FRIDAY 9AM-6PM : Executive Council Meeting San Remo
SATURDAY, APRIL 4 : Registration 9AM-5PM Hyatt Regency lower lobby
SATURDAY 9AM-12PM : Executive Council Meeting San Remo
SATURDAY 12PM-1PM
I: CAUCUS MEETING:African/African American Portofino B
SATURDAY 1PM-2:45 PM: SESSION A
A 1 NARRATING, REMAKING, AND THE "REAL"
Room: Palatine B
Chair: Dick Abel, Drake University
Anat Zanger, Tel-Aviv University. "Textual Boundaries/Sexual
Boundaries -- The Consumption of a Feminine Heroine."
Richard Neupert, University of Georgia. "Chabrol's Unsettled Women: Melodrama, Narration & Obsession."
Peter Brunette, George Mason University. "Borders and Bodies: Drugs, Derrida, and Open City."
A 2 NATIONAL STAKES IN TRANSNATIONAL DISCOURSES: MEXICO, CUBA AND THE U.S.A
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Dona M. Kercher, Assumption College
Gary D. Keller, Arizona State University. "Running the United States - Mexican Border: 1909 Through the Present."
Catherine Benamou, Duke University. "Coming up for Air: Transnational Spanish-Language Television Flows and the U.S. Latino Audience."
Marvin D'Lugo, Clark University. "Charting the Itinerary of Transnational Authors in Latin America."
A 3 STAR GAZING I : SEX, SCANDAL, AND THE BODY BEAUTIFUL
Room: Athenia A
Chair: Eric Schaefer, Emerson College
Jennifer Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Erotic Vagrancy - Sex Scandals, Movie Stars and Cold War Politics in Postwar America."
Stephanie Savage, University of Iowa. "Truth and Consequences: CONFIDENTIAL magazine and the 'Trial of 100 Stars'."
Roger Sorkin, University of Massachusetts--Dartmouth. "Warren Beatty Eating: Abstinence and Consumption in the Construction of the Male Star Persona."
A 4 GENDER, NATION, VOICE: WOMEN'S FILM-MAKING IN VENEZUELA, THE GDR AND HAWAII
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Cynthia Erb, Wayne State University
Monique Yamaguchi, University of Southern California. "The Voice and Representation of Hawaiian Sovereignty."
Emperatriz Arreaza-Camero, Universidad Del Zulia. "Representation of Minorities in Venezuelan Cinema."
Ute Lischke-McNab, University of Toronto. "Female Subjectivity in the Films of the Former GDR: Subverting the Political in Apprehension."
A 5 "THIS IS YOUR LIFE" : THE AVERAGE CITIZEN AND THE SPECTACLE OF THE EVERYDAY IN 1950s TELEVISION
Room : Ballroom C
Chair: Victoria E. Johnson, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
Anna McCarthy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "Classification Games: The Panel Show and Other Sociological TV Genres of the 1950s."
Victoria E. Johnson, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. "Jubilee U.S.A.! Populist Address and Local Values in 1950s Network TV."
Mark J. Williams, Dartmouth College. "Wires and Machines: Knowledge/Anxiety via 1950s TV-Tech."
Respondent : Mary R. Desjardins, Dartmouth College
A 6 SATELLITE CROSSINGS: MEDIA BEYOND BORDERS
Room: Mykonos B
Chair: Lisa Parks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sujata Moorti, Old Dominion University. "Symbols of Woman for the Diaspora: Satellite TV Re-Imagines India."
Yu-Fen Ko, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Under a Sheltering Sky: Nationalist Discourses and Satellite Television in Taiwan."
Shanti Kumar, Indiana University. "Dishing it Out: Satellite Television and Global Consumer Culture."
Lisa Parks, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Satellite Encounters: Border Anxieties in The Arrival and Contact."
A 7 RECASTING ETHNICITY ON RADIO, TV, AND FILM
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Susan Ohmer, University of Michigan
Vincent Brook, University of California Los Angeles. "The Americanization of Molly: How Mid-Fifties TV Homogenized 'The Goldbergs' (And Got 'Berg-larized' in the Process)."
Paul Young, University of Chicago. "A Cinema Without Wires: Hollywood and the Radio Imagination to 1933."
Monica Owusu-Breen, University of California San Diego. "Getting With the Program: A Political Economic Perspective on Oprah Winfrey."
A 8 REVISITING FRITZ LANG
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Walter Metz, University of Texas-Austin
Walter Metz, Universtity of Texas-Austin. "While Lang Criticism Sleeps: Authorship, Canonicity, and Historicizing Film Studies."
David E. Pratt, Emory University. "Hiding in Plain Sight: Fritz Lang and the Hidden Ellipsis."
Marshall Deutelbaum, Purdue Univesity. "More than Snakes and Funerals: The Visual Logic of Fritz Lang's Moonfleet"
Richard R. Ness, Wayne State University. "The Power and the Press: Fritz Lang's Journalism Trilogy."
A 9 GENITAL SEXUALITY AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Christopher Sharrett, Seton Hall University
Lianne McLarty, University of Victoria. "Alien 'Parts': Biology, Identity, Politics."
Peter Lehman, University of Arizona. "The Act of Seeing the Dead Penis With One's Own Eyes."
Martha Nochimson, Mercy College. "What Busby Berkeley Likes About 'Those Beautiful Dames'."
Christopher Sharrett, Seton Hall University. "The Wild Boys: Batman's Codpiece, Male Adventure Fiction, and the Revenge of the Phallus."
Respondent: Barry Keith Grant, Brock University
SATURDAY 3PM-4:45PM : SESSION B
B 1 HIGH TENSION: CRISES OF MASCULINITY
Room: Mykonos B
Chair: Steven B. Elworth, New York University
Donald E. Staples, University of North Texas. "A South-of-the-Border Consul Emasculated on the Screen -- Under The Volcano."
Renee R. Curry, CSU - San Marcos. "When 'No' Means 'Yes': Robert Rodriguez and the Framing of Mexico.
Carol Donelan, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. "'I Like the Way You Talk': Melodramatic Self-Expression and Patriarchal Authority in Fassbinder's In a Year of Thirteen Moons and Thornton's Sling Blade."
B 2 THE WESTERN: GENRE, IDEOLOGY, PLEASURE
Room: Athenia A
Chair: Ranjan Chhibber, Brock University
Alison McMahan, University of Amsterdam. "1911: The Year of the Western."
Janet Walker, University of California- Santa Barbara. "Captive Images: Thoughts on Traumatic Events and the Historiographic Function of the Film Western."
Peter Limbrick, La Trobe University. "Home on the Range: Locating White Masculinity in Hollywood Westerns."
Kathryn Kalinak, Rhode Island College. "Music and the West: John Ford, Max Steiner, and The Searchers."
B 3 SPEAKING SUBJECTS: AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FILM AND VIDEO
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Eric Freedman, Florida Atlantic University
Eric Freedman, Florida Atlantic University. "'Do You Sleep in the Nude?': Public Access/Private Confession."
James M. Moran, University of Southern California. "Hey That's Me! Home Video, Domestic Television and the Autobiographical Impulse."
Owen Shapiro, Syracuse University. "Diary and Autobiography in Israeli Cinema"
Linda Dittmar, University of Massachusetts-Boston. "Hide and Go Seek: Child Narrators/Adult Autobiographies."
B 4 THE FILM INDUSTRY: OWNERSHIP, COPYRIGHT AND THE STUDIO
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Anne Morey, University of Texas-Austin
James R. Thompson, University of Southern California. "Whose 'Life' is it Anyway: An Examination of Film Ownership Issues Related to Frank Capra's/Republic Pictures'/Viacom's 'It's a Wonderful Life'."
Chris Jordan, Penn State Univeristy. "Public Costs, Private Profits -- A History of Recent Film Preservation in the United States."
Mark Langer, Carleton University. "Disney and Cold War Animation: Man in Space (1955)."
