Preliminary Conference Program
2010 SCMS Conference
SCMS at 50/LA: Archiving the Future/Mobilizing the Past

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Schedule of Events At A Glance

 

Wed, March 17

8:00 -
9:45 am

Session A

10:00 -
11:45 am

Session B

12:00 noon -
1:45 pm

Session C

2:00 -
3:45 pm

Session D

4:00 -
5:45 pm

Session E

6:00 -
7:45 pm

Session F

Thu, March 18

8:00 -
9:45 am

Session G

10:00 -
11:45 am

Session H

12:00 noon -
1:45 pm

Session I

2:00 -
3:45 pm

Session J

4:00 -
5:45 pm

Session K

6:00 -
7:30 pm

Awards Ceremony

Fri, March 19

8:00 -
9:45 am

Session L

10:00 -
11:45 am

Session M

12:00 noon -
1:45 pm

Members Business Meeting

2:00 -
3:45 pm

Session N

4:00 -
5:45 pm

Session O

Sat, March 20

8:00 -
9:45 am

Session P

10:00 -
11:45 am

Session Q

12:00 noon -
1:45 pm

Session R

2:00 -
3:45 pm

Session S

4:00 -
5:45 pm

Session T

6:00 -
7:30 pm

Plenary

Sun, March 21

8:00 -
9:45 am

Session U

10:00 -
11:45 am

Session V

12:00 noon -
1:45 pm

Session W

2:00 -
3:45 pm

Session X

 

Program Sessions



Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:00-9:45 am (Session A)

A1: Film and Digital Form

Room:

Chair: Seung-hoon Jeong (Yale University)

Matthew Tinkcom (Georgetown University), "Primer and Digital Time: On the DVD, Value and Recursivity"
Eser Selen (New York University), "Re/booting Binaries: What is Old in the New Media?""
Seung-hoon Jeong (Yale University), "A Spectatorial Turn of Digital Indexicality"

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A2: Sex and Politics

Room:

Chair: Carol Siegel (Washington State University-Vancouver)

Hoang Tan Nguyen (Byrn Mawr College), "Bottom Dwelling: Sexual Shame and Racial Politics"
Patrick Boyle (University of California, Irvine), "Corporeal Acts, Fleshly Desire, and Ideological Restraints: Performance and Colonial Discourse in Ang Lees 'Lust, Caution'"
Nancy McVittie (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "Sending Camp to Kids: Youth Audiences and the Queer Politics of Paul Reubens and John Waters"
Carol Siegel (Washington State University-Vancouver), "Make Relationships Not War: The Place of Sexuality in Anti-war Films in 1968 and Now"

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A3: Perspectives on Authorship and Production

Room:

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

Eva Redvall (University of Copenhagen), "The Collaborating Auteur: The Introduction of New Collaborative Screenwriting Practices in Danish Feature Filmmaking after Dogma 95"
Jecheol Park (University of Southern California), "Anticipating a Postnational Community to Come: A New Aesthetic in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon"
Mark Minett (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Rethinking Television Style and Authorship: Robert Altman, Troubleshooters, and Combat!"
Shu Ching Chan (University of Texas, Austin), "Housekeepers of Hong Kong Cinema"

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A4: Workshop: Workshop: Erotic Activism: Rethinking Politics in Pornography and Autopornography

Room:

Chair: Mireille Miller-Young (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Workshop Participants:
Katrien Jacobs (City University of Hong Kong)
Celine P. Shimizu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Zeb Tortorici (University of California, Los Angeles)
Mireille Miller-Young (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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A5: Fatal Frames

Room:

Chair: Genevieve Yue (University of Southern California)
Co-chair: William Huber (University of California, San Diego)

William Huber (University of California, San Diego), "A Gamerly Uncanny: The Play-Aesthetics of 'Fatal Frame II'"
Laura Hoeger (University of California, San Diego), "Ghastly Multiplication: Twins and Horror in 'Fatal Frame II': Crimson Butterfly"
Genevieve Yue (University of Southern California), "The Sensitive Medium: Remediating Spirit Photography in the 'Fatal Frame'"
Chera Kee (University of Southern California), "Framing the Living and the Dead: 'Fatal Frame', Ghost Hunting and the Camera"
Respondent: Ian Bogost (The Georgia Institute of Technology)

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A6: Television Aesthetics/Television Theory

Room:

Chair: Evan Lieberman (Cleveland State University)

Grant Bollmer (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Jacques and Gilles Watch Some Television"
Steven Peacock (University of Hertfordshire), "The Absence of Stylistic Criticism in Television Studies"
Jason Jacobs (University of Queensland), "Sufficient Achievement? Television Aesthetics and Film Criticism"
Evan Lieberman (Cleveland State University), "Building the Story City: 'The Wire' as Matrix Narrative"

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A7: Workshop: Teaching Film and TV Theory to Undergraduate Students

Room:

Chair: Harry Benshoff (University of North Texas)
Co-chair: Louise Spence (Kadir Has University-Istanbul)

Workshop Participants:
Dudley Andrew (Yale University)
Karen Vered (Flinders University)
Sean Griffin (Southern Methodist University)
David Lugowski (Manhattanville College)

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A8: Exhibition, Distribution, Marketing

Room:

Chair: Soojeong Ahn (Korea National University of Arts)

Vinnie Yu (Goldsmiths, University of London), "The Social Practices of Contemporary Taiwanese Audiences Cinemagoing in the Digital Era"
Colleen Laird (University of Oregon), "The F1-sou and Girls Style Cinema: Selling Independent Female Filmmakers in Japan"
Chris Robinson (University of Kansas), "The Exotic, the Universal, and the Art-House Gross: East-West Relations and Marketing Japanese Film to Foreign Audiences, 1951-1957"
Soojeong Ahn (Korea National University of Arts), "Why Pusan?: The Political Economy of the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea"

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A9: Revisiting Europes Past: Japanese Anime Travelogues in Europe and the Future of Japanese Animation

Room:

Chair: Enrique Garcia (Middlebury College)

Jinying Li (New York Universiry), "A European Past vs. a Futurist Tokyo: Mapping the Global Trajectory of Japanese Anime through Narrative Settings"
Nikolina Dobreva (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Monarchy or Republic?: 18th Century European Elites and Nationalism in the Japanese Anime 'Le Chevalier Deon'"
Matthew Penney (Concordia University), "Wartime Germany and "Multidirectional Memory" in 'Space Battleship Yamato'"
Enrique Garcia (Middlebury College), "'Naoki Urasawas Monster': An Ideological Travelogue Through Post-cold War Europe"

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A10: Poetics of Cinema

Room:

Chair: Mark Betz (King's College, University of London)

Silvia Carlorosi (University of Maryland), "Tracing A Trajectory of a Poetic Camera: From Michelangelo Antonioni to Franco Piavoli"
Johanna Lundstrm Gondouin (Stockholm University), "Cinematic and Literary Indexicality: On Bresson and Short Story Theories"
Laura Ivins-Hulley (Indiana University), "The Surrealism of Jan vakmajer: A Self-Consuming Mythos"
Mark Betz (King\'s College, University of London), "Beyond Europe: The Parametric Tradition"

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A11: War, Power, Politics and the Subject

Room:

Chair: Patrick Gerster (San Jose City College)

Darrell Hamamoto (University of California, Davis), "Tenuous Citizenship: From A Silk Cocoon and State Power"
Matthew Ramsey (Salve Regina University), "Carving Up Europe: Inter-war European and Minority Politics in Edgar G. Ulmer's Moon Over Harlem"
Mark Martinez (University of Minnesota), "Eye am Iron Man: Self-fashioning, Militarized Technological Innovation, and the Ethics of Impaired Vision"
Patrick Gerster (San Jose City College), "Screening the Past via the Theatre of War: Tora, Tora, Tora and the Military Entertainment Complex"

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A12: Deterritorializing the Past: History, Deleuze and Cinema

Room:

Chair: Yun-hua Chen (University of St Andrews)

Yun-hua Chen (University of St Andrews), "Layered Space and Folded Time in Three Times (2005)"
Anna Rogers (University of Edinburgh), "Deconstructing The Western: Jim Jarmuschs Dead Man (1994)"
Justin Horton (Georgia State University), "'What Do You See?': Bazin, Deleuze, and David Gordon Greens GEORGE WASHINGTON"
Serazer Pekerman (University of St Andrews), "Negotiation of Borders and History in European Surveillance Films"

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A13: Genre and the Transnational: Audiovisual Futures in the Asia-Pacific

Room:

Chair: Michelle Cho (University of California, Irvine)

Michelle Cho (University of California, Irvine), "The Negative Hermeneutics of Genre in the Films of Kim Ji-Woon"
Kim Icreverzi (University of California, Irvine), "The Sensation of Affect: Genre and Tactics of Spectatorship"
Theresa Geller (Grinnell College), "Borderless Postmodernism: Nikkatsu Action Cinema and the Rise of Transnational Noir"
Sunhee Han (Yonsei University), "Digital Cinema as a Generic Form and the Role of Film Festivals"

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A14: Issues in European Cinema

Room:

Chair: Paulo Granja (University of Coimbra)

Paulo Granja (University of Coimbra), "For a New Cinema: Modernism, Realism and the New Portuguese Cinema"
Amy Borden (University of Pittsburgh), "What Does the Country Teach?: Tracing the Rural Pre-history of Michael Hanekes 'Cach and Bennys Video'"
Shelleen Greene (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "'Il Mulatto': Representing Mixed-race Identity in the Italian Post-war Film"
Paulo Cunha (Universidade de Coimbra), "The Cinphile Tourism and the New Portuguese Cinema"

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A15: Time/Image/Memory

Room:

Chair: Kevin Fisher (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Margaret Flinn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Theorizing Interactive Cinema: The Moving Image Shared and Divided"
Susana Duarte (IFL, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), "The Political Unconscious of the Audiovisual Archive"
Brenda McDermott (University of Calgary), "Past, Present and Puppets: The role of DVD technology in solidifying televisions role in the creation of popular memory."
Kevin Fisher (University of Otago, New Zealand), "The Historicity of Time Machines and the Contraction of the Present in 'Timecrimes'"

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A16: An Archaelogy of Asian Screen Representation and the Display of Oriental (De)cadence: Assessing the Future of Global Hollywood

Room:

Chair: Lindy Leong (UCLA/Purchase College, SUNY)

Benjamin Min Han (New York University), "The Kim Sisters and American Television"
Jinhee Choi (University of Kent, UK), "Inter-Lingual Translation and Epistemic Risk: Reflections on Multinational Casts and Dubbing in Asian Co-Productions"
Lindy Leong (UCLA/Purchase College, SUNY), "Bangkok Dangerous and the SE Asian (Dis)connection: Inscrutability and Resistance in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the Thai New Wave"
Respondent: Hyung-Sook Lee (Ewha Woman\'s University)

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

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A17: New Perspectives on Iranian Cinema: Cinematic Space, Gender, Historical Introspection, and Diasporic Cinema

Room:

Chair: Hossein Khosrowjah (University of Rochester)

Maryam Kashani (University of Texas, Austin), "Going Back and then Returning: Iranian Diasporic Filmmakings Trends and Tribulations"
Narges Bajoghli (University of Chicago), "The Outcasts: Reforming the Internal Other by Returning to the Ideals of the Revolution"
Chris Lippard (University of Utah), "The Architecture of Desired Spaces in Recent Iranian Cinema"
Gayatri Devi (Lock Haven University-Pennsylvania), "Feminist Documentary and the Reformist Space in Rakhshan Bani-Etemads Our Times"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:00-11:45 am (Session B)

B1: Sound Cinema

Room:

Chair: Erik Hedling (Lund University)

Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh), "Banana Oil!: Reflections on Overdubbing, Synchronicity, and Sound Theory in 'J-Men Forever'"
Aaron Kerner (San Francisco State University), "Like Fingernails Scratching a Chalkboard: Ugly Sounds"
Joseph Kickasola (Baylor University), "The Mobile Muse: Wireless Sound, Musique Concrte, and Bicameral Experience in Kieślowskis Le Double Vie de Vronique"
Erik Hedling (Lund University), "Music, Lust, and Modernity: Jazz in the Early Films of Ingmar Bergman"

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B2: Race and Cultural Critique

Room:

Chair: Corin Willis (Liverpool John Moores University)

Jacqueline Stewart (Northwestern University), "Dirty Gerties: Humor and Gender in the Films of Spencer Williams"
Catherine Jurca (California Institute of Technology), "Marginal Movie-Goers: Public Relations, Ethnicity, and Race in Motion Pictures' Greatest Year (1938)"
Ryan DeRosa (Ohio University), "Against the New "Culture of Poverty": Multiculturalism and Militancy in Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke"
Corin Willis (Liverpool John Moores University), "Resisting Race: Seeing African-American actors in The Birth of a Nation"

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B3: New Media Networks: Imagined Networks

Room:

Chair: Wendy Chun (Brown University)

Mark Poster (University of California, Irvine), "Digital and Analogue Networks"
A. Saab (University of Rochester), "The Future of the Networks of the Past: Taxco Mexico, 1931"
Lisa Parks (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Signals and Oil: Satellite Footprints in Post-communist Territories of Central Asia"
Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne), "Distributed Light"

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B4: Workshop: Teaching Japanese Cinema and Media Outside Japan: A Pedagogical Workshop

Room:

Chair: Ted Hovet (Western Kentucky University)

Workshop Participants:
Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame)
David Desser (University of Illinois)
Susan Napier (Tufts University)
Stephen Prince (Virginia Tech University)

Sponsor: This Workshop Session is dedicated to the memory of friend and collegue Keiko McDonald

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B5: Avant-garde Performance

Room:

Chair: Christopher Sieving (University of Georgia)

Liza Palmer (University of North Carolina-Wilmington), "'Dog Star' Woman: Jane (Brakhage) Wodening and the Mountain Woman Aesthetic""
Marc Siegel (Freie Universitt, Berlin), "The Performances and Film Diaries of Taylor Mead"
Carlos Kase (USC/Loyola Marymount University), "Lights, Like an Attack: Paul Sharits and the Cinema of Sensory Aggression"
Christopher Sieving (University of Georgia), "Perfect Filmic Appositeness: Edie Sedgwick and (Super) Stardom in Sixties Underground Cinema"

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B6: Digital Documentary

Room:

Chair: Kurt Lancaster (Northern Arizona University)

Jia Tan (University of Southern California), "Experimental Image-making in an Urbanization Experiment: U-theque Organization and Contemporary Video Practices in Pearl River Delta Region"
Dan Leopard (Saint Mary's College of California), "The Simulation/World, the Human/Document: Documentary Studies and New Media Theory"
Juan Rodriguez (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Havana Online: Virtual Communities, Urban Imaginaries and Documentary in the Digital Age."
Kurt Lancaster (Northern Arizona University), "Video Journalists and the Birth of Web Documentaries"

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B7: Site of War, State of Mind Cinematic Consequences of Total War Part I: Superpower Visions Of War Out There

Room:

Chair: Rikke Schubart (University of Southern Denmark)

Robert Burgoyne (University of St Andrews), "Suicide in the War Film: Haunting, Possession and Meconnaissance in Letters From Iwo Jima, and Paradise Now"
Corey Creekmur (University of Iowa), "Death From (Far) Above: Watching the War on Terror from a Safe Distance"
Rikke Schubart (University of Southern Denmark), "Putting Adventure Back Into War: Kingdom of Heaven, the Epic Film, and the War In Iraq"
Luis M. Garca-Mainar (Universidad de Zaragoza), "Its Not All About War: A Mighty Heart and Generic and Ideological Complexity in Contemporary Hollywood War Melodrama"
Anne Gjelsvik (Norwegian University of Science & Technology), "Victory Has a Hundred Fathers, But Defeat is an Orphan The Valley of Elah and the Failure of the Father"

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B8: Silent Cinema

Room:

Chair: Kevin Sweeney (University of Tampa)

