

Jyotika Virdi (University of Windsor), "Deewar/Wall (1975)—Fact, Fiction, and the Making of a Superstar"
Robert Silberman (University of Minnesota), "Buddhadeb Dasgupta's The Wrestlers and the Landscape of Conflict"
Manishita Dass (University of Michigan), "The Dream Life of Modernity: Debating Cinema's Impact in 1920s India"
Carol Vernallis (Wayne State University), "Cinematography, Song and Gesture in the Musical Sequences of Mani Ratnam's Dil Se: A Hybridization of Hindi Cinematic and American Music Video Practices"

L5: Conversations About Race and Identity

Room:

Chair: Laura Beadling (Purdue University)

Laura Beadling (Purdue University), "Editing Trauma in the Everpresent Past: Filmic Techniques in John Sayles’s Lone Star"
Carole Gerster (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Crash, Black.White, Survivors: Cinematic Summons to a National Conversation on Race/Ethnicity"
Gloria Monti (California State University, Fullerton), "Going Places: Rethinking Racial Identities"
John Shields (Norwalk Community College), "Half Nelson: Requiem for Liberal Idealism"

L6: Cinema Without Film

Room:

Chair: Nadja Rottner (Columbia University)

Pavle Levi (Stanford University), "Cinema by Other Means"
Nadja Rottner (Columbia University), "Claes Oldenburg's Moveyhouse: A Black and White Expandsymaganza"
Nora Alter (University of Florida), "Sounds without Images"
Siona Wilson (College of Staten Island/CUNY), "Cleaning Warhol’s Factory: Mary Kelly’s (Unrealized) Durational Film"

L7: Desire and the Televisual

Room:

Chair: Aviva Dove-Viebahn (University of Rochester)

Kristyn Gorton (Leeds Metropolitan University), "Televisual Desire"
Jules Odendahl-James (Duke University), "’I Like to Watch’: The CSI Æffect"
Aviva Dove-Viebahn (University of Rochester), "Looking for Pleasure: Desire, Community and the Televisual Gaze in Sex and the City"

L8: Gender and Embodiment in Early Cinema

Room:

Chair: Jonna Eagle (Duke University)

Sue Collins (New York University), "Performing Cultural Citizenship: Stardom in the U.S. Propaganda Campaign of WWI and Its Recruitment as a Source of Political Authority and Mechanism of Governance in the Public Sphere"
Lisa Fehsenfeld (New York University), "20th Century Nexus: The Gender and Technical duality of Lois Weber and Philips Smalley's Suspense"
April Miller (University of Rochester), "The Fallen Woman and the Silent Soapbox: Defending and Defaming the Female Offender in Dorothy Davenport Reid’s The Red Kimona"
Jonna Eagle (Duke University), "Western Attractions: Gender, Authenticity, and Embodiment in the Early Cinema"

L9: Birth of a Nation Reconsidered

Room:

Chair: Peter Paik (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Ruth D. Johnston (Pace University), "The Construction of Whiteness in Birth of a Nation and The Jazz Singer"
Paul McEwan (Muhlenberg College), "A Controversy Deferred: French Critical Reception of The Birth of a Nation in 1923"
Ora Gelley (Tulane University), "Race and Gender in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915): Patterns of Narration and Vision"

L10: Transnational Remakes

Room:

Chair: Daniel Herbert (University of Southern California)

Constantine Verevis (Monash University), "Re-defining the Sequel: The Living Dead trilogy and Its Cross-cultural Transactions"
Daniel Herbert (University of Southern California), "Remaking Film (and) History: Peter Tscherkassky's Transformational Cinema"
Lucy Mazdon (University of Southampton), "Transnational Cinematic Traffic and the Remake"

L11: Whiteness, Christmas, Doris Day: God’s Country, the 1950s

Room:

Chair: Linda Mizejewski (Ohio State University)

Linda Mizejewski (Ohio State University), "I’m Dreaming of a White, Straight Couple: White Christmas"
Rifat Siddiqui (University of East Anglia), "Securing White Femininity: Doris Day in the 1950s"
Carol Stabile (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "White Men Remember the Family: Television, the Blacklist, and Family Values"
Respondent:: Jackie Byars (Wayne State University)

L12: Workshop: TV Guides: A Workshop on TV Research Skills

Room:

Chair: Rebecca Bachman (New York University)

Workshop Participants:
Daniel Berger (The Museum of Broadcast Communications)
Mark Quigley (UCLA, Film & Television Archive)
Irene Taylor (Public Broadcasting Service)
Tom Colley (Video Data Bank, Art Institute of Chicago)
John Lynch (Vanderbilt Television News Archive)

Sponsors: Media Archive Committee, Association of Moving Image Archivists' Archival Interest Group

L13: New Identities: Sexuality and Memory in Egyptian and Turkish Cinema

Room:

Chair: Robert Lang (University of Hartford)

Eda Acara (St. Mary's University, CA & METU, Turkey), "Harem Suare by Pornoscope"
Brian Bergen-Aurand (Uninversity of Illinois, Chicago), "Memory and the ‘Not Yet’: Cyprus, Kurdistan, and the Old City in the Films of Dervis Zaim"
David Giovacchini (Stanford University), "Sex and the Kebab: Images of Sexuality in Contemporary Turkish and Egyptian Film"
Karim Tartoussieh (New York University), "’Clean Cinema’ and the Embodiment of Ambient Piety in Egypt: Stars, Spectators, and Embodiment"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

L14: Workshop: “The Future of Sound Studies”

Room:

Chair: Jay Beck (DePaul University)
Co-chair: Tony Grajeda (University of Central Florida)

Workshop Participants:
Norma Coates (University of Western Ontario)
Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Anahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool)
Jonathan Sterne (McGill University)
Steve Wurtzler (Georgetown University)

Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group

L15: A (re)New(ed) French Cinema of Tricolor: Beur, Blanc, Black, Pt. 1

Room:

Chair: Mark A. Reid (University of Florida)

Karin Egloff (Western Kentucky University), "Black, Blanc, Beur versus Jambon Beurre. Féroce by Gilles de Maistre"
Carrie Tarr (Kingston University), "Disciplining the Banlieue: Education and (Non-) Integration in Recent French Banlieue Films"
Sylvie Blum-Reid (University of Florida), "Going Home or Geographic Crossing in Contemporary French Cinema"
Catherine Portuges (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "La Petite Jérusalem--a Multicultural Banlieue?"

Sponsors: French and Francophone Scholarly Interest Group, African/African American Caucus

L16: Far From Hollywood: The Emergence of Non-theatrical Film in Chicago and the Midwest

Room:

Chair: Charles Tepperman (University of Chicago)
Co-chair: Theresa Scandiffio (University of Chicago)

Paul S. Moore (Ryerson University), "Chicago Studios and the Reception of Regional Mass Culture, 1907-1915"
Theresa Scandiffio (University of Chicago), "Motion Pictures in Educational Outreach Programs at the Field Museum of Natural History 1912-1925"
Gregory Waller (Indiana University), "Distributing 16mm--the Midwest and Beyond"
Charles Tepperman (University of Chicago), "Chicago: City to See in ‘63"

L17: Closely Watched Comedies: Humor in Eastern European Cinema

Room:

Chair: Lilla Toke (Stony Brook University)

Lilla Toke (Stony Brook University), "How Can You Fuck (with) the System? Sexual and Political Forces in WR: Mysteries of an Organism (1971)"
William Martin (University of Chicago), "Gag Reflex: Stanisław Bareja's Late Film Comedies and Everyday Life in People’s Poland"
Sylvia Kloetzer, "Not a Love Story: East German Film Satire and the DEFA ‘Stacheltier’ Films, 1953-1964"
Malynne Sternstein, "Kinetic Kynosis and the Morning After of Českyý Sen (Czech Dream)"
Respondent:: Zoran Samardzija (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

L18: Web 2.0—Its Social Aspects

Room:

Chair: Julia Lesage (University of Oregon)

Ronald Gregg (Yale University), "Queer Subjectivity, Youth, and Web-based Video on Youtube.com"
Therese Grisham (Independent Scholar), "Flash Mob Filmmaking, Web 2.0, and Public Space/Desire"
Julia Lesage (University of Oregon), "Web 2.0 for SCMS—Blogs and Social Bookmarking"
Paul Hertz (Northwestern University), "Tacticians and Pragmatists: Collaborative Communities on the Internet"

L19: Pornography Studies II

Room:

Chair: Tamao Nakahara (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Savas Arslan (Bahcesehir Universitesi), "Head-On, Head-Off: How Media Covered a Former Porn Actress’s Rise to Stardom"
Julie Russo (Brown University), "Show Me Yours: The Perversion and Politics of Cyber-exhibitionism"
Tamao Nakahara (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Haxor Chixx: Hacker Porn and the Limits of Virtual Representation"
Jennifer Moorman (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Softer Side of Hardcore? Women as Producers and Consumers of Adult Video"

L20: Special Event: Screening L

Room:

Kartemquin Films

Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

(Gordon Quinn and Jerry Blumenthal, USA, 1980, 33 min).