B 5 TELEVISION ON TELEVISION
Room: Ballroom C
Co-Chairs: Kirsten Lentz, Brown University,
Lynne Joyrich, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mimi White, Northwestern University. "Television: Making History, Selling History"
Tara McPherson, University of Southern California. "TV Predicts Its Future: MSNBC and Cybertelevision."
Kirsten Lentz, Brown University. "Feminism and the Image of Television."
Respondent : Lynne Joyrich, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
B 6 RHETORIC, REPRESENTATION, POWER
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Bill Nichols, San Francisco State University
Bill Nichols, San Francisco State University. "Film and the Uses of Rhetoric"
Scott A. Benjamin, University of Iowa. "Film Genre as Rhetorical EnGenering."
Lisa D. Kernan, University of California Los Angeles. "Hollywood's Identity Crisis: Movie Trailer Rhetoric Between the Classical Hollywood and High Concept Eras."
Vinicius Navarro, New York University. "Look at Me! -- Rhetoric and Authority in Portrait Films."
B 7 SEX, CLASS AND CRIME IN NOIR, NEO-NOIR, AND POST-NOIR FILM: PART ONE Organized by: The Caucus on Class
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Robert Bodle, University of Southern California
Mark Berrettini, University of Rochester. "'Films Noir With a Difference': Identity Intersections and the Home in Devil in a Blue Dress."
Bob Nowlan, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. "A Contribution to the Critique of the Politics of Film Noir."
Elayne Rapping, Adelphi University. "Aliens, Nomads, Mad Dogs and Road Warriors: Tabloid TV and the Changing Face of Criminality."
B 8 THE CUTTING EDGE: FILM ON THE BORDER OF THE OTHER
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh
Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh. "'The Savage Eye': Edward Hopper, Modernity and the Independent Cinema."
Krin Gabbard, State University of New York. "In Search of a Jazz Aesthetic."
Tom Gunning, University of Chicago. "Why Cinema was not Invented in 1895, Or a Theory of Intermediality."
James Naremore, Indiana University. "Telling it Again: Cinema and 'the reign of adaptation'."
B 9 REPRESENTATION AS BORDER CROSSING (workshop)
Room: Palatine B
Chair: Ruth Wallen, University of California San Diego
Norma Iglesias, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. "Representations of the Frontier."
Jose Manuel Valenzuela, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. "Images of the Borderlands in Cinema."
Emily Hicks, San Diego State University. "Representation of Chicanas in the Border Region."
Ruth Wallen, University of California San Diego. "Border Crossing as Translation."
William Nericcio, San Diego State University. " Discussant."
SATURDAY 5PM-6PM
I: CAUCUS MEETING: Latino/a Palatine A
SATURDAY 5:30-7:00 PM
OPENING RECEPTION Barcino restaurant Lower Lobby
SATURDAY 7:30 PM
AWARDS BANQUET Room: Athenia A and B
SATURDAY 9:00 PM
GRADUATE STUDENT RECEPTION Room: Palatine A and B
Sponsored by the Communication Graduate Students and the Graduate Student Association of University of California-San Diego
SUNDAY 8AM-9AM:
I: CAUCUS MEETING: Lesbian/gay/bisexual Room: Portofino B
II: OSCAR MICHEAUX SOCIETY Room: Portofino A
SUNDAY 8AM-5PM REGISTRATION LOWER LOBBY
SUNDAY 9AM-10:45 AM: SESSION C
C 1 DISLOCATIONS OF "NATIONHOOD"
Room: Mykonos B
Chair: Robert Eberwein, Oakland University
Zuzana M. Pick, Carleton University. "Tripping Across Each Other's History": Road Movies and Borders in English-Canadian Cinemas."
Jacqueline Stoeckler-Sihvonen, Northwestern University. "An Aesthetic of Landscape and Border."
Lauri Mullens, University of Southern California. "From the Cold War to the Hot Zone: The Evolution of Discourses of Contamination."
C 2 REGULATORY PRACTICES AND HISTORICAL METHODS: THE UNITED STATES FILM INDUSTRY, 1910-1960
Room: Ballroom C
Chair: Eric Smoodin, University of California-Berkeley
Shelley Stamp Lindsey, University of California-Santa Cruz. "The Board of Censorship Ponders the Vice Question."
Mark Lynn Anderson, University of Rochester. "Shooting Stars: Understanding Wallace Reid and His Public."
Eric Smoodin, University of California-Berkeley. "Regulating National Markets: The Chinese Film Board and The Bitter Tea of General Yen."
Jon Lewis, Oregon State University, "We Do Not Ask You to Condone This. . . . Some Notes on How the Blacklist Saved Hollywood."
C 3 THE CULTURE OF CHILDHOOD
Room: Athenia A
Chair: Chandra Mukerji, University of California-San Diego
Karen Orr Vered, University of Southern California. "New Media Technologies, Old Media Cultures: Reinscribing Old Cultural Stereotypes in Games for Girls."
Marisa Helms, San Francisco State University. "Annihilation Chic: Questions of Representation and Visibility of Marginalized Youth."
Jyotsna Kapur, Northwestern University. "Out of Control: The Transformation of Childhood Television and Late Capitalism."
Nic Sammond, University of California-San Diego. "From Managed Childhood to the Natural Child: Walt Disney and Changing Discourses of Childhood in the 1950s."
C 4 RACE, DIASPORA, AND THE IDEA OF "HOME"
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Harriet Margolis, Victoria University
Jason Paul Schlossberg, New York University. "The Politics of Racial Representation in British Cinema: An Historical Approach."
Pamela Robertson, Cinema Chicago. "The Sound of Authenticity: Aural Blackface in Australian Film."
Lesley Brill, Wayne State University. "Living as Prey in Burnett's Killer of Sheep: A Canettian Analysis."
C 5 NATIONAL AGENDAS AND DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE I : THE U.S.A.
Room: Palatine A
Chair: David Whiteman, University of South Carolina
Christine A. Acham, University of Southern California. "Riots or Revolution? Contested Meanings in Civil Rights Television Coverage."
Vance Kepley, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The Order of Point of Order."
Dan Streible, University of South Carolina. "Sound Documentary Practices: The Voice of Emile de Antonio."
C 6 SITES OF TRAUMA IN PUBLIC MEMORY
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Steve Carr, Indiana University - Purdue University/Fort Wayne
Kirsten Moana Thompson, New York University. "Strange Fruit: Pathologies of History and Race in Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)."
Olaf Hoerschelmann, University of North Texas. "Memoria Dextera Est: Film and Public Memory in Post-War Germany."
Bernie Cook, University of California-Los Angeles. "'Only Idiots Would Laugh at Pain and Death': Castlemont High Students' Response to Schindler's List, and the Need to Teach Film Violence."
C 7 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: RECONFIGURING BODIES AND SUBJECTIVITIES
Room: Athenia B
Co-Chairs: Erika Dalya Muhammad, New York University
Martti Lahti, University of Iowa
Monica Hulsbus, University of Southern California. "Actors and Players: The Popular Construction of Cyberspace."
Erika Dalya Muhammad, New York University. "Race and Technology: Defining New World Image Orders."
Scott Bukatman, Stanford University. "Taking Shape: Morphing and the Production of Self."
Laura U. Marks, Carleton University. "Nonorganic Subjectivity."
C 8 MODERN GIRLS IN FILM HISTORY: EAST MEETS WEST BALLROOM
Room: Palatine B
Chair: Maureen Turim, University of Florida
Poonam Arora, University of Michigan. "Woman and the Revolutionary in Indian Cinema."
Joanne Hershfield, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "Modern Girls in Mexican Films: Satas versus La mujer de nadie (Nobody's Woman)."
Maureen Turim, University of Florida. "Modern Girls (Modan Gaaru) in Japanese Cinema."
Phebe Shih Chao, Independent Scholar. "Modern Woman: Chinese Silent Films and Hollywood in the Twenties and Thirties."
C 9 CLASS ACTIONS: ERASURE AND PATHOLOGY IN DISCOURSES OF POVERTY AND ACTIVISM
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Clyde V. Williams, Mississippi State University
Catherine L. Preston, University of Kansas. "The Disappearance of the Poor and the Contingencies of Visual Memory."