Brian Jacobson (University of Southern California), "Factories of Vision/Visionary Factories: Early Cinema, Technology, and the Modern Built Environment"
Paul Young (Vanderbilt University), "Thomas Ince's Civil War and the Black Forest of Naturalism"
Shiori Hasegawa (Tsukuba University), "Sensetional Africa: How Selig Company Celebrates the Panama Exposition"
Michael T. Williams (University of Southampton), "The Undying Past: Stars, Symmetry and History in Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, 1926)"
Kevin Sweeney (University of Tampa), "Narrative Agency and Womens Dual-character Roles in Hollywood Silent Cinema"

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B9: Representations of Gender in Philippine Cinema

Room:

Chair: David Corpuz (Don Bosco Technical College)

Roehl Jamon (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "The Women of Fernando Poe, Jr.: Portrayals of Women in FPJ Films"
Jose Gutierrez III (University of the Philippines Film Institute ), "Images of the Mother in Lino Brocka Films: 1970-1991"
David Corpuz (Don Bosco Technical College), "The Gay Film According to Cris Pablo"
Paulo Formalejo (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "Philippine Cinema Imaging of the Filipino Lesbian"

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B10: Floralism: Early Cinema, Flourishing Attractions, and the Liberty Era

Room:

Chair: Eric de Kuyper (Independent Scholar & Artist)

Victoria Duckett (University of Melbourne), "'La Dame aux Camlias': Flowers, Floralism, and Third Wave Japonism in early French Film"
Massimo Locatelli (Universit Cattolica, Brescia), "The Blue Flowers of Romanticism: Early Film Theory and the New Medium of Film"
Elena Mosconi (Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano), "Saying it with Flowers: The Iconography of the Rose in Early Italian Diva Film"

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B11: Media Convergence and Transition in the New Europe

Room:

Chair: Aniko Imre (University of Southern California)

Aniko Imre (University of Southern California) and Ioana Uricaru (University of Southern California), "Post-Socialist Neoliberalism and Reality TV"
Neda Atanasoski (University of California, Santa Cruz), "New Media, New Europe, and Roma Rights: The Role of Internet Technologies in Shaping Minority and Human Rights Discourses in Post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe"
Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University), "Re-wiring the Other Europe"
Alice Bardan (University of Southern California), "Convergence and Supplementarity: Spectatorship and Online Communities in Contemporary Romania"

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B12: Decentering Theory: The Case of Japanese Film Theory

Room:

Chair: Aaron Gerow (Yale University)

Aaron Gerow (Yale University), "Theory Questioning Theory: Gonda, Nagae and Matsuda and the Strategies of Japanese Film Theory"
Naoki Yamamoto (Meiji Gakuin University), "Overcome by Reality: A Critical Approach to Realist Film Theories in Prewar Japan"
Patrick Noonan (University of California, Berkeley), "The Alterity of Cinema: Subjectivity, Self-negation, and Self-realization in Yoshida Kijs Film Theory"
Ryan Cook (Yale University), "Strange Bedfellows: shima Nagisa, Hasumi Shigehiko and Japanese Film Theory circa 1980"

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B13: Transnational Asian Cinema

Room:

Chair: Christina Klein (Boston College)

Jane Park (University of Sydney), "Remaking the Korean Blockbuster: A Case Study of 'My Sassy Girl'"
Sean Metzger (Duke University), "Cui Zien, Queer Cinema and Transnational Distribution"
Kukhee Choo (National University of Singapore/ University of Tokyo), "Playing the Global Game: Tokyo, the Anime Industry, and Nation State in 'Tekkon Kinkreet' (2006)"
Christina Klein (Boston College), "Transnational Anime: Michael Arias 'Tekkon Kinkkreet'"

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B14: Reconfiguring African Cinema at 50

Room:

Chair: Sheila Petty (University of Regina)

Anny Dominique Curtius (University of Iowa), "Reframing a New Aesthetic and a New Genre for African Cinema: Abderrahmane Sissakos Bamako"
Alexie Tcheuyap (University of Toronto), "African Cinema and Genre Theory"
Sada Niang (University of Victoria), "Nationalist Aesthetics in African Cinema: S History Revisited"
Sheila Petty (University of Regina), "African, Woman or Both: The Importance of Women Directors in African Cinema"

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B15: Korean Cinema History

Room:

Chair: Hyongshin Kim (University of Southern California)

Nam Lee (Chapman University ), "Towards a Minjung Aesthetics: Lee Jang-ho and the 1980s Korean New Wave Cinema"
Peter Paik (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Between Authoritarianism and Democracy: The Tragic Art of Park Chan-wook"
Young Eun Chae (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), "Capturing Japanese Colonialism in Recent South Korean Blockbuster Films: Postcolonial Trauma in 2009 Lost Memories (2002, Lee Si-Myung) and Hanbando (2006, Kang Woosuk)"
Hyongshin Kim (University of Southern California), "Korean Cinema during the Colonial Period"

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B16: Neglected Romcoms

Room:

Chair: Tamar Jeffers McDonald (University of Kent)

Hilary Radner (University of Otago), "Nancy Myers: Romantic Comedy and the Neglected Neo-feminist Auteur"
Pamela Church Gibson (University of the Arts London), "Teenage Romcoms Commercial Popularity and Critical Distaste"
Walter Metz (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), "Bringing Out the Animal in Him: Nature Studies and Romantic Comedy"
Tamar Jeffers McDonald (University of Kent), "Romantic Comedy and Generic Hybridity"

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B17: Workshop: 'Dumbing Down' in Cinema and Media Studies: Historical Politics and Contemporary Practices

Room:

Chair: Kevin Sandler (Arizona State University)

Workshop Participants:
Gayatri Devi (Lock Haven University-Pennsylvania)
Terri Ginsberg (International Council for Middle East Studies)
Hossein Khosrowjah (University of Rochester)
Mark Langer (Carleton University)
Frank Tomasulo (Florida State University)

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus, Teaching Committee, Caucus on Class, and Asian Pacific American Caucus

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:00 noon - 1:45 pm (Session C)

C1: Fifty Years of Cinema Studies, Fifty Years After Film Noir

Room:

Chair: William Luhr (Saint Peter\'s College)

William Luhr (Saint Peter's College), "Setting, Time, and Genre in The Big Lebowski"
David Sterritt (Long Island University), "Twilight in Tokyo: Ozu, Hollywood, and the Poetics of Film Noir"
Tijana Mamula (King's College London), "Dead Words, Dead Ends and Delusions: Borderline Dilemmas in Sunset Boulevard and Detour"
Krin Gabbard (State University of New York-Stony Brook), "The Vanishing Love Song in Film Noir"

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C2: Girls and Their Media

Room:

Chair: Sarah Projansky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Donna de Ville (Concordia University), "'Joanie4Jackie': The Democratic Distribution and Archiving of Girls Video"
Nicholas de Villiers (University of North Florida), "Annos Camera-Eye: Sexuality, Youth, and Inoculation"
Mary Wiles (University of Canterbury), "Moving on from Downstage and the 1960s Radio Play: The Resonant Theatricality of Jane Campions 'A Girls Own Story'"
Sarah Projansky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Feminist Girls' Media Studies and the Politics of (the Study of) Representation"

Sponsor: Women's Film History Project

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C3: Workshop: Teaching Black Film and Media Today

Room:

Chair: Jacqueline Stewart (Northwestern University)
Co-chair: Kara Keeling (University of Southern California)

Workshop Participants:
Frances Gateward (Ursinus College)
Miriam Petty (Princeton University)
Beretta Smith-Shomade (Tulane University)
Karen Bowdre (Indiana University)

Sponsor: African/African American Caucus

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C4: Workshop: Something Lost, Something Gained

Room:

Chair: Richard Abel (University of Michigan)

Workshop Participants:
Kaveh Askari (University of California-Berkeley)
Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh)
Laura Isabel Serna (University of California, Los Angeles)
Sheila Skaff (Hunter College)

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C5: Performing Under Duress: Voice, Expression, and Cultural Struggle in Hitchcocks Films

Room:

Chair: Susan White (University of Arizona)

Debra White-Stanley (Keene State College), "Hitchcock and Espionage: Gender, Surveillance, Audio-vision"
Erika Balsom (Brown University), "Remaking Fetishism, Fetishizing Cinema: The Hitchcock of Contemporary Art"
Mike Kolakoski (University of Arizona), "Point of Hearing: Haunted (Female) Psyches and Hitchcocks Narrative Use of Displaced Sound"
Susan White (University of Arizona), "A Hawk From a Handsaw: Performance and Theatricality in Hitchcocks American Films"

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C6: On Motion Capture: Technologies and Theories of Digital Kinesthesia in the Moving Image

Room:

Chair: Jenna Ng (Ume University )

Trond Lundemo (University of Stockholm), "Motion Capture and Video Compression: Pattern Recognition Techniques in the Digital Moving Image"
Jenna Ng (Ume University ), "Crossing Space-Time-Action: Motion Capture and the Ontology of Performance in Happy Feet"

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C7: Site of War, State of Mind: Cinematic Consequences of Total War, Part II: Terror, Training, and Total War Back Home

Room:

Chair: Andrew Douglas (Bryn Mawr Film Institute/Cabrini College)

Tricia Jenkins (Texas Christian University), "We Have Nothing to Fear but . . . the Media and the Government?: American Television and the Spirit of Total War"
Carter Soles (University of Oregon), "Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight (2008) as Neoconservative War Propaganda"
Andrew Douglas (Bryn Mawr Film Institute/Cabrini College), "Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn: Batman, Bush, and the War on Terror"
Karen Hall (Syracuse University), "Never Surrender: The Last Samurai as Training for Total Defeat"
Respondent: Robert Burgoyne (University of St Andrews)

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C8: The Economics, Politics, and Art of Film Festivals

Room:

Chair: Lisa Dombrowski (Wesleyan University)
Co-chair: James Udden (Gettysburg College)

Ramona Curry (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Working Locally, Watching Globally: Origins and Impact of the San Francisco International Film Festival"
Cindy Wong (College of Staten Island-City Univ. of New York), "Beyond Electric Shadows: The Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Globalization of Chinese Language Cinemas-"
James Udden (Gettysburg College), "Political Pariahs, Festival Faves: Taiwan, Iran and the Cinematic Art of Cultural Diplomacy"
Lisa Dombrowski (Wesleyan University), "Bringing Festival Cinema Back Home: IFCs First Take and Fest Direct"

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C9: Zoom in Cinematic China of the 1990s: The Local-global Uncanny on Multiple Displays

Room:

Chair: Ping Fu (Towson University)

Ping Fu (Towson University), "Encircling the City: Chinese Farmers on Screen"
Kai-man Chang (University of Tulsa), "Taipei Families Inside Out: Sexual Mobility in Three Taiwanese Films of the 1990s"
Wai Luk Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University), "Hong Kong Cinema in the 1990s: Themes and Aesthetics of Cultural Positioning in a Changing Time"
Dennis Broe (Long Island University), "Jia Zhangke's 'Still Life' and the Dialectics of Chinese Globalization"

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

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C10: A Cinematic Bestiary: The Animal in Film and Philosophy

Room:

Chair: Andrey Gordienko (University of California, Los Angeles)

Andr Dias (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), "Autopsy in vivo: Biopolitical Features Regarding Wisemans 'Primate'"
Agustin Zarzosa (Purchase College), "Pencils Senseless Death, Valentines Unspeakable Crime, and the Incongruous Animal Melodrama"
Pooja Rangan (Brown University), "Auto/matic Ethnography: Indexing the Animal in Recent Artworks"
Andrey Gordienko (University of California, Los Angeles), "To Live and Die like an Animal: The Sovereign Hero in Kihachi Okamotos The 'Sword of Doom'"

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C11: Video/Digital Art

Room:

Chair: Domietta Torlasco (Northwestern University)

Katherine Guinness (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "German Video Art and the Politics of Digital Reproduction"
Dale Hudson (Texas State UniversitySan Marcos), "Globalizations Networks and Interfaces: New Media Art and Online Digital Video"
Alla Gadassik (Northwestern University), "Salut, Emile! Animated Performance in the Digital Circuit"
Domietta Torlasco (Northwestern University), "Digital Memory (After Douglas Gordon)"

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C12: The Reality/Fiction Paradigm in Contemporary Spanish Film and Television

Room:

Chair: Paul Julian Smith (University of Cambridge)
Co-chair: Norberto Mnguez-Arranz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Marsha Kinder (University of Southern California), "Database Documentary in Spain: Eroding the Lines between History, Home Movies, and Fiction"
Norberto Mnguez-Arranz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), "Detours from the Real: Fake Documentary in Spanish Film and Television"
Paul Julian Smith (University of Cambridge), "Hybrid Fictions: Spanish Television Comedy between Soap Opera and Pseudo-documentary"

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C13: Interrogating Queer Spaces in Asian Cinema

Room:

Chair: Patricia White (Swarthmore College)

Jose Capino (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Naked Brown Brothers: The Politics of Exhibitionism and the Erotics of Festival Cinema"
Akiko Mizoguchi (Hosei University), "Reading and Living Yaoi: Male-Male Fantasy Narratives as Womens Sexual Subculture in Japan"
Jeffery Tan (University of Cambridge), "Exploiting Lesbianism: The Shaw Studios 'Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan'"
Patricia White (Swarthmore College), "Asian Lesbian Directors and Trans/national Spaces"

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C14: Latsploitation: Exploitation Cinema and Latin America

Room:

Chair: Andy Willis (University of Salford)

Andy Willis (University of Salford), "The Transatlantic Exploitation Cinema of Len Klimovsky"
Gerard Dapena (Macalester College), "Emilio Vieyra: Argentina's Transnational Master of Horror"
Adn Avalos (University of Southern California), "The Narco in Mexican Film: La banda del carro rojo, Border Cinema and Migrant Audiences"
Andrew Syder (Florida State University), "I Wonder Who the Real Cannibals Are: Latin America and Colonialism in European Exploitation Cinema"

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

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C15: Approaching the Past/Present/Future: Cinematic Time Travels

Room:

Chair: Rene Bruckner (University of Southern California)

John Lessard (University of the Pacific), "The Time is Out of Joint: Modernity, Egypt, and Hamlets Legacies in the Cinema of Youssef Chahine"
Michael Dwyer (Syracuse University), "Back to the Fifties: Time Travel in the Reagan Era"
Rene Bruckner (University of Southern California), "Stillness and Historical Objects ('Portrait of Jennie, La Jete', 2046)"
Savi Munjal (University of Delhi), "Politicising Fantasy/Fantasizing Politics: Narrative (Inter)Play in Guillermo Del Toros 'Pans Labyrinth'"

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C16: The Discourses of Early Hollywood: New Histories of an Industry in Transition

Room:

Chair: Charlie Keil (University of Toronto)

Charlie Keil (University of Toronto), "Hollywood, Land of Stars: The Shifting Focus of the Motion Picture Press in the 1910s"
Mark Lynn Anderson (University of Pittsburgh), "Hollywood Pay Dirt: The Discourse on Star Salaries, 1918-1923"
John Marx (University of California, Davis), "How Hollywood Invented the English Novel"
Shelley Stamp (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Lois Weber in Jazz Age Hollywood Re-writing the Script"

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C17: Television, Authorship, and the Creative Process

Room:

Chair: Norma Coates (University of Western Ontario)

Norma Coates (University of Western Ontario), "The Mad Monk Who Invented Television Music: Jack Good as Cultural Interloper"
Karen Vered (Flinders University), "Early Australian TV Variety: A Heterogeneous Aesthetic in a Non-networked Industry"
Heather Hendershot (Queens College-City University of New York), "Masters of Horror: TV Auteurism and the Progressive Potential of a Disreputable Genre"
Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Television Authorship: Streaming Seriality, Sound, and the Problem of the Paradigmatic Text"

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:00-3:45 pm (Session D)

D1: The Future of Germany's Cinematic Pasts

Room:

Chair: Brigitta Wagner (Indiana University)