What’s Happening at Local 70

(Judy Hoffman, USA, 1975, 20 min)

The Last Pullman Car

(Gordon Quinn, USA, 1983, 56 min)

Sponsor: Caucus on Class

L21: Special Event: Meeting L

Room:

Latino/a Caucus Meeting



Saturday, March 10, 2007 4:15-6:00 pm (Session M)

M1: Accented Cinemas in the Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Patricia White (Swarthmore College)

Nanna Heidenreich (Humboldt University/University of Trier), "In/Visibilities: the Specter of Migration"
Patricia White (Swarthmore College), "Women's Rights and Global Cinema"
Joshua L. Miller (University of Michigan), "The World ‘Afuera’: Projections of Language Fusion"
Veena Hariharan (University of Southern California), "The Public Sphere in a 'Post-secular' World"

M2: Paradigms of Documentary

Room:

Chair: Nathalie op de Beeck (Illinois State University)

Nathalie op de Beeck (Illinois State University), "Ecology, Empathy, and the Observer: Encounters with the Phantasmagorical Wilderness"
Walter Metz (Montana State University, Bozeman), "Children and Animals: Toward the Re-invention of Science and Natural History Filmmaking"
Kristen Fuhs (University of Southern California), "Crime Scene Analysis and the Construction of Innocence in the Nonfiction Film"
Cynthia Lugo (Brown University), "Proof-Negative: Peter Watkins, The Document, and Historical Reconstruction"

M3: A (re)New(ed) French Cinema of Tricolor: Beur, Blanc, Black II

Room:

Chair: Gerald Butters (Aurora University)

Tonia Edwards (Indiana University), "Bridging the Gap: From the Banlieue film to Caché"
Jun Okada (State University of New York, Geneseo), "History, Lies, and Videotape: Caché (2005)"
Mark A. Reid (University of Florida), "A (re)New(ed) French Cinema of Tricolor: Beur, Blanc, Gay"
Michelle Stewart (State University of New York, Purchase College), "Born in the Banlieue: Rethinking the Terms of Representation in Recent Beur Cinema and Criticism"

Sponsors: African/African American Caucus, French and Francophone Scholarly Interest Group

M4: Productive Censorship: How Hollywood Represents Race, Dames, Apes, and Saints

Room:

Chair: Jans Wager (Utah Valley State College)

William Luhr (Saint Peter's College), "Reprocessing Kong: Censorship, Repression, and Compensatory Strategies"
Sheri Chinen Biesen (Rowan University), "Censorship, Film Noir and World War II--Real Violence, Tough Women and Emigres"
Jans Wager (Utah Valley State College), "Detecting Change in Out of the Past: Film Noir, Racism, and Censorship"
Pamela Grace (City University of New York, Brooklyn College), "Leaving Out the Naughty Bits: Censorship and Saints in American Films"

M5: Workshop: The Crisis in Academic Labor, Part VI: Media Reform and the Academy: Assessing the Media Reform Movement

Room:

Chair: Ruma Sen (Ramapo College)

Workshop Participants:
Mitchell Szczepanczyk (Chicago Media Action)
Patricia Keeton (Ramapo College)
Wazhmah Osman (New York University)
Kelly Dolak (Ramapo College)
Bill Mullen (Purdue University)

Sponsor: Caucus on Class

M6: Constructions of Racial Identity

Room:

Chair: Adam Knee (Ohio University)

Hilaria Loyo (Universidad de Zaragoza), "Blinding Blondes Go West: Whiteness, Star, Genre and Nation in the Early Fifties"
Christine Guzaitis (University of California, San Diego), "Seeing Double: Interracial Desire and Gender Deviance in U.S. Filmic Representations of Post-World War II Japan"
Adam Knee (Ohio University), "White Chicks in a New York Minute: Performing/Transforming White Femininity in Contemporary Hollywood"
Nancy Inouye (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst), "Hollywood’s ‘Yellowface’: The Spectacle of Orientalism in Film Scoring and Performance"

M7: “Extreme” East Asian Cinema and Cult Film Canons

Room:

Chair: Hye Seung Chung (Hamilton College)

Chi-Yun Shin (Sheffield Hallam University), "All in the Name: Tartan Asia Extreme Films"
Hye Seung Chung (Hamilton College), "Hooking the Audience: The Repulsive Attraction of Kim Ki-duk’s Yopgi Cinema"
James Fiumara (University of Pennsylvania), "Narration, Aesthetics, and Torture in Takashi Miike’s Audition"
Ruby Cheung (University of St Andrews), "(De)Territorializing Horror: Domestic Specificities and Transnationalism in Fruit Chan’s Dumplings (2004)"

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

M8: Animation—Film and Media Studies’ ‘Blind Spot’

Room:

Chair: Alan Cholodenko (University of Sydney)

William Schaffer (University of Newcastle Australia), "To Ontology and Beyond: Film Theory in the Face of Animation"
Patrick Crogan (University of Adelaide), "The Reinvention of Movement: Reanimating The Analogico-digital Image"
Alan Cholodenko (University of Sydney), "The Animation of Cinema"

M9: The Front Lines of Identity: Gender Representations in the WWII Military Film

Room:

Chair: Doug Cunningham (University of California, Berkeley)

Robert Eberwein (Oakland University), "Military Drag in Film"
Peter Valenti (Fayetteville State University), "Representations of Gender in the Military: The Problem of the Female Flyer"
Doug Cunningham (University of California, Berkeley), "Military Masculinization en Masse: WWII Air Force Training Films and Group Identity Formation"

M10: The Music of Media Convergence

Room:

Chair: Thomas Doherty (Brandeis University)

Ross Melnick (University of California, Los Angeles), "It's All Playing in Sheboygan: Music and Media Convergence in the 1920s"
Katherine Spring (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "The Effect of Media Convergence on Early Soundtrack Form: The Case of Weary River (1929)"
Paul N. Reinsch (University of Southern California), "Hear Al Jolson, See Larry Parks: Sound and Image Relationships on and Behind the Screen in The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again"
Laurel Westrup (University of California, Los Angeles), "A New Sensation? Network Television, Rock Music, and the Performance of Media Convergence on Rock Star:INXS"

M11: Depression Era America

Room:

Chair: Anna Siomopoulos (Bentley College)

Anna Siomopoulos (Bentley College), "Publicizing Privacy: The New Deal, Mass Media and Hollywood Films of the Depression Era"
Chris Robe (Florida Atlantic University), "Gendered Histories: The Historical Costume Drama, the Bio-Pic, and Depression-Era U.S. Left Film Criticism"
Martin Johnson (New York University), "The Cameraman Has Visited Your Town: Tracing the Path of H. Lee Waters and Other Local Filmmakers in the 1930’s"
Joseph Clark (Brown University), "The News Parade: Spectacle, Sequence and Sense Making in the American Newsreel, 1927-1942"

M12: Cult TV Fan and Consumer Cultures in the Age of Digital Podcasting

Room:

Chair: David Scott Diffrient (Washington University in St. Louis)

Peter Schaefer (University of Iowa), "Accessorize, Modify, Deflect: Mass Customization and the Design of Portable Media Players"
Kimberly Springer (King's College London), "’Make It Work!’ Experts and Amateurs Podcasting Bravo’s Project Runway"
Matthew Paproth, "From Broadcasting to Podcasting: The Metatextual Universe of Veronica Mars"
David Scott Diffrient (Washington University in Louis), "The Gift of Gilmore Girls’ Gab: Fan Podcasts for a Kinder, Gentler Kind of Cult TV Series"
Anna Jonsson, "Aqua Teen Hunger Force: An Unwholesome, Unorthodox Fandom"

M13: Lost in the Future of Television

Room:

Chair: Jonathan Gray (Fordham University)

Will Brooker (Kingston University), "Television Out of Time: Watching Cult Shows On Download"
Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Media Convergence, Narrative Divergence: Lost in the World of Multiplatform Network Storytelling"
Ivan Askwith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "’Do You Even Know Where This Is Going?’: The Questionable Importance of Premeditated Plots in Lost"
Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) and Jonathan Gray (Fordham University), "Can a Good Story Be ‘Spoiled’? Lessons from Lost"

Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group

M14: Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution

Room:

Chair: Elana Levine (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Eric Schaefer (Emerson College), "Sex Seen: 1968 and Rise of ‘Public’ Sex"
Jon Lewis (Oregon State University), "’Presumed Effects of Erotica’: Some Notes on The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (1970)"
Elana Levine (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Love and Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television"
Jacob Smith (University of Nottingham), "Black and Blue Disks"

M15: Celluloid to Cell Phone: Screen Studies and the New Mobile Media

Room:

Chair: Nitin Govil (University of California, San Diego)

Lisa Parks (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Horses, Cell Phones and Gas Masks: Wireless Media in Mongolia"
David Crane (University of California, Santa Cruz), "The Mobilized Other: Paranoid discourse and the Transcultural Subject of Cavite"
Heidi Cooley (University of Southern California), "Proliferating Streams of Thumbnails: Mobile-Imaging and the Biopolitics of Healthful Living"
Nitin Govil (University of California, San Diego), "Mediating Convergence and Crisis in the ‘New’ Mobile Media"

M16: Project Sternberg

Room:

Chair: Janet Bergstrom (University of California, Los Angeles)

Janet Bergstrom (University of California, Los Angeles), "Josef von Sternberg: Salvation Hunter"
Jason Skonieczny (University of California, Los Angeles), "American Lyrical Abstraction: Sternberg in Light of Deleuze"
Andrew Woods (UCLA), "Sternberg at RKO"
Sachiko Mizuno (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Saga of Anatahan and Sternberg in Japan"
Respondent:: Lea Jacobs (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