Dina M. Smith, University of Florida. "Tracking the Poor White Male: Mobility, Masculinity, and The Night of the Hunter. "
Jeanne Hall, Pennsylvania State University. "'If You Go Carrying Pictures of Chairman Mao': The Pathologization of Radicals in Liberal Hollywood."
SUNDAY 11AM-12:45PM: SESSION D
D 1 HOLLYWOOD CINEMA/VISIONARY FILM
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Steve Anderson, University of Southern California
Steve Anderson, University of Southern California. "Dis(re)membering the Past: Experimental Film and Narrative History."
William C. Wees, McGill University. "The Ambiguous Aura of Hollywood Stars in Avant-Garde Found Footage Films."
Christina Lane, University of Texas-Austin. "Going Commercial: Lizzie Borden's Move into Narrative."
Alisa Perren, University of Texas-Austin. "Finding the Right Niche: Miramax's Role in Redefining Independent Filmmaking."
D 2 QUESTIONS OF VIOLENCE
Room: Mykonos B
Chair: Kevin Sandler, Sheffield Hallam University
Maria Van Liew, University of San Diego. "Spectacles of Democracy: Spanish Female Violence: Almodovar and Democratic Spain (1984-1991)."
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Spelman College. " 'Rock-a-Block, Baby' Hip-Hop Crime Film and Its Intersection with Black Women."
Jane Shattuc, Emerson College. "High/Low Violence: The Reception of "Good" Sexual Violence in Film."
D 3 HISTORIOGRAPHIES: CASTING ROBESON, NAZIMOVA AND JACKIE CHAN
Room: Athenia A
Chair: Amelie Hastie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Patricia White, Swarthmore College. "Nazimova's Veils: Salome at the Intersection of Film Histories."
Charles Musser, Yale University. "Paul Robeson: Ideological Entrapment and Contradiction."
Steve Fore, University of North Texas. "The Disembedding of Jackie Chan."
D 4 VIRTUAL VISION AND DIGITAL UTOPIAS
Room: Palatine B
Chair: Anne Friedberg, University of California-Irvine
Laura Rascaroli, University College--Cork. "Invisible Visions: POV, Perception and the Self in Kathryn Bigelow's Cinema."
Lev Manovich, University of California-San Diego. "History of a Moving Image and Digital Cinema."
Philip Rosen, Brown University. "Old and New in the Digital Utopia."
D 5 CRITICAL PLEASURES: ETHICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES OF IRONIC SPECTATORSHIP IN DOCUMENTARY FILM
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Dirk Eitzen, Franklin & Marshall College
Dirk Eitzen, Franklin & Marshall College. "Tipsy Discourses of Sobriety."
James Hoban, Randolph-Macon Woman's College. "Incongruous Images and Voices as Ironic Techniques in Documentary Films."
Julia Erhart, Flinders University. "Contemporary Mockumentary and the Limits of Genre."
Peter Feng, University of California-Irvine. "The enonciation of Irony: Multiple Authorship and aka Don Bonus."
D 6 FILM, HISTORY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Room: Ballroom C
Chair: Vanessa Schwartz, American University
Vanessa R. Schwartz, American University. "Commodifying Frenchness: Gigi, An American in Paris and other Cinematic Cliches of France."
Leo Charney, University of New Mexico. "The Narrowing Spiral: Nostalgia for Nostalgia in American Film of the Seventies."
Susan K. Larsen, University of California-San Diego. "Sex, History & National Identity in Recent Russian Cinema."
Eric Rentschler, University of California-Irvine. "German Cinema after Fassbinder and Beyond the Wall."
D 7 MONSTROUS BODIES
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Joanna E. Rapf, University of Oklahoma
Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "The Hottentot and the Blonde Venus: Weimar Culture in Hollywood."
Rhona J. Berenstein, University of California-Irvine. "The Science of Monstrous Bodies: Mapping the Terrors of Island of Lost Souls (1932)."
Sophia Siddique, University of Southern California. "Sundel Bolong or Vampiric Negotiations of Indonesian Nationality and Sexuality."
D 8 JUNIOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE JOB CRISIS (workshop)
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Diane Negra, University of North Texas
Donald Crafton, University of Notre Dame
Tricia Welsch, Bowdoin College
Adrienne McLean, Emory University
Nina Martin, Ithaca College
Mark Williams, Dartmouth College
D 9 MEDIA ARTISTS ON THE BORDER : THEORY MEETS PRACTICE (workshop)
Organized by the Host Committee
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Tiffany Ana Lopez, University of California-Riverside
Dee Dee Halleck, University of California-San Diego
Paul Espinosa, Independent Producer-Director
Jill Godmilow, Independent Filmmaker. "Filmmaking as Distribution and Pedagogy: What Farocki Taught".
SUNDAY 1PM-2PM
I: CAUCUS MEETING: Middle East Room: Palatine B
II: WORKSHOP: "Another Border Crossing: Academia and K-12 Media Education."
Room: Portofino A
Chair, Susan Hunt, Glendale Community College.
Rhona Berenstein, University of California-Irvine.
Leslie Blau, University of California-Irvine.
Bambi Haggins, University of California-Los Angeles.
Sarah Nilsen, University of Southern California
Sponsored by the Women's Caucus.
III: WORKSHOP: "Writing Workshop: Turning Your Dissertation into a Book." Sponsored by the Graduate Student Caucus and Cinema Journal.
Room: Portofino B
Co-Chairs Jan Loveland, Wayne State University, and Frank Tomasulo, Georgia State University.
Cynthia Erb, Wayne State University
Cynthia Felando, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University
Micah Kleit, University of Minnesota Press
Frank Tomasulo, Georgia State University and Cinema Journal
SUNDAY 2PM-3:45PM: SESSION E
E 1 THE INTERMEDIALITY OF EARLY CINEMA
Room: Athenia A
Co-Chairs: Rick Altman, University of Iowa
Andre Gaudreault, Universite de Montreal
Andre Gaudreault, Universite de Montreal. "Literarity and Theatricality: Intermediality at Stake in Early Cinema."
J. A. Sokalski, University of Alberta. "Melies: A Case Study of the Stage on Film."
Mariann Lewinsky, University of Zurich. "Cinematic Novels."
Rick Altman, University of Iowa, "Intermediality: The Characterisitc 20th-Century Crisis."
E 2 WOMEN AT THE COLOR LINE: MISCEGENATION, PASSING, AND AGENCY
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Elizabeth Young, Mount Holyoke College
Susan Courtney, University of South Carolina. "From the South to the South Seas: 'A Brown Jill for Every [White] Jack' and Other 'Epidermic Dramas' of Race, Sex and Color."
Janet C. Wondra, University of Georgia. "Neither White nor Black" but Definitely a Daughter: The Film of Racial Passing and the Fetish of the Color Line."
Melinda Barlow, University of Colorado-Boulder. "Red, White, Yellow, and Black: Women, Multiculturalism and Video History."
E 3 STAR GAZING II: SURFING THE WEB FOR YOUR STAR
Room: Mykonos B
Chair: Dan Harries, American Film Institute
Steven Cohan, Syracuse University. "Judy on the Net."
Jerry Mosher, University of California-Los Angeles. "You're One of Us: Star Bodies and Corporeal Activism on the World Wide Web."
Amanda Howell, Griffith University. "'Looking Googly Eyed': Desire and Difference, The X-Files and X-Philia."
E 4 GEOGRAPHY LESSONS: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, BOUNDARY TRANSGRESSIONS AND MATERIALIZING ENTERTAINMENT
Organized by the Host Committee
Room: Palatine B
Chair: Ellen Seiter, University of California, San Diego
David Morley, University of London. "Boundary, Transgression and Identity: Household, Heimat and Nation."
Susan Davis, University of California-San Diego. "Space Jam: The Lessons of the Theme Park."
John Caldwell, University of California-Los Angeles. "Probe Technology, Push Programming and the World."