Barton Byg (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Narrating Nation: Ruptures, Continuities and Turning Points in German Cinema"
Brigitta Wagner (Indiana University), "Retrospectives and the Revival of Place"
William Martin (University of Chicago), "Rethinking Post-war German Film Comedy"
Tobias Nagl (University of Western Ontario), "Ethnography, Performance and Hybridity in the Weimar Racial Film"

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D2: Race, Space and Mobility

Room:

Chair: Ashley White-Stern (University of California, Berkeley)

Michele Beverly (Georgia State University), "The Future of Black Representational Space"
Susan Brennan (Ohio State University), "Chronotopic Schemas and the Reorganization of Space and Time after 9/11: Mapping Citizenship in the Cinematic Adaptation of Lahiris 'The Namesake'"
Joshua Gleich (University of Texas, Austin), "Jim Brown: Heroic Integration and Re-segregation in 'The Dirty Dozen and 100 Rifles'"
Ashley White-Stern (University of California, Berkeley), "The Invisibility of Mobility Does Not Stasis Make: The Case of Class in Charles Burnett's 'Killer of Sheep'"

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D3: Stars/Performance

Room:

Chair: Andy Horton (University of Oklahoma)

Deane Williams (Monash University, Melbourne), "Performance Poetics in Sean Penns The Indian Runner (1991)"
Michele Torre (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), "A Reel Woman: Zoia Barantsevich Makes Her Mark in the Movies"
Alexander Doty (Indiana University), "Elizabeth Taylor: The Biggest Star in the World"
Andy Horton (University of Oklahoma), "Ernie Kovacs Cinematic Roles on the Big Screen"

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D4: Workshop: Workshop: Experimental and Avant-garde Cinema and Education

Room:

Chair: Tammy Ko Robinson (San Francisco Art Institute)
Co-chair: Sudarat Musikawong (Siena College)

Workshop Participants:
Won-Tae Seo (HanYang University)
Tomonari Nishikawa (State University of New York, Binghamton)
Chalida Uabumrungjit (Thai Film Foundation)

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D5: Mobile Navigations

Room:

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

Sarah Keller (Colby College), "Space of Face: Portable Technology and the Close Up"
Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam), "Mediations of the Iraq War: Ethics in the Vortex of Multiple Screen Aesthetics in Contemporary Cinema"
Jeong Chang (University of Oregon), "Mobile Phones and Mobile Relationships: Telecommunications and the Network of Care in Take Care of My Cat"
William Boddy (Baruch College-The City University of New York), "Every Face Counts: Ubiquity, Mobility, and Surveillance in Contemporary Out-of-Home Media"

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D6: Early Visual Education

Room:

Chair: Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba)

Louis Pelletier (Concordia University), "Popular Perception of the Newsreel and the Legitimation of Film"
Abigail Salerno (Duke University), "Helen Keller and the Silent Cinema"
Alison Griffiths (Baruch College-The City University of New York), "Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s/30s"

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D7: Imagining the Urban I: Urban Fantasy

Room:

Chair: Sabine Haenni (Cornell University)

Ken Feil (Emerson College), "Sex, Comedy and the City: Kiss Me Stupid, What's New, Pussycat? and Metropolitan Taste"
Paula Massood (Brooklyn College-City University of New York), "Imagining a Promised Land: (The Historical Precedents of) Recent Gangster Films Set in Harlem"
Katherine Lawrie Van de Ven (University of California, Los Angeles), "Dramatic Loft Living: Gentrification in the Contemporary Cinematic City"
Pamela Wojcik (University of Notre Dame), "Whose Urbanism? The Black Apartment as Urban Critique"

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D8: Workshop: The Art and Politics of Film Festival Programming

Room:

Chair: Liz Czach (University of Alberta)

Workshop Participants:
B. Ruby Rich (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Kay Armatage (University of Toronto)
Liz Czach (University of Alberta)
Diane Burgess (Simon Fraser University)

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D9: Conflicted Visions: Japanese Icons of the Past and Present

Room:

Chair: Lindsay Nelson (University of Southern California)

Lindsay Nelson (University of Southern California), "Little Monsters: Modernity, Media, and the Figure of the Child in Contemporary Japanese Cinema"
Ken Provencher (University of Southern California), "Japans Reluctant Visitor: Sayonara and Postwar Transnational Cinema"
Yuka Kanno (University of California, Irvine), "Implicational Spectatorship: Hara Setsuko and Queer Visual Formation"
Respondent: Chika Kinoshita (University of Western Ontario)

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D10: Film Issues

Room:

Chair: Will Brooker (Kingston University)

Eivind Rssaak (The National Library, Norway), "The New Disorder of the Archives, or How Film Revolutionized the Archontic Principle"
Jason Roberts (Northwestern University), "More Than, Less Than, Equal To: Critical Responses to the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies, 1998/2007"
Sheila Murphy (University of Michigan), "LOLTheoryReimaging Theory for the New Media Age"
Will Brooker (Kingston University), "Welcome to Tomorrowland: Filming the Science Fiction City from Camera-Eye to CG-Eye"

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D11: Origins of Animation

Room:

Chair: Casey Riffel (University of Southern California)
Co-chair: Annie Manion (University of Southern California)

Casey Riffel (University of Southern California), "Origin Stories: Animation and Animalization in the Work of Winsor McCay"
Annie Manion (University of Southern California), "Discourses of Japaneseness: Animation, Modernity, and National Identity"
Lora Mjolsness (University of California, Irvine), "The Brumberg Sisters: The Early Years of Soviet Animation"
Respondent: Lucy Fischer (University of Pittsburgh)

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D12: TV Wikinomics: Production Studies of the Post-network Workplace

Room:

Chair: Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Denise Mann (University of California, Los Angeles), "Transmedia Czars & TV Wikinomics: Whos Orchestrating Collectivity on 'Heroes 360'?"
Jonathan Lupo (Colorado State University), "Pay for Gay: Launching and Branding Logo and Here! in the Age of Narrowcasting"
Kevin Sandler (Arizona State University) and Daniel Bernardi (Arizona State University), "Episodomy: 'The Shield', FX, and Production Culture Studies"
Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Authorship Up for Grabs: Television Showrunners, Franchises, and the Negotiation of Networked Creativity"

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D13: Asian-Pacific Cinemas: Distribution and Reception

Room:

Chair: Ruby Cheung (University of St Andrews)

Yun Mi Hwang (University of St Andrews), "Contested History and Reception of East Asian Martial Arts Epics"
Ruby Cheung (University of St Andrews), "From 'The Warlords to Red Cliff': The Politics of Film Promotion in the Asia-Pacific and the Diasporic Chinese Online Fandom"
Daniel Martin (Queen's University Belfast), "Hype, Censorship and Critical Controversy: Kim Ki-duk in the UK"
Mary Ainslie (Manchester Metropolitan University), "Post-war Thai Cinema: A Traditional Art Form of Colonialism"

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

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D14: Mobilizing the Ethical Collective: New Practices in Palestinian and Israeli Documentaries and Digital Media

Room:

Chair: Chris Lippard (University of Utah)

Azadeh Saljooghi (American University, Dubai), "Guerilla Archive: Praxis of Citizen Journalism"
Raya Morag (Hebrew University), "Current Israeli Documentary Cinema and the Trauma of the Perpetrators"
Yael Friedman (University of Westminster), "Negotiations with the Past in Contemporary Palestinian Filmmaking in Israel"
Candice Haddad (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "An Electronic Intifada?: Examining the Facebook Network Controversy of Drawing Digital Palestinian and Israeli Borders"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

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D15: East Meets Far East: Media Issues between Korea and the Philippines

Room:

Chair: Joel David (Inha University)

Jongsuk Ham (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "Unstable Boundaries between Visual Pleasure and Identification in MMORPGs: A Comparison of Korean and Philippine Players' Experiences"
Taeyun Yu (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "Eastern Gunslingers: Andrew Cunanan and Cho Seung-Hui in the Western Media Imaginary"
Joel David (Inha University), "Problems and Prospects in the National Cinemas of Korea and the Philippines"
Chanhee Yom (SungKongHoe University), "Cold War National Formations in the Cinemas of Korea and the Philippines"

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D16: Michelangelo Antonioni: His Life and Legacy

Room:

Chair: Timothy Shary (University of Oklahoma)

Aaron Baker (Arizona State University), "Antonioni, Soderbergh, and the Color of Money"
Valerie McGuire (New York University), "Women as Focalizers in Antonioni and Almodvar"
Frank Tomasulo (Florida State University), "The Spectator as Auteur: Antonionis Impact on Modern Cinema and Cinema Studies"
Respondent: Marsha Kinder (University of Southern California)

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D17: Film Theory and Art History: Intersections

Room:

Chair: Nora Alter (Temple University)

Sharon Hayashi (York University), "Moments of Convergence: Film Theory in Japan"
Mary Ann Doane (Brown University), "Tightrope or Center? Theorizing Perspective in Art History and Film Studies"
Tarek Elhaik (Rice University), "Neuro/Ethno: The Futures of Neurocinematic Theory in the Age of Transculturalism"
Nora Alter (Temple University), "Between Documentary and Art: Placing Non-fiction"

Sponsor: CinemArts Scholarly Interest Group

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:00-5:45 pm (Session E)

E1: Beyond Vitaphone: The Early Sound Short in its Contexts

Room:

Chair: Rob King (University of Toronto)

Mark Langer (Carleton University), "Illustrated Songs and Song Car-tunes: Cultural Practices and Sound Technology in Early Talkie Animated Films"
Rob King (University of Toronto), "The Spice of the Program: Early Sound Slapstick and the Small-town Audience"
Charles Wolfe (University of California-Santa Barbara), "Cross Talk: Vaudeville, Radio, and the Burns & Allen Comedy Film Short"
Phil Wagner (University of California, Los Angeles), "Sound Ideas: Fanchon & Marco, Inc., and the World of Talking Pictures"

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E2: From Jerry to JUNO: Pregnancy and Parenthood in Context and across Cultures

Room:

Chair: Diane Shoos (Michigan Technological University)

Diane Shoos (Michigan Technological University), "Film Narratives of Adoption"
Robert Silberman (University of Minnesota), "Jerry Goes to Japan: The Geisha Boy' and the Post-war Orphan Film"
Chika Kinoshita (University of Western Ontario), "When Abortion Was an Issue: The Post-1952 Japanese Films"
Respondent: Linda Ruth Williams (University of Southampton)

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E3: Workshop: Issues in Experimental Film and Media Scholarship: Digital Horizons

Room:

Chair: Michael Zryd (York University)

Workshop Participants:
Dale Hudson (Texas State UniversitySan Marcos)
Cindy Keefer (Center for Visual Music)
Tess Takahashi (York University)
Andrew Uroskie (Stony Brook University)

Sponsor: Experimental Film and Media Interest Group

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E4: Workshop: Asian Cinemas and the Neoliberal Turn: The Politics and Aesthetics of Gender and Sexuality

Room:

Chair: Sunny Yoon (Hanyang University)

Workshop Participants:
Amy Villarejo (Cornell University)
Rie Karatsu (University of Nagasaki)

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E5: Miike Takashi

Room:

Chair: Dylan Ellefson (University of Southern California)

Steven Rawle (York St John University), "Visitor M: The Selling of Miike Takashi as an International Auteur"
Alain Chouinard (Concordia University), "The Hetero-masculine Body and the Transgression of its Homogeneous Boundaries in Takashi Miikes Yakuza Films, Ichi the Killer and Gozu"
Dylan Ellefson (University of Southern California), "Televisual Nostalgia: Representations of Home and the Recent Past in Miike Takashi's Osaka Coming of Age Films"

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E6: Films and Spectators in Non-theatrical Spaces

Room:

Chair: Mark Neumann (Northern Arizona University)

Mark Neumann (Northern Arizona University), "Projecting Alone: On the Legacy (and Possible Demise) of the Amateur Cinema Club"
Erin Hanna (University of Michigan), "Comic-Con, Where Fans and Producers Make Media Industries"
Roya Rastegar (University of California, Santa Cruz), "New Frontiers Off the Screen: Physical Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival"

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E7: Imagining the Urban II: Urban Geographies of Cinema

Room:

Chair: Pamela Wojcik (University of Notre Dame)

Sabine Haenni (Cornell University), "Genre/City: Toward a Theory of the Cinema's Urban Imagination"
Paola Bonifazio (Dickinson College), "Documentary Films and the Housing Revolution: in Cold War Italy"
Brendan Kredell (Northwestern University), "Le langage du cinma est universel: The Cinema of Gentrification in the Contemporary North American Motion Picture Industry"
Rochelle Simmons (University of Otago), "The City in New Zealand Film"

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E8: 1940s Cinema: Affective Form and World Historical Change

Room:

Chair: Chris Cagle (Temple University)

Rosalind Galt (University of Sussex), "The Geopolitics of Decoration: Powell and Pressburger, Orientalism and Stuff"
Jennifer Fay (Michigan State University), "Film Aesthetics and Democratic Feeling"
Karl Schoonover (Michigan State University), "Before Our Eyes: Cinema as Humanism"
Chris Cagle (Temple University), "Reappraising Melodrama: Nostalgia, Historical Trauma, and the 1940s Sentimental Drama"
Respondent: Corey Creekmur (University of Iowa)

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E9: Contemporary Japanese Cinema Distinctive Narrative Strategies

Room:

Chair: Robert Davis (California State University, Fullerton)

Kendall Heitzman (Yale University), "The Anxiety of Influence in Kurosawa Kiyoshis 'Loft'"
Candice Wilson (University of Pittsburgh), ""Empty Spaces, Repetition, and Remembrance: Kore-edas Still Cinema""
Andrijana Cvetkovik (Graduate School of Art ), "The Flowing Narrative in Contemporary Japanese Film"
Elena del Rio (University of Alberta), "Form and Performance of Death in the Cinema of Kitano Takeshi"

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E10: Film Titles/Film Remakes

Room:

Chair: Kathryn Kalinak (Rhode Island College)

Jason Gendler (University of California, Los Angeles), "Saul Bass and Title Design: Intention and Reception, Production Integration, and Historical Contextualization"
Arden Stern (University of California-Irvine), "To the Letter: Typography, Temporality, and the Opening Titles of 'The Naked Kiss'"
Vera Dika (New Jersey City University), "Amos Poe and the Post New Wave Remake: A Discussion of 'Unmade Beds' (1976)"
Kathryn Kalinak (Rhode Island College), "Crossing Cultural Borders in Remakes: Listening to the Difference"

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E11: The Future of Rancire

Room:

Chair: Jonathan Hall (Pomona College)

Targol Mesbah (California Institute of Integral Studies), "Time and Event in Bahman Ghobadis Turtles Can Fly"
Jonathan Hall (Pomona College), "Image as Argument: Kawai Masayuki's Visual Philosophy"
John Culbert (Independent Scholar), "The Well and the Web"
Respondent: Dina Al-Kassim (University of California, Irvine)

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E12: Saint Cassavetes Contemporary Independent Cinema

Room:

Chair: Ara Osterweil (Muhlenberg College)

Elena Gorfinkel (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee), "Anna Biller's Time Machine Cinema"
Thomas Waugh (Concordia University), "A 21st-century Canadian Queer Cassavetes named Kingstone: Problems of Reception and Canonization"
Ara Osterweil (Muhlenberg College), "Goodbye Cinema, Farewell New York"

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E13: Elastic Pasts: Relocations in Contemporary Cinema

Room:

Chair: Esther Yau (University of Hong Kong)

Bishnupriya Ghosh (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Audio Remains: Spectral Idiom in Phillip Scheffners The Halfmoon Files"
Esther Yau (University of Hong Kong), "Cruel Stories of Youth: Trauma and Memoryscape in Peacock and Shanghai Dreams"
Rolando Tolentino (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "Lingering Simultaneity of Time: The Cinema of Memory of Lav Diaz"
Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Plasticity and the Popular: Bombay Cinemas Ecstatic Secularism"