M17: Early Cinema History

Room:

Chair: Constance Balides (Tulane University)

Katherine Fusco (Vanderbilt University), "Griffith and the Historical Event: Determinism, Sentimentality, and the Limits of Narration"
Constance Balides (Tulane University), "Beyond Context: Sociology and Social Problem Films in the 1910s"
Richard Leskosky (University of Illinois), "Survivals from Cinema's Pre-History"
Cristina Vatulescu (New York University), "Early Cinematic Representations of the Gulag: The Camp as Soviet Exotica"

M18: Workshop: Videophiles and Video Files: The Internet Life of the Moving Image

Room:

Chair: Marsha Orgeron (North Carolina State University)

Workshop Participants:
Dan Streible (New York University)
Michelle Citron (Columbia College)
Devin Orgeron (North Carolina State University)
Alison Trope (University of Southern California)
Meghan Sutherland (Northwestern University)

M19: Spanish Language Cinemas

Room:

Chair: Noelia Saenz (University of Southern California)

Joanne Hershfield (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Allegories of Violence in Contemporary Mexican Cinema: Sin dejar huella and Perfume de Violeta"
Christine Tulley (University of Findlay), "Constructing the Public ‘New Woman’ in 1940s Mexico: The Emancipatory Possibilities of the Cabaretera Genre"
Stacy Schmitt (Georgia State University), "From a Traumatic Past to a Postmodern Consumer Culture: Redefining Spanish Cinema in Terms of the Death Drive"
Noelia Saenz (University of Southern California), "The Absence of Place in a Borderless City: Exploring the Psychic and Transnational Spaces of En La Ciudad Sin Limites"

M20: Special Event: Screening M

Room:

This American Life
(Chris Wilca, USA, 2006, 40 min)

M21: Special Event: Meeting M

Room:

Media Literacy and Outreach Interest Group Meeting

Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:15-8:00 pm (Session N)


N1: Contemporary Challenges to Classical Theory: Revisiting Film Theory’s Past in the 21st Century

Room:

Chair: Jonathan Cavallero (Indiana University - Bloomington)

Edward Chamberlain (Indiana University Bloomington), "On Queering the Caretaker Politic: Reinscriptions of Genre and Identity in Almodóvar's Todo Sobre Mi Madre"
Suzanne Enck-Wanzer (Eastern Illinois University), "Metaphors of Abuse: The Interplicitness of Domestic Violence in Film"
Kevin Hagopian (Penn State University), "Ridiculing the Auteurist Romance: The Competing Discourses of Huntsman v. Soderbergh"
Jonathan Cavallero (Indiana University - Bloomington), "Revisiting Ethnic Representation: Nostalgia and the Politics of the White Ethnic Revival in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and The Godfather Part II"

N2: An American as the Other, a Pole as the Other: A Polish Filmic Perspective

Room:

Chair: Renata Murawska (Macquarie University)

Elzbieta Ostrowska (University of Alberta), "Katarzyna Figura’s Hollywood Journeys of Desire. Transnational Myth vs. National Experience"
Aga Skrodzka-Bates (Stony Brook University), "Anna Acting Out: Reconstruction of East Central European Identity in Exile"
Renata Murawska (Macquarie University), "Foreignness as a Mirror: Visiting America in Polish Comedy"
Respondent:: Marek Haltof (Northern Michigan University)

N3: Imagining the Pacific

Room:

Chair: Houston Wood (Hawaii Pacific University)

Houston Wood (Hawaii Pacific University), "Making the Invisible Visible in the Indigenous Films of Oceania"
Yifen Beus (Brigham Young University, Hawaii), "Still Imagining the Pacific? The Politics of Story-telling and Representation in Alain Corneau’s Le Prince du Pacifique"
Lan Duong (University of California, Riverside), "Spectral Imaginings and National (Be)longings in When the Tenth Month Comes and Spirits"
Jose Capino (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "’American’ Horrors and Philippine Cinema’s Postcolonial Commerce on Blood Island"

N4: The Invention of Media: The Complicated Case of Video Art

Room:

Chair: Arild Fetveit (University of Copenhagen)

Ina Blom (University of Oslo), "Art, Mediation and Biopolitics: What Exactly Was the ‘Medium’ of Early Video Art?"
Susanne Østby Sæther (University of Oslo), "Through a Looking Glass? Mediality and Materiality in Recent Video Art"
Arild Fetveit (University of Copenhagen), "The Task for the Artist: The Invention of a New Medium?"
Liv Hausken (University of Oslo), "The Materiality of Mediation – The Immateriality of Photography"

N5: Issues in Documentary Filmmaking

Room:

Chair: Deirdre Boyle (The New School)

Melissa Zajk (New York University), "My Father, My Self: A Son's Journey to Reclaim the Ties that Bind in My Architect"
Michael Laramee (University of Miami), "Dylan's Cinema/Dylan's Selfhood: Bob Dylan in Film"
Greg Smith (Georgia State University), "Structuring a One-Joke Film: Documentary Narration in The Aristocrats"
Deirdre Boyle (The New School), "The Humane Executioner: The Films of Errol Morris"

N6: Negotiating Masculinity

Room:

Chair: Donte McFadden (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Peter Lehman (Arizona State University) and Susan Hunt (Santa Monica College), "Exposing the Body Guy: The Return of the Repressed in Twentynine Palms"
Siobhan Craig (University of Minnesota), "GI Joke: Parodic Masculinity in Wilder's A Foreign Affair"
Jill Dione (University of Pittsburgh), "The Western and the Tiger in the Gray Flannel Suit: Media Negotiations of Postwar Masculinity"
Andrea Ringenberg (Indiana University), "Black Skin/ White Hats: Early Representations of the African American Cowboy"
Vincent Rocchio (Northeastern University), "Media, Militarism, and Masculinity: Mapping Strategies of Resistance for Peace Activism"

N7: Post-Feminist "Chick" Narratives

Room:

Chair: Michele Schreiber (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Emily Fox-Kales (Northeastern University/Harvard Medical School), "Maternal Mythologies: Recuperating the Non-Maternal Body in Contemporary Media"
Suzanne Leonard (Simmons College), "She Works Too Hard: Postfeminism’s ‘Exploited’ Female Workers"
Deborah Barker (University of Mississippi), "Is Sisterhood Still Powerful?: Filmic Communities of Women in the Postfeminist Era"
Michele Schreiber (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Romance, Postfeminist Ambivalence and the Transmedia Chick Narrative"

N8: Digital Media as Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Sarah Florini (Indiana University)

Trudy Anderson (Kuwait University), "Re-appropriating Arab Images Through Guerilla DVD"
Sarah Florini (Indiana University), "Creating a Revolutionary African Diaspora: Black Nationalism and the (Re)construction of Cuban Identity on the Web"
Bjorn Ingvoldstad (Bridgewater State College), "’New’ Europe, ‘New’ Media"
Josh Guilford (Brown University), "Breaking Windows from Baghdad: Insurgent Video and the Case of ‘Juba’"

N9: European Auteurs: The Politics and Publics of Contemporary Media

Room:

Chair: Paul Sutton (Roehampton University)

Bruce Bennett (Lancaster University, U.K.), "‘The World’s Not a Nice Place’: Michael Winterbottom, Guantánamo, and Transnational Cinema"
Marc Furstenau (Carleton University), "Public Hope and Private Tragedy in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man"
Paul Sutton (Roehampton University), "Nanni Moretti: 'Say Something Left-Wing!'"

N10: Contemporary Transatlantic and Transnational Registers of Cinema

Room:

Chair: Kathleen Newman (University of Iowa)

Marvin D'Lugo (Clark University), "Habana Blues and Suite Habana: Two Versions of a Latin American Transnational Imaginary"
Kathleen Newman (University of Iowa), "Transnational Traces in the Films of Martín Rejtman and Icíar Bollaín: A Question of the Politics of Comparison"
Laura Podalsky (Ohio State University), "Global Networks and Affective Geographies"
Victoria Ruetalo (University of Alberta), "Ironic Crossings: Profundo Carmesi and Terra Estrangeira"

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

N11: “They Speak of Retrogression”: Ideological Transformation in 1930s Soviet Cinema

Room:

Chair: Maria Belodubrovskaya (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Co-chair: Vincent Bohlinger (Rhode Island College)

Vincent Bohlinger (Rhode Island College), "A Survey of Cinema at the 1930 Olympiad of the Arts"
Maria Belodubrovskaya (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Abram Room’s A Stern Young Man and Its Place in Soviet Film of the 1930s"
John Haynes (University of Essex), "Film as Political Football: Sport and Physical Culture in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s"
John MacKay (Yale University), "Vertov’s Lullaby (1937): After the Kino-Eye’s Work is Done"
Respondent:: Yuri Tsivian

N12: Theories of Reception

Room:

Chair: Sarah Kessler (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Cynthia Baron (Bowling Green State University), "Mirror Neurons and Modern Attention: Implications for Theories of Reception"
Joseph Kickasola (Baylor University), "The Synaesthetic Immediate: The Inter-Sensory Cinematic Experience Theorized and Recontextualized"
Deborah Levitt (Eugene Lang College, The New School), "Gestural Disorder and the Optical Girl Machine, or, Notes on Cinematic Life"
Brian Elza (Facets Multi-Media), "Cults High and Low: (Re)distinguishing Academic and Cult Reading Strategies"

N13: Cinematic Sexualities

Room:

Chair: Laura Horak (University of California, Berkeley)

Laura Horak (University of California, Berkeley), "Tea, Tiger Skins, and ‘Making Love the Continental Way:’ Sex According to Elinor Glyn in 1920s Hollywood"
Robert R. Shandley (Texas A&M University), "The American Position: Europe and Cinematic Sexual Adventure in the 1950s"
Meredith Ward (Northwestern University), "The Prostitute’s Laughter: Promiscuous Sound and the Rhetoric of Self-Control in Early Moving Pictures"
Cristian Melchiorre (University of Western Ontario), "‘She’s Got It!’: Silent Cinema and the Public Circulation of ‘Sex Symbols’"

N14: Visual Media and Public Affects

Room:

Chair: Abigail Salerno (Duke University, Program in Literature)

I-Lien Tsay (University of California, Irvine), "An Intersection of Affective and Visual Public Spheres"
Courtney Baker (Connecticut College), "Inherited Affects: Shameful Imagery and the Experience of Nationhood"
Abigail Salerno (Duke University, Program in Literature), "Classical Suspense, Narrative Affect and the Multi-Sensory Audience"
Respondent:: Jennifer Terry (University of California, Irvine)

N15: Genre Maps, Genre Optics

Room:

Chair: Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee)

Kathleen McHugh (University of California, Los Angeles), "Thrillers and Working Girls"
Celestino Deleyto (University of Zaragoza), "The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy"
Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee), "Star Bodies in Action"
Respondent:: Barry Keith Grant (Brock University)

N16: Mob Hit: HBO's The Sopranos

Room:

Chair: Martha P Nochimson (Cineaste)

Maurice Yacowar (ex-University of Calgary), "The Women of The Sopranos "
Martha P Nochimson (Cineaste), "’What Are These 'F-ing' Dreams Doing in My Gangster Story?’: The Sopranos and the Gangster Subconscious"
Frank P. Tomasulo (Florida State University), "’We Are All Sopranos!’: The Gangster Life as Tragic National Allegory"
Respondent:: Lester Friedman (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

N17: Workshop: Welcome to the Archives 2: New Opportunities for Research in the Midwest

Room:

Chair: Brian Woodman (The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction)

Workshop Participants:
Brian Woodman (The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction)
Carolyn Faber (Midwest Media Archives Alliance )
David Rowntree (Washington University)
Tom Weinberg (mediaburn.org/Columbia College)
Maxine Fleckner Ducey (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research)

Sponsors: Media Archive Committee, Association of Moving Image Archivists' Archival Interest Group

N18: Workshop: Compressed Audio/Expanding Media: Aural Culture/Sound Criticism

Room:

Chair: Glen Lowry (Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design)
Co-chair: Randy Lee Cutler (Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design)

Workshop Participants:
Ashok Mathur (Thompson Rivers University)
Sadira Rodrigues (Vancouver Art Gallery)
Randy Lee Cutler (Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design)
Glen Lowry (Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design)

N19: Television Programming

Room:

Chair: Joy Fuqua (Tulane University)

Laura Portwood-Stacer (University of Southern California), "Dissident Television: Political Dissent in the Commercial Sphere"
Michael Clarke (University of California, Los Angeles), "Lost in Hawai’i: A Report on the Role of Neo-network Programming in State Economies"
Noah Zweig (University of California, Santa Barbara), "The Cosmopolitics of Telesur"
Rachel Bicicchi (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Couric’s Chance: Journalistic Credentials and Celebrity Status Both Matter in the Changing News Landscape"
Joy Fuqua (Tulane University), "Goat Glands and Gonads: Curing Masculinity in TV Drug Advertising"

N20: Special Event: Screening N

Room:

Nyocker/The District

(Aron Gauder, Hungary, 2004, 90min)

Sponsor: Eastern and Southern European Interest Group

N21: Special Event: Meeting N

Room:

Asian Pacific American Caucus Meeting

Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:15-10:00 am (Session O)

O1: Workshop: Chicago Television and New Media

Room:

Chair: John McMurria (DePaul University)

Workshop Participants:
Esteban Creste (Telemundo Chicago)
Dan Schmidt (Channel 11 WTTW)
Barbara Popovic (Chicago Access Network Television)
Johnathan Rodgers (TV One)

Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group

O2: Issues in World Cinema

Room:

Chair: Shu Ching Chan (University of Texas at Austin)

Shu Ching Chan (University of Texas at Austin), "“How Do Hong Kong Filmmakers Work?” The Culture of Production of Hong Kong Cinema"
Gilad Padva (Tel Aviv University), "Utopia, Heterotopia and Homoerotopia in Communal Showers Scenes"
Tara Lockhart (University of Pittsburgh), "Beyond Nostalgia: Repetition, Aesthetic Hybridity, and Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love"
Cheira Belguellaoui (Florida State University), "Today’s Algeria in Nadir Mokneche’s Viva Laldjerie (2004)"

O3: Workshop: The Global Image of Youth

Room:

Chair: Timothy Shary (Clark University)

Workshop Participants:
Savas Arslan (Bahcesehir Universitesi)
Santiago Fouz-Hernández (University of Durham)
Scott Henderson (Brock University)
Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University)

O4: Hollywood Horror

Room:

Chair: Alison Peirse (Lancaster University)

Eugenie Brinkema (Brown University), "Irony, Stupidity, and Ethics in the Postmodern Zombie Film"
Leslie Abramson (Lake Forest College), "Rosemary's Baby: Hollywood Demonic"
David Lerner (University of Southern California), "Camping Out: Exaggeration and the Quarantined Body in the Space of Sleepaway Camp"
Alison Peirse (Lancaster University), "Black Bucks, Clawed Women, Queer Scientists and Sideshow Freaks: The Destruction of the Male Body in Classic Horror Film"

O5: Cinema and Empty City Space

Room:

Chair: Christoph Lindner (Northern Illinois University)

Andrew Hussey (University of London Institute, Paris), "The View from the Naked City: The Urban Visions of Guy Debord"
Stanley Corkin (University of Cincinatti), "Blackness in (and out of) the Wide Open Spaces of Harlem: The Genre of Black Exploitation and the Rhetoric of Urban Decline"
Barry Langford (University of London), "Let's Go Shopping: The Commodity, the Fossil, the Empty City, and Utopia"
Christoph Lindner (Northern Illinois University), "London Eyes: Screening/Scoping the Empty City"

O6: Imagining the World

Room:

Chair: Roger Hallas (Syracuse University)

Roger Hallas (Syracuse University), "An Inconvenient Truth and the Rhetoric of Global Magnitude"
Kendall Phillips (Syracuse University), "Visions of the World's End, 2005: Spielberg's War and Romero's Land"
Brian Price (Oklahoma State University), "Film Frame, World Picture"
Allison Whitney (Carleton University), "The Weight of the World: Vision and Volume in IMAX Space Films"

O7: Contemporary Documentary

Room:

Chair: Annabelle Honess Roe (University of Southern California)

Annabelle Honess Roe (University of Southern California), "Denying the Index: New Forms of Documentary Film"
Felicity Colman (University of Melbourne), "Documentary Ethics: The Affective Control of Life through Mediated War Zones"
Stephen Charbonneau (University of California, Los Angeles), "Dancing, Spelling, and Shooting: Representations of Young Expressivities and Performativities in Contemporary Documentary"
Sarah Projansky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and C.L. Cole (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Urban Culture(s) and the Double Dutch Documentary"

O8: Rethinking New German Cinema

Room:

Chair: Karen Hollinger (Armstrong Atlantic State University)

Dominic Pettman (Lang College, New School), "Bear Life: Tracing an Opening in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man"
Shawn R. Smolen-Morton (Francis Marion University), "R. W. Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons and Bernward Vesper’s The Trip: Silence and Childhood in the German Autumn"
Karen Hollinger (Armstrong Atlantic State University), "Portrayals of Women’s Friendship in the Films of Margarethe von Trotta"
Dana Benelli (Illinois State University), "The Fictions of Werner Herzog in the Age of DVD Reproduction"

O9: Feminism, Filmmaking, Fluidity

Room:

Chair: Corinn Columpar (University of Toronto)
Co-chair: Sophie Mayer

Theresa L. Geller (Rutgers University), "Aesthetics, Activism, and the Chamber Film: Rethinking Maya Deren in the History of Independent Cinema"
Corinn Columpar (University of Toronto), "At the Limits of Visual Representation: Tracey Moffatt’s Still and Moving Images"
Virginia Bonner (Clayton State University), "Beautiful Trash: Agnès Varda’s Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse"
Sophie Mayer, "The Archivist Tango: Sally Potter Collects Herself"

O10: Chinese Cinema and the Transnational Imaginary

Room:

Chair: Kin Yan Szeto (Appalachian State University)

Kin Yan Szeto (Appalachian State University), "Power and Marginalization in the Films of Jia Zhangke"
Xiangyang Chen (New York University), "The Sublime, Ang Lee and Chinese Cinema"
Ping Fu (Dickinson College), "Action Speaks Louder: Towards Vernacular Modernism and Transnational Imaginary in Chinese Cinema"
Po-Chen Tsai (University of Chicago), "Negating a Non-place in the World: Genre, Affect, and the Formation of Transnational Chinese Queer (Counter)publics"

O11: Terror on Global Screens

Room:

Chair: Olaf Hoerschelmann (Eastern Illinois University)