Respondent: Lynn Spigel, University of Southern California
E 5 (INTRA-)NATIONAL BORDERS AND FRACTURED SUBJECTS IN EAST ASIAN CINEMA
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Kyung Hyun Kim, University of California-Irvine
Chia-chi Wu, University of Southern California. "National or International Cinema? On Hou Hsiao-hsien and Good Men, Good Women."
Li-mei Chang, Wayne State University. "Mapping the Boundary and Consuming the Other from the Mainland in Border Crossing Films."
Seung Hyun Park, Indiana University-Bloomington. "Nationalism and Political Legitimacy in Korean Cinema, 1973-1979."
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, University of Iowa. "The Production of Modernity in Japanese National Cinema: Construction of "New Women" in Shochiku Kamata Style in the 1920s and 1930s."
E 6 SCREENWRITING AS FANTASY
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Sabrina Barton, University of Texas-Austin
Anne Morey, University of Texas-Austin. "The Great Scenario: Ruth Fielding and the Fantasy of Social Rise through Screenwriting in Juvenile Series Fiction."
Jennifer Hill, Associate, Mem Hubble Communications, Inc. "Writers for Hire: The Birth of the New American Screenwriter."
Constance Penley, University of California-Santa Barbara. "Hacking, Poaching, Jamming, Whatever: Rewriting Melrose Place."
E 7 TRAGIC BORDERS: PHILOSOPHY, POLICY AND POETICS
Organized by the Host Committee
Room: Ballroom C
Chair: Reni Celeste, University of Rochester
Chon A. Noriega, University of California-Los Angeles, "Being, Becoming, and Believing: Chicano Poetic Nationalism and Entelequia."
Douglas Kellner, University of Texas-Austin, "Pop Postmodernism: The Poetics/Politics of The X-Files."
Reni Celeste, University of Rochester, "Decalogue: Poland's Cinema of Collision."
E 8 BRAZILIAN CINEMA IN THE 1990S: A NEW WAVE? (Workshop)
Organized by the Latino/a Caucus
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Kathleen Newman, University of Iowa
Randal Johnson, University of California-Los Angeles
Robert Stam, New York University
Ismail Xavier, Universidade de Sao Paulo
E 9 TEACHING CINEMA STUDIES OUTSIDE A CINEMA STUDIES DEPARTMENT (Workshop)
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Ted Hovet, Western Kentucky University
Ina Rae Hark, University of South Carolina. "From Many, One: Co-ordinating the Multi-departmental Film Studies Program."
Richard Neupert, University of Georgia. "Problems in Interdisciplinary Studies: What IS a Film Course."
Jane Gaines, Duke University. "Developing a Program in Film and Video: Students, Facilities, Support."
Pamela Ezell, Chapman University. "Building a Literature and Film Program, Or Why the Book is Not Always Better."
Katie Mills, University of Southern California. "Purgatory: Interdisciplinary Film/Literature Programs from a Ph.D Student's Perspective."
SUNDAY 4PM-5:45PM: SESSION F
F 1 FEMINIST HISTORIOGRAPHY
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Robin Blaetz, Emory University
Dennis Bingham, Indiana University, Indianapolis. "Re-framing the Female Biopic: Jane Campion and An Angel at My Table."
Julie Palsmeier, University of Colorado at Boulder. "Representing the Algerian War in Agnes Vards's Cleo de 5 a 7."
Robin Blaetz, Emory University. "Leslie Thornton's Adynata: Murder Is Not a Story."
F 2 REDEFINING THE "NATIONAL": BRITAIN, CHINA, AND JAPAN
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Robert Silberman, University of Minnesota
Priya Jaikumar, Northwestern University. "Disciplinary Borders: On the Study of European National Cinemas Sans Colonialism."
Esther Yau, University of California-Irvine. "Implosions: Chinese Cinemas and Writing Disjuncture."
Scott Nygren, University of Florida. "Rewriting Japanese Film History."
Respondent: Robert Silberman, University of Minnesota
F 3 AMERICAN FILM IN THE EARLY 1930s
Room: Athenia A
Chair: Charles Maland, University of Tennessee
Martin Marks, M.I.T. "Underworld Undertones: The Sinister Presence of Music in Three Gangster Films, 1930-1932."
Charles Maland, University of Tennessee. "Fatal Attractions: The Men in Depression 'Fallen Women' Films."
Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University. "The Newsreel Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt."
F 4 FILM NOIR'S BORDER CROSSINGS I : DISPLACED BOUNDARIES OF RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM
Room: Palatine B
Chair: Peter Mascuch, University of New Hampshire
E. Ann Kaplan, State University of New York-Stony Brook. "The Dark Continent of Film Noir: Race, Displacement and Metaphor in Cat People and The Lady from Shanghai."
Mark Goble, Stanford University. "Disorder at the Border : Touch of Evil, From Dusk Till Dawn, and Multinational Noir."
Susan White, University of Arizona. "T(he)-Men's Room: Masculinity and Space in Anthony Mann's T-Men and Border Incident."
F 5 FILM AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC THEORY
Room: Ballroom C
Chair: Anthony R. Guneratne, National University of Singapore
Vivian Sobchack, University of California-Los Angeles. "'The Insistent Fringe': Moving Images and the Palimpsest of Historical Consciousness."
William Uricchio, Utrecht University. "Doing History: Interrogating the Traces of the Past."
Roberta E. Pearson, Cardiff University of Wales. "Doing History: Master Narratives and Authorial Voices."
Anthony R. Guneratne, National University of Singapore. "Naming the Rose: Historical Agnosticism, Thin Description and the Semiotics of Representation."
F 6 NATIONAL BORDERS/QUEER CROSSINGS
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Harry Benshoff, University of California-Santa Cruz
Robert Dickinson, "The Monty Half-Empty: Nationality, Masculinity, and the English Actor."
Louise Wallenberg, Filmvetenskapliga Institute. "Transatlantic Transgender: The Self Represented by Others."
Thomas Waugh, Concordia University. "Queer Bollywood?: Patterns of Sexual Subversion in Recent Indian Cinema."
F 7 AT HOME WITH THE CINEMA: WATCHING FILMS IN THE AGE OF VIDEO
Room: Mykonos B
Chair: Barbara Klinger, Indiana University
Ina Rae Hark, University of South Carolina. "It's a Rewound Life: Fantasies of Self-Recreation in the Video Age."
Barbara Klinger, Indiana University. "The Contemporary Cinephile: Film Collecting in the Post-Video Era."
Joan Hawkins, Indiana University. "'Order at Your Own Risk': Video (Sub) Culture and Trash Aesthetics."
Respondent: Steven Cohan, Syracuse University
F 8 HEARING THE SOCIAL: AN ACOUSTIC MODE OF VISION
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Edward Branigan, University of California-Santa Barbara
Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam. "Hypertextualities: Sounds of the Contact Image."
Peter Larsen, University of Bergen. "Classical Hollywood Film Music: Read, Seen, Heard."
Melinda Szaloky, University of California-Los Angeles. "Silence Fiction: Unthinking the Feminine Through Feminist Linguistics, Social Cognition, and Pierre Bourdieu's Habitus."
Edward Branigan, University of California-Santa Barbara. "Sounding Out Theories of Film Sound."
F 9 IMAGINING THE U.S IN GLOBAL ARENAS
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Timothy Dugdale, University of Windsor
Michael Kackman, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Postcolonial Border Guards: The USIA, Civil Rights, and Pan-Africanism."
Brian O'Neil, University of California-Los Angeles. "The Demands of Authenticity: Hollywood's Good Neighbour Policy, 1939-1947."
Daniel Miller, Seattle University. "Returning to Vietnam: Examining Borders in Vietnam Cinema, Culture and Society."
SUNDAY 6PM-7PM
I: CAUCUS MEETING: Caucus on Class
Room: Palatine A
SUNDAY 6PM-7:30PM
Reception celebrating 40th anniversary of Film Quarterly
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla
Shuttle buses will depart from Hyatt Regency lobby beginning at 5:45
SUNDAY 7:30PM-9:30PM
SPECIAL EVENT Organized by the Host Committee. Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla
Screening and Discussion with Filmmakers
Cheryl Dunye, Thomas Allan Harris and Isaac Julien
MONDAY 8AM-9AM
I: CAUCUS MEETING: Graduate Students Caucus
Room: Palatine A
II. WORKSHOP: .
Organized by the Latino/a Caucus.
Greater Mexican Visual Culture: Research Initiatives. Chair, Julianne Burton-Carvajal, University of California at Santa Cruz
Room: Portofino A
III. Women Film Pioneers project meeting
Room: Portofino B
MONDAY 9AM-10:45AM: SESSION G
G 1 SPORTING IMAGES: AN EXAMINATION OF SPORTS CULTURE AND THE VISUAL MEDIA
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Andrew C. Miller, University of Pittsburgh
Andrew C. Miller, University of Pittsburgh. "Examining a Moment of Modernity: Sporting Culture and the Development of Cinema."
Craig T. Rinne, University of Florida. "The Spectator of the Spectacular Structure: The Narrative of Sports Films."
Aaron Baker, Arizona State University. "Sports Films, History, and Identity."
Frances Guilfoyle, University of Texas-Austin. "Welcome to the Ball Cinderella: The Problematic Pleasures of the WNBA."
G 2 "ON THE ROAD IN SOUTH AMERICA"
Organized by the Latino/a Caucus
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Ismail Xavier, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Anne-Marie Gill, University of Iowa. "The Mise en Scene of Her Options: Ozualdo Candeias' Highway Roses."
Shari Roberts, Pennsylvania State University. "Brazilian Roads to Nowhere: Cinematic Resistance to 'the Country of the Future'."
Victoria Ruetalo, Tulane University. "A Postmodern Journey Through Fernando Solanas' El viaje."
Robert L . Trent, University of Iowa. "O Cangaceiro : Borders Between Order & Progress on the Road to Modern Brazil."
G 3 MAPPING "PLACE" IN ZONES OF TRAVEL, WAR, AND ENTERTAINMENT
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Melinda Barlow, University of Colorado-Boulder
Jeanette Roan, University of Rochester. "'To Travel is to Possess the World': The Illustrated Travel Lectures of Burton Holmes."
Aida A. Hozic, University of Virginia. "Producing Difference: Why Culture Does (Not) Matter?"
James Castonguay, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "War in U.S. Media Culture, 1898-1998."
G4 AGAINST THE CURRENT: FEMINIST, QUEER, AND ANTI-RACIST INTERVENTIONS
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Antonia Lant, New York University
Sara Ross, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "'The Freakish Existence' of the Feminist: Comedies and Dramas of Feminism between 1916 and 1920."
Alexander Doty, Lehigh University. "Everyone's Here for Love: Bisexuality, Queerness and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. "
Bambi L. Haggins, University of California-Los Angeles. "Talking About the Dream: a View from the Homefront on Black Televisual Spectatorship."
G 5 SOUND/IMAGE MODERNISMS
Room: Palatine B
Chair: Susan Knobloch, University of California-Los Angeles
Fabrice Zagury, University of Paris. "Luis Bunuel's Soundtrack and the Dismantlement of Hollywood's Sound/Image Regime."
Sally Bick, Yale University. "Aaron Copland's Film Score for Of Mice and Men and the Introduction of Modernist Art Music to Film."
Caryl Flinn, University of Toronto. "Film Music in Fassbinder and Kluge: Reworking the 'Shocks' of Modernism."
G 6 SEX BY INSTRUCTIONS: "SCIENTIFIC" AND POPULAR REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE SEXUAL AGENCY.
Room: Athenia A
Chair: Eithne Johnson, Wellesley College
Eithne Johnson, Wellesley College. "Sex and the 'Naked Ape' : The Marriage Manual Film Shows How Humans Do It."
Charlotte Pagni, University of Michigan. "'Does She or Doesn't She?': Female Sexual Agency in Sex and the Single Girl (1964)."
Nina Martin, Ithaca College "Sex by Numbers: Heterosexual Soft-Core's Instructional Discourses."
Jane Juffer, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. "Mars and Venus Learn about the Clitoris."
G 7 NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW PEDAGOGIES: DEVELOPING AND USING MULTIMEDIA, PART 1. MULTIMEDIA ARCADE: DEMONSTRATIONS OF NEW M EDIA (Workshop)
Room: Ballroom C
Co-Chairs: Marina Heung, Baruch College
Virginia Wright Wexman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jeremy Butler, University of Alabama
Henry Jenkins, MIT
Marsha Kinder, University of Southern California
Robert Kolker, University of Maryland
Lauren Rabinovitz, University of Iowa
Ben Singer, Smith College
G 8 TEACHING BLACK FILM (Workshop)
Organized by the Black Caucus
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Gloria Gibson, Indiana University
Frances Gateward, University of Illinois
Erika Muhammad, New York University
Yvonne Welbon, Northwestern University
Anna Everett, University of California-Santa Barbara
Jacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago
G 9 LABOR IN THE CONTEMPORARY ACADEMY (Workshop)
Organized by the Caucus on Class and the Graduate Student Caucus
Room: Mykonos B
Co-Chairs: Robert Nowlan, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Jan Loveland, Wayne State University
Mike Budd, Florida Atlantic University
Jackie Byars, Wayne State University
David Crane, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Gorden Lafer, University of Oregon
MONDAY 11AM-12:45PM: SESSION H
H 1 EISENSTEIN AT 100
Room: Athenia A
Chair: Rino Pizzi. Universtiy of Texas-Austin
Ian Christie, University of Kent-Canterbury. "Eisenstein's Drawings -- a Third Text?"
James Goodwin, University of California-Los Angeles. "Eisenstein's History Lessons"
Rino Pizzi, University of Texas-Austin. "Revisions: Once Again on Eisenstein, Montage, and the Politics of Modernism."
Annette Michelson, New York University. "Eisenstein: Language and Line."
H 2 THEORIZING BLACK SPECTATORSHIP
Organized by the African/African American Caucus
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Jacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago
Matthew Bernstein & Dana White, Emory University, " 'The Avenue' and 'the Street': Race Film Exhibition and the Norman Company Films in 1920s Atlanta."
Jacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago, "Migrating to the Movies: Silent Film Spectatorship in Black Chicago."
Chika J. Anyanwu, Curtin University of Technology, "Mythical Magic and Magical Myth: An Ideological Construction of Spectatorship."
Respondent: Yvonne Welbon, Northwestern University
H 3 WAR ZONES: FILMIC CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER AND NATION
Room: Palatine B
Chair: Fred Turner, University of California, San Diego
Yosefa Loshitzky, Hebrew University. "Phallocentrism and War: The Birth of the Israeli Nation."
Sabelo Sibanda, The School of African Awareness-Bulawayo. "Tumult of Crossing Over in Times of War: Girlhood to Womanhood."
Mark Betz, University of Rochester. "What's My Motivation?: Thawing the Cold War Male Body."
Respondent: Lesley Stern, University of New South Wales
H 4 ATTACK/DISARM/PLAY: FUNCTIONS OF IRONY IN DOCUMENTARY FILM
Room: Mykonos B
Chair: Michael Zryd, New York University
Michael Zryd, New York University. "Functions of Irony in Documentary Film."
Rachel O. Moore, New York University. "First Contact: Functions and Effects of Irony and Humor in Documentary Film."
Jane Collings, University of California-Los Angeles. "The Use of Slang in the Hearst Newsreel of the 1930s: Anti-Dialectical Language."
Julia Lesage, University of Oregon. "Irony and Wit in the Lyrical Documentary."
H 5 RACE, EMPIRE, AND THE COLONIZING IMAGINATION
Room: Portofino B
Chair: David Desser, Univeristy of Illinois
Elspeth Kydd, University of Toledo & Radha Subramanyam, New York University. "Post-colonial Articulations of Nationalism in British Quality Television."
Michael Walsh, University of Hartford. "'A Face is Raining, Across the Border": The Northern Irish Troubles in Recent British Cinema."
Linda Williams, University of California-Berkeley. "Scarlet Totes a Weary Load: Black and White Racial Melodrama and Gone with the Wind."
H 6 TIME/VISION IN MODERNIST FILM AND BEYOND
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Anh Bui, University of California-Berkeley
Mary Ann Doane, Brown University. "Zeno's Paradox: The Emergence of Cinematic Time."
Ann Chisholm, California State University. "Disappearance, Dysmorphia, and Disciplinarity: Modern Visuality and Body Doubling in Contemporary Cinema."
Elena del Rio, University of Northern Colorado. "Remaking Chris Marker's La Jetee: Twelve Monkeys and the Hollywood Rhetoric of Absolute Visibility."
H 7 PASSING/PASSAGE: THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF THE SEEN AND UNSEEN, OF BEING AND BEEN THERE
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Chris Straayer, New York University
Alexandra Keller, Smith College. "Bad Girls and Cross-Dressing: Masquerade Vs. Appropriation in Femme-Westerns."
Paula J. Massood, Vassar College. "She Likes...Dark meat": Race, Geography, and Genre in Devil in a Blue Dress."
Roy Grundmann, New York University. "Hype and Hypochondria: Blow Job, Masculinity, and Gay Identity Between Passing and Posing."
Chris Straayer, New York University, "Conversing Selves: Transsexual and Transgender Discourse in Film and Video."
H8 SEX, CLASS, AND CRIME IN NOIR, NEO-NOIR, AND POST-NOIR FILM: PART TWO
Organized by the Caucus on Class
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Jennifer Carrig, University of Southern California
Laura Grindstaff, University of Pennsylvania. "Sometimes Being a Bitch is all a Woman Has to Hold on to: Memory, Haunting, and Revenge in Dolores Claiborne."
Jack Boozer, Georgia State University."Femmes Fatales: Hollywood's Modernist Mirrors of Angst."
Todd McGowan, Loyola Marymount University. "Refusing Renunciation: The Political Action of the Femme Fatale."
Susan Avril, University of Chicago. "The Blue Dahlia and the PostWar 'Return to Normalcy': Negotiating Crises of Gender, Class, and Sexuality in the Returning Veteran Thriller."
H 9 NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW PEDAGOGIES: DEVELOPING AND USING MULTIMEDIA -- PART II (Workshop)
Room: Ballroom C
Co-Chairs: Marina Heung, Baruch College
Virginia Wright Wexman, University of Illinois-Chicago
Jeremy Butler, University of Alabama
Lester Friedman, Syracuse University
Henry Jenkins, MIT
Marsha Kinder, University of Southern California
Robert Kolker, University of Maryland
Lauren Rabinovitz, University of Iowa
Charles Ramirez Berg, University of Texas, Austin
Ben Singer, Smith College
MONDAY 1PM-2PM
I: CAUCUS MEETING: The Women's Caucus
Room: Palatine A
II: WORKSHOP: "Workshop on Film Festivals."
Room: Portofino A
Chair, Anne T. Ciecko, University of Pittsburgh/Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
Ruth Baily, San Diego Film Festival
Brian Goldfarb, University of Rochester/New Museum
Ilene Goldman, Chicago Latino Festival/ Columbia College, Chicago
O. Funmilayo Makarah, Independent Curator
Harriet Margolis, Victoria University of Wellington
Erika Muhammad, Whitney Museum/ New York University
William Siska, University of Utah
Ruediger Steinmets, University of Leipzig
Patricia Zimmerman, Ithaca College/Flaherty Film Seminar
III. CINEMA JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD
Room: Portofino B
MONDAY 2PM-3:45PM: SESSION I
I 1 OVER THE LINE: THE TRANSMUTATION OF SPORT AS A CULTURAL FORM
Room: Ballroom C
Co-Chairs: Toby Miller, New York University
Margaret Morse, University of California-Santa Cruz
Toby Miller, New York University. "The New International Division of Cultural Labor: Sport, TV, Masculinity, Monopoly."
Rick Maxwell, Queen's College. "Promoting the Global Shape Alliance."
May Joseph, New York University. "Kung Fu Cinema, Frugality and Tanzanian Asian Youth Culture."
Margaret Morse, University of California-Santa Cruz. "Mutant Sport: On-screen, On-Line and in the Streets."
I 2 KNOW WHERE YOUR TV COMES FROM?: MAQUILADORA FACTORIES ON THE BORDER
Organized by the Host Committee
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Dan Schiller, University of California-San Diego
Dan Schiller, University of California-San Diego. "The Enchanted Network: Transnational Corporations and the Global Production Line"
Eduardo Barrera, University of Texas-El Paso. "Telecommunications and Flexible Production in the Maquiladora Industry."
Maribel Castaneda Paredes, University of California-San Diego "Television at the Border: Labor and High-Tech Manufacturing for the Global Market"
Respondent: Ellen Seiter, University of California-San Diego.
I 3 SEXUALITIES ON/OFF THE BORDER
Room: Portofino A
Chair: Judith Halberstam, University of California-San Diego
Gayatri Gopinath, Columbia University. "Queer Diasporas: Alternative Sexualities and Popular Indian Cinema."
Jose Munoz, New York University. "Resisting the Whiteness of the Queer Screen: Latin Boys Go to Hell and The Delta."
Judith Halberstam, University of California-San Diego. "Dandy Dust : The Diaspora of the Hyperreal."
Curtis Marez, University of California-Santa Cruz. "Men are from East L.A., Women are from El Salvador: Transnational Romance in Recent Chicano Films."
I 4 PATHOLOGIES OF NATIONHOOD: PERFORMING CITIZENSHIP, FANTASIZING AMERICA
Room: Athenia A
Chair: Marita Sturken, University of Southern California
Marita Sturken, University of Southern California. "Television and the Paranoia of History: The Conspiracy of Citizenship."
Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago. "The Compulsion to Repeat America: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil."
Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California. "Crowning Innocence: Television, Fantasy, and Miss America 1995."
Respondent: Robyn Wiegman, University of California, Irvine
I 5 CLASS POLITICS, IDENTITY POLITICS, AND (POST) MODERN FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
Organized By the Caucus on Class
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern University
David E. James, University of Southern California. "Working Class Filmmaking in Los Angeles: LA Newsreel and the Black Panther Party."
Terri Ginsberg, New York University. "Balagan and the Problematics of Israeli/Palestinian 'Identity' "
Michael Sprinker, State University of New York-Stony Brook. "Class, Identity, and the Matter of Art in the Films of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh."
Respondent: Brian Ganter, State University of New York-Buffalo
I 6 MODERNIST FILM CRITICISM IN AMERICA, 1916-1940
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Peter DeCherney, New York University
Peter DeCherney, New York University. "Viewing from the Left."
David Lugowski, New York University. "Leftist Critics and Their Queer Readings of Depression-Era U.S. Cinema."
Ben Singer, Smith College. "Alexander Bakshy: The Emergence of Modernist Formalism and Early Spectatorship Theory."
Respondent: Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
I 7 HYBRID DISCOURSE IN EXILIC CINEMAS
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Catherine Benamou, Duke University
Deniz Gokturk, University of Southampton. "Purity or Pleasure? Aspects of Nation, Migration and Miscegenation in Contemporary European Cinema."
Azadeh Farahmand, University of California-Los Angeles. "Media and Memory: The Poetics of Criss-crossing."
Hamid Naficy, Rice University. "Interstitial Mode of Film Production."
I 8 WOMAN/NATION
Room: Palatine B
Chair: Dorit Naaman, University of Alberta
Corinn Columpar, Emory University. "An Identity Born of Pragmatism: Women and 'Nation' in Powwow Highway andOnce Were Warriors."
Hema Chari, California State University, Los Angeles. "Engendered History, Trauma and Turmoil: (De)Formation of the Nation."
Dorit Naaman, University of Alberta. "Locked in the Mirror (Phase): Silences of the Palace as a Reflection of Tunisia."
Temby Caprio, University of Chicago. "Romy Schneider: Gender, Nation and Commodities."
I 9 RETHINKING 1930S MEXICAN CINEMA: THE HOLLYWOOD CROSSROADS (workshop)
Organized by the Latino/a Caucus
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Ana M. Lopez, Tulane University, "
Julianne Burton-Carvajal, University of California-Santa Cruz
Chon Noriega, University of California-Los Angeles
Kathleen Newman, University of Iowa
Seth Fein, Georgia State University
Charles Ramirez-Berg, University of Texas-Austin
MONDAY 4PM-5:45PM: SESSION J
J 1 SOAP OPERAS AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES ACROSS BORDERS: THE LATIN AMERICAN TELENOVELA
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Robert C. Allen, University of North Carolina
Cristina Venegas, University of Southern California. "Place, History and Romance: The Transnational Space of Latin Telenovelas."
Laura Podalsky, Bowling Green State University. "'Los Globalizados Tambien Lloran' : Spanish-Language Television and Transnational Narratives."
Mauro Pereira Porto, University of California-San Diego. "Telenovelas, Politics, and National Identity in Brazil."
Susan Ryan, City College of New York. "Telenovelas and Social Change."
J 2 GIRLS II WOMEN: COMING OF AGE IN FILM AND VIDEO
Room: Portofino A
Chair: Frances K. Gateward, University of Maryland-College Park
Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, University of Oregon. "Girl Power: Coming of Age in Independent Cinema."
Mary Celeste Kearney, University of Southern California. "Marking The Border? Menarche and the Loss of Virginity in Female "Coming of Age" Films."
Frances K. Gateward, University of Maryland-College Park. "This Ain't No 90210."
J 3 THE RETREAT FROM CRITICAL THEORY IN CONTEMPORARY FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
Organized By the Caucus on Class
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Terri Ginsberg, New York University
Brian Ganter, State University of New York-Buffalo, "Posttheory and Ludic Politics: Rebuilding the Formalist Center in Film Theory."
Malcolm Turvey, New York University, "On Some Uses and Abuses of Analytic Aesthetics by Film Theorists."
Clay Steinman, Macalester College, "Critical Authorship, Theory and Textual Identity."
J 4 SIGNIFYIN' STARS: READING THE PERFORMANCES OF WOMEN OF COLOR Organized by the Coordinating Committee on Race, Class & Gender.
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Peter X Feng, University of California-Irvine
K. M. Harris, New York University. "'That's my sister, baby, and she's a whole lotta woman': Pam Grier and Black Star Intertextuality."
Mia Mask, New York University. "Masquerade Becomes Her: Goldberg's Variations."
See Kam Tan, Flinders University of South Australia. "Yim Kim-Fei and Pak Shuet-Sin's Search for True Love."
Respondent: Rhona J. Berenstein, University of California, Irvine
J 5 BUDDHISM AND CINEMA
Room: Athenia A
Chair: David E. James, University of Southern California
Linda C. Ehrlich, Case Western Reserve University. "Stillness in Motion: Buddhist Imagery in Oguri Kohei's Sleeping Man."
Don Fredericksen, Cornell University. "The Evocations of Buddhism in Ingmar Bergman's Persona."
Sue Scheibler, Loyola Marymount University. "Derek Jarman's Blue: Contemplating 'sunyata'."
David Sterritt, Long Island University. "Kerouac's Desolation Angels: Film Buddhism and the Beat Sensibility."
J 6 FILM & VIDEO IN THE CARIBBEAN AND CARIBBEAN DIASPORA
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Louise Spence, Sacred Heart University
Lynne Jackson, St.Francis College. "From Bridgetown to Brooklyn: Representation to Mediation."
Gilberto M. Blasini, University of California-Los Angeles. "Locating African Cultures in the Caribbean Cinematic Imaginary."
Lois Beck, Messiah College. "From Martinique to South Africa: The Films of Euzhan Palcy."
Haseenah Ebrahim, Northwestern University. "The Tenacity of Africa: Cultural Resistance and Empowerment in the Cinematic Texts of Afro-Caribbean Women."
J 7 IMPOSSIBLE BODIES
Room: Ballroom C
Co-Chairs: Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee
Justin Wyatt, University of Arizona
Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee. "'Swede' as 'Other': From Asian Lands to Subsaharan Sands with Nils Asther and Dolph Lundgren."
Justin Wyatt, University of Arizona. "You can be too Thin: Cult Stardom & the Transgressive Body of Shelley Duvall."
Diane Negra, University of North Texas. "At the Margins of Whiteness: Cher's Disrupted/Disruptive Body."
Hilary Ann Radner, University of Notre Dame. "Other Bodies: Reconsidering the Body Within Feminist Film Theory."
J 8 VISUAL CULTURE AND FREE TRADE
Room: Palatine B
Co-Chairs: Claire F. Fox, Stanford University
Tamara L. Falicov, University of California-San Diego
Luisa Rivi, University of Southern California. "The New European Coproductions: What Europe for the 1990s?"
Olof Hedling, Lund University. "Marginal Player: The Hunters and Sweden in the Age of Modern Media Wars."
Haim Bresheeth, Negev College. "USA vs. EU: The Media Wars."
Respondent: Claire F. Fox, Stanford University
J 9 NEWSREEL: 30 YEARS OF FILM AND EVOLUTION (Workshop)
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Ada Gay Griffin, Executive Director, Third World Newsreel
Pearl Bowser, New York
Larry Daressa, California Newsreel
Renata Gangemi, New York
Thomas Allen Harris, University of California-San Diego
Herman Lew, City College of New York
Michael Renov, University of Southern California
Cynthia Young, Yale University
Allen Siegel, Chicago
MONDAY 6PM-7PM:
PLENARY: BALLROOM A/B/C
RACE UNDER REPRESENTATION: CULTURE AND POLITICS IN CALIFORNIA
George Lipsitz and Lisa Lowe,
University of California, San Diego
MONDAY 8PM-10PM
SPECIAL EVENT
Organized by the Host Committee
Room: Ballroom B and C
Screening and discussion with filmmaker Louis Hock
La Mera Frontera
Ballroom Hyatt Regency
TUESDAY 8AM-9AM
I: CAUCUS MEETING: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
Room: Palatine A
II: 8:30-9:00: BUSINESS MEETING Ballroom C
TUESDAY 9AM-10:45AM: SESSION K
K1 REFLECTIONS IN THE ARCHIVE
Room: Athenia A
Co-Chairs: David Gerstner, CUNY-College at Staten Island
Janet Staiger, University of Texas at Austin
Janet Staiger, University of Texas at Austin."An Archive of Emotions"
David A. Gerstner, CUNY/College at Staten Island. "Queer Angels of History Take and Leave it from Behind."
George F. Custen, CUNY/College at Staten Island. "Darryl, We hardly knew ye . . . : The Producer, Histories, and the Culture of Hollywood."
K2 REREADING DELEUZE ON CINEMA: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FILM, TELEVISION, AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Room: Palatine A
Co-Chairs: Yvonne Spielmann, University of Siegen
Nina Zimnik, University of Konstanz
Yvonne Spielmann, University of Siegen. "The Notion of the Image in Electronic Film: Movement, Time, and Space."
Patricia Pisters, U.V.A./Amsterdam. "From Mouse to Mouse: Overcoming Information."
James H. Roberts, Penn State University. "Of Interstices, Intermezzos, and Images."
Nina Zimnik, University of Konstanz. "Give Me a Body . . . Give me a Brain." Yvonne Rainer's Life of Performers (1971)."
K3 FILM NOIR'S BORDER CROSSINGS II: DISPLACED BOUNDARIES OF GENDER, GENRE, AND NATIONALISM
Room: Portofino B
Chair: E. Ann Kaplan, SUNY Stony Brook
William Luhr, Saint Peter's College. "Crossing Over in Out of the Past.."
Peter Mascuch, University of New Hampshire. "'The Man with no Place': Postwar White Masculinity and its Displacements in Ride the Pink Horse."
Carlos V. Reyes, University of California at Berkeley. "Am I a Man or a Woman: Film Noir, Gothic, and the Question of Hysteria."
Helle Kannik Haastrup, University of Copenhagen. "Hyper Noir -- Strange Days and Lost Highway. Crossing Borders of Genre and Subjectivity in the 1990s Film Noir."
K4 DOING TELEVISION STUDIES
Room: Ballroom C
Chair: Lynn Spigel, University of Southern California
Julie D'Acci, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Cultural Studies and Television Studies."
Christopher Anderson, Indiana University. "A Fugitive Aesthetic: Tracking the History of Television Series Narrative."
Lynn Spigel, University of Southern California. "Modern Art and Commercial Television, 1950-1970."
Michael Curtin, Indiana University. "Articulating Television Studies in the Age of 'Globalization'."
K5 BORDER DOCUMENTARIES: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETHNOGRAPHY, POETRY
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Kathleen McHugh, University of California, Riverside
Charles Ramirez Berg, University of Texas at Austin. "El Genio del Genero: Notes on the Chicano Border Documentary."
Kathleen McHugh, University of California, Riverside. " Crucero -- 'The Border is You!'"
Tiffany Ana Lopez, "Cultural Wounding in Lourdes Portillo's El Diablo Nunca Duerme/The Devil Never Sleeps."
K6 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON SCANDAL AND FILM
Room: Palatine B
Co-Chairs: David A. Cook, Emory University
Adrienne L. McLean, Emory University
Adrienne L. McLean, Emory University. "The Tabloid Muse: Theorizing Hollywood Scandal."
Matthew Tinkcom, Georgetown University. "Scandalous! Kenneth Anger and the Prohibitions of Hollywood History."
Susan McLeland, University of Texas at Austin. "Diamonds v. Diaper Pins: The American Press Looks at Debbie and Eddie--and Liz."
Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College. "Systematizing Scandal: Confidential Magazine, The State of California, and Star Scandal."
K7 SUB ROSA: MEDIATIONS OF IDENTITY IN DISCOURSES OF DESIRE
Room: Portofino A
Chair: Lori Landay, Western Illinois University.
Kristen Hatch, University of California, Los Angeles. "'Sex and Shirley Temple': Graham Greene, Shirley Temple, and the Regulation of Reading Practices."
Amelia S. Holberg, University of California, Berkeley. "Shayne Maidele: Yiddishkeit, the Fleischer Brothers, and Betty Boop."
Ronald Gregg, Northwestern University. "Hollywood's Strategies for Representing Homosexuality in an Era of Censorship: The Lubitsch 'Touch' and Gay Coding in the 1933 Design For Living."
K8 APPROACHES TO FILM ACTING (Workshop)
Room: Mykonos B
Chair: Cynthia Baron, Washington University in St. Louis
Sharon Carnicke, University of Southern California
Peter Kramer, Keele University
Alan Lovell, Staffordshire University
K9 FUNCTIONS OF SONG IN RECENT MAINSTREAM FILMS (Workshop)
Room: Mykonos A
Co-Chairs: Liz Weis, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY
Claudia Gorbman, University of Washington at Tacoma
Martin Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeff Smith, New York University
Kathryn Kalinak, Rhode Island College
K10 CAUCUS COORDINATING COMMITTEE
Room: Athenia B
TUESDAY 11AM-12:45AM: SESSION L
L1 NATIONAL AGENDAS AND DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE II:
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Room: Palatine A
Chair: Janis L. Solomon, Conneticut College
Geoff Pingree, Catholic University, Washington DC. "Sight of Failure: Documentary and Nationalism in the Spanish Second Republic."
Catherine Portugese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "Social Documentary and Interethnic Border Crossings in Recent Hungarian Cinema."
Jeffrey Chown, Northern Illinois University. "National Identity in Documentaries from Northern Ireland.
L2 EROTIC BORDERS, IDENTITY INTERSECTIONS: QUEERS, JEWS, REPRESENTATION
Room: Ballroom C
Chair: Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College
Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College. "Queers, Jews, Representation: What Does AIDs have to do with it?"
Gabriel Gomez, Manchester College. "Deviant Sexuality and the Fear of Racial Impurity in M."
Eve Oishi, California State University, Long Beach. "When We Were Colored."
Robert Reid-Pharr, Johns Hopkins University. "Maya Deren's Essentially Queer Desire: Eroticizing the Boundaries Between Black and White."
Respondent and featured artist: Alisa Lebow, New York University
L3 TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE
Room: Palatine B
Chair: David Crane, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Eric S. Faden, University of Florida, Gainsesville. "Hollywood in Cyberspace: New Technology and Film Style."
Sheila C. Murphy, University of California, Irvine. "What's a Grrrl to Do?: A Woman's 'Space' is in the Web."
Trudy Anderson, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. "Transculturation in Cuban Cinema: A CD-ROM on Cuban Cinema."
L4 THE COLOR OF WHITENESS: RACE AND HOLLYWOOD FILM
Room: Ballroom B
Chair: Daniel Bernardi, University of California, Riverside
Mary Beth Haralovich, University of Arizona. "Neighbors and Servants: Racial and Ethnic Difference in 1930s Films Set in the Depression Economy."
Karla Rae Fuller, Columbia College, Chicago. "Figures of the Imagination: Hollywood's Orient/al."
Eric Avila, UCLA. "Suburbia and its Discontents: White Flight and the Urban Science Fiction Film in Postwar America."
"Sonny" Richard Espinosa, UCLA. "The American Western and Mythic Mexico: Intertexts and Conflicting Hegemonies in Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch."
L5 SAFE IN SUBURBIA?
Room: Portofino B
Chair: Susan Duhig, Southern Illinois University
Amy Lawrence, Dartmouth College. "Trapped in Suburbia: The American Family and Domestic Architecture in Ophuls' Reckless Moment and Sirk's There's Always Tomorrow.
Eric Shaefer, Emerson College. "Sin in the Suburbs: Sexploitation and the Suburban Film Cycle."
Harry M. Benshoff, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Mars Attacks on Independence Day. Masculinity in the Postmodern Alien Invasion Film."
L6 HITCHCOCK REVISITED
Room: Athenia A
Chair: Tony Hilfer, University of Texas at Austin
Rick Worland, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tx. "At the Boundaries of Classical Style: Production and Reception of Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941)."
Richard Allen, New York University. "Hitchcock's Metascepticism."
Murray Pomerance, Ryerson Polytechnic University. "Vertigo in Vertigo."
L7 TELEVISION ACROSS BORDERS: PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION
Room: Athenia B
Chair: Vicki Mayer, University of California, San Diego
Sheri Chinen Biesen, University of Texas at Austin. "Hype, Pomp and Circumstance: Examining Critical Discourse on Global Technology in BritishTelevision."
Barbara Wilinsky, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. "'Europudding': International Co-Productions and Televisual Representation."
Vicki Mayer, University of California, San Diego. "Watching on the Border: Mexican-Americans and Spanish-Language TV in San Antonio, TX."
Respondent: Robert Horwitz, University of California, San Diego
L8 FEMININE PARADIGMS IN ROMANTIC COMEDIES
Room: Mykonos A
Chair: Rick Moody, Brigham Young University
Rick Moody, Brigham Young University. "Masculine Commandeering of the Feminine."
Joanna Rapf, University of Oklahoma. "Romance with a Grain of Salt: Marie Dressler and the Comedy of Age"
Pamela Ezell, Chapman University. "Boss Lady: Professional Women in Romantic Comedy."
Jyotika Virdi, George Washington University. "Comedy, Gender, Law and Nation in Hindi Cinema."
L9 ON THE ROAD IN MEXICO AND THE BORDER REGION PORTOFINO A Organized by the Latino/a Caucus
Room: Portofino A
Chair: Claire F. Fox, Stanford University
Elissa J. Rashkin, Portland, OR. "Nowhere Fast: On and Off the Road in 1990s Mexico."
Ernesto Acevedo-Munoz, "The road Ahead: Mexico's Transition to Modernity in Luis Bunuel's Mexican Bus Ride and Illusion Travels by Streetcar."
David Laderman, College of San Mateo. "The Road Movie Re- Discovers Mexico: Alex Cox's Highway Patrolman."
Respondent: Ana M. Lopez