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E14: Transnational Perspective on Cinema and Media in Africa

Room:

Chair: Augusto De Oliveira (University of Bristol)

Michael Laramee (University of Miami), "Oral Histories and Digital Futures: Why Nigerian and Ghanaian Film and Video Should Be In Focus"
Aboubakar Sanogo (Carleton University), "African and Asian Cinemas: Transversal Perspectives"
Sylvie Blum-Reid (University of Florida), "Filming the Bled Nostalgia for the country in diasporic cinema"
Augusto De Oliveira (University of Bristol), "Mobilizing the Future: Screening the Past in Mozambican Postcolonial Cinema"

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E15: Unpacking a New Archive: Korean Films of Japans Total War Period (1937-1945)

Room:

Chair: Kyung Kim (University of California, Irvine)

Kyung Kim (University of California, Irvine), "Viral Colony: Young-ils Sick Body in 'Spring of Korean Peninsula' (Pando i pom, 1941)"
Young Jae Yi (University of Tokyo), "Being a Volunteer Soldier, a Prescription of Melancholia ---An Imperial Soldiers Colonial Body in 'Volunteer' (An Suk-Young, 1940)"
Kyeong-Hee Choi (University of Chicago) and HyunHee Park (University of Chicago), "The Old in the New: Thinking Propaganda through Gender in Wartime Chosǒn (Korean) Cinema"
Respondent: Naoki Sakai (Cornell University)

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

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E16: Intra-Asian Cross-Currents

Room:

Chair: Adam Knee (Nanyang Technological University)

Adam Knee (Nanyang Technological University), "Bollywood Does Bangkok: Perils of the Intra-Asian Gaze"
Stephen Teo (Nanyang Technological University), "The Chinese Blockbuster: A Question of Genre, Nation, and Trans-Nation"
See-Kam Tan (University of Macau), "Qiqing Romance Films from the Shaw Archive"

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E17: Documentary Theory, Pedagogy and Ethics I

Room:

Chair: Vinicius Navarro (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Michael Renov (University of Southern California), "Teaching Documentary: Toward a Goal-centered Pedagogy of the Documentary Film"
Noah Shenker (University of Southern California), "The Challenges of Access and Media Specificity in the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies"
Katherine Groo (Aberdeen University), "Le Temps Disparu, (or) How Early Ethnographic Cinema Unmakes Anthropologys Object"
Vinicius Navarro (Georgia Institute of Technology), "The Allure of Nonfiction: Performance, Documentary, and Self-display"

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:00-7:45 pm (Session F)

F1: To Compete and Outcompete: Soviet Cinema Looks West

Room:

Chair: Vincent Bohlinger (Rhode Island College)

Vincent Bohlinger (Rhode Island College), "The Development of Sound Technology in the Soviet Union"
Maria Belodubrovskaya (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "The Failure of the Iron Screenplay: Scriptwriting and Film Production in Stalinist Cinema"
Jeremy Hicks (University of London, Queen Mary), "The Record on Which We Judge Today: Soviet and US Film and the Nuremberg Tribunal"
Brinton Tench Coxe (Drew University), "Clutter in Lieu of Cleanliness: Solaris Responds to 2001"

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F2: Transnational Masculinities

Room:

Chair: Kent A. Ono (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Lisa Patti (Cornell University), "Transnational Masculinities and Hollywood Co-productions"
Ryan Lizardi (Pennsylvania State University), "Emerging Adult Males and the Refusal to Grow Up: Contemporary Fathers-Out-of-Water Films"
Shilpa Dave (Brandeis University), "Speaking American: Representing Race, Masculinity, and Nationality in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay."
Kent A. Ono (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Gendered Moves: Inventing Japanese American Masculinity in Conscience and Constitution"

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F3: Stan VanDerBeeks Screen Worlds

Room:

Chair: Zabet Patterson (Stony Brook University)

Andrew Uroskie (Stony Brook University), "Environmental Juxtapositions: The Intermedia Assemblage of Stan VanDerBeek and Robert Breer"
Melissa Ragona (Carnegie Mellon University), "'Soft Intercom': Stan VanDerBeek's Early Wearable Media Projects"
Zabet Patterson (Stony Brook University), "'Poem Fields' and the Materiality of the Computational Screen"

Sponsor: Experimental Film and Media SIG

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F4: Revisions of Light: The Cinematography of International Cinema

Room:

Chair: Patrick Keating (Trinity University)

Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon), "Re-imagining Japanese Aesthetics: Lights and Shadows in Miyagawa Kazuos Cinematography"
Frances Guerin (Ruhr University, Bochum), "Stereoscopic Visions in Color of Amateur Film from Nazi Germany"
Patrick Keating (Trinity University), "Neorealism, Narrative, and the Cinematography of Aldo Graziati"
Michael Aronson (University of Oregon), "No One Ever Hated Billy Bitzer: A Cinematographer And His Work"

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F5: Transnational Architectures

Room:

Chair: Gary McDonogh (Bryn Mawr College)

Yifen Beus (Brigham Young University-Hawaii), "Constructing the Location of the Past: Architectural Nostalgia and Nostalgic Architecture in Yacoubian Building"
Luis Urbano (University of Porto), "Silent Rupture. Space and Politics in Paulo Rochas The Green Years and Alvaro Sizas Earliest Work"
Daniel Bashara (Northwestern University), "Gerald McBoing Boing Meets the Modernists: Architecture, Design, and the Postwar American Cartoon"
Gary McDonogh (Bryn Mawr College), "Transforming the Banlieue: Jacques Tatis Mon Oncle, Filmic Spaces and the Cultural Geographies of Metropolitan Power"

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F6: Transnational Television in Historical Perspective

Room:

Chair: Jennifer Gillan (Bentley University)

Seiko Yasumoto (University of Sydney ), "Impact of Soft Power on Cultural Mobility: Japan to East Asia"
Youngchi Chang (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "Singles in Seoul and the New Korean Womanhood: The Effect of Global Postfeminism in Popular Media"
Tommy Gustafsson (Linneaus University), "Swedish Television News Coverage and the Historical Media Memory of the Rwandan Genocide"
Jennifer Gillan (Bentley University), "The Mobile and the Global: Circulation Practices and Problems for U.S. Network TV Products"

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F7: The Cinema and its Masses: Politics and Aesthetics

Room:

Chair: Yuriko Furuhata (McGill University)

Philip Rosen (Brown University), "From The Masses To The Media: Marxist Film Theory And Contemporary Critique"
Yuriko Furuhata (McGill University), "Theorizing Plasticity and the Masses: Hanada Kiyoteru and Sergei Eisenstein"
Gertrud Koch (Freie Universitaet, Berlin), "Screening the Mass: Inclusion and/or Exclusion"
Volker Pantenburg (Freie Universitt, Berlin), "Monitoring the Masses: Video, Surveillance and the Public Sphere"

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F8: Interactivity, Space & Videogame History

Room:

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

Raiford Guins (State University of New York, Stony Brook), "Things That Remain: Mame(mory) Trace and the Online Cryogenics of Videogame History"
David O'Grady (University of California, Los Angeles), "Beyond the Button: New Video Game Interfaces and the Implications for Embodiment, Performance, and Play"
Harrison Gish (University of California, Los Angeles), "America's First Person Shooters: Violent Interactions with US History"
Maja Manojlovic (University of California, Los Angeles), "Speed Racer: Spatial Aesthetics and Kinesthesia as Simulations of Interactive Immersion"

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F9: Classical Japanese Cinema

Room:

Chair: Catherine Russell (Concordia University)

Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University), "Classical Japanese Cinema and the Question of Global Hegemony"
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University), "The Power of the B Movie in Classical Japanese Cinema"
Catherine Russell (Concordia University), "Classic Modernity: Melodramatic Features of Japanese Cinema"
Respondent: Mark Nornes (University of Michigan)

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F10: Cinematic Monuments

Room:

Chair: Merrill Schleier (University of the Pacific)

Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen), "The Dachau Memorial Filmed and the Role of Public Memory"
Joshua Kitching (Rice University), "Haunting the Golden Gate Bridge: Hitchcocks Vertigo, Spectrality and Imperial San Francisco"
Merrill Schleier (University of the Pacific), "The Griffith Observatory in Rebel Without a Cause (1955): Mystical Temple and Spatiotemporal Structuring Device"

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F11: Cinema and the Postmetropolis

Room:

Chair: Anna Notaro (University of Dundee)

Lawrence Bird (University of Manitoba), "Post Metropolis: Re-animations of Global Power in the Animated City"
Christoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam), "The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wais Hong Kong"
Ran Ma (University of Hong Kong), "Floating Tracks into the Ruins: West of the Tracks and the Poetics of Wasteland in Postsocialist China"
Anna Notaro (University of Dundee), "Screening the Post-metropolis: Issues of Post-humanism, Ecocide and Love in Wonderful Days (Moon-saeng Kim, Korea 2003) and Natural City (Byung-chun Min, Korea 2003)"

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F12: Installation, Energy Monitor Project [EMP]: Visualizing Energy Consumption, Mobilities and Metadata Flows

Room:

Chair: Heidi Cooley (University of South Carolina)

Laura Kissel (University of South Carolina), "Indexicality and the Documentary Image in the Energy Monitor Project"
Simon Tarr (University of South Carolina), "Locations of Habit and Control: Building the Data-driven Image in the Energy Monitor Project"
Heidi Cooley (University of South Carolina), "Energy Monitor Project [EMP] as Disciplinary Object: The Ethical-aesthetic Potentialities of a Virtual Fountain"
Respondent: Steve Anderson (University of Southern California)

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F13: Rethinking Aesthetic Heritage in East Asian Cinema

Room:

Chair: Shuk Ting Yau (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin)

Vivian Lee (City University of Hong Kong), "Towards a Poetics of East Asian Film"
Siu Wah Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Forging a Cultural Heritage: Innovative Use of Chinese Music in Recent Movies"
Siu-leung Li (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), "John Woo's Undoing of Chinese Opera in Princess Cheung Ping and Red Cliff"
Shuk Ting Yau (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin), "A Horrible Legacy: Noh and J-Horror"
Respondent: Stephanie DeBoer (Indiana University, Bloomington)

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F14: Reimagining the Southern Past through Film and Television

Room:

Chair: Deborah Barker (University of Mississippi)

Deborah Barker (University of Mississippi), "Redressing the Mammy: Tyler Perrys 'Medea'"
Riche Richardson (Cornell University), "It Jus' Ain't Fittin: Mammy's Mules and Rules"
Matthew Bernstein (Emory University), "Desegregation vs. Integration: Atlantas Movie Theaters, 1962-1973"

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F15: Workshop: Workshop: Researching International Film Industries

Room:

Chair: Paul McDonald (University of Portsmouth)

Workshop Participants:
Philip Drake (University of Stirling)
Tamara Falicov (University of Kansas)
Nitin Govil (University of California, San Diego)
Olof Hedling (Lund University/Vxj University)
Alejandro Pardo (University of Navarra)

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

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F16: Redefining Censorship

Room:

Chair: Daniel H. Wild (Independent Scholar/NYU School of Medicine)

Broderick Fox (Occidental College), "Revolutionary Media? Biopower and the Myth of Digital Democracy"
Linda Ruth Williams (University of Southampton), "Censorship and The Devils, 1971 to the Present"
Tilottama Karlekar (New York University), "The Censors Within: Censorship Debates and the Political Documentary in Indias Globalization"
Daniel H. Wild (Independent Scholar/NYU School of Medicine), "Bulckes Burden: The Figure of the Censor in early 1920s Weimar Censorship Decisions"

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F17: Traces and Echoes: Japan in Postcolonial/Postwar Korean Film

Room:

Chair: Steven Chung (Princeton University)

Steven Chung (Princeton University), "Enlightenment-scapes in Colonial and Postcolonial Korean Cinema"
Chonghwa Chung (Chung-Ang University), "Hybrid Styles in South Korean Popular Films after the Korean War: Han Hyong-mos Genre Films in the 1950s"
Jinsoo An (Hongik University), "Entangled Gestures: Historiography, Representation and Politics of Justice in the South Korean film Yeraishang"
Sueyoung Park-Primiano (New York University), "Resistance to Remember, Reluctance to Forget: The Haunting of the Colonial Past in Yu Hyon-moks Pharmacists Kims Daughters and Naruse Mikios Floating Clouds"
Respondent: Moonim Baek (Yonsei University)

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Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:00-9:45 am (Session G)

G1: Comic Book Films and the Adaptation of Aesthetics

Room:

Chair: Drew Morton (University of California, Los Angeles)

Bob Rehak (Swarthmore College), "Watchmen's Frames of Reference: Digital Production Tools and the High-fidelity Comic Book Adaptation"
Christopher Hagenah (University of California, Santa Barbara), "The Style of Time in Comics and Film: Re-reading Deleuze's Time-Image Through the System of Comics"
Vincent M. Gaine (University of East Anglia, Norwich), "Borders of the Bat: Batman's Liminal Heroism"
Drew Morton (University of California, Los Angeles), "Winsor McCay and the Adaptation of the Graphic/Cinematic Frame"

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G2: Race, Ethnicity, and Film History

Room:

Chair: Peter Limbrick (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Yuanyuan Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Nonsignification, Elusiveness and the Power of Fiction: Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the Cinematic Historicity"
Michael Meneghetti (Brock University), "Emotions in the Emulsion: Documentary and History in Acts"
Raphael Lambert (University of Tsukuba), "The Middle Passage: Film Posters and the Meaning They Create"
Peter Limbrick (University of California, Santa Cruz), "The Seekers: Film History and Postcolonial Encounters in Aotearoa/New Zealand."

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G3: Convergence Comedy

Room:

Chair: Ethan Thompson (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)

Jennifer Malkowski (University of California, Berkeley), "When Straight America Starts Queering: Brokeback Mountain and Its YouTube Trailer Parodies"
Sean Griffin (Southern Methodist University), "Whos Pwning Who? The Humor of Hegemonic Convergence in Pure Pwnage"
Nicholas Marx (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Sketch Comedian Comedy and the Convergence of Comedy Aesthetics Accross Television and Film"
Ethan Thompson (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi), "The In-between Humor of The Office On-line"

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G4: Cyborgs, Mutants, and Other Border Crossers

Room:

Chair: Livia Monnet (University of Montreal)

Carrie Jones, "Galateas Gone Wild: Technology, Memory and the Feminine in 1980s Cinema"
Katherine Farrimond (Newcastle University), "This Isnt You: Mutant Femmes Fatales and Parasitic Power in Contemporary Cinema"
Plue Su (Hong Kong Baptist University), "Whose Resurrection? Or A Radical Question of Who Cyborgs Will Be: Issues of Transgression and Recuperation in Jeunets Alien Resurrection"
Livia Monnet (University of Montreal), "Anatomy of Permutational Desire: Perversion, Modernity, and the Animated Image in Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence"

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G5: Experimental Film and Media Aesthetics

Room:

Chair: James Tobias (University of California, Riverside)
Co-chair: Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto)

James Tobias (University of California, Riverside), "Intimate Extimacy: Articulating the First Person Plural in Tokyo"
Mika Ko (University of Sheffield, England), "Abnormal Body, Sexuality and Ethnicity: Matsui Yoshihikos Cinema of Taboo"
Guri Hanem (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), "The Flatness in Cross-media Aesthetics"
Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto), "The Traffic in Images: Relays of the Self in the Visual Essays of Hito Steyerl"

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G6: Rethinking 'National ' Television and its Flows

Room:

Chair: Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Hector Amaya (University of Virginia), "Mapping Television to the Nation: Spanish-Language Television Marginalization and Linguistic Rights"
Matt Sienkiewicz (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "More than Money: The Not For Profit Globalization Palestinian TV"
Mats Bjorkin (Goteborg University), "Public Service Television, Streaming Video, and New Ways of Learning How to Make Television"
Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology), "From Transnational to National: The Emergence of Television in Scandinavia"

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G7: Workshop: Workshop: Magic in the Method: Research at the Intersection of Film, Media and Information Technologies

Room:

Chair: Jamie Poster (Irvine Valley College)
Co-chair: Matthew Tinkcom (Georgetown University)

Workshop Participants:
David Crane (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Michael Aronson (University of Oregon)
Kara Keeling (University of Southern California)
Lisa Parks (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Debra White-Stanley (Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis)

Sponsor: Information Technology Committee

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G8: Historicizing Film and Media Pedagogy: Texts, Tactics, and Institutions

Room:

Chair: James Leo Cahill (University of Southern California)
Co-chair: Stephen Charbonneau (Florida Atlantic University)

John Nichols (Christopher Newport University), "Cinema Activism: The Cleveland Cinema Club and the Enactment of Local Film Culture"
Nate Brennan (New York University), "Speaking of Film: The High School Film Appreciation Movement and the Regulation and Democratization of Audience Volubility, 1930-1946"
James Leo Cahill (University of Southern California), "Jean Painlevs Gay Science"
Stephen Charbonneau (Florida Atlantic University), "Training Days: Injured Identities, the American Film Institute, and the War on Poverty"

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G9: Perspective Matters: Transnational Perspectives on Identity Performance in East Asian Cinema

Room:

Chair: Michael Baskett (University of Kansas)

Darrell Davis (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), "Lust, Caution: Class Acts, Transgressive Consumption"
Michael Baskett (University of Kansas), "Between the National and Transnational: Performing Identity in 1960s Pan-Asian Spy Films"
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (Hong Kong Baptist University), "Incriminating Spaces: Borderless Asia in the Films of Miike Takashi"
Respondent: Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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G10: Explorations in Film and TV Studies

Room:

Chair: Anna Siomopoulos (Bentley University)

Phyllis Frus (Hawaii Pacific University), "True Stories: A New Method for Classifying History Films"
Kotaro Nakagaki (Daito Bunka University), "The Possibility of Post Documentary Style: A Comparative Analysis of American and Japanese Reality TV"
Thomas Dorey (Carleton University), "Wes Anderson and the Supplement-enhanced Auteurism of the New Smart Cinema"
Anna Siomopoulos (Bentley University), "Cult-ural Learnings from Borat: A Model for the New Standardized Cult Film"

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G11: Screening the City: Past, Present and Future

Room:

Chair: Melvyn Stokes (University College London)
Co-chair: Gilles Menegaldo (University of Poitiers)

Melvyn Stokes (University College London), "Screening Urban Entertainment: Charlot and Mass Culture"
Raphaelle Costa de Beauregard (University of Toulouse Le Mirail), "Screening the City: Past, Present and Future in Blade Runner (1982)"
Alain J.J. Cohen (University of California, San Diego), "Cityscapes in American Cinema"
Gilles Menegaldo (University of Poitiers), "Screening the City: Tradition and Modernity, Memory and Projection in Chris Marker's Sunless (1983)"

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G12: Phenomenological Encounters on and beyond the Screen

Room:

Chair: Greg Tuck (University of the West of England)

Codruta Morari (Harvard University), "Sensuousness of the Cinematic Body : Phenomenology of Style and Feminine Truth in Rivettes 'La Belle Noiseuse and Sautets Un Cur en hiver'"
Lucy Bolton (University of London, Queen Mary), "Luce Irigaray and Morvern Callar Where the Look Itself Remains Tactile"
Kate Ince (Unversity of Birmingham, UK), "Existential Phenomenology, Feminism and the Film Experience"
Greg Tuck (University of the West of England), "Dead Bodies, Live Flesh: the Embodiment of Love and Loss in Tsukamoto Shinya's 'Vital' (2004)"

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G13: Issues in Asian Cinema and Media

Room:

Chair: Veena Hariharan (University of Southern California)

Jaibeom Kim (Stanford University/Sungkyunkwan University) and Young Eun Park (Seoul National University), "Cultural Discount in Inter-Asian Movies"
Kyoung-Lae Kang (University of Rochester), "Translated or (De)translated Narration: Considering the Korean Silent Film Era and the Cultural Transformation of Byunsa Lecturer"
Martin Picard (McGill University) and Marc Joly (University of Montreal), "Proxies and Fantasies of a Global Japan : Transculturality in Anime and Japanese Video Games"
Veena Hariharan (University of Southern California), "Screening Out the Past: Documentary Representations of Violence in South Asia"

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G14: Je t'aime...moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations

Room:

Chair: Lucy Mazdon (University of Southampton)

Lucy Mazdon (University of Southampton), "Tracing the History of Franco-British Cinematic Relations"
Justin Smith (University of Portsmouth), "Une Entente Cordiale? A Brief History of the Anglo-French Film Co-production Agreement, 1965-1979"
Cristina Johnston (University of Stirling), "Those Frenchies Seek Him Everywhere: Why Does David Nivens English Gentleman Live in France?"
Catherine Wheatley (University of Southampton), "The Language of Love? Three French Versions of Lady Chatterleys Love' and Their Reception by British Audiences"

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G15: Classical Hollywood Cinema

Room:

Chair: Gloria Shin (University of Southern California)

Michael Hammond (University of Southampton), "Every Woman Who Has Loved Will Understand: The PCA and the Issue of Illicit Love in Frank Borzages Adaptation of A Farewell to Arms (1932)"
Janna Jones (Northern Arizona University), "The Many Lives of Lost Horizon: How Restoration Discourse Rewrites Film History"
James Thompson (University of Southern California/Duke University), "I Believe in Harvey Dent, I Just Don't Believe in the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page: Politics, the Super-hero, and Classic Hollywood"
Gloria Shin (University of Southern California), "White Diamonds: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Games After Empire"

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G16: Benshi across Time and Media: Utsushi-e (Magic Lantern), Cinema, and the Japanese Performance Tradition of Visual Media Narration

Room:

Chair: William Gardner (Swarthmore College)

Michiko Usui (Waseda University), "Utsushi-e (Japanese Magic Lantern) as a Medium for Narration"
Kyoko Omori (Hamilton College), "The Benshi as a Modernist: Tokugawa Musei and Psychological Films of the Early Twentieth Century"
William Gardner (Swarthmore College), "Sawato Midori and the Contemporary Performing Art of Katsudo Benshi (Silent Film Narrators)"
Respondent: Richard Abel (University of Michigan)

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G17: Modernitys Other Landscapes: Early Cinema and Race in Latin America

Room:

Chair: Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan)

Paul Schroeder (University of Hawaii, Manoa), "Latin American Cinemas Transition to Sound"
Laura Isabel Serna (University of California, Los Angeles), "Picturing the Virgin: Sentimental Nationalism and Ethnographic Display in Tepeyac (1918)"
Daniel Snchez-Salas (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos ), "From the Pampa to the Plaza: Race and National Identity in Two 1910s Films from Argentina and Spain"
Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan), "Primitive Nobilities: 'Nobleza Gaucha (Gaucho Nobility', 1915) and Argentinas Modern National Landscapes"

Sponsor: Latino/a Caucus

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Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:00-11:45 am (Session H)

H2: Women and Film

Room:

Chair: Suzanne Leonard (Simmons College)

Maryn Wilkinson (University of Amsterdam), "Wonder Girls: The Close-Up and the Image of the Teen Girl Body in Contemporary American Cinema"
Minhwa Ahn (Cornell University ), "Affect of Marginalized Female Subjects: Melodramatic Contemporaneity among Korean, Japanese, and American Cinemas during and after the US Occupation Period"
Suzanne Leonard (Simmons College), "The Return of the Female Ensemble Film"

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H3: Perspectives on Audition

Room:

Chair: Lisa Coulthard (University of British Columbia)

Kerim Yasar (Columbia University), "The Ears of Others: Representations of Technologized Listening"
Alanna Thain (McGill University), "Interior Sonologues: Distributed Bodies and Cinematic Headphones"
Lisa Coulthard (University of British Columbia), "Can You Hear the Silence?: Audition and Michael Hanekes Code Inconnu"

Sponsor: Sound Studies Scholarly Interest Group

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H4: Workshop: From Paper to Blog: The Past, Present, and Future of Cinema and Media Studies Publishing

Room:

Chair: Jennifer Porst (University of California, Los Angeles)
Co-chair: John Bridge (University of California, Los Angeles)

Workshop Participants:
Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)
John Sloop (Vanderbilt University)
Eric Faden (Bucknell University)

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H5: More than Meets the Eye: The Transnational Cinema of Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu

Room:

Chair: Marimar Azcona-Montoliu (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Marimar Azcona-Montoliu (Universidad de Zaragoza), "Of Endings, Middles and Beginnings: Scrambled Narratives in the Films of Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu"
Catherine Benamou (University of California, Irvine), "Media Strategies of Dis-Illusionment in Alejandro Gonzlez Irritus City-Society of Spectacles ('Amores Perros,' Mexico, 2000)"
Glenn Man (University of Hawaii-Manoa), "Irritu and Arriagas Multiple Melodramas: Genre and Narrative"
Celestino Deleyto (University of Zaragoza), "Bienvenida a Tijuana: Border Consciousness in the Films of Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu"

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H6: Memory and Film

Room:

Chair: Ute Lischke (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Zehavit Stern (University of California, Berkeley), "Cinema as Site of Memory: The Dybbuk (1937) and the Burden of Holocaust Commemoration"
Ute Lischke (Wilfrid Laurier University), "Sites of Memory in the films of Helke Misselwitz"
Matthew Goldie (Rider University), "Anticipation and Attention: Memory as a Film Theme, as a Film Genre, and as a Film Form"

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H7: Palestinian and Israeli Cinemas Re-visited: Witnessing, Remembering and Redressing Wounds

Room:

Chair: Terri Ginsberg (International Council for Middle East Studies)

Alia Arasoughly (Birzeit University), "Palestinian Women Filmmakers under Occupation Representation of Memory"
Najat Rahman (University of Montreal), "Divine Intervention's Fantastic Cinematic Witnessing"
Sobhi Al-Zobaidi (Simon Fraser University), "Digital Nomads: Between Homepages and Homelands"
Raz Yosef (Tel Aviv University/Sapir College), "Recycled Wounds: Trauma, Gender and Ethnicity in Israeli Cinema"

Sponsor: Middle East Caucus

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H8: Transformations of the Flesh

Room:

Chair: Sophia Harvey (Vassar College)
Co-chair: Mike Dillon (University of Southern California)

Raphael Raphael (University of Oregon), "Planet Kong: Transnational Use of the Chronotope of 'King Kong' (1933) in Japan and Southeast Asia"
Mike Dillon (University of Southern California), "Impossible Representations: The Thinking Bomb of The Terrorist (Santosh Sivan,1999)"
Sophia Harvey (Vassar College), "Whos the Dummy? Mapping Subjectivity, Materiality, and Corporeality in Pin (Sandor Stern, 1988) and Magic (Richard Attenborough, 1978)"
Respondent: E. Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University)

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H9: Old and New in Contemporary Japanese Anime and Games: Animation in the Age of Digital Production and Consumption

Room:

Chair: Satomi Saito (Bowling Green State University)

Stefan Riekeles (Independent Scholar), "The Gap: Exploiting Cinema in Anime"
Eija Niskanen (University of Art and Design, Helsinki), "Riding Through Air and Water The Relationship Between Character, Background, Fantasy and Realism in Hayao Miyazakis Films"
Satomi Saito (Bowling Green State University), "Crying Out Love in the Center of the World: The Language of Bishojo Game"
Marc Steinberg (Concordia University), "Screens and Things: Materializing the Image in Japanese Anime"

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H10: Issues of Film Aesthetics

Room:

Chair: Lars Gustaf Andersson (Lund University)

Amber Bowyer (University of Southern California), "Ghost Spaces"
Judith Meighan (Syracuse University), "Professor Mickey Explains It All to You: Fantasia, 1940, Disneys Global Introduction to Western Art"
Tracy Biga MacLean (Claremont Colleges) and Jon Wagner (California Institute of the Arts), "Greenaway in Japan: Pages and Screens in The Pillow Book"
Lars Gustaf Andersson (Lund University), "In Real Earnest: Re-Action and Cinephilia in Film and Video Works by Kerstin Cmelka"

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H11: The City and Film I

Room:

Chair: Rei Magosaki (Chapman University)

Joanne Hershfield (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), "Urban youth, urban culture: the cinematic city in contemporary Mexican film"
Guo-Juin Hong (Duke University), "I Dont Want to Have Sex Alone: Failed Intimacy and the Global City in Tsai Ming-Liangs Films"
Rei Magosaki (Chapman University), "The Other 'Sex and the City': Considering the Margins of the Global City"
Elizabeth Affuso (University of Southern California), "And Everything Begins Again: Urban Alienation, the Spectator, and the Screen in the Films of Doug Aitken"

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H12: What Is Immersion?

Room:

Chair: Robin Curtis (Freie Universitt, Berlin)

Suzanne Buchan (University for the Creative Arts), "Vitalist Realities, Possible Worlds: A Dialectics of Immersion in the Quay Brothers' Cosmogonies"
Christiane Voss (Freie Universitat, Berlin), "Philosophical Aspects of Fictional Immersion in Cinema""
Joshua Yumibe (Oakland University), "Color Space in Early Cinema-"
Robin Curtis (Freie Universitt, Berlin), "Anti-mimesis and Mimetic Response: The Immersion of Einfhlung"
Respondent: Gertrud Koch (Freie Universitaet, Berlin)

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H13: Contemporary Asian Film Industries: Festivals, Markets and Other Cosmopolitan Spaces

Room:

Chair: Aynne Kokas (University of California, Los Angeles)

Chia-Chi Wu (National Taiwan Normal University), "Hong Kong Cinema before 'Kungfu Panda'"
Brian Hu (University of California, Los Angeles), "Rebranding the Cinemas of Hong Kong and Taiwan: The Cosmopolitan Labor and Technology of Global Film Markets"
Bruce Williams (William Paterson University), "Constructive Reflections: The Pivotal Role of Film Criticism in North Korea Nation Building"
Aynne Kokas (University of California, Los Angeles), "Sino-U.S. Film Co-production Practice and the Rise of the Chinese Film Market"

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H14: Early Experimentation in European Cinema

Room:

Chair: Janelle Blankenship (University of Western Ontario)

Courtney White (University of Southern California), "Towards an Abstract Modernist Painting in Cinema: Leopold Survage, Piet Mondrian, and Oskar Fischinger"
Jason Skonieczny (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Vertical Dimension of Abstract Space in Carl Dreyer's 'Silents'"
Michael Cowan (McGill University), "Interactive Puzzles and the Training of Perception: Guido Seeber and Paul Lenis 'Rebus' Films"
Janelle Blankenship (University of Western Ontario), "The Nature of Film: 'Nosferatu', Time Lapse and Weimar Popular Science Film (1922-1928)"

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H15: Horror in Cross-cultural Context

Room:

Chair: Meheli Sen (DePaul University)

Hyo Kim (University of Illinois, Champaign), "Aesthetics of Moral Values in Asian Horror Films: An Analysis of Three Extreme"
Li Zeng (Illinois State University), "The Chinese Horror and The Return of the Historical Trauma:'The Lonely Ghost in the Dark Mansion' (1989)"
Usha Iyer (University of Pittsburgh), "The Tantric in the Hindi Horror Film: Monster or Mystic?"
Meheli Sen (DePaul University), "Futile Family Romance: Hindi Horror in the Bollywood Network"

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H16: Bodies of Evidence in Contemporary Television Series

Room:

Chair: Sofia Bull (Stockholm University)

Anne Jerslev (University of Copenhagen), "The Unruly Body in 'House M.D.'"
Sofia Bull (Stockholm University), "Im a Doctor, Mulder: Criminal Bodies in Contemporary Television Crime Dramas"
Liv Hausken (University of Oslo), "The Matrix of Surveillance in Forensic Fiction"
Respondent: Jason Jacobs (University of Queensland)

Sponsor: Television Studies Scholarly Interest Group

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H17: Aesthetics and Exploitation Film

Room:

Chair: Jessica Metzler (Cornell University)

Eric Schaefer (Emerson College), "Producing Exploitation in the New Hollywood: A Case Study of 'Delinquent Schoolgirls' (1973)"
Caetlin Benson-Allott (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Off the Map: A Philosophy of Exploitation in Richard Sarafians Vanishing Point (1971)"
Shaun Cullen (University of Virginia), "Decoding the Lattice of Coincidence: 'Repo Man' (1984), Punk Rock, and the Critique of Postmodernity"
Jessica Metzler (Cornell University), "Ed Wood and the Aesthetics of Failure"

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Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:00 noon - 1:45 pm (Session I)

I1: Lost (and Found) in Translation: Translating, Remaking, and Redefining Asian Media for US Markets

Room:

Chair: Jun Okada (State University of New York, Geneseo)

Yiman Wang (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Hollywood Remaking East Asian Commercial Cinema Border Politics in the Era of Globalization"
Jun Okada (State University of New York, Geneseo), "Pacific Rim Overtures: Asian Cinema in Asian American Film Festivals"
Peter Feng (University of Delaware), "Exports and Formats: U.S./Japan Television Collaboration"
Respondent: Toby Miller (University of California, Riverside)

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

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I2: Post Racial Imaginaries

Room:

Chair: Meredith Raimondo (Oberlin College)

Kristen Warner (University of Texas, Austin), "Im glad no one was hung up on the race thing:GREYS ANATOMY and the Innovation of Blindcasting in the Multicultural Era"
Nancy Inouye (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "21st Century Blackface: Performing Race in Tropic Thunder"
Roopali Mukherjee (City University of New York, Queens College), "The New Elite: Cultural Imaginaries of the Post in Post-Racial"
Meredith Raimondo (Oberlin College), "Justice All Around? The Queer Politics of the Isaiah Washington Controversy"

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I3: Workshop: Going on the Job Market? Q & A

Room:

Chair: Kevin Sanson (University of Texas-Austin)

Workshop Participants:
Heather Hendershot (Queens College-City University of New York)
Tara McPherson (University of Southern California)
Walter Metz (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Jane Park (University of Sydney)
Charles Wolfe (University of California-Santa Barbara)

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I4: The Most Typical Avant-Garde and Experimental Film in Los Angeles

Room:

Chair: Federico Windhausen (California College of the Arts)

Federico Windhausen (California College of the Arts), "Structure, Space, Spectatorship: Pure Film in the Landscape of L.A."
Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive), "Fragments of Seeking: An Archeological Approach to Reconstructing the Los Angeles Avant-Garde"
Morgan Fisher (Filmmaker), "Near but Far: Narrative Film as a Subject"

Sponsor: Experimental Film and Media Studies Interest Group

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I5: Screening Decadence: The Legacies of the Maysles Grey Gardens

Room:

Chair: Susan Kerns (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Zoran Samardzija (Columbia College Chicago), "The Failures of Authentic Aesthetics and The Commodification of Grey Gardens"
Defne Tuzun (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), "Garden of Ambivalence: The Topology of the Mother-Child Dyad in Grey Gardens"
Susan Kerns (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Returning the American Dream: The Beales as Anti-Consumerist Models"
Ruth Wollersheim (Century College), "In the Garden of Edies, From Verit to Vogue: Reconsuming Little Edie in the Age of HBO"

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I6: Media and Cultural Policy from the Bottom Up

Room:

Chair: Bill Kirkpatrick (Denison University)

Bill Kirkpatrick (Denison University), "Popular Radio Regulation Before 1927"
Alison Trope (University of Southern California), "Not On His Watch: Don Cheadle as Celebrity Activist"
Darrell Newton (Salisbury University), "Begin the Beguine as We See Britain: Vernacular Policy and the BBC"
Andrew Herman (Wilfrid Laurier University), "Cultural Policy and the Intellectual Properties of Web 2.0"

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I7: Screening Reproduction, Mobilizing Anxiety: Reproductive Politics, Trauma, and Terror in Alfonso Cuarons Children of Men

Room:

Chair: Heather Latimer (Simon Fraser University)

Sayantani DasGupta (Columbia University), "(Re)Conceiving the Surrogate: Maternity, Race, and Reproductive Technologies in Alfonso Cuarns Children of Men"
E. Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University), "Trauma Future Tense: Cultural Anxiety and the Child in Cuarns The Children of Men"
Heather Latimer (Simon Fraser University), "Bio-Reproductive Politics: The Fetus, the Refugee, and the Limits of Citizenship in Alfonso Cuarns Children of Men"
Respondent: Katherine Sugg (Central Connecticut State University)

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I8: Film Distribution and Exhibition Contexts around the World

Room:

Chair: Jasmine Trice (Indiana University-Bloomington)

Kathleen Lotze (University of Antwerp), "No Blockbusters for Antwerp Film Distribution and Exhibition in a European City (Antwerp, Belgium) in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s"
Nadi Tofighian (Stockholm University), "Singapore and Manila Regional Distribution Centres Pre-1930"
Ross Melnick (University of California, Los Angeles), "From Broadway to Bombay: Paramount and Loews Establish Multinational Theater Circuits in Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia"
Jasmine Trice (Indiana University-Bloomington), "Multiplex Fiestas: The Mall and New Philippine Cinema"

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I9: Hollywood and Global Production Cultures

Room:

Chair: Jonathan Buchsbaum (Queen's College)

Sylvia Martin (Babson College), "Mediate in the Immediate: An Ethnographic Study of Media Workers on the Production Floor of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Film/TV Industries"
Aurora Wallace (New York University), "When the Set Becomes Permanent: The Spatial Re-Configuration of Hollywood North"
Laura Ruberto (Berkeley City College), "Hollywood on the Tiber: Sightseeing and Sights Unseen"
Jonathan Buchsbaum (Queen's College), "Historiographies of Hegemony: Studying the Cinema Industries of Hollywood and France."

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I10: Anatomies of Forensic Media

Room:

Chair: Greg Siegel (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Co-chair: Jules Odendahl-James (Duke University)

Jules Odendahl-James (Duke University), "Over My Dead Body: Documentary Performance and the Forensic Imagination"
Greg Siegel (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Wounds of Forensic Photography, Spaces of Cultural Modernity"
Patrik Sjberg (Karlstad University), "As You Can Clearly See Forensic Media and Courtroom Rhetoric"
Kristen Fuhs (University of Southern California), "Documentary and the Forensics of Crime Scene Reenactment"

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I11: Hollywood Myth-Conceptions: Rewriting Film History

Room:

Chair: Richard Ness (Western Illinois University)

Hilary Hallett (Columbia University), "New Women for a New West: Using Myth to Rewrite Hollywoods Origins"
Richard Ness (Western Illinois University), "Dial "H" for Hollywood: The Impact of Radio on the Development of Early Sound Cinema"
Sara Levavy (Stanford University), "The Interwar Newsreel: Between Hollywood and History"
Jans Wager (Utah Valley State College), "Shes Watching: Richard Roundtrees Female Spectators"

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I12: Crafting Girlhood/Queering Childhood

Room:

Chair: Noah Isenberg (Eugene Lang College/The New School)

Kirsten Pike (Northwestern University), "Managing Menstruation with Magic and Monsters in Disneys Witch Mountain Movies"
Andrew Scahill (University of Texas, Austin), "Perverse Pollyannas: The Bad Seed, Revolting Children, and the Possibilities of Queer Adoption"
Barbara Brickman (University of West Georgia), "The Queer Kid and Womens Lib, or How the Disney Family Turned Freaky"
Harry Benshoff (University of North Texas) and Travis Sutton (University of North Texas), "Forever Family Values: Twilight (2008) and the Modern Morman Vampire"

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I13: Filmic Horrors and Cinematic Hauntings

Room:

Chair: Kristy Norindr (University of California, Los Angeles)

Melissa Lenos (Brookdale Community College), "Reboot, Retcon, Repeat: The Hauntology of Unoriginal Hollywood Film"
Robert Alford (University of California-Berkeley), "Affective Effects: Ghosts, Musicals, and the Conversion to Sound"
David Bering-Porter (Brown University), "Undead Labor: Necrorealism and Necropolitics in the Evolution of the Zombie Movie"
Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University), "Taxidermia: Body Horror, State Spectacle, and Post-Communist Cinema"

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I14: Supernatural, psychic and (pseudo)-scientific investigators: Crime and investigative television after the forensic moment

Room:

Chair: Lindsay Steenberg (University of East Anglia)

Diane Negra (University College Dublin), "Television's Vampire Detectives"
Lindsay Steenberg (University of East Anglia), "Criminal Investigations, Womens Intuition and the Postfeminist Gothic in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS 2000--) and The Ghost Whisperer (CBS 2005--)."
Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia), "Smoke and Mirrors: Psychic cops, pseudo-science and male intuition"

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I15: Star Power: Documenting Actor Agency

Room:

Chair: Amy Lawrence (Dartmouth College)

Linda Berkvens (University of Sussex), "Whose Name on the Marquee? Barbara Stanwycks Freelance Career and the Production of The Gay Sisters"
Allyson Field (UCLA), "You wouldnt want him as your next door neighbor: Ethnic Coding in American Cinema and the cross-racial casting of Noble Johnson"
Jerry Mosher (California State University-Long Beach), "John Bunny's Stardom and American Silent Comedy in Transition"
Amy Lawrence (Dartmouth College), "Valentino Takes Charge: Italian-American in the 1920s"

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I16: Towards a New Cinema History. Concepts and Case Studies from the US, Europe and Australia.

Room:

Chair: Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp)
Co-chair: Richard Maltby (Flinders University)

Robert Allen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "What Is/Was Cinema? Re-Imagining and Researching the Historical Experience of Cinema"
Richard Maltby (Flinders University) and Kate Bowles (University of Wollongong), "The New Cinema History: An Argument"
Jeffrey Klenotic (University of New Hampshire at Manchester), "GIS and the Spatial History of Cinema"
Daniel Biltereyst (Gent University) and Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp), "Social class, experiences of distinction and the field of cinema. Combining databases, programming analyses and oral history accounts in a research project on the history of cinema-going"

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I17: Workshop: F&F SIG SPECIAL SESSION: African Women Filmmakers Today

Room:

Chair: Brigitte Rollet (University of London Institute in Paris)
Co-chair: Odile Cazenave (Boston University)

Workshop Participants:
Yifen Beus (Brigham Young University-Hawaii)
Michelle Chilcoat (Union College)
Zeinabu Davis (University of California, San Diego)
Osvalde Lewat (Independent Filmmaker)
Sheila Petty (University of Regina)
Salem Mekuria (Wellesley College)

Sponsor: French and Francophone Scholarly Interest Group

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Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:00-3:45 pm (Session J)

J1: Dialogues in Sex: Three Case Studies of Intertextual References During and After the Sexual Revolution

Room:

Chair: Mariah Larsson (Malm University College)

Mariah Larsson (Malm University College), "Ingmar Bergman, Swedish Sexploitation and Early Swedish Porn"
Elisabet Bjrklund (Lund University), "This Is a Dirty Movie Taxi Driver and the Myth about Sweden"
Ingrid Ryberg (Stockholm University), "Our Porn, Ourselves: North American Second-Wave Feminist Body Politics In Contemporary European Feminist and Queer Porn Film Culture"
Respondent: Eric Schaefer (Emerson College)

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J2: Transcolonial Co-productions in the Japanese Empire: Rethinking Wartime Collaboration and Co-prosperity across Japan, Korea, Manchuria Film Ind

Room:

Chair: Nayoung Kwon (Duke University)

Nayoung Kwon (Duke University), "Colonial Filmmaking, Co-Productions, Code-Switching"
Hieyoon Kim (University of California, Los Angeles ), "An Impenetrable Fortress in Total War: Transnational Co-productions among Japan, Manchuria, and Korea"
Sookyeong Hong (Cornell University), "Between Ideology and Spectatorship: Ethnic Harmony of Manchuria Motion Picture Corporation, 1937-45"
Hwajin Lee (Yonsei University ), "The Paradox of Colonial Korean Cinema in the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere"
Respondent: Takashi Fujitani (University of California, San Diego)

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J3: Workshop: Reflecting On the Origins of Television Studies

Room:

Chair: Amanda Lotz (University of Michigan)

Workshop Participants:
Robert Allen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow)
Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona)
John Hartley (Queensland University of Technology)
Ellen Seiter (University of Southern California)

Sponsor: Television Studies Interest Group

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J4: Mobilizing Sex and Race in Postwar American Cinema

Room:

Chair: Rebecca Sullivan (University of Calgary)
Co-chair: Hilaria Loyo (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Susan Courtney (University of South Carolina), "Queering the Plantation Suture: Lessons from Streetcar and Baby Doll"
Hilaria Loyo (Universidad de Zaragoza), "Burlesque of a Blinding Blonde: Jayne Mansfield, Racial Masquerade and Satire in Postwar Comedies"
Kirsten Pullen (Texas A & M University), "Light Egyptian: Lena Horne and the Minstrel Tradition in Post-War Hollywood Film"
Rebecca Sullivan (University of Calgary), "A Black-hearted Woman: Sex and Racial Mobility in the Films of Natalie Wood"

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J5: Silent Cinema and Film Theory

Room:

Chair: Constance Balides (Tulane University)

Beth Corzo-Duchardt (Northwestern University), "Primitivism As (Counter) Distinction: The Case of Vachel Lindsay"
Charles Burnetts (Royal Holloway, University of London), "Chaplin as a Sentimental Classicist: genteel tastes, Film Theory and The Kid"
Laura Heins (University of Virginia), "Physiognomic Utopias: Bla Balzs between Socialist and Racialist Theories of Film and Bodily Legibility"
Constance Balides (Tulane University), "The Sociological Punctum :Intertextuality, Indexicality, and Temporality in Early Social Problem Films"

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J6: Lessons from the Archive

Room:

Chair: Shelley Streeby (University of California, San Diego)

Liz Greene (Queen\'s University, Belfast), "Future Proofing the Precarious Archive: Some sound lessons from the Sound Mountain Archive"
Jeff Van Hanken (University of Tulsa), "History Written in Riot: Confronting Issues of Authenticity While Building a Documentary Archive for The John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation in Tulsa, Oklahoma"
Emma Sandon (Birkbeck College, University of London), "Mobilizing Imperial Cinema Histories and Archiving Cinemas Legacy Of Empire"
Shelley Streeby (University of California, San Diego), "Archiving Black Transnational Modernity: Hubert Harrisons Scrapbooks"

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J7: Workshop: Working with Nontheatrical Archives

Room:

Chair: Oliver Gaycken (Temple University)

Workshop Participants:
Alison Griffiths (Baruch College-The City University of New York)
Jennifer Horne (The Catholic University of America)
Alice Lovejoy (Yale University)
Devin Orgeron (North Carolina State University)
Dan Streible (Orphan Film Symposium/New York University)

Sponsor: Nontheatrical Film and Media Interest Group

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J8: Ether Experiences: Transitional and Defining Moments in Radio History

Room:

Chair: Amanda Keeler (Indiana University)

Amanda Keeler (Indiana University), "Defining a Medium: Early Radios Educational Agenda"
David Hendy (University of Westminster), "Painting with Sound: Lance Sieveking as a Forgotten Pioneer of Radio-as-Cinema"
Rosalin Krieger (University of Toronto), "The Way Life Should Be: Gertrude Berg's Jewish-American Utopia"
Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman (State University of New York, Binghamton), "Where Dusk Meets Radio: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Sonic Color-Line"

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J9: Home Bodies: Domestic Space and the Body in Film and Television

Room:

Chair: Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton)

Alison Hoffman (University of Californa-Los Angeles), "Home Bodies: Womens Cinematic Experiments in (Re-)Inhabiting Domestic Space"
Stefano Baschiera (University College Cork), "The Home Before the Revolution: Domestic Spaces in Bertolucci and Bellocchios Early Cinema 1962-1967"
Alexandra Bevan (Northwestern University), "Archiving the Housewife: Nostalgia, Camp, and Retro-Aesthetics in Contemporary TV and Consumer Culture"
Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton), ""Safe in this little trap:" historical misplacedness and postfeminist representations of the housewifes narrative in Little Children and Revolutionary Road"

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J10: The Artificial Life of Film: Dolls, Puppets, Automata, and Cyborgs in Cinema

Room:

Chair: Allison De Fren (University of Southern California)
Co-chair: Deborah Levitt (Eugene Lang College-The New School)

Allison De Fren (University of Southern California), "Danse Macabre du Cinma: The uncanny pas de deux of the female automaton and her lover"
Soyoung Yoon (Stanford University), "Tableaux Vivant, Cinema and the Instrumentality of the Body as Non-Living Agent"
Deborah Levitt (Eugene Lang College-The New School), "film-as-doll: critical play and the utopia of the simulacrum"
Shige Suzuki (University of Colorado, Boulder), "The Nationalized Bodies of Cyborg: The "Japanoid" in Oshii Mamoru's INNOCENCE"

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J11: The Essay Film Revisited

Room:

Chair: Christine Sprengler (University of Western Ontario)

Rick Warner (University of Pittsburgh), "The Work of Gesture in the Video Essays of Godard and Miville"
Scott Ferguson (University of California-Berkeley), "Anxious Asymmetries: On the Dialogues of France/Tour/Dtour/Deux/Enfants"
Christine Sprengler (University of Western Ontario), "Cinema and Cultural Memory in the "Expanded" Essay Film"

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J12: Social(ist) Cinema, from Cinema Novo to Chavez

Room:

Chair: Maria Vazquez Vazquez (Hong Kong University)

Cacilda Rego (Utah State University), "Saving the Savage Minds: Political Films, Visionary Dreams, and Revolutionary Auteurs"
Ana Ros (Binghamton Universit), "Forty years later: expressions of political commitment in films by sons and daughters of disappeared activists in the Southern Cone"
Nilo Couret (University of Iowa), "The Revolution Was (Over)Televised"
Maria Vazquez Vazquez (Hong Kong University), "Contemporary Populist Cinema?"

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J13: Comparing Production Worlds: European Film Studios since the End of the Cold War

Room:

Chair: Patrick Vonderau (Ruhr University Bochum-Germany)

Petr Szczepanik (Masaryk University, Brno /UCLA (Fulbright scholar)), "A Post-Communist Production World: Barrandov Film Studios between the Cold War and Narnia"
Dorota Ostrowska (Birkbeck College, University of London), "Alternative models of film production: film units in Poland after WWII"
Patrick Vonderau (Ruhr University Bochum-Germany), "In from the Cold: Recent Hollywood Productions in Babelsberg"
Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University), "All the World's a (Sound)Stage: Studio Practices in Contemporary Turkish Popular Cinema"

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J14: Rethinking Reality

Room:

Chair: Daniel Smith-Rowsey (University of Nottingham)

Jelle Mast (University of Antwerp), "Aesthetics and ethics in popular hybrid documentary: A conceptualization of reality television"
Jennifer Jones (Indiana University, Bloomington), ""Plain Fame: Susan Boyle and the Spectacle of the Ordinary in Reality TV"
David Raskin (Community College of Philadelphia), "Jackasss Corporeal Punishment: Slapstick in the Age of Reality TV"
Jon Kraszewski (Seton Hall University), "Speculative Politics: Imagining Multiracialism after the 2000 Census on VH1s Reality Dating Programs"

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J15: Reconsidering Vachel Lindsay

Room:

Chair: Kevin Esch (Hofstra University)

Angela Dalle-Vacche (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Vachel Lindsay in Context: Between Europe and America"
David Gerstner (CUNY-Graduate Center and College of Staten Island), "Langston Hughes and Vachel Lindsay: Cinematic Poetry in Black and White"
Kevin Esch (Hofstra University), "A Film Theorist Goes for a Walk: From Lindsays Walking Tours to His Film Writing"
Antonia Lant (New York University), "Vachel Lindsay and The New Hieroglyphics"

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J16: Hollywoods New Lease on Life: Practices of Production, Modes of Exhibition, and Patterns of Reception in the Post-movie Age

Room:

Chair: Roy Grundmann (Boston University)

Barbara Klinger (Indiana University), "The Aftermarket: Film, Television, and Immortality"
J.D. Connor (Yale University), "Why No One Wants to Make Hulk 2?: Independence, Rebooting and Industrial Reflexivity"
Jon Lewis (Oregon State University), "The End of Cinema, Otra Vez the American Movies (and the Movie Business) 1999-2010"
Respondent: Kirsten Thompson (Wayne State University)

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J17: Workshop: APAC SPECIAL SESSION-Mapping the Past and Future of Asian American Cultural Production in Hollywood

Room:

Chair: Celine P. Shimizu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Co-chair: Karen Tongson (University of Southern California)

Workshop Participants:
Celine P. Shimizu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Karen Tongson (University of Southern California)

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

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Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:00-5:45 pm (Session K)

K1: Francophone African Women Filmmakers Today: Screening the Past, Preparing the Future

Room:

Chair: Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee)

Brigitte Rollet (University of London Institute in Paris), "An Ambiguous Relationship? Frances Contribution to African Women Directors Films and Training"
Michelle Chilcoat (Union College), "The Past Track Forward: Osvalde Lewat and African Cinema"
Kenneth Harrow (Michigan State University), "Women, Melodrama, Popular Cinema: Fanta Nacro and the New African Cinematic Paradigm"
Respondent: Odile Cazenave (Boston University)

Sponsor: French and Francophone Scholarly Interest Group

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K2: Indigenous Visualities: New Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Independent Film and Video

Room:

Chair: Denise Cummings (Rollins College)

Joseph Bauerkemper (University of California, Los Angeles), "Videographic Sovereignty: Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnies Aboriginal World View"
Joanna Hearne (University of Missouri, Columbia), "Performing Smoke Signals: YouTube and the Transformation of a Native Cinema Classic"
Dean Rader (University of San Francisco), "When the Familial Becomes the Political: Engaged Resistance in Skins and Naturally Native"
Respondent: Michelle H. Raheja (University of California, Riverside)

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K3: Reading the Bromance

Room:

Chair: Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University)

Joseph Kerr (Georgia State University), "Whats a Little Shaving Cream Between Men?: Masculinity and Homosociality in 1970s Buddy Films"
Ron Becker (Miami University), "Making Sense of the Bromance: An Audience Study of "I Love You, Man""
Karen Williams (New York University/ Fordham University), "You Know How I Know Youre Gay?: THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, Postfeminist Masculinity, and the Queering of Romantic Comedy"
Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University), "Identification and Desire in the Contemporary Bromance Film"

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K4: The New Documentary

Room:

Chair: Mattias Frey (University of Kent)

Cecilia Sayad (University of Kent), "Documenting Presence: the author, the body and the nation in the films of Eduardo Coutinho"
Henrik Gustafsson (University of Bergen), "New Topographies in Late 20th Century Nonfiction Film"
Stefano Odorico (University College Cork, Ireland), "The Discreet Charm of the Web Documentaries"
Mattias Frey (University of Kent), "From Crisis Structure to Schadenfreude: Emotional Underpinnings of the New Documentary"

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K5: Hollywood in Europe: The Economics, Aesthetics and Politics of Postwar "Runaway" Productions

Room:

Chair: Daniel Steinhart (University of California, Los Angeles)
Co-chair: Rebecca Prime (Hood College)

Daniel Steinhart (University of California, Los Angeles), "Iced Coin, Labor, and Backgrounds: Debates and Configurations of Hollywood Foreign Productions in the Postwar Era"
Anna Sloan (University of Warwick), "Travel Subjects as an Aesthetic Strategy in 1950s Hollywood"
Rebecca Prime (Hood College), "Un-American Activities: Blacklisted Filmmakers and the Politics of Runaway Production in Postwar Europe"
Saverio Giovacchini (University of Maryland), "Runaways in the Age of Dtente: Attack and Tretreat and the Globalization of the Good Italian Mythology"

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K6: Boo Hoo Ha Ha: Comedy at Work in Genres of Disease, Violence, and Death

Room:

Chair: Martha Nochimson (Cineaste)
Co-chair: Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware)

Lester Friedman (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), "Painful Laughter: Comedy's Role in the Medical Drama"
Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University), "The Gangster Giggles: Bloody Funny Situations and the Dramaturgy of Crime"
Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware), "Noir at Play"
Martha Nochimson (Cineaste), ""Garbage, it's our bread and butter": Vision and Irony in The Sopranos"

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K7: Camp and Asian Cinema

Room:

Chair: Kenneth Chan (University of Northern Colorado)

Athena Tan (University of California-Santa Barbara), ""A Third World Place in First World Drag:" Camp Aesthetics in Philippine Comedy"
Chunchi Wang ( National Dong Hwa University), "Camp in Context: Rethinking Camp Through Contemporary Taiwanese Gay Film"
Mark Best (University of Pittsburgh), "Eating Gamera: Giant Monsters, Childhood, and Camp in Rearticulations of Daikaiju Gamera"
Kenneth Chan (University of Northern Colorado), "The Shaw-Tarantino Connection: Globalizing the Camp Pleasures of Hong Kong Trash Cinema"

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K8: Contemporary Narratives of Violence

Room:

Chair: Dennis Rothermel (California State University-Chico)

Natasha Patterson (Simon Fraser University) and Camilla Sears (Simon Fraser University), "Letting Men off the Hook? Domestic Violence and the Postfeminist Celebrity"
Isabel Pinedo (Hunter College, CUNY), "Entertaining Torture: Debating Torture in Battlestar Galactica, 24, and Torture Porn Films"
Carmela Coccimiglio (University of Ottawa), "The Godmother: Women Gangsters in the American Gangster Genre"
Dennis Rothermel (California State University-Chico), "Men Bunching in Violence, Separating in Dance in Mean Streets, Diner, Reservoir Dogs, and Swingers"

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K9: From Kodak to Codec

Room:

Chair: R. Rutsky (San Francisco State University)

Mauro Carassai (University of Florida), "Terminal Time: From Systemic Narrative to Image-Based Subjective Behaviour"
R. Rutsky (San Francisco State University), "Digital Inscription, Generative Aesthetics, and the Posthuman Dispositif"
Kevin Sherman (University Of Florida), "Indexicality & Aesthetics in the Digital Age and the Loss of Faith in the Cinematic"
Respondent: Craig Saper (University of Central Florida)

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K10: Local/Global Negotiations in World Cinema

Room:

Chair: Deniz Gokturk (University of California-Berkeley)

Aga Skrodzka-Bates (Clemson University), "Grounded: Vernacular Cinema of Glocalizing East Central Europe"
Denilson Silva (Federal University, Rio de Janeiro), "At the Heart of The World: Between Until the End of The World by Wim Wenders, The World by Jia Zhang-Ke and Beyond"
Nadine Chan (University of Southern California), "Cosmopolitan Cinema: Towards A New Trajectory In Cosmopolitan Theory"
Deniz Gokturk (University of California-Berkeley), "The Archive in Transit: Immobile Features in a Mediated World"

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K11: Instructional Film

Room:

Chair: Christie Milliken (Brock University)

Carolyn Cunningham (University of Texas Austin), ""Lady, I don't have to listen to you": Race, Class, and Gender in Media Education"
Amy Beste (Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago), "Training the Teachers: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, University of Chicago, and Classroom Exhibition"
Michelle Kelley (New York University), "What About this Business of Brotherhood?: Racial Liberalism and Labor Relations in The United Auto Workers BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (1946)"
Christie Milliken (Brock University), "Peer Pedagogy and The Industry: Reinventing Celluloid Sex Education"

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K12: Agamben, Badiou, Rancire: Differences and Repetitions in Continental Philosophy on Cinema

Room:

Chair: Nico Baumbach (Columbia University)

Nico Baumbach (Columbia University), "Cinema as Emergency Break: Giorgio Agamben and the Philosophy of Cinema After Benjamin and Deleuze"
Luka Arsenjuk (Duke University ), "The Plus-One of Arts: The Historicity of Cinema According to Alain Badiou"
Abraham Geil (Duke University), "The Political is Impersonal: The Question of the Spectator in Badiou and Rancire"
Emiliano Battista (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), "Rancire on the Politics of Cinema"

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K13: Parody, Irony, and the Media

Room:

Chair: Joshua Beaty (University of Chicago)

Whitney Phillips (University of Oregon ), "Transcending Irony: Mapping the Relationship Between Technology, Politics and Humor"
Curt Hersey (Georgia State University), "Television News Parody as a Critique of Journalistic Objectivity"
Racquel Gates (Northwestern University), "Signifyin(g) on Shonuff: Black Belt Jones, Bruce Leroy, Busta Rhymes, and the Afroasian Action Hero"
Joshua Beaty (University of Chicago), "Parody Movie: Film References and the Amnesiac Audience"

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K14: Workshop: The Archive of the Future: New Technologies and/in Media Studies Today

Room:

Chair: Theresa Geller (Grinnell College)

Workshop Participants:
Wendy Chun (Brown University)
Mark Hansen (Duke University)
Caetlin Benson-Allott (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Lucas Hilderbrand (University of California-Irvine)
Mara Mills (University of Pennsylvania)

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K15: Workshop: Teaching the Introductory Class

Room:

Chair: Eric Smoodin (University of California-Davis)

Workshop Participants:
Richard Neupert (University of Georgia)
Jonathan Kahana (New York University)
Catherine Jurca (California Institute of Technology)
Jon Lewis (Oregon State University)

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K16: Making the Peripheral Central to Television Studies

Room:

Chair: Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham)

Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham), "Players and Paratexts in the Star Trek Franchise"
Jonathan Gray (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Conjuring Aura in the Age of Digital Reproduction: The Discursive Work of DVD Bonus Materials"
Catherine Johnson (Royal Holloway, University of London), "Branding and the Para-textuality of Television"
Avi Santo (Old Dominion University), "Selling the Silver Bullet: Licensing the Lone Ranger in postwar America"

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K17: SOUND STUDIES SIG SPECIAL SESSION - Unheard Histories of Sound in Media and Cinema

Room:

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

D. Travers Scott (University of Southern California), "Seeing Proper Sounds: Telephone Training Films"
Helen Hanson (University of Exeter), "Commanding all the Sounds of the Universe: Post-production Sound, Soundscapes and Sound Design in Hollywoods Studio Era"
Robert Miklitsch (Ohio University), "House Sound: Reverb, Voice-Over, and Off-Screen Sound in Early RKO Film Noir"
David Laderman (College of San Mateo), "Lets Get Found: Music Sampling, Found Footage and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"

Sponsor: Sound Studies Scholarly Interest Group

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Friday, March 19, 2010 8:00-9:45 am (Session L)

L1: Anxieties of Manhood in American Film

Room:

Chair: Rick Worland (Southern Methodist University)

Jenna Weinman (University of California, Irvine), "The Not So Tender Trap: Romantic Comedy and Male Immaturity in the Fifties and Now"
Bjorn Nordfjord (University of Iceland), "Laying Dirty Harry to Rest: American Cars and Working Class Heroes in Clint Eastwoods Gran Torino"
Sara Ross (Sacred Heart University), "Make a Commitment!: Right and Wrong Men in Contemporary Romantic Comedy"
Rick Worland (Southern Methodist University), "Pads and Dads: Male Anxiety in Middle Class Social Comedies of the Kennedy Era"

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L2: The Internet and Its Uses

Room:

Chair: Michele White (Tulane University)

Patricia Lange (University of Southern California), "Quieting the Monads: Comparing the Aesthetics and Social Struggles of Italian Neo-Realists and Video Bloggers"
Heather Warren-Crow (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Forever Under Construction: Girling the Past and the Future on Mouchette.org"
Steve Anderson (University of Southern California), "Fair Use and the Future of Media Studies: The Case for Critical Commons"
Michele White (Tulane University), "Organizational Logic and Disordered Homes: eBays Rendering of Binary Gender, Heterosexuality, and Disarray"

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L3: The Screen Discourse of Accommodation: Neoliberal logics in Asian Film and Media

Room:

Chair: Bliss Cua Lim (University of California, Irvine)

Lan Duong (University of California, Riverside), "Reformation and Redemption: Vietnamese Cinema Laws and the Figure of Woman"
Arnika Fuhrmann (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin), "Nang Nak: Sexual anachronism and the neoliberal Thai 'heritage body'"
Patty Ahn (University of Southern California), "Transgender Brand? Harisu, neoliberalism, and cosmetic femininity in South Korea"
Bliss Cua Lim (University of California, Irvine), "From pito-pito to Bet Collector: Neoliberal rationality in the films of Jeffrey Jeturian"

Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus

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L4: Film Form and Documentary Aesthetics

Room:

Chair: Joshua Malitsky (Indiana University)

Laszlo Strausz (University College London), "On The River: History as a palimpsestic narrative in The Danube Exodus"
Paige Sarlin (Brown University), "Form and Context: The Filmed Interview in an Expanded Field"
Ohad Landesman (New York University), "This is Not a Love Song: Sound and Experience in the Animated Documentary Waltz with Bashir"
Joshua Malitsky (Indiana University), "Ideologies in Fact: Still and Moving-Image Documentary in the Soviet Union, 1927-1932"

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L5: Historicizing and Theorizing Hollywoods International Effects and Affects

Room:

Chair: John McCullough (York University)

Alejandro Pardo (University of Navarra), "Hollywood-Europe, A Marriage of Convenience? Cooperating and Competing in the Global Film Industry"
David Newman (Simon Fraser University), "Empire and Hollywood in Asia: contrasts in film policy in Hong Kong and Singapore during the 1920s and 30s."
John McCullough (York University), "Art vs. Labour: Global Hollywoods Mode of Exchange and Canadian Film Culture, 1985-2010"
Isabel Molina (University of Illinois), "Selling Frida: How the Production and Reception of Latina Bodies Function in Global Hollywood"

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L6: Traveling Television: Lifestyle Television Under a Transnational Lens

Room:

Chair: Yael Sherman (Emory University)

Gareth Palmer (University of Salford), "New Models of the Self"
Yael Sherman (Emory University), "Dress Your Best Across the Atlantic: Femininity, Class and Nation in Makeover Television."
Eddy Mueller (Emory University), "Little House on the Telly: Middle-Class Mobility, Lifestyle Television and Reflections of Domesticity on the Surface of the Global Housing Bubble"
Frances Bonner (University of Queensland), "Variations on a Culinary Theme: Food Cultures on Television"

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L7: 'Brer Rabbit with a Switchblade': 35 Years with (and without) Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin

Room:

Chair: Jason Sperb (Indiana University)

Michael Gillespie (Ohio University), "The Racial Grotesque and Ralph Bakshis Coonskin (1975)"
Jason Sperb (Indiana University), "A Period of Acute Racial Sensitivity: Coonskin, Disneys Song of the South and White Flights of Fancy"
Jason LaRiviere (Columbia University), "A Didactic Tragedy: On the place of Coonskin in Hip Hop Culture"
Respondent: Roopali Mukherjee (City University of New York, Queens College)

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L8: Knowing Television: the Text, the Technology, the Scholar, the Fan

Room:

Chair: Lynne Joyrich (Brown University)

Amelie Hastie (Amherst College), "An Obsessive Preoccupation with Gadgetry: Columbos Studious Detective"
Julie Russo (Brown University), "Sex Detectives: Law & Order: SVU's Fans, Critics, and Characters Investigate Lesbian Desire"
Lynne Joyrich (Brown University), "Distance Learning: Re-thinking the Tele-epistemology of Tele-Vision (or, My Struggles Trying to Teach Without a VCR!)"

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L9: Radio Voices: Technologies, Performance Styles, and Politics of Voice in Early U.S. Broadcasting

Room:

Chair: Kathy Fuller-Seeley (Georgia State University)
Co-chair: Shawn VanCour (Carleton College)

Kathy Fuller-Seeley (Georgia State University), "Selling the Senses: Vocal Performance and The Taste, Smell and Visuality of Jello on the Radio"
Shawn VanCour (Carleton College), "Announcing Radio: Defining Preferred Forms of Radio Speech For Early Twentieth Century American Broadcasting"
Alexander Russo (Catholic University of America), "Passing Pappys Biscuits: Dynamics of Uneven Modernization in Regional Radio Voices"
Kathleen Battles (Oakland University), "The Voice of Authority: Intimacy, Professionalism, and Hierarchy in Radio Crime Dramas"

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L10: Explorations in Film Analysis

Room:

Chair: Jonah Corne (University of Manitoba)

Jeremy Powell (Brown University), "The Blowings-Up of Cinema: On Three of Antonioni's Mistakes"
Andrew Ritchey (University of Iowa), "Baudry's Favorite Film: Mediterranee and the Cinematographic Apparatus Revisited"
Heather Collette-VanDeraa (University of California, Los Angeles), "Lost Girls and Liminal Spaces: Searching for the Disappearing Subject in Hardcore and Picnic at Hanging Rock"
Jonah Corne (University of Manitoba), "Shooting the Martyr: Alternate Takes in Paradise Now"

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L11: The City and Film II

Room:

Chair: Anthony Kinik (McGill University)

Brigitte Humbert (Middlebury College), "Nostalgia and Modernity in Recent Paris Films"
Evan Elkins (Independent Scholar), "Sometimes So Young-Seeming, Sometimes So Ancient: Guy Maddins MY WINNIPEG and the Excavation of Self, City, and Media"
Katrina Sark (McGill University), "Fashion documentaries: locationality of fashion, film, and cities"
Anthony Kinik (McGill University), "Manhattan Project: New York and the Origins of the City Symphony"

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L12: German Cities/German Cinema

Room:

Chair: Marco Abel (University of Nebraska)

Priscilla Layne (University of California, Berkeley), "Reading Rainer Werner Fassbinders Whity (1971) as National Allegory and Universal Lesson of Freedom"
Laura Frahm (Humboldt University, Berlin), "Modernitys Past(s). Temporality and Transformation in German City Films of the 1950s and 1960s"
Hans Staats (Stony Brook University/SUNY), "Re-envisioning Postwar Berlin: Childhood and National Identity in Fred Zinnemanns The Search, and Gianni Amelios Le Chiavi di casa"
Marco Abel (University of Nebraska), "Yearning for Genre: The Cinema of Dominik Graf"

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L13: The Aesthetics of Mobility: Film Theory and the Transnational

Room:

Chair: Soumitra Ghosh (Oklahoma State University)
Co-chair: Lesley Stern (University of California-San Diego)

Negar Mottahedeh (Duke University), "Enunciation and the Transnational in Film"
Angelo Restivo (Georgia State University), "Notes Toward a Geocinema"
Scott Krzych (Oklahoma State University), "Auto-Motivations: Technologies of Movement in Kiarostamis Digital Cinema"
Soumitra Ghosh (Oklahoma State University), "Luck by Chance, Or the Aesthetics of Over-stylization"

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L14: Surveillance Cultures and the Media

Room:

Chair: Ina Hark (University of South Carolina)

Sudeep Sharma (University of California, Los Angeles), "Surveillance, Crime, and the Modernist/Postmodernist City in Fritz Lang and HBOs The Wire"
Joshua Gooch (University of Iowa), "Beyond Panopticism: Immaterial Labor in Early Twenty-First Century Films of Surveillance and War"
Michael DelNero (Bowling Green State University), "The Political Life of Surveillance in Cinema: From The Black Hand to the Bourne series"
Ina Hark (University of South Carolina), "Needing a Broader View: constructions of Race and Gender in Brink's Home Security Commercials"

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L15: Workshop: Film Festival Research Methodology

Room:

Chair: Ragan Rhyne (University of St Andrews)
Co-chair: Skadi Loist (University of Hamburg)

Workshop Participants:
Ragan Rhyne (University of St Andrews)
Skadi Loist (University of Hamburg)
Su-Anne Yeo (University of London-Goldsmiths )
Roya Rastegar (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Brendan Kredell (Northwestern University)

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L16: Workshop: The More Things Change:Writing for Television in the 21st Century

Room:

Chair: Sharon Ross (Columbia College-Chicago)

Workshop Participants:
Neal Baer (NBCUniversal)
Lisa Seidman (NBCUniversal)
Mark Brown (WGA)
Kevin Murphy (Syfy)
Noreen Halpern (E1)

Sponsor: Television Studies Scholarly Interest Group

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L17: Workshop: SPECIAL SESSION - Collaboration, Mentorship, Promotion: Women Mobilizing the Past & Future of SCMS

Room:

Chair: Miranda Banks (Emerson College)

Workshop Participants:
Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois, Urbana)
Nina Huntemann (Suffolk University)
Melissa Click (University of Missouri)
Constance Penley (Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara)

Sponsor: Women's Caucus

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Friday, March 19, 2010 10:00-11:45 am (Session M)

M1: Sex in the Seventies

Room:

Chair: Damon Young (University of California, Berkeley)

Damon Young (University of California, Berkeley), "Radical Feminism and the Political Theory of Sex in the '70s"
Ryan Powell (King's College, London), "The Camp-Zap Erotics of 'American Cream' (1972)"
Elizabeth Venell (Emory University), "Barbara Hammer and the Repressive Narrative"
Gregory Youmans (University of California-Santa Cruz), "Sexual Libertarianism as a Bulwark against the Gay Liberal Turn of the Late 1970s: Rosa von Praunheims 'Army of Lovers, or Revolt of the Perverts' (1979)"

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M2: The Aesthetics of Transnational Geographies: Hispanic Cinemas Without Borders

Room:

Chair: Kathleen Newman (University of Iowa)

Kathleen Newman (University of Iowa), "Beyond Peripheral Modernity: Transnational Political Geographies in Argentine Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s"
Marvin D' Lugo (Clark University), "Luis Buuels Gran Casino, or Early Constructions of Transnational Space in Hispanic Cinema"
Laura Podalsky (Ohio State University), "Migrant Feelings"
Deborah Shaw (Portsmouth University), "Babel: A Hollywood World Cinema Text"

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M3: No Boundaries to the Beat: Cross-Purposing Music in Television and Film

Room:

Chair: Kelly Kessler (DePaul University)

Tim Anderson (Old Dominion University ), "Not so easy listening: The Critical Employment of Popular Music Recordings in Mad Men"
Kevin John Bozelka (University of Texas-Austin), "Narrative and Industrial Tensions in Early Rock n Roll Musicals"
Jay Beck (DePaul University), "Another Music in A Different Kitchen, or Personal Music for Public Consumption"
Kelly Kessler (DePaul University), "Primetime Goes Hammerstein: The Musicalization of Primetime Fictional Television"

Sponsor: Sound Studies Scholarly Interest Group

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M4: More or Less White: The Performance of Whitenesses in American Film

Room:

Chair: Amy Corbin (Muhlenberg College)

Sylvia Chong (University of Virginia), "Marlon Brandos Method Yellowface: Assimilation versus Racial Masquerade in The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)"
Arne Lunde (University of California, Los Angeles), "Nordic Natural: Hollywood, Third Reich Cinema, and the Ideological War over Ingrid Bergmans Hyperwhite Star Persona"
Amy Corbin (Muhlenberg College), "White Multiculturalism: How Contemporary Cinematic Imagery has Recuperated the White South"
Scott Combs (St. John's University), "White Face, Redneck: Performance and White Trash Eroticism"

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M5: Workers of the World (Above-the-Line): Case Studies in Global Creative Labor

Room:

Chair: Mark Gallagher (University of Nottingham)

Grace An (Oberlin College), "The French Jane Fonda"
Heather Addison (Western Michigan University), "Islamophobia?: Persepolis (2007) as Transnational Memoir"
Mark Gallagher (University of Nottingham), "Soderbergh Abroad: American Indie or Global Auteur?"
Elaine Roth (Indiana University South Bend), "The Future of Cinema: International Auteurs"

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M6: Perspectives on Film Comedy

Room:

Chair: William Paul (Washington University)

Leger Grindon (Middlebury College), "A Genre History of the Hollywood Romantic Comedy Film: Principles and a Profile"
Hilde D'haeyere (Academy of Fine Arts, University College Ghent), "Stop, Look, Laugh: Gag-related Special Effects Photography in Mack Sennetts Comedy Shorts of the 1920s."
Andres Lombana Bermudez (University of Texas, Austin), "The New Sounds of The Slap-Of-The-Stick: Termite Terrace (1937-1943) and the Slapstick Tradition"
William Paul (Washington University), "No Escaping the Depression: Reality, Fantasy and the Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capras You Can't Take It with You"

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M7: Brave New Educators: Research+Remix=Electracy

Room:

Chair: Virginia Kuhn (University of Southern California)

Virginia Kuhn (University of Southern California), "The Front Lines of Education: The Three R's: Rip, Research, Remix"
Vicki Callahan (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Figuring the Fifth Estate: Remixing Robert Greenwald's (Brave New Films) Rethink Afghanistan"
Eric Faden (Bucknell University), "The Rhetorical Strategies of Remix"
Robert Greenwald (Brave New Films), "Brave New Educators"

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M8: The Limits of Television

Room:

Chair: Max Dawson (Northwestern University)
Co-chair: Elizabeth Evans (University of Nottingham)

Max Dawson (Northwestern University), "Promotion, Authorship, and Labor at Televisions Limits"
Elizabeth Evans (University of Nottingham), "10AM, Carnaby Street: Agency, Ephemerality and the Producer-Viewer Relationship in Online Drama"
Ethan Tussey (University of California, Santa Barbara), "The Viral Water Cooler: Transmedia Storytelling Goes to Work"
Jon Dovey (University of Western England), "When Television Became Old: Facing Evolutionary Challenge"

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M9: From Colonial Memories to the Korean Dream: Remapping Koreas Cinematic Place Under an Asian Sun

Room:

Chair: Mina Shin (Michigan State University)

Jung-Bong Choi, "Of Striding the Colonial-Transnational"
Youngmin Choe (University of Southern California), "Moving Intermediary Displays: The Pre-Travel Film and the Framing of Reconciliation"
Aaron Magnan-Park (University of Notre Dame), "Chung Chang-Wha in Hong Kong: A Redemptive Action Cinema of Confucian Virtue"
Mina Shin (Michigan State University), "Embracing Multiculturalism: The Korean Dream and Ethnic Minorities in Recent Korean Films"

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M10: Cinephilia/Cinephobia

Room:

Chair: Steve Rybin (Independent Scholar)

Carole Piechota (Wayne State University), "Touching Sounds: Audiovisual Aesthetics in Contemporary Cinema"
Benjamin Sher (University of California, Los Angeles), "Political Pleasures: Feminism and the revitalization of cinephilia."
Andrew Covert (University of Michigan), "Cinephilia/Cinephobia: The Hidden Dialectic"
Steve Rybin (Independent Scholar), "Nicholas Ray and Architectural Cinephilia"

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M11: Global Hybrid Cinema

Room:

Chair: Akira Lippit (University of Southern California)

Caveh Zahedi (Eugene Lang College, The New School), "Documentary/Fictions Hybrids"
Akira Lippit (University of Southern California), "IWAI Shunji and the Space between Worlds"
Ackbar Abbas (University of California, Irvine), "Filmic De-scriptions"
Yanhong Zhu (Washington and Lee University), "Truth or Fiction? Embracing the Hybrid Nature of Cinematic Representations of the Nanjing Massacre"

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M12: Workshop: The Global Movements of Indian Film Culture: Paradigms, Practices and Publics

Room:

Chair: Nitin Govil (University of California, San Diego)
Co-chair: Priya Jaikumar (University of Southern California)

Workshop Participants:
Rosie Thomas (University of Westminster)
Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Aswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan)
Rachel Dwyer (University of London)

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