Mehdi Semati (Eastern Illinois University), "Global Media and Terrorism: Culture and Difference in the Age of Empire"
John C. Eisele (College of William and Mary), "The Hollywood Terrorist Eastern: Referentializing the Imaginary, Reimagining Reality"
Olaf Hoerschelmann (Eastern Illinois University), "Post-Wall Terror: Changing Visions of Political Violence in German Film"

O12: Labor and Agency in the Studio System

Room:

Chair: Emily Carman (University of California, Los Angeles)
Co-chair: Tom Kemper (Crossroads School)

Emily Carman (University of California, Los Angeles), "Independent Stardoms: 1930s Female Film Stars and Freelance Labor in the Studio System"
Victoria Sturtevant (University of Oklahoma), "Marie Dressler and the Case of the Stolen Scene: A Trickster Tale"
Jared Gardner (Ohio State University), "Golddiggers of 1933 and the Making of the Modern Studio"
Miranda Banks (University of Southern California), "Fighting for a Thread of Respect: Costume Designers in the Studio Era"

O13: Screen Adaptation

Room:

Chair: Charlene Regester (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Jerry Mosher (California State University, Long Beach), "Stuck in the Middle: Screen Adaptations of Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, 1924-1934"
Charlene Regester (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Crossing the Color Line or Crossing into the Underworld-Daphne Monet and Easy Rawlins in Devil in a Blue Dress: An Examination of the Novel and Film"
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
Joel David (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "Vague Stirrings: Queer Postcoloniality in Reflections in a Golden Eye"

O14: Digital Inscriptions

Room:

Chair: Braxton Soderman (Brown University)

Aylish Wood (University of Kent), "Digital Intermediates and Digital Expressive Practice"
Braxton Soderman (Brown University), "Rethinking Representation: The Concept of Rendering in Digital Media"
Zeynep Gursel (University of California, Berkeley), "Framing Zarqawi: Headshots as Hard Evidence in a Digital Age"
Brian Jacobson (University of Southern California), "Digital Inscription: Marking the Flesh of the Cinematic Body"

O15: Becoming Visible: New Formations of Race and Ethnicity in Eighties Hollywood

Room:

Chair: Jane Park (University of Oklahoma)

Henry Puente (California State University, Fullerton), "The Marketing and Distribution of Independent U.S. Latino Cinema to the Hispanic Hollywood"
Mary Beltran (University of Wisconsin), "The Face of the ‘Decade of the Hispanic’: Edward James Olmos and the Rise of Latino Feature Films"
Mark Cunningham (University of Texas, Austin), "The Future Has a Past: How Spike Lee and Robert Townsend Led a Resurgent Black Film Movement the Old-Fashioned Way"
Jane Park (University of Oklahoma), "Multicultural Orientalism: Race as Spectacle in Eighties Hollywood"
Respondent:: Craig Watkins (University of Texas, Austin)

Sponsors: Latino/a Caucus, African/African American Caucus, Asian Pacific American Caucus

O16: Rethinking Spectatorship

Room:

Chair: Kristen Hatch (University of California, Irvine/UCLA/CSU LA)

David Pendleton, "Whither the Spectator?: Appropriative and Expropriative Spectatorship"
Kristen Hatch (University of California, Irvine/UCLA/CSU LA), "Discipline and Pleasure: Shirley Temple and the Male Gaze"
Jill Casid (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Somatic Spectatorship: Torture and the Camera"

O17: Recent Developments in Lifestyle Television: New Frontiers, New Approaches

Room:

Chair: Jiwon Ahn (Keene State College)

Martin Roberts (The New School), "Cashing in on the Attic: Auctions in Contemporary Lifestyle Television"
Gareth Palmer (University of Salford), "Prime Time Bullies"
Jiwon Ahn (Keene State College), "Audience as/and Homeowner: ‘Co-produced’ Identities in Contemporary Real-estate Television"
Respondent:: Mary Desjardins (Dartmouth College)

O18: Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Age of Media Convergence

Room:

Chair: Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Robert Kozinets (Schulich School of Business, York University), "Star Trek as Wikimedia: Prosuming on the Final Frontier"
Beth Coleman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Machinima, Animus, & Culture Animation: Everyone’s Own A Scanner Darkly"
Geoffrey Long (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Transmedia Storytelling, Niche Media, and The Jim Henson Corporation"
Bob Rehak (Swarthmore College), "Design Networks and Final Frontiers: Star Trek as a Prototype for Transmedia Entertainment"

O20: Special Event: Screening O

Room:

In the Battlefields [Maarek hob]

(Danielle Arbid, Lebanon/France/Belgium, 2004, 90 min)

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

O21: Special Event: Meeting O

Room:

Oscar Micheaux Society Meeting

Sunday, March 11, 2007 10:15 am - 12:00 noon (Session P)


P1: Experimental Film and Home Movies

Room:

Chair: Robin Blaetz (Mount Holyoke College)

John Sundholm (Karlstad University) and Lars Gustaf Andersson (Lund University), "Whose Public Sphere? The Discourse on Amateur and Experimental Film in 1940s and 1950s Sweden"
Jennifer Wild (Universite de Paris III, Sorbonne-Nouvelle), "The Gift of the Film and the Home: La Villa Noailles et Les Mystères du Château de Dé"
Robin Blaetz (Mount Holyoke College), "Investigating Home/Movies in Marjorie Keller’s Herein"
Anastasia Saverino (University of Iowa), "Creating Family, Enacting Memory: The Diary Projects of Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage and Nan Goldin"

P2: Korean Cinema and the Cold War

Room:

Chair: Namhee Han (University of Chicago)

Hyungshin Kim (Northwestern University), "Subtitles for ‘Home Audience’ and the Challenge of Translation"
Namhee Han (University of Chicago), "Displaying and Consuming the Melodramatic Imagination: Theatricality and Cinematic Spectatorship in Han Hyŏng-mo’s Madame Freedom (1956)"
Aaron Magnan-Park (University of Notre Dame), ""Born Korean, Becoming South Korean: The Cinematic Golden Age and Cold War Culture""
Minkyu Sung (University of Iowa), "Redeeming the Public Sphere: the Collective Memory Politics of the Korean War and the Post-Cold War Political Spectacle in South Korean Society"

P3: Negotiating Cubanness through Media

Room:

Chair: Joshua Malitsky (Indiana University)

Yeidy Rivero (Indiana University, Bloomington), "The Cuban Connection: Havana and Regional Television Exchanges during the 1950s"
Joshua Malitsky (Indiana University), "Prohibition and Exhortation: Community, Communicability, and the Dangers of Subjectivity in Cuban Post-revolutionary Non-fiction Film"
Gilberto Blasini (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "’De caminos, camiones y cacharros’: Road Films in post-1990 Cuban Cinema"
Cristina Venegas (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Cuba and Digital Culture"

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

P4: Queerness and Independent Cinema

Room:

Chair: Carter Soles (University of Oregon)

Ragan Rhyne (New York University), "New Queer Cinema, Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals, and the Economy of Independence"
Ger Zielinski (Doctoral Candidate/McGill University), "Programming (&) Community at the Queer Film Festival"
Daniel Humphrey (Keene State College), "Working Through Rejection: Queer American Independent Filmmaking in the 1990s"
Carter Soles (University of Oregon), "Queer Cinema 1994: Kevin Smith's Clerks"
Colleen Laird (University of Oregon), "Just Between Girls – A Look at ‘Pure’ Love in Nakahara Shun’s Sakura No Sono"

Sponsor: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered/Queer Caucus

P5: The Politics of Irishness on Screen

Room:

Chair: Diane Negra (University of East Anglia)

Stephanie Rains (Institute of Art Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire), "The Case of the Disappearing Colleen: Irish Actresses in Hollywood Film, 1945-2000"
Natasha Casey (McGill University), "Irishness on the Web: White Nationalism and Communities of Affiliation Online"
Ruth Barton (University College, Dublin), "Strangers in Their Own Home: Pavee Lackeen and the Representation of Irish Traveler Culture"
Diane Negra (University of East Anglia), "Irishness, Anger and Masculinity in Recent Film and Television"

P6: Television Genres

Room:

Chair: Terrie Schauer (Simon Fraser University)

Adam Segal (New York University/Tisch), "From Gideon’s Crossing to House: Old Quality TV vs. ‘Edgy’ Quality TV"
Laura Vazquez (Northern Illinois University), "HBO’s Deadwood: Nostalgia, Capitalism and How the West Was Really Won"
Deborah Jermyn (Roehampton University), I ♥ New York: Romancing 'The City' in Sex and the City”
Terrie Schauer (Simon Fraser University), "Staging the Prison in Television Drama: American Masculinities in Prison Song, Oz & Prison Break"

P7: Workshop: Production Studies: Exploring Film, Television and New Media Workworlds

Room:

Chair: Vicki Mayer (Tulane University)

Workshop Participants:
John Caldwell (University of California, Los Angeles)
Miranda Banks (University of Southern California)
Felicia Henderson (University of California, Los Angeles)
Candace Moore (University of California, Los Angeles)

P8: Workshop: British and French Empire Cinema: (Post)colonial Histories on Film

Room:

Chair: Julie Codell (Arizona State University)

Workshop Participants:
Davinia Thornley (University of Otago)
James Genova (Ohio State University, Marion)
Julia Watson (Ohio State University)
Shohini Chaudhuri (University of Essex)
Kathleen McHugh (University of California, Los Angeles)

P9: Scales of Abjection: Transnational Logics of Power, Practices of Violence

Room:

Chair: Aine O'Healy (Loyola Marymount University)

Aniko Imre (Universiteit van Amsterdam), "The Pedagogical and the Performative in Post-Socialist Lesbian Visual Activism"
Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University/University of Southern California), "Foreign Women and Toilets"
Aine O'Healy (Loyola Marymount University), "Screening (Balkan) Femininity: An Abject Odyssey"
Marguerite Waller (University of California, Riverside), "Ibolya Fekete’s Chico and the Abjection of Patriarchy"

P10: Film Sound, Film Futures

Room:

Chair: Mark Kerins (Southern Methodist University)
Co-chair: William Whittington (University of Southern California)

Benjamin Wright (Carleton University), "The Audience is Listening: Brand Recognition in the Age of Dolby and THX"
Randolph Jordan (Concordia University), "Towards the Visible Acousmêtre in the Age of Digital Multi-Channel Sound: Material Embodiment across the Two Versions of Donnie Darko"
William Whittington (University of Southern California), "A Sounding of the Future: Sound Design and Science Fiction – Convergence and the Audio Matrix"
Mark Kerins (Southern Methodist University), "New Technologies Meet New Soundtrack Models – 10.2, Diegetic Presence, and the Illusion of Environment"

P11: Murnau and Modernity

Room:

Chair: Caitlin McGrath (University of Chicago)

Caitlin McGrath (University of Chicago), "’Modern Centaur’: F. W. Murnau and the Technology of Display"
Scott Curtis (Northwestern University), "Murnau, the Scientist"
Lance Duerfahrd (Purdue University), "The Figure of the Waiter in the Films of F. W. Murnau"

P12: Navigating the Media Sensorium

Room:

Chair: Angela Ndalianis (University of Melbourne)

Saige Walton (University of Melbourne), "Textures of Sensation: Baroque Haptics, Phenomenology and Analogical Assemblage in Tarnation"
James Collins (University of Notre Dame), "My (Cultural) Space: The Convergence of Media Space and the Museum"
Angela Ndalianis (University of Melbourne), "The Show Starts on the Sidewalk - Urban Entertainment Destinations and the Visceral Experience"

P13: Media Marketing and Exhibition Practices

Room:

Chair: Tom Yoshikami (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Tom Yoshikami (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "An Art-House Public Sphere: The New Yorker Theatre and Participatory Moviegoing, 1960-1962"
Amanda Ann Klein (University of Pittsburgh), "’If You Don't Target the Hardcore, You Don't Get the Suburbs’: Lessons in the Marketing of the Ghetto Action Cycle"
Eric Vanstrom (University of California, Los Angeles), "Expert Consumers: The Hollywood Stock Exchange and Virtual Stock Markets as Market Research"
Elizabeth Nathanson (Northwestern University), "Multi-tasking at the Multiplex: Maternal Labor and Postfeminist Leisure"

P14: Location and Embodiment in the Virtual World

Room:

Chair: Sheila Petty (University of Regina)

Sheila Petty (University of Regina), "Voices Across the Technology Divide: African Digital Discourse in Afro@Digital"
Mark Gallagher (University of Nottingham), "The Situation of Islamic Insurgent Video"
Brian Ganter (University of Washington), "Lenin After Zizek: On The ‘Monopoly Concept In Cyber-Cultural Studies"
Eric Gordon (Emerson College), "Digital Cartographies: From Metageography to Locality in Online Navigation"

P15: Sitcom Studies

Room:

Chair: Jeremy Butler (University of Alabama)

Jeffrey Scheible (University of California, Santa Barbara), "’No Laughter in the Operating Room’: Case Studies of the Laugh Track"
Amber Watts (Northwestern University), "So This Is Supposed to Be Funny?: The Television Laugh Track as Formal Element"
Margo Miller (Northwestern University), "White-washing Away the Fag Hag: Margaret Cho’s ‘All-American’ Family and the Heterosexism of Sitcom Discourse"
Jeremy Butler (University of Alabama), "Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s"

P16: Cinema and 9/11

Room:

Chair: Alison McKee (San Jose State University)

Alison McKee (San Jose State University), "The Day the Towers Fell: Nation, Melodrama, and Trauma Cinema in the Context of 9/11 (United 93 and World Trade Center)"
Robert Burgoyne (Wayne State University), "United 93 and World Trade Center – Traumatic Historical Film?"
Linda Mokdad (University of Iowa), "Wrangling over The Seige: Crafting a Political Response to Hollywood’s New Arab"
Neda Atanasoski (Stony Brook University), "The Vietnam War and its Legacy on the War on Terror: Violence, Spirituality, and Contemporary Nationalist Anxieties in Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center"

P17: `But Is It any Good?' Addressing Evaluation in Film/Media Studies

Room:

Chair: Greg Taylor (Purchase College/State University of New York)

Greg Taylor (Purchase College/ State University of New York), "On the Merits of Arctic Monkeys: Evaluative Assessment Reconsidered"
Colin Burnett (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Of Taste, Tenure and the Cranky Yankee: Otis Ferguson’s ‘Vulgar’ Alternative to the ‘Academic’ Film Criticism of 1930s New York"
Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern University), "Movies: A Century of Failure"

P18: Genre & Gender: Rethinking Cultural and Aesthetic Intersections

Room:

Chair: Christine Gledhill (University of Sunderland)

Jane Gaines (Duke University), "The Genius of Genre and the Ingenuity of Women"
Lucy Fischer (University of Pittsburgh), "Generic ‘Gleaning’: Agnes Varda and the Documentary"
Ira Bhaskar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), "Melodrama, Gender and Genre in Hindi Cinema"
Christine Gledhill (University of Sunderland), "Interrogating the Culture and Genre Aesthetics of Gender"

P20: Special Event: Screening P

Room:

Blockade

(Sergei Loznitsa, Russia, 2005, 52 min)

P21: Special Event: Meeting P

Room:

Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:15-2:00 pm (Session Q)

Q1: Exhibition Spaces

Room:

Chair: Leslie Matthaei (University of Arizona)

Moira O'Keeffe (University of Pennsylvania), "Dream Screens: Reclaiming Classic Movie Palaces"
Denise Cummings (Rollins College), "Placing Memory, Exploring Context: Local Exhibition and Winter Park, Florida’s Mid-century Theaters"
Nicoletta Delon (College of Staten Island/University of New York), "The Ubiquity of Film Posters: From Ephemeral Artifacts to Cultural Heritage"
Leslie Matthaei (University of Arizona), "Opportunities or Obstacles: New Trends in Distribution and their Impact on Art House Exhibition"

Q2: Transnational Genres and Shifting Localities in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

Room:

Chair: Belen Vidal (University of St. Andrews)

Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz (University of Colorado, Boulder), "Horror of Allegory: The Others in Context"
Miguel Fernandez Labayen (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), "South of the Border, West of the Sun (or New Ways to Picture Andalusia)"
Belen Vidal (University of St. Andrews), "Love, Loneliness and Laundromats: Affect and Artifice in the Cinema of Isabel Coixet"
Respondent:: Vicente Rodriguez Ortega (New York University)

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

Q3: The Projected Image in Media Art

Room:

Chair: Kate Mondloch (University of Oregon)
Co-chair: Liz Kotz (University of Minnesota)

Federico Windhausen (California College of the Arts), "Paul Sharits and the Spectator for Projected Film"
Eric de Bruyn (University of Groningen, Netherlands), "Film Redux: Michael Asher 1973/2005"
Andrew Uroskie (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Robert Whitman’s Prune Flat (1965): Site and Screen, Reduction and Expansion"

Q4: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Transnationalism

Room:

Chair: Willow Mullins (University of Missouri, Columbia)

Stephen Rifkin (Carleton University), "The Imperial Narrative Revisited: Western Knowledge and the Touristic Gaze in The Constant Gardener"
Willow Mullins (University of Missouri, Columbia) and Holly Hobbs (University of Missouri, Columbia), "Finding the Path: The Politics of Passionate Research in Ofelas and Our Nationhood"
Claudia Springer (Independent Scholar), "Taken by Muslims: Captivity Narratives in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) and Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)"
Christina Sisk (University of Houston), "Back and Forth: Migration and the Mexican Imaginary"

Q5: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Media

Room:

Chair: Li Zeng (Northwestern University)

Li Zeng (Northwestern University), "Who Makes the Sixth-generation Cinema in China? : A Bourdieuian Perspective"
Rui Zhang (Tsinghua University), "Censorship-made Chinese Cinema—Mechanisms of Content Control in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, 1989-2000"
Joshua Neves (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Publicspherics and PubliCITY: Mediascaping Beijing"
Jing Huang (The University of Iowa), "Chinese New Wave---the Sixth Generation and New Documentary Movement"

Q6: The Sum of Us?: Critical Inquiries in Blackness

Room:

Chair: Michael Gillespie (New York University)

Eden Osucha (Duke University), "Between Reality and Ideality: Dilemmas of Televisual Blackness on Black.White"
Allyson Field (Harvard University), "The Political Modernism of Melvin Van Peebles: Strategies of Representation in Story of a Three-Day Pass"
Alessandra Raengo, "“I Don’t Eat Colored People:” Dick Gregory’s Vernacular Marxism"
Michael Gillespie (New York University), "’My Hiphop Drops on Your Head Like Rain’: Ghost Dog, Art Cinema, and the Beatpoetics of Hiphop Modernism"

Q7: Celluloid Blood & Bullets: Urban Experiences of Masculinity, Modernity and Race in the American Gangster Film

Room:

Chair: Ronald Wilson (Independent Scholar)

Ronald Wilson (Independent Scholar), ""This is my City, Bright Boy!": Masculinity and the Body Politic in Howard Hughes' The Racket (1927/1951)"
Novotny Lawrence (Southern Illinois University), "The Gangster Goes Black: Generic Revision in the Blaxploitation Film, The Mack"
Brian Faucette (University of Kansas), "Murder Inc: Masculinity, Violence and the Retro-Gangster Cycle of the 60s"
John Tibbetts (University of Kansas), "The Life that Suits the Crime: Rowland Brown’s Blood Money (1933)"

Q8: Acting Under Duress: Transformations in Screen Performance

Room:

Chair: Kevin Esch (Tulane University)

Kevin Esch (Tulane University), "Dale Dye’s ‘Actor Boot Camp’ and the Authenticity Industry"
Rebecca Swender (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Sound Stages: Acting, Technology and the Transition to Sound in America"
Joerg Sternagel (Free University of Berlin), "Bodily Knowledge and Energetic Experience: Acting and Spectatorship in Film"
Respondent:: Philip Drake (University of Stirling)

Q9: Rethinking the Physical: Body and Space in Digital Media

Room:

Chair: Veronica Paredes

Veronica Paredes, "The Chinese Gold Farmer as Disruptive, Laboring Body in the Network"
Irene Chien (University of California, Berkeley), "Orienting Inner Space: Biofeedback Gaming and the Racialized Landscape of Mind, Body, and Spirit"
Nicole Starosielski (University of California, Santa Barbara), "The Skin of the Interface: Haptic Imagery and Immobility in New Media"
Holly Willis, "The City as Screen, the Body as Movie"

Q10: Problematizing Space and Difference in Middle East Diaspora Cinema

Room:

Chair: Azadeh Saljooghi (University of Utah)

Lynley-Shimat Lys (New York University), "Problematizing Space and Difference in Middle East Diaspora Cinema"
Vuslat Demirkoparan (University of California, Irvine), "Alternative Modes of Resistance: Melancholic Interludes and Sound Bridges in Fatih Akin’s 2004 film, Head On"
Azadeh Saljooghi (University of Utah), "Globalization Iranian Style: Sweet Women of Neshat"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

Q11: The Cinema as Educator

Room:

Chair: Oliver Gaycken (Temple University)

Oliver Gaycken (Temple University), "A Modern Cabinet of Curiosities: George Kleine and the Educational Film"
Hanna Shell (Harvard University), "How Not to Be Seen: The Art of Camouflage and the Disappearance of the Subject in the Scientific Military Training Films of Len Lye"
Tania Munz (Princeton University), "The Battle of the Drones: Nazi Educational Film and Karl von Frisch’s Lessons about the Bee Volk"
Respondent:: Scott Curtis (Northwestern University)

Q12: Cinema's Others

Room:

Chair: Susan Felleman (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
Co-chair: Paul Young (Vanderbilt University)

Paul Young (Vanderbilt University), "Less World, More Heart: The Battle of Realisms in Griffith’s World War I"
Jonathan Auerbach (University of Maryland, College Park), "Microfilm, Film, and the Cold War"
Kelly Kessler (Rutgers University), "If It’s Just a Play, Then What Does It Mean?: Theatricality, Diegetic Ambiguity, and the Dystopic Film Musical"
Susan Felleman (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), "The Iconology of Otherness: Cliché and Convention in the Modern Artist Biopic"
Respondent:: Lisa Gitelman (Catholic University)

Q13: Contingent Worlds on Film

Room:

Chair: Joanne Stober (Concordia University)

Joanne Stober (Concordia University), "’Rhapsody in Two Languages’: A Synchronized Sound City Symphony for Hollywood's Closest Foreign Market, Canada"
Terri Francis (Yale University), "Paradise Amusement: Cinema, Jamaica, Reggae"
Ellen E. Sweeney (University of Iowa), "’Don’t You Believe Love is More Important than Terrorism?’ Terrorism and Postcoloniality in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game and Mani Ratnam's Dil Se"
John Orr (University of Edinburgh), "Camus and Carne Transformed: Bergman's The Silence vs Antonioni's The Passenger"

Q14: Five Years Later: History, Memory and Fear in 9/11 Texts

Room:

Chair: Jessica Scarlata (George Mason University)

Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University), "’Can We Engage?’: Making History and Heroism in United 93"
Matthew Fee (New York University / Ithaca College), "’Flying Is So Much Fun These Days’: Genre Cinema and In-Flight Fears"
Jessica Scarlata (George Mason University), "Remembering Never to Forget: Memory and Memorial in Media Responses to 9/11"

Q15: Workshop: Scholarship and Consulting in the Expanded Media Domain: DVDs, Video Games, Television, Blogs

Room:

Chair: Robert Burgoyne (Wayne State University)

Workshop Participants:
Stephen Prince (Virginia Tech)
Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University)
Vivian Sobchack (University of California, Los Angeles)
Barry Keith Grant (Brock University)

Sponsor: Professional Development Committee

Q16: Hollywood Cinema, Early and Late

Room:

Chair: Richard Abel (University of Michigan)

Richard Abel (University of Michigan), "Newspaper Menus of Movie-Going, 1914"
Anthony Ferri (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), "Irving Thalberg: Hollywood’s Stealthy, Inventive and Obsessive Original Producer"
Chris Simmons (Messiah College), "Thomas Ince: The Feature's Other Father?"
Aaron Taylor (Brock University), "Uncelebrated Lives: Reflections on the Supporting Player"
Moya Luckett (New York University/Queens College, CUNY), "Celebrity, Self-Awareness and the Culture of Self"

Q17: Religion and Film

Room:

Chair: Clark Farmer (University of Colorado)

William Romanowski (Calvin College), "Principle and Restraint: Protestant/Christian Negotiation with the Film Industry after World War II"
Michael T. Williams (University of Southampton), "‘Faith and Paganism’: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo, 1925) and the Idolisation of Ramon Novarro"
Clark Farmer (University of Colorado), "Two-Strip Technicolor Dreamcoats: Color Aesthetics in Christ Films of the Silent Era"
Imke Meyer (Bryn Mawr College), "Brilliant Disguises: Religion, Spectacle, and Oedipal Rebellion in The Passion of the Christ and Constantine"

Q18: TV Eccentrics of the Three Network Era

Room:

Chair: Lynn Spigel (Northwestern University)

Lynn Spigel (Northwestern University), "Warhol TV: Everyday Television for Subaltern Publics"
Jan Olsson (Stockholm University), "Hitchcock's TV"
Dana Polan (New York University), "TV That Tastes Good: Julia Child, French Chef"

Q20: Special Event: Screening Q

Room:

John & Jane

(Ashim Ahluwalia, India, 2005, 86 min)

Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night

(Sonali Gulati, India/USA, 2005, 27 min)

Sponsors: Caucus on Class, Asian Pacific American Caucus

Q21: Special Event: Meeting Q

Room:

Caucus Coordinating Committee Meeting

Sunday, March 11, 2007 2:15-4:00 pm (Session R)

R1: Out of Control: The Cinematic Accident

Room:

Chair: James Leo Cahill (University of Southern California)

Rene Bruckner, "Three Blunt Traumas: The Accident and the New in Cinema’s Narratives"
James Leo Cahill (University of Southern California), "‘Oh! Mother WILL Be Pleased’: The Accident and the Trick in Early Cinema"
Greg Siegel (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Buckled-up Bodies, Battened-down Houses: Promises of Automotive Safety and Atomic Survival in Postwar Educational Films"
George Toles (University of Manitoba), "The Relationship of Film Accidents to Narrative Determinism; or, How Not to Know the Future"

R2: Commodification and Critique in the French Public Sphere

Room:

Chair: Ken Windrum (California State University, Long Beach)

Ken Windrum (California State University, Long Beach), "A Certain Tendency of Festival Cinema or A La Recherche du Cinema Perdu"
Soyoung Yoon (Stanford University), "’Of Passions and the Commodity’ in Cinema: Critique of Ideology and Pedagogy of Pleasure in Guy Debord's Howls for Sade (1952)"
Nabil Echchaibi (Indiana University), "Blogging on Frenchness in the Suburbs: Bondy Blog and the Spiral of Identity in France"
Ross Lenihan (University of California, Berkeley), "Dirty Soldiers, Clean Film: Jean-Luc Godard and Le Petit Soldat"

R3: Trans/national Cinephilias: The Trajectory of D.G. Phalke, John & Jane and Yisrael the Indian

Room:

Chair: Anupama Kapse (University of California, Berkeley)
Co-chair: Monika Mehta (SUNY Binghamton)

Monika Mehta (SUNY Binghamton), "Trans/national Cinephilia in Kikar Ha-Halomot/Desperado Square"
Dale Hudson (Amherst College), "Documenting Dream and Dystopia: Cinephilia, Consumerism, and Call Centers"
Anupama Kapse (University of California, Berkeley), "Magic, Mythology and Movie-Madness in the Cinema of D.G. Phalke"
Respondent:: Lalitha Gopalan (Georgetown University)

R4: Testimonies of Trauma, Illness, and Disability

Room:

Chair: Janet Walker (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Janet Walker (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Moving Testimonies: Talking Heads, Broken Hearts, and the Transmission of Catastrophic Memory"
Lucia Saks (University of Michigan), "The Struggle Continues: HIV/Aids,Civil Society,and Cinema in Its My Life"
Nicole Seymour (Vanderbilt University), "Environmental Racism and Ecocritical Resistance in Todd Haynes's Safe"
Christopher Smit (Calvin College), "Disabling the Viewers: Shifts of the Disabled Subject in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan"

R5: Media, Instruction, and the Creation of “Free” Bodies in Public Spaces

Room:

Chair: Susan Kerns (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Ruth Wollersheim (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Dramas of Finery and Justice: Early Film Narratives of the Female Consumer-Citizen, 1903-1919"
Tristan Abbott (University of Northern Iowa), "Making Use of the Urgent Primacy of Protect and Survive"
Susan Kerns (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Sculpting Spectators and Rewriting History: The Freaks DVD and What (not) to See"
Kate Casey-Sawicki (University of Florida), "Hank Hardy Unruh and the Golden Phallus: The Yes Men as Pedagogues"

R6: Documentary Victims

Room:

Chair: Jason Middleton (University of Rochester)

Shilyh Warren (Duke University), "'I Had to Help Them': Intervention and Representation in Born into Brothels"
Fiona Barnett (Duke University), "Dirty Bodies/Clean DNA: Pickton and the Missing Women"
Jason Middleton (University of Rochester), "Bumfights: Mondo Video’s Spectacles of Abjection"


R7: On the Continuing Value of Medium-Specificity in Contemporary Avant-garde Film

Room:

Chair: Jonathan Walley (Denison University)

Tess Takahashi (Oberlin College), "’Not Only its Image as Lensed’: Medium Specificity and the Natural World in Contemporary Avant-garde Film (1995-2005)"
Jonathan Walley (Denison University), "“Para,” not Post: The Film Medium and Paracinematic Performance in the Contemporary Avant-garde"
Janine Marchessault (York University), "Film Scenes and Resistant Obsolescence: The Case of CineCycle"
Yvonne Spielmann (Braunschweig University of Art), "The Importance of Medium-specifictiy in Intermedial Relationships"

R8: Anthropologists Watching National Television

Room:

Chair: Adam Fish (University of California. Los Angeles)

John Sullivan (Muhlenberg College), "Theorizing Media Production Scholarship: A Historical Review"
Matthew Bird (University of Chicago), "TV Globo, Saudade and the Shaping of Brazilian National Identity and Consciousness"
Christa Salamandra (Lehman College, City University of New York), "Contentious Cosmopolitanism: Syrian Television Makers and Discourses of Distinction"
Michele Tager (University of Johannesburg), "Soap Opera Viewing in a Communal Context: An Ethnographic Examination of the Viewing Experiences of Black Zulu-speaking Students"
Sam Pack (Kenyon College), "Global Transmission and Local Consumption in Subaltern Television Spectatorship"

R9: Apocalyptic Persuasions: The Mainstreaming of Millenarism

Room:

Chair: Enid Baxter Blader (California State University, Monterey Bay)

Talan Memmott (California State University Monterey Bay), "Posting the Post: Technological Eschatology, the Cyborg, and the Problems of the ‘Next’"
Jason Brown (Pomona College), "Greetings, Programs! The Two Faces of Apocalypse in TechnoGnostic Cinema"
Bonnie Blake (Ramapo College, New Jersey), "Apocalyptic Visions in a Fear Culture: The Dystopian World of Tezuka’s Metropolis"
Nicholas Muntean, "Undead Idols: An Analysis of the Containment of Post-Apocalyptic Imagery in American Idol"

Sponsor: Caucus on Class

R10: Whistle Blowers, Reporters, Conspiracy Theorists, Censorship

Room:

Chair: Erik Dussere (American University)

Erik Dussere (American University), "The Space of Conspiracy in The Parallax View"
Matthew Bernstein (Emory University), "Postwar Film Censorship in Atlanta: from Scarlet Street (1945) to Never on Sunday (1960)"
Shelley Bradfield (Indiana University, Bloomington), "The Paradox of Women Journalists:Tracing the Character Type of the ‘Girl Reporter’"
Jack Boozer (Georgia State University), "The Whistleblower Film: Sub-generic Variations on a Recent Plot Formula"

R11: Japanese Cinema: Gender and Genres

Room:

Chair: Nicholas Schlegel (Wayne State University)

Nicholas Schlegel (Wayne State University), "Identity Crisis: Imperialist Vampires in Japan?"
Myoungsook Park (University of Iowa), "On Minority Representations in Contemporary Japanese Cinema: Representations of Resident Koreans in Go (Yukisada Isao, 2001)"
Deborah Shamoon (University of Notre Dame), "Domesticating Japanese Girlhood: The Film Career of Misora Hibari, 1946-1955"
Leslie Marsh (University of Michigan), "Buraziru: The Japanese Immigrant and Dekassegui Experience in Tizuka Yamasaki’s Gaijin: Os Caminhos da Liberdade (1980) and Gaijin: Ame-me Como Sou (2005)"

R12: Sex in Public: Visual Culture and (Neo)liberal Sexuality

Room:

Chair: Ted Gournelos (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)

Ted Gournelos (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), "Poontang, Slaves, and Sex Changes: Mr. Garrison and South Park’s Performative Sexuality"
Marina Levina (University of California Berkeley), "Revamping the Vampire: Blood Metaphors and the Historical Construction of Sexual Identity in the Vampire Cinema"
Konstantina Karageorgos (University of Illinois), "Investigating the Politics of Representation: Gender and the Reinscription of Neoliberal Values in V for Vendetta"
Walter Podrazik (University of Illinois at Chicago), "Peeking through the Household Curtains: Accepted Sexual Behavior on Television (From Twin Beds to Oral Sex)"

R13: Wired: TV in the Geeks & Gadgets Era of Media Convergence

Room:

Chair: Denise Mann (University of California, Los Angeles)

Christopher Anderson (Indiana University), "The Death of the 30-Second Spot and the Afterlife of Commercial Television"
Denise Mann (University of California, Los Angeles), "SubLYMONal Advertising & Lost: Viral Marketing in the Age of Media Convergence"
Vincent Brook (University of Southern California), "Convergent Ethnicity: Recombining Difference in the Post-Network Era"
Kevin Sandler (University of Arizona), "Regulating the Viral: FX, MySpace and Convergence Culture"
Daniel Bernardi (Arizona State University), "Race, Sex and the Televisuality of MySpace.Com"

R14: War and Cinema

Room:

Chair: Alison Hoffman (University of Californa, Los Angeles)

Alison Hoffman (University of Californa, Los Angeles), "Making Media, Protesting War: Yoko Ono's Moving Image Activism"
Mark Kligerman (University of Michigan), "Home from the Gulf: Hollywood's Narrative of Fantastic Repatriation"
Andrew Betterton (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "The Limits of Limitless Pleasure: American Cinematic Bildungsroman and the Global War on Terror"

R15: Workshop: Is There a Text in This Classroom? The Introductory Film Course Textbook

Room:

Chair: Glenn Man (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

Workshop Participants:
Cynthia Lucia (Rider University)
Jackie Byars (Wayne State University)
Marc Raymond (Carleton University)
Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University)
Mark Langer (Carleton University)

Sponsor: Teaching Committee

R16: Developments in the Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry

Room:

Chair: Janet Wasko (University of Oregon)

Janet Wasko (University of Oregon), "Film Franchise Frenzy"
Eileen Meehan (Louisiana State University), "At Play in the Fields of Corporate Synergy"
Paul McDonald (University of Portsmouth), "Videocopia: Hollywood and the Shaping of the Video Business for the Digital Age"
Philip Drake (University of Stirling), "Untangling Spiderman’s Web: Contracts and Creative Accounting in a Contemporary Hollywood Franchise"

R17: S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G I-T O-U-T: Typography in Film

Room:

Chair: Michael Baker (McGill University)

Matthew Soar (Concordia University), "Type Set: For a Cultural Economy of Lettering and Typography in Cinema"
Michael Baker (McGill University), "Wes Anderson’s Alphabet & the Clothes Characters Wear: Reading Directorial Style in Opening Credits"
Daniel Fineman (Occidental College), "The Text of Undoing: Typography in Welles’ Mr. Arkadin"
Sarah Teasley (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth), "Reading the Cinematic City: The Typography of Environmental Graphics in Prewar Japanese Film"
Respondent:: Rembert Hueser (University of Minnesota)

R18: Film and the Sublime

Room:

Chair: Peter Lurie (University of Richmond)
Co-chair: Abigail Cheever (University of Richmond)

Tom Gunning (University of Chicago), "Phantom Rides and Sublime Motion"
Peter Lurie (University of Richmond), "Postmodernism, Race, and the Sublime: Fargo's White(ned) Space"
Russell Brickey (Purdue University), "Sublime Dystopia in the Postmodern Science Fiction Film"
Respondent:: Mark Eaton (Azusa Pacific University)

R20: Special Event: Screening R

Room:

Keepers of the Frame

(Mark McLaughlin, USA, 1999, 70 min)

Sponsors: Media Archives Committee, Chicago Audio Works, Inc.

R21: Special Event: Meeting R

Room: