Thursday, 9AM-5PM: Registration: Mezzanine
| SESSION A | 12 PM - 1:45 PM |
| A1
Gallery A |
Cinema Sets the Table
Chair: Frances Gateward, Western Illinois University; Murray Pomerance, Ryerson Polytechnic University Murray Pomerance, Ryerson Polytechnic University The Man Who Ate Too Much Diane Negra, University of North Texas Ethnic Food Fetishism, Whiteness and Nostalgia in Recent Film and Television Lynda Del Genis, University of South Forida The Politics of Food in the Films of David Cronenberg Sandra K. Baringer, University of California - Riverside Let Them Eat Cake: The Psychology of Food in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? |
| A2
Gallery B |
Workshop: Disease, Anxiety,
Discourses of Health
Chairs: Monica Hulbus, University of Southern California; Christie Milliken, University of Southern California Frances Guilfoyle, University of Texas, Austin Psycho and the Pathology of Everyday Life Christie Milliken, University Southern California Defense of the Realm?: the Ideology of Disease and Hygiene in WWII VD Training Films Monica Hulbus, University of Southern California Narratives of the (Un)Healthy Body Larry Riggs, Butler University Ocularcentric Delusion and the Ecological Imperative in Outbreak Robert Eberwein, Oakland University Feeling All Right: Racial and Social Inequality in the Use of Film for Health Education |
| A3
Gallery C |
The Business of Televisual Blackness:
the Other and the Alien
Chair: Michael Kackman, University of Wisconsin - Madison Christine Acham, University of Southern California That Nigger Crazy: Televising African-American Humor Timothy Havens, Indiana University The International Trade in Televisual Blackness: An Industry Approach Gloria Mushonga-Roberts, California State University, Northridge Taking Count: How Television Represented the Million Man March |
| A4
Regency A |
Non-Visual Pleasure: Sound, Music,
and Spectatorship
Chair: Richard R. Ness, Wayne State University Richard R. Ness, Wayne State University Born to Want Too Much: Film Music as Female Voice Kelly A. Ritter, University of Michigan Spectacle at the Disco: Boogie Nights, Popular Song, and the New Hollywood Musical Thomas F. Cohen, University of Florida Eisenstein, Deleuze, and Audio-Visual Montage Liz Weis, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Écouteurism: An Aural Analogue Of Voyeurism |
| A5
Regency B |
European Cinema in the Era of
Globalization
Chair: John Hill, University of Ulster, Coleraine Maya Nadkarni, Columbia University Post-Soviet Nostalgia? Csinibaba and the Remaking of Hungarian National Cinema Sharon Strover, University of Texas at Austin Economic Integration and Cultural Integration in European Media John Hill, University of Ulster, Coleraine European Film and Television Co-production: Problem or Solution? Martine Danan, Florida Atlantic University What is French Cinema? |
| A6
Regency C |
The Bourgeoisie is Also a Class:
Cinematic Representations of Wealth and the Wealthy
Chair: Frank Tomasulo, Georgia State University Frank Tomasulo, Georgia State University The Dialectics of Decay: Class as Character in Antonioni's Modernist Cinema Ruth D. Johnston, Pace University The Staging of the Bourgeois Imaginary in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover Martti Lahti, University of Iowa Regarding Henry: The 'Crisis' of White Wealth Jack S. Boozer, Georgia State University Wagging the Dog: Hollywood Reflects the Move to Internation Capitalism and Cultural Commodification Respondent: Robert Kolker, University of Maryland |
| A7
Polo D |
Reform, Respectability, Policing
Sexuality
Chair: Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Dan Streible, University of Southern California Policing the Moving Picture Machine, 1899/1999 Jane Juffer, University of Illinois, Urbana Suburban Porn: Social Spaces and the Circulation of Sex Texts Charles Krinsky, University of California - Irvine "Passion Pits with Pix": Drive-in Movies and Ideologies of Youth in the Late 50's Respondent: Catherine Preston, University of Kansas |
| A8
Polo E |
Workshop: Teaching Cross Cultural
Analysis of Film Performance
Chair: Cynthia Baron, Washington University in Saint Louis Diane Carson, St. Louis Community College, Meramec Sharon Carnicke, University of Southern California |
| A9
Polo F |
Revisiting Realism
Chairs: Karl Schoonover, Chris Cagle, Brown University Karl Schoonover, Brown University Conflict Within the Frame: Eisenstein, Realism and the Stopping of the Image James Morrison, North Carolina State University Realism, Class and Film Language in Early Hollywood: D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm Chris Cagle, Brown University Realism, Industry and Ideology in the Hollywood 'Social Problem' Cycle |
| A10
Regency D |
The Sense of Translation: Film as a
Connective Medium
Chair: Scott Benjamin, University of Iowa Scott Benjamin Early Cinema in an Electrical Field David Crane, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Caller ID: Connecting Race and Technology in Girl 6 Laura U. Marks, Carleton University The Task of the Digital Translator Stephen Prince, Virginia Tech From Cinema to Software: Hollywood in the 1980s Respondent: Lauren Rabinovitz, University of Iowa |
| A11
Regency E |
Workshop: Writing Hollywood
Biography
Chair: Charles Affron, New York University George Custen, College of Staten Island, City University of New York Matthew Bernstein, Emory University |
| SESSION B | 2PM - 3:45PM |
| B1
Gallery A |
Workshop: Intersections of Race,
Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality in the Film Studies
Classroom
(Organized by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus, with the Caucus Coordinating Committee) Chair: Alexander Doty, Lehigh University Osa Hidlago-de la Riva, University of Southern California Joseba Gabilondo, Bryn Mawr Marsha Kinder, University of Southern California Ellen Strain and Greg Van Hoosier-Carey, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| B2
Gallery B |
Cultural Sutures: Medicine, Morals,
and Media
Chair: Lester Friedman, Syracuse University Joy V. Fuqua, Tulane University The Patient-Consumer: Medicinal Mediums and the Industries of Health Brent L. Notbohm, Syracuse University The Days of Wine and Movies: The Representation of Alcoholism in Hollywood Films Kelly A. Cole, University of Wisconsin - Madison Exorcising 'men-in white' Ads: An Exercise in Cultural Power on Television Kirstin Ostherr, Brown University 'Invisible Invaders': The Global Body in Public Health Films |
| B 3
Gallery C |
Cognitive & Ecological Approaches
to Film Theory
Chair: Johannes Riis, University of Copenhagen Joseph D. Anderson, Georgia State University Exploiting the Attentional Hierarchy in Film Editing Torben Grodal, University of Copenhagen An Ecological Theory of Film Subjectivity as Blocked Action Potentials Bernard Perron, University of Montreal Going to Play (At) the Movie Johannes Riis, University of Copenhagen Empathy and Other Ways of Relating to Film |
| B 4
Regency A |
Networks in the Post-Network
Age
Chair: Richard Maxwell, Queens College, City University of New York Christine Becker, University of Wisconsin - Madison Syndicated Stature and Network Nature: Frederic Ziv's Favorite Story Victoria Johnson, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Welcome Home?: CBS, PAX-Net and the Contemporary Politics of Televisual Populism Ron Becker, University of Wisconsin - Madison Managing Brand Identity: Network Practice in the 90s |
| B 5
Regency B |
Hollywood Histories
Chair: Jane Shattuc, Emerson College Gorham "Hap" Kindem, University of North Carolina Securing and Maintaining Hollywood's Leading Economic Role in the International Movie Industry Matthew Bernstein, Emory University Selznick's March: Gone with the Wind's Atlanta Premier and the View From Hollywood Ben Singer, Smith College Charting Film Lengths, 1908-1920: How the Standard History Falls Short |
| B 6
Regency C |
Animation and
Replication
Chair: Rick Neupert, University of Georgia Lorene Wales, Regent University Humanipulation: Theoretical Considerations in the Computer Animated Manipulation of the Human Image in Feature Film Rick Neupert, University of Georgia Color and Ethnicity in George Pal's Jasper and the Watermelons Hank Sartin, Wayne State University Goin' to the Show, Toon Style: Images of Audience in Cartoons of the 30s and 40s Deborah Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College Theorizing Agency and Affect in Films of the Replication Genre |
| B 7
Polo D |
Africa: Interiors and the Western
View
sponsored by the Black Caucus Chair: Frank Ukadike, Tulane University Frank Ukadike, Tulane University Ghaniaian Video Films: 'Stopgap Measure' or Aesthetic Cul-de-Sac Rebecca Romani, San Diego State University Unveiling the Nation: 3 Films on North African Women by 3 Female North African Directors Sohail Daulatzai, University of Southern California Dark Skin, White Maps: The English Patient, Millennial Fears, and the Mapping of the (Post)Colonial |
| B 8
Polo F |
Music: Aesthetics and
Technology
Chair: Robert E. Davis, Florida Atlantic University Robert E. Davis, Florida Atlantic University Wide Screens, Modern Themes, and the MGM Musical Keir Keightley, University of Strathclyde Frank Sinatra and the Hollywood Musical in Transition: Young at Heart (1955) and Pal Joey (1957) Allan Campbell, University of Texas at Austin Can't Stop the Music: Disco in the Compulsory Heterosexual Cinema Jay Beck, University of Iowa The Voice of Democracy: Sound Design and Robert Altman's Nashville |
| B 9
Polo E |
Hollywood: New and
Old
Chair: Edward Baron Turk, MIT Margaret DeRosia, University of California - Santa Cruz The Long Goodbye or Hooray for Hollywood? Revisiting 1970s Self-reflexive Film Noir Jennifer Holt, University of California - Los Angeles Hits and Misses in the New Hollywood: The Representation of Women in the Age of the Blockbuster Glenn Man, University of Hawaii, Manoa Miscegenation and the Inflection of Race and Gender in the Hollywood South Seas Film Kevin Fisher, University of California - Los Angeles Influencing Machines and Apparatus Theories in A Clockwork Orange and Strange Days |
| B10
Regency D |
'Third World' Histories and the
Media
Chairs: Anthony Guneratne, National University of Sinapore; Wimal Dissanayake, Hong Kong Baptist University; Marvin D'Lugo, Clark University Renegotiating Cultural Identity in Recent Argentine Cinema Catherine Benamou, University of Michigan Neocolonial Representations in the Cinematic Age: Some Reflections on U.S. Depictions of Latin America Since 1898 Anthony Guneratne, National University of Sinapore Making Invisible Cinemas Visible: Competing Visions of the 'Orient' in Singaporean Cinema Respondent: Wimal Dissanayake |
| 4-6
Regency D & E |
Plenary: Film and Media
Theories:
Teresa de Lauretis, University of California - Santa Cruz Out of the Past Herman Grey, University of California - Santa Cruz Identities in Crisis: The Politics of Representation in Post-Network American Television Greg Ulmer, University of Florida The Mad Trojan Cow Of Media Studies Linda Williams, University of California - Berkeley History and Theory Mary Ann Doane, Brown University The Object of Theory |
| 6-7:30 | Opening Reception: Poolside |
| 8-9:30 9:30-11 |
Awards Banquet: Polo Room
Graduate Student Reception: Gallery Ballroom |
| Friday,
April 16 |
8 AM - 5 PM Registration: Mezzanine |
| 8-9 Polo D | Latino/a Caucus |
| 8-9 Polo F | Asian/Pacific American Caucus |
| 9-11:00
Regency Ballroom D /E |
Plenary: Film and Media
Histories
Vivian Sobchack, University of California - Los Angeles Fragments and Layers: Restructuring Film Historiographies Tom Gunning, University of Chicago Film Histories/Film Practices: All that Film Studies Allows? Michael Curtin, University of Indiana Unraveling the Network Nation: Spatial Logics of Media History Janet Wasko, University of Oregon Studying the Mouse House: A Case Study in Merging Film/Media Analysis Tino Balio, University of Wisconsin - Madison What Every Humanities Student Should Know About Hollywood: Or, Reflections on My Life as a Film Historian |
| SESSION C | 11:15 AM - 1:00 PM |
| C1
Gallery A |
Workshop: Film History Without Films:
The Evidence of Production, Regulation, and Reception
Chair: Eric Smoodin, University of California - Berkeley/University of California Press Eric Smoodin, University of California - Berkeley/University of California Press Children as Film Critics: Frank Capra and Film Uplift in the 1930's Andrea Slane, Old Dominion University The Production Code Administration and the Crafting of a Political Icon: Lola Lola in Hollywood Jon Lewis, Oregon State University Making History: Blacklist Memoirs and the Re-Construction of Post-war America Respondant: Sumiko Higashi, State University of New York - Brockport |
| C2
Gallery B |
Between Cultures
Chair: Scott Nygren, University of Florida Lily Avrutin, University of Toronto Post-Soviet Cinema in transition: The Film Bridge, and the The Film Labyrinth (Trap) on the Ways of Cultural (Mis)understanding Carmen Huaco-Nuzum El Espejo. Testimony and Bearing Witness (Con el corazon en la mano) Yosefa Loshitzky The Orient and Forbidden Love: Transgressing the Israeli Palestinian Conflict Scott Nygren, University of Florida Nomadic Representations in the World Media Archipelego Respondent: Catherine Laure Benamou, University of Michigan |
| C3
Gallery C |
Bulworth
Chair: Dennis Bingham, Indiana University, Indianapolis Lucia Bozzola, New York University "I'm Too Old for You": Bulworth and Beatty at the Doorstep of the New Millennium Dennis Bingham, Indiana University, Indianapolis White is Black: Beatty's Body as the Discourse of the Other Paula J. Massood, Vassar College Ghetto Supastar: Warren Beatty's Bulworth and the Politics of Race and Space |
| C4
Regency A |
Defining New Markets and New
Identities: Culture and Independent Film in the 1960s
Chair: Hilary Radner, University of Notre Dame Justin Wyatt, Queens College 'They Make Images to Sell Dreams': Cinema V and the Marketing of the Commercial Art Film Janet Staiger, University of Texas at Austin Intellectualizing and Politicizing Pornography Hilary Radner, University of Notre Dame Blow-up: Fashion Photography and Independent Film Respondent: Susan White, University of Arizona at Tucson |
| C5
Regency B |
Internationalist Legacies of French
Colonial Cinema
Chair: Peter Bloom, University of California - Davis Peter Bloom, University of California - Davis Archival Flows of Empire Mereille Rosello, Northwestern University Dwelling, Hospitality and PostColonial Identities; Salut Cousin! By Merzak Allouache Steven Ungar, University of Iowa Léon Poirier's L'Appel du silence and the Cult of Imperial France Panivong Norindr, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee The Franco-Vietnamese Nouvelle Vague: The Postcolonial Cinema of Lam Le and Tran Anh Hung |
| C6
Regency C |
Et Ethnicity and the Construction of
Response In American and International Cinema
Ch Chair: Nitzan Ben Shaul, Tel Aviv University Mi Felicia Herman, Brandeis University Views of Jews: Jewish Responses to Hungary Hearts (1922) and The Jazz Singer (1927) Ile Ilene Goldman To Be(come) Agentine and Jewish: Cinematic Views of a Changing Nation S Susan Martin-Marquez, University of Virginia Redirecting Difference and Desire in the Spanish Colonialist Cinema: Black Christ |
| C7
Polo D |
Hollywood Domestic, Exotic,
Erotic
Chair: Michael Meadows, Wayne State University Alison Landsberg, George Mason University More Than a Straightforward Narrative: Re-Structuring Closure, Re-Structuring Family in Object of My Affection and The Opposite of Sex Peter Mascuch, University of New Hampshire At the Fall of the Classical Hollywood Empire: Male Melodramas of Panic, Hysteria, Impotence, and Other Forms of Failure in the Bad and the Beautiful, The Barefoot Contessa, A Star Is Born, and Two Weeks in Another Town Mary Kate Kelly, University of Rochester As Seen on TV: Scandal, Media Excess and Excessive Female Sexuality in Gus Van Sant's To Die For Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia Soldiers Stories: Hollywood, Women and Movie Masculinities |
| C8
Polo E |
China and Taiwan, Cinema and
Television
Chair: Jenny Kwok Wah Lau, Ohio University Cindy Wong, City University of New York; Gary McDonogh, Bryn Mawr Electric City: Movie Theaters and the Transformation of Hong Kong, 1945-1998 August Palmer, New York University Shanghai-ed: Constructions of Gender in the Chinese Cinema of the 1930s and Their Re-inscription in Stanley Kwan's Center Stage Szu-Ping Lin, University of Wisconsin - Madison Taiwanese Mothers and Taiwanese Daughters: Women, Patriarchal System, and Television Soap Operas Ivone Margulies, Hunter College, City University of New York Spectacles of Reform: Reenactment in Zhang Yuan's Son |
| C9
Polo F |
Early Women Stars
Chair: Diane Negra, University of North Texas Tracy Cox, University of Florida Consuming Distractions in Prix de Beauté Priscilla Barlow, University of Chicago In Like Glyn: Elinor Glyn, Female Sexuality, and the Mass Media Amelie Hastie, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee History in Miniature: Colleen Moore's Dollhouse and Historical Recollection Jennifer Bean, University of Washington - Seattle The Heroine of a Thousand Stunts: Technologies of Early Stardom & the Risk of film Realism |
| C10
Regency D |
Media Bodies, Fat and Thin
1.
Chair: Joanna Rapf, University of Oklahoma Heather Addison, University of Kansas The Motion Picture Camera and the Reducing Craze of 1920s Phebe Chao, University of New Hampshire The Oral Tradition -- In News, Feature Films, TV Food Shows Andrew Douglas, University of North Carolina The BMOC--Big Men on Celluloid: Masculine Obesity in American Cinema |
| C11
Regency E |
Digital Imagery Theory: How Do We
Reconsider Theories of Analogue Representation
Chair: Yvonne Spielmann, University of Siegen Jan Simons, University of Amsterdam, How Metaphors Support and Sometimes Distort Our Understanding of New Media Maureen Turim, University of Florida, Futurism, Suprematism and Digital Invention Yvonne Spielman, University of Siegen, Photographic and Cinematic Effects in Digital Imagery |
| 1-2
Lunchtime Regency A |
Workshop: On the Market: Skills,
Strategies, and Job Search Survival in the Cinema Studies
Marketplace
Chairs: Tricia Welsch, Bowdoin College; Jan Loveland, Wayne State University Dennis Bingham, Indiana University Scott Curtis, Northwestern University Janet Walker, University of Ccalifornia - Santa Barbara |
| SESSION D | 2 PM - 3:45 PM |
| D1
Gallery A |
Workshop: Beyond Attraction: The
Presentational Modes of Early Cinema
Chair: Jonathan Auerbach, University of Maryland Eric Faden, University of Florida Another Mode of Address? The Shift from pre to Early Cinema André Gaudreault, University of Montreal Assemblage and Montage in Very Early Edison Films (1890-1900) Robert Spadoni, University of Chicago Vitagraph, The Figure Seen from the Rear, and the Development of the Shot/Reverse Shot Charlie Keil, University of Toronto No Attractions Required Respondant: Tom Gunning, University of Chicago |
| D2
Gallery B |
Seeing TV through
Architecture/Architecture through Television
Chair: Pascal Pinck, University of California - Irvine Josh Stenger, Syracuse University Access Hollywood: Entertainment News and the Construction of Cinematic L.A. L. Clare Bratten, University of Wisconsin - Madison The Landscape of Police and Hospital Television Dramas Stephanie S. Foell, Robinson & Associates, Inc. The Architecture of the City of Baltimore as a Character in Homicide: Life on the Street Pamela Ezell, Chapman University Mark Bennet, TV Architect: Blueprints for Television Living |
| D3
Gallery C |
Contemporary Chicano Documentary:
Performance Outside the State
(Organized by the Latino Caucus) Chair: Kathleen Newman, University of Iowa Sylvie Thouard The Role of Spaces in The Devil Never Sleeps/El diablo nunca duerme's Performances Norma Iglesias, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte [COLEF] Who is the Devil and Where Does He Sleep? Reading a Chicano Film in Mexico Chon Noreiga, University of California - Los Angeles Beautiful Identities: When History Turns State's Evidence Respondant: Rosa Linda Fregoso, University of California - Davis |
| D4
Regency A |
Music, Image, Race and
Nation
Chair: Steven Cohan, Syracuse University Steven Cohan, Syracuse University Star Spangled Shows: The Spectacle of Popular Entertainment in Wartime Musicals Corey Creekmur, University of Iowa Selling Film Songs From Hollywood to Bollywood Christopher Sieving, University of Wisconsin - Madison Super Sonics: Song Score as Counter-Narration in Super Fly Respondant: Philip Rosen, Brown University |
| D5
Regency B |
The Businesses of
Film
Chair: Catherine Jurca, Cal Tech Lori Landay, Emerson College The Power of the Glance: Jazz Age Media Industries and the Flapper James B. Hunt, University of North Carolina - Wilmington The Value Chain: A Management and Pedagogical Tool for Analyzing the Film Business Catherine Jurca, Cal Tech Mildred Pierce and the Drama of Postwar Reconversion Teresa Becker, University of Wisconsin - Madison The International Picture: Industry Discourse, Industry Practice |
| D6
Regency C |
Workshop: Scholarly Organizations and
the Practice of Politics (sponsored by the Caucus Coordinating
Committee)
Chair: Terri Ginsberg, Florida Atlantic University Christopher Sharrett, Seton Hall University Critical Theory and the Assault on the Left Mark A. Reid, University of Florida, Gainesville An Unworking Title: Black Film/Cultural Studies and Progressive Praxis within a (white) Academy E. Ann Kaplan, State University of New York - Stonybrook Role of the Academic Scholar in the Popular Public Sphere James P. Castonguay, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Radical Potentials of the Internet for Critical Media Pedagogy and Academic Activism |
| D7
Polo D |
Media Industries and the Global
Popular: Marketing the Transnational City
Chair: Peter Feng, University of Delaware Peter Feng, University of Delaware Sexuality and Asian Diasporic Cinemas: Marketing Transnational Art-House Films Cyntia Fuchs, George Mason University 'My Emancipation don't fit your equation': Hiphop Politics and Global Markets Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, University of Paris Hong Kong Action Cinema's Transnational Reception in France: Paris as the Cine- Logocentric Nexus Dona Kercher, Assumption College Dance Move-Ease: Afterimages of the New Global Body |
| D8
Polo E |
The Western
Chair: Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinnati Maria Pramaggiore, North Carolina State University Carnival and the Canonical Western: Nation, Race and Sexuality in Blazing Saddles Roy Grundmann, Boston University Tales of Camp and Fury: Gay Performance, Avant-Garde Film, and Auteurial Competition in Andy Warhol's Horse (1965) Michael Kaufmann, Indiana University, Purdue The Red Menace: Race and Desire in John Ford's The Searchers Alexandra Keller, Rutgers University Generic Subversion as Counter-History: Mario Van Peebles' Posse Respondant: Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinatti |
| D9
Polo F |
The Fate of
the Star
Chair: Charles Feldman, Monmouth College Roger Beebe, Duke University The Fate of the Star in the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster Paul Fryer, Rose Bruford College Enrico Caruso, The Reluctant Movie Star Mark Anderson, University of Rochester; Sara Ross, University of Wisconsin - Madison Star Marriages in Early Hollywood Bianca Freire-Medeiros, State University of New York - Binghamton A Star in the House of Mirrors: Contrasting Images of Carmen Miranda in Brazil and the US |
| D10
Regency D |
Television and Its Global
Technologies
Chair: L.S. Kim, Northwestern University Aimee Hall, Indiana University Rodney, Monica, Truman, and You: Suveillance in American Cinema of the 1990s Lisa Parks, University of California - Santa Barbara Televisual Hopscotch: Wide Wide World and the Globalization of NBC-TV in the 1950s L.S. Kim, Northwestern University New(s) Technology: Technology As News In the 1990's Shari Roberts, Pennsylvania State University "Is that the only reason you have to videotape?": Television News and the Public Sphere |
| SESSION E | 4 PM - 5:45 PM |
| E1
Gallery A |
Theoretical
Topographies
Chair: Bruce Williams, William Paterson College Scott Higgins, University of Wisconsin - Madison Analyzing Color: Bringing Color Theory to the Cinema Britta Sjogren, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill "Say I am You": Voice-off, Subjectivity and Paradox in Secret Beyond the Door Arild Fetveit, University of California - Berkeley Mockumentary: Charting the Topography Between Fiction and Documentary Bruce Williams, William Paterson College Frysky Business: Micro-regionalism in the Era of Post-Nationalism |
| E2
Gallery B |
Workshop: Silent Latin American
Cinema: History and Theory
Chair: Chon. A. Noriega, University of California - Los Angeles Ana M López, Tulane University Silent Histories: Latin American Cinema, 1896-1920 Kathleen Newman, University of Iowa Kiosk Culture and Trade Papers: Silent Film Practices in Argentina Charles Ramírez Berg, University of Texas at Austin El automóvil gris (1919) and the Advent of Mexican Classicism João Luiz Vieira Limite (1931) and Latin American Modernism |
| E3
Gallery C |
Glancing Back, Looking Ahead:
Revision and Rejuvenation in American Avant Garde Filmmaking and
Criticism
Chair: Melinda Barlow, University of Colorado at Boulder Paul Arthur, Montclair State University Ruling Passions: The Portrait in American Avant-Garde Film Greg Taylor, State University of New York - Purchase College Film Criticism and the Changing of the Garde Michael Zryd, University of Western Ontario Metahistories of American Empire: Ironic Imbrications of the Found-Footage Avant-Garde and Institutional Documentary Film Melinda Barlow, University of Colorado at Boulder 'Minor' Cinema Revisited: The Films of Janie Geiser |
| E4
Regency A |
Theories of
Spectatorship
Chair: Kevin Sandler, Sheffield Hallam University Binnie Brook Martin, Purdue University The Aural Aesthetic in Sankofa: Breaking Down Barriers in Western Spectatorship Adrienne L. McLean, University of Texas at Dallas Read Your Movies--Then See Them: Movie Story Magazines and Spectatorship Gerald Butters, Donnelly College Slapstick or Sadomasochism: Portrayals of Black Masculinity in Early Silent Film, 1896-1912 |
| E5
Regency B |
Violent America
Chair: Christopher Sharrett William Luhr, St. Peter's College Darker, Brighter, Meaner: The Reinvention of Film Noir Peter Lehman, University of Arizona; Susan Hunt, Arizona State University Severed heads and Severed Genitals: Violence in Dead Presidents Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Southwest Texas State University Violence and the Apolitical Body Christopher Sharrett, Seton Hall University The Last Stand in Postmodernity Respondent: Tony Williams, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale |
| E6
Regency C |
Workshop: Bridging the Theory Gap:
Conducting On-Site Research, Inteviews and Collaborations
Chair: Christina Lane, University of Texas at Austin Constance Penley, University of California - Santa Barbara Leslie Hankins, Cornell College Elana Levine, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alisa Perren, University of Texas at Austin Scott MacDonald, Utica College |
| E7
Polo D |
Histories of Advertising in Film and
Television
Chair: Justin Wyatt, Queens College, City University of New York Laura Baker, University of Iowa The Veritable Architecture of To-day: Outdoor Advertising and Modern Visual Culture, 1900-1917 Amy Davis, University College, London Disneyland as Film Advertising Sean Griffin, University of California - Santa Cruz Target for Tonight: Hollywood's Advertising to Minority Groups James Latham, New York University Representation in the Advertising Imagery of Early Hollywood: Industry and Culture |
| E8
Polo E |
The War Film
Chair: Daniel Miller, Hofstra University Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Mooret University Greek War Film as Melodrama: Women, Female Stars and the Nation as Victim Daniel Miller, Hofstra University 'Saving' Private Ryan: History, Aesthetics and Ideology in the New War Films Daniel Marcus, University of Wisconsin - Madison A New Kind of War: The Memphis Belle and the Bombing of Civilian Targets David Lugowski, New York University On the Role of Women in Wartime Culture: Is Ginger Rogers the Major or the Minor? |
| E9
Polo F |
Mediating Gay Culture
Chair: Oliver Buckton, Florida Atlantic University Heather Hendershot, Queens College Holy Homosexuals: The Media Tactics of the Christian Left Bryan Fruth, University of Texas at Austin Open Secrets, Open Wounds: Gay Identity and the Body in Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story and Its Popular Reception Marc Siegel, University of California - Los Angeles Getting More out of the Movies: Cruising with Boyd McDonald David Boxwell, USAF Academy Chacun a Son Mauvais Gout: The Postmodern Fan Worship of Frank O'Hara and Jack Smith |
| E10
Regency D |
Screenplay By: The Art and Business
of Hollywood Screenwriting
Chair: Karla Rae Fuller, Columbia College Chicago Andrew Horton, University of Oklahoma 100 Years of Preston Sturges: Gains and Losses for Hollywood Screenwriters Since 1940 Karen Hollinger, Armstrong Atlantic State University Screenwriting, the Nineteenth-Century Heroine, and Contemporary Film Production Delle Chatman From Writer's Womb to Showtime: A Case study in the Creative Development and Credit Arbitration of a Screenplay Julie Sandor, Northwestern University 'Why Can't the Words Just Speak for Themselves?': Writers Pitching Their Ideas in Hollywood |
| 6-7 Polo D | African/African American Caucus |
| 7:30 PM - 9:30PM:
Regency D&E |
Special Event Presented by the Host
Committee
ON THE SET WITH ARTHUR HILLER |
| Saturday, April 17 | Registration: 8 AM - 4 PM |
| 8-9 Polo D | Middle-Eastern Caucus |
| 8-9 Polo F | Caucus on Class |
| 8-9 Regency A | Meeting: Women Film Pioneers Project |
| SESSION F | 9 AM - 10:45 AM |
| F1
Gallery A |
When Maps Matter: Crossing Media Studies and
Cultural Studies
Chair: James Hay, University of Illinois - Urbana Toby Miller, New York University Cinema Studies Doesn't Matter Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill …and Even if it Did Matter, It Still Would Be Wrong Anne Balsamo, Georgia Institute of Technology Designing Culture James Hay, University of Illinois - Urbana The Exteriority of Media and the Rationality of Media Studies |
| F2
Gallery B |
"Primitive" Cinema and the Lure of
the Exotic
Chair: Eric Ames, University of Southern California Eric Ames, University of Southern California Animal Attractions: The Zoo and the Cinema, 1907-1914 Jennifer Peterson, University of Chicago Cinematic Geography: Exotic Views and the Travelogue Experience Alison Griffiths, Baruch College, City University of New York Native Americans and the Ethnographic Imaginary of the Early Western Jacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago Under Surveillance: Voyeurism and Primitive Blackness in Early Cinema |
| F3
Gallery C |
Race and Alternative
Distribution
sponsored by the Black Caucus Chair: Chika Anyanwu, Curtin University of Technology, Perth Martin Mhando, Murdoch University, Australia African Film and Video Distribution: The Case of Maangamizi Yvonne Welbon, Northwestern University Independent Feature Film Distribution, Exhibition and Marketing: A Case Study of Sankofa Chika Anyanwu, Curtin University of Technology Indigenousity Through Distribution: The Nigerian Film Industry Respondent: Phyllis R. Klotman, Indiana University |
| F4
Regency A |
Defining the Girl
Demon
Chair: Susan McLeland, University of Texas Susan McLeland, University of Texas Defining the Demon: Child Pornography, The Tin Drum (1979) and Lolita (1998) Mary Celeste Kearney, University of Southern California TV's Teen Queens: Female Adolescence in 1990s' Television Kristin Hatch, University of California - Los Angeles How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Lolita?: Regulating Images of Adolescent Girls, 1962-1998 Pamela Robertson Wojcik, University of Notre Dame The Girl and the Phonograph, or the Vamp and the Machine Revisited |
| F5
Regency B |
Technologies of
Access
Chair: Eric Fadden, University of Florida Richard Lawrence Edwards, University of Southern California Virtual Activism from Video to the Internet Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, Indiana University Lost in the Labyrinth: Digital Narrative and the Case of Second Shift Monique Yamaguchi, University of Southern California Negotiating the Discourses of Public Broadcasting and Public Access in Paradise |
| F6
Regency C |
Cinema of
Documentation
Chair: Steve Elworth, Mercy College, New York University Alan Wright, University of Canterbury Elizabeth Taylor at Auschwitz: J-L Godard and the Historical Object of Montage Philip Mosley, Pennsylvania State University Animated Documentary: The Quays' Eternal Day of Michel De Ghelderode Jeffrey Karlsen, University of California - Berkeley The Kiss of Mary Pickford and the Taint of Americanism |
| F7
Polo D |
Workshop: Mexican Movie Stars and
Transnational Reception
Chair: Joanne Hershfield, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Anne Rubenstein, Allegheny College Migration, Modernity, and Two Mexican Funerals: Public Responses to the Deaths of Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante Jeffrey M. Pilcher, The Citadel Around the World with 80 Stays; The Global Reception of Cantinflas Ann Marie Stock, College of William & Mary 'Who Was That Silver-Masked Man?':El Santo, Mexican Wrestling Films, and their Trans-national Reception Dolores Tierney, Tulane University Pedro Armdáriz: Mexican on the Move |
| F8
Polo E |
Poster Sessions
Awam Ampka, Mount Holyoke College Melissa Ragona, Goddard College SCREENTEST National Images/ Transnational Desires Mary Dalton and Susan Faust, Wake Forest University Film, Gender and the Workplace: How Hollywood Constructs the Organizational Environment Chuck Maland, University of Tennessee High, Medium, or Low Tech? Pedagogy in a Film/American Culture Course Robert Kapsis, Queens College, City University of New York Multimedia Hitchcock: The Master and His Legacy -- 100 Years Benjamin Schneider, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee The Preparing Future Faculty Program in/and Cinema Studies |
| F9
Polo F |
The Production of
Theory
Chairs: Richard Cante, Indiana University; Angelo Restivo, University of Iowa Angelo Restivo, University of Iowa The Lost Cause of Theory Robert Miklitsch, Ohio University Post-Post Theory: Screen, Suture, and the Future of Cinema Studies Rebecca M. Gordon, Indiana University Looking Elsewhere for Visual History Richard C. Cante, Indiana University The End of Queer Theory as We Know it (And I Feel Fine) |
| F10
Regency D |
Workshop: Academics and Archivists:
Building a Complimentary Relationship
Chair: Brain Taves, Library of Congress James Castonguay, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Media Scholarship and the Virtual Archive: Prospects and Problems Maureen Furniss, Chapman University Setting up a First Archive in a Film School: The Carl Lewis Gregory and Eric Berndt Collections Jan-Christopher Horak, Universal Studios/University of California - Los Angeles History of Studio Archiving Janet Staiger, University of Texas at Austin The Universal Library, the Digital Dissertation, and the Film Scholar |
| SESSION G | 11 AM - 12:45 PM |
| G1
Gallery A |
Workshop: New Directions in
Television Studies
Chair: John Hartley, Cardiff University Michael Curtin, Indiana University Jane Shattuc, Emerson College Toby Miller, New York University Roberta Pearson, Cardiff University William Uricchio, Utrecht Univesity Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| G2
Gallery B |
Workshop: White Men, Other
Voices
Chair: Ina Rae Hark, University of South Carolina Ina Rae Hark, University of South Carolina Black-Faced Red-Necks: Portraying Oppressed White Men with Guns in Matewan Jane Hendler, Syracuse University Constructing "Whiteness" and Racial Crossdressing: Marlon Brando and the Play of Identity in Sayonara and Teahouse of the August Moon Christopher Gittings, University of Alberta Immigration and Empire Building: The Cinematic Construction of White Invader Settler Culture Patrick McCord, University of Georgia Hybridity and Seduction: Imperializing Images in Double Happiness and The Wedding Banquet Peter Limbrick, LaTrobe University Some Are Born To Endless Night: Whiteness, Death and Dislocation in Dead Man Jeff Smith, New York University Black Faces, White Voices: The Politics of Dubbing in Carmen Jones |
| G3
Gallery C |
Asian Women
Directors
Chair: Patricia Brett Erens, University of Hong Kong Sophia Siddique, University of Southern California Ephemeral Narratives of the Singapore Film Industry Gina Marchetti, Ithaca College GenerAsian X and the Grotesque in Clara Law's Migration Trilogy Lu Tonglin, University of Iowa The Dilemma of Women Directors in Mainland China Chua Siew Keng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mapping Female Desire: The Films of Huang Yu-Shan Poonam Arora, University Michigan, Dearborn Still Searching for the Good Woman on the Eve of the New Millennium: A Postcolonial Reading of Aparna Sen's Stati Respondant: Patricia Brett Erens, University of Hong Kong |
| G4
Regency A |
Identity
Chair: Awam Amkpa, Mt. Holyoke College Amelia Holberg, University of California - Berkeley Film, Installation, and Jewish Identity: The Three Dimensions of Chantal Akerman's D'est Nora Alter, University of Florida Reviewing an Era: An Examination of Every Day Life in the DDR Roger Sorkin, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth Culturally Coding an Intergalactic Wave of Immigration: Alien Nation |
| G5
Regency B |
Co-producing Culture: Multinational
Media Productions
Chairs: Amy Beer, Northwestern University; Barbara Wilinsky, University of Arizona; John McMurria, New York University Co-production and the Trans-nationalization of US Television Barbara Wilinsky, University of Arizona English-Language/French Expression:Gaumont Television and International Co-Productions Amy Beer, Northwestern University So Far from Hollywood? International Co-Productions and the Contemporary Mexican Film Industry Jay Kent Lorenz, University of California - Irvine International Skin: A Case Study in the Evil Empire and the Globalization of Pornography |
| G6
Regency C |
Rooted in Radio: The Historical
Precedents of the Television Industry
Chairs: Jason Mittell, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jennifer Wang, University of Wisconsin - Madison Joy E. Hayes, University of Iowa The Family Melodrama from Radio to Television Jason Mittell, University of Wisconsin - Madison Before the Scandals: The Industrial Precedents of the Quiz Show Genre Allison McCracken, University of Iowa From Radio Bitch to TV Witch: Agnes Moorehead and the Place of the Radio Star in Televisionland Jennifer Wang, University of Wisconsin - Madison Currencies of Exchange: Industrial Imperatives, Femininity, and the Construction of the Daytime Radio Audience |
| G7
Polo D |
Silent Italian Cinema,
1905-1930
Chairs: Giorgio Bertellini, New York University; Kim Tomadjoglou, New York University Kim Tomadjoglou, New York University Art, Commerce, and Technology: Ballo Excelsior, 'An Action-Cinematic-Recorded-Choreographed Spectacle' Angela Dalle-Vacche, Emory University Details, Detectives, and Donne: Filibus (1915) Guiliana Muscio, Universita di Padova Moviemaking in the Eternal City: Silent Cinema Between Italy and the U.S. John Welle, University of Notre Dame George Kleine, Italiam Film Production, and the American Market, 1912-1915 Respondent: Giorgio Bertellini, New York University |
| G8
Polo E |
Sites of Display
Chair: Kathryn Helgesen Fuller, Virginia Commonwealth University Federico Windhausen, New York University Siting the Spectacle: The Critical Issue of Video Art Alison Trope, University of Southern California Access Hollywood: Banking on a Universal Symbol Leslie Abramson, University of Chicago Pugilism, the Public, and Performance: Spectatorship as Aggression in Hitchcock's The Ring Sarah Nilsen, University of Southern California It's Grrrrreat!!!: Kellogg's Cereal City U.S.A |
| G9
Polo F |
Asia and the West: The Distribution,
Production, and Reception of Asian and Soviet Cinema
Chair: Lilly Avrutin, University of Toronto Daniel Kowalsky, University of Wisconsin - Madison From Menace to Model: Soviet Cinema in Spain, 1927-1939 Jenny Kwok Wah Lau, Ohio University The Chinese 6th Generation Underground Films: Marx and Markets in the Youthful Subculture of China Vance Kepley, University of Wisconsin - Madison A Political Economy of Soviet Cinema, 1930-1985 Esther Yau, Occidental College Chronicle of a Murder in Shanghai: Chinese Silent Cinema and Global Capitalism |
| G10
Regency D |
Greater Cuba: Inside/Outside After 40
Years (Organized by the Latino/a Caucus)
Chair: José Muñoz, New York University Wilfredo Cancio Isla, Barry University The Lost Enchantment of Fidel-ity: Revelations of "cine en transe" José Muñoz, New York University Estilo Y Exilio: Broadcasting Cuban American Performativity in Qué Pasa, USA? Ana M. López, Tulane University Bitter Memories: The Harness of History Misha MacLaird, Tulane University 'What the hell is a Juliette?: Sex, Stardom and Self-reflixivity in a Mexico-Cuba Co-production' |
| 1-2 Lunchtime
Polo D |
Meeting: Cinema Journal Editorial Board Meeting |
| 1-2 Lunchtime
Regency D |
Meeting: Career Opportunity, Development, and Promotion Committee (open to all attendees) |
| 1-2 Lunchtime
Polo F |
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Trans/Queer Caucus |
| SESSION H | 2 PM - 3:45 PM |
| H1
Gallery A |
Alterity and the Politics of Representation
in Middle Eastern Cinema (sponsored by the Middle-Eastern Caucus)
Chair: Hamid Naficy, Rice University Sandra Gayle Carter, University of Texas at Austin Belyazid's Women Hamid Naficy, Rice University Gender, Sexuality, and Veiled Vision in Iranian Cinema Azadeh Farahmand, University of California - Los Angeles Digesting the Cherry: Kiarostami in a Long Shot Haim Bresheeth, Sapir College A Chronicle of a Disappearance: Liminality and Absence in Palestinian Film |
| H2
Gallery B |
Visual Culture in the New
Age
Chair: Cynthia Erb, Wayne State University Michael Quinn, Duke University Alternative Conceptions of Spirituality in the Public/Private Spheres: Breaking the Waves and The Rapture Kaitlin Hanger, Wayne State University The Enlightenment Drama as Spectacle: Tibetan Mysticism, New Age Capitalism, and Vicarious Politics in Hollywood Cynthia Erb, Wayne State University Experiments with Channeling: Contact as New Age |
| H3
Gallery C |
Mapping the Cinematic
Highway
Chair: Marsha Gordon, University of Maryland Mark Anthony Shiel, University College Dublin Banal and Magnificent Space in Electra Glide in Blue James Hoban, Randolph-Macon Woman's College Side-Tracked in 'China': A Rhetorical Reading of Colliding Ideologies Yvonne Pelletier, University of Toronto Off Road Vehicles: Locating the Geographical Subject in the American Highway Narrative Devin Orgeron, University of Maryland Pre-Road/Pre-Film: Early Cinema or the Picaresque Meets the Picturesque |
| H4
Regency A |
Movie-Made Masculinity: Negotiating
the Masculine Images of Mainstream Hollywood Cinema
Chair: Andrew Miller, University of Pittsburgh Andrew Miller, University of Pittsburgh Real Athletes, Reel Men, Real Love: The Bare-Chested Masculinity of 1950's Boxing Films Richard Purcell, University of Pittsburgh "You ain't so black…": Black Masculine/Genre Anxiety in the Blaxploitation Film, Shaft Joe Wlodarz, University of Rochester Rape Fantasies: Hollywood and Homophobia Brendan Mahaney, University of Oregon Romantic Comedy and the Privledges of Masculinity: A Patriarch Confronts Absenteeism and Loneliness in James Brooks' As Good As It Gets? |
| H5
Regency B |
East Asian Film History and
Historiography
Chair: Yingjin Zhang, Indiana University Yingjin Zhang, Indiana University A Survey of Chinese Film Historiography Zhen Zhang, Stanford University 'An amorous history of the Silver Screen': Some Reflection on Writing the History of Early Chinese Film Culture Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, University of Iowa Construction of Modern Space: Tokyo and the Shochiku Kamata Film Texts Julian Stringer, Indiana University International Film Festivals and the Global City in East Asia |
| H6
Regency C |
Cinema Studies after Cognitivism:
Science in the Humanities
Chair: Malcolm Turvey, New York University Dirk Eitzen, Franklin and Marshall College A Case for Consilience in Cinema Studies Richard Allen, New York University The Case Against Cognitivism Malcom Turvey, New York University The Mind/Film Paradigm after Cognitivism: A Humanistice Defense Respondent: Murray Smith, University of Kent |
| H7
Polo D |
Designed for Living: Regulating for
Consumption in the Home
Chair: Eric Freedman, Florida Atlantic University Annette Hill, University of Westminster; David Gauntlett, Leeds University Mastering Technology: Consumption and Everyday Life in Britain Eric Freedman, Florida Atlantic University Citizen's Arrest: Public Access Cable Television in the Digital Domain Respondent: Tara McPherson, University of Southern California |
| H8
Polo E |
Workshop: Cuban Film in and of
History
Chair: Gabriel Gomez, Chicago State University John Hess, University of Maryland and Jump Cut Cuban Melodrama and Machismo David Gerstner, University of Otago The Main Event: Cuba and The Spanish American War Elspeth Kydd, University of Toledo Narrativizing Slavery? Resistance in El Otro Francisco and Mandingo Gabriel Gomez, Chicago State University I am Cuba and I have Strawberry and Chocolate Cristina Venegas, University of Southern California Memories from CyberCuba |
| H9
Polo F |
The "Unfinished" Film
Chair: Christian Keathley, University of Iowa Christian Keathley, University of Iowa Another caméra-stylo: The Filmmaker as Sketch Artist Robert B. Ray, University of Florida The 'Licked' vs. the 'Unfinished' Surface in French Impressionism and the New Wave Daniel Eisenberg, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fragments, Shards, and Ruin: Contemporary Non-Fiction Filmmaking and the Aesthetic of the Incomplete Gilberto Perez, Sarah Lawrence College The Coherence of Fragments: Vigo's Zero for Conduct |
| H10
Regency D |
American Television in the 1970s:
History, Identity, Social Change
Chair: Tim Halloran, University of California - Los Angeles Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Alberta Make it Relevant: How Youth Rebellion Captured Prime-Time Television in 1970/71 Richard L. Moody, Utah Valley State College The Silence of the Louds--'An American Family' Under Fire Karen Voss, University of Southern California Territories of Technology: Gendering National Security in The Bionic Woman Tim Halloran, University of California - Los
Angeles |
| SESSION I | 4 PM - 5:45 PM |
| I1
Gallery A |
Workshop: Teaching the Context:
Connecting Media Studies to Contemporary Student
Experience
(Organized by the SCS Teaching Committee) Chair: Ramona Curry, University of Illinois-Urbana Lily Avrutin, University of Toronto Robin Bates, St. Mary's College, Maryland Jan Derrick, Northwestern University Linda Ehrlich, Case Western University Esther Yau, Occidental College Jim Wehmeyer, Smithsonian Institution |
| I2
Gallery B |
Post-Colonial Blues: Hong Kong Media
and Cultural Studies
Chair: Darrell Davis, Hong Kong University; Yeh Yueh Yu, Hong Kong Baptist University; Darrell Davis & Yeh Yueh Yu Warning: Category III Film Cheuk Pak Tong, Hong Kong Baptist University The Impact and Influence of Hong Kong Television on Asia Nathaniel Kohn and Y.S. Lee, University of Georgia Face/Off: Challenges to Post-Colonial Theory Along the Hong Kong-Hollywood Axis |
| I3
Gallery C |
Movies and
Metaphysics
Chair: Cynthia Contreras, Brooklyn College David Sterritt, Long Island University Body and Soul in Godard's Je vous salue Marie Cynthia Contreras, Brooklyn College Soundscape of the Mind: Witnessing the Self in Der Himmel Uber Berlin Andrea Ann Campbell, Brigham Young University The Razor's Edge and The Scent of Green Papaya as Transcendental Films Robert Lang, University of Hartford "The Things We Think and Do Not Say": Jerry Maguire and the Business of Personal Relationships |
| I4
Regency A |
Workshop: Women Film Pioneers: Women
Directors, Feminism, and Silent Film History
Chair: Jennifer Parchesky, George Washington University Melissa Goldman, Stanford University Alice Guy: "The cinematographe is really woman's work" Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Performativity in Alice Guy Blache's La Vie du Christ Andrew Quicke. Regent University The Moral Universe of Lois Weber: A Neo-Formalist Approach Christina Mugno, Quinnipiac College The Cinema of Mabel Normand Respondent: Melissa Wye, Eastern New Mexico University |
| I5
Regency B |
Television Stardom and Television
Industries
Chair: David Alan Black, Seton Hall University Roberta Piearson, Cardiff university 'Captain, My Captain:' Patrick Stewart and Television Stardom David Alan Black, Seton Hall Univeristy The Lost Lesson of Mrs. Emma Peel Sara Gwenllian Jones, Cardiff University Starring Lucy Lawless Karen Backstein, College of Staten Island, City University of New York Of Heroes, Insanity, and Red Speedos: The Star Text of David Duchovny |
| I6
Regency C |
The Retro/Active
Nineties
Chair: Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee Kathleen McHugh, University of California - Riverside Queer Retroactivity in Nineties Genre Films Deborah Jermyn, Southampton Institute Disturbing Sites -- Female Murder Victims, Female Investigators and Contemporary Cinema Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee The "Nouveau Western": Genre Off-Shoots, Audience Re-routes Tony Williams, Southern Illinois University Face Off: Cultural and Institutional Violence Within the American Dream |
| I7
Polo D |
Early Cinema: Advertising, Race,
Agency
Chair: Clay Steinman, Macalester College Kathryn H. Fuller, University of Virginia Antecedents of the Movie Poster: Lithography, Circus Advertising, and the Story of the Hennegan Brothers Sabine Haenni, University of Chicago Thomas Ince's Global Village: Race, Ethnicity, Subjectivity Kevin Sweeney, University of Tampa Women's Agency and the Conventions of Early Hollywood Melodrama |
| I8
Polo E |
Narrative Spaces
Chair: Mark Garrett Cooper, Florida State University Mark Garrett Cooper, Florida State University Narrative Spaces Kristen Whissel, University of Glasgow Narrative Space and National Space in the Silent Cinema's Transitional Period Peter Lurie, Boston University Re-visions of the Road: Narrative, Gazing and the Pastoral Ideology in American Fiction and Film Vincent Brook, University of California - Los Angeles From the Cozy to the Carceral: Trans-Formations of Ethnic Space in The Goldbergs and Seinfeld |
| I9
Polo F |
The Revolution Will Be
Digitized
sponsored by the Black Caucus Chairs: Erika Muhammad, New York University; Anna Everett, University of California - Santa Barbara Anna Everett, University of California - Santa Barbara Towards a Theory of the Egalitarian Technosphere: Or Talking Loud and Signifying Nothing Tara McPherson, University of Southern California Girls and Nets: WNBA Fans, Race, and the Web Erika Dalya Muhammad, New York University Inside and Out of the Box: Digital Practices, Race and Politics in Urban Youth Culture |
| I10
Regency D |
Italian Cinema
Chair: Panayiota Mini, University of Wisconsin - Madison Noa Steimatsky, Yale University From the Air: The Genealogy of Antonioni's Modernism Cristina Degli-Esposti Reinert, University of Arizona Encyclopedic Imaginariness, Visionary Reality and Memorializing Strategies in the Neo-Baroque Films of Peter Greenaway and Federico Fellini Jacqueline Reich, State University of New York - Stony Brook Marcello Mastroianni, Stardom, and Italian Masculinity John Foot, University College, London La gente e il buon costume: Luchino Visconti's Rocco ei suoi fratelli, Censorship and the Left in Italy, 1960-1961 |
| 5 PM - 6 PM
Regency A |
SCS Members Meeting |
| 6 PM - 7 PM
Regency C |
Graduate Student Caucus |
| 6 PM - 7 PM
Gallery A |
Open Meeting, Committee on Teaching |
| 6 PM - 7 PM
Polo D |
Meeting: SCS Archives Committee |
| 6 PM - 7:30 PM 2nd
Floor
Parlor |
Reception sponsored by the FAU Film
and Video Program, the Department
of Communication, and the PhD Program for Public Intellectuals |
| 7:30 PM -
9:30 PM Regency D & E |
Special Event Presented by Host
Committee:
Contemporary Independent Film |
| Sunday,
April 18 |
|
| 8 AM -9 AM
Regency A |
Women's Caucus |
| 8 AM - 9 AM
Polo D |
Oscar Micheaux Society |
| 9 AM - 10 AM
Executive Boardroom |
Caucus Coordinating Committee |
| SESSION J | 9 AM - 10:45 AM |
| J1
Gallery A |
Race and Genre, 1965-75: Text and
Context
Chair: Rick Worland, Southern Methodist University Kevin Heffernan, Southern Methodist University Genre Films and the Inner-City Theater: The Case of Night of the Living Dead Eric Pierson, University of Illinois - Urbana Blacks and Genres: Conflict and Complements Harry Benshoff, University of California - Santa Cruz Blaxploitation Horror Films: A Potential Critique of Racism? Rick Worland, Southern Methodist University Sidney Poitier as Western Hero: Duel at Diablo and the Paradox of Integration |
| J2
Gallery B |
Workshop: The Production of Audiences
Chair: Olaf Hoerschelmann, University of North Texas Olaf Hoerschelmann, University of North Texas Vox Pop: Sponsorship and the Ideology of the Common Man Sheila Schroeder, University of Denver Our League:The American Basketball League and the Re-Emergence of Movement Feminism Greg Smith, Carlow College Women Who Watch Too Much: Grease and Repeated Film Viewings Lisa Kernan, University of California - Los Angeles "All the Emotions of a Lifetime": Rhetorical Appeals to Women in Fifties Hollywood Trailers Susan Ohmer, Notre Dame Tracking the Elusive Viewer: A History of Audience Research in Hollywood Shanti Kumar, University of North Texas Global Visions; (de)constructing the international audiences of television. |
| J3
Gallery C |
Workshop: Stardom and Celebrity
Chair: Devin Orgeron, University of Maryland Robin A. Larsen, California State University, San Bernardino Star Close-ups, 'Emotional Flooding of the Mind,' and Polymorphous Identifications Stephanie Savage, University of Iowa Beautiful Dreamers: Hollywood Hopefuls in the Depression Era Marsha Gordon, University of Maryland 'If we are ever to be in Hollywood':Gertrude Stein and the Making of Celebrity Jonathan Bignell, University of Reading Buster Keaton vs. Samuel Beckett: Stardom and (Mis)Interpretation David Conner, University of California - Santa Cruz Now, Voyager Redux: Stardom, Queer Identification, and the Luxury Cruise Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College Joan Sees Stars: Autobiography and the Utopian Promise of Star Images |
| J4
Regency A |
Exhibition Practices
Chair: Barbara Klinger, Indiana University Michael G. Aronson, University of Pittsburgh A Wrong Kind of Nickel Madness: The 'Dime Education' of Pittsburgh Exhibitors, 1914-1918 Michael DeAngelis, DePaul University Art Cinema Hits the Suburbs: Exhibition Practices of the 1960's and 1970s Heidi Kenaga, University of Memphis The Pony Express (1925) and California's Diamond Jubilee David Slocum, New York University The Hollywood Gesamtkunstwerk -- and Beyond: Revisiting MOMA's "Violent America, The Movies" |
| J5
Regency B |
Contemporary Middle Eastern Cinema
(sponsored by the Middle-Eastern Caucus)
Chair: Dorit Naaman, University of Alberta Owen Shapiro, Syracuse University New Directions in Israeli Film Nezih Erdogan, Bilknet University, Turkey New Turkish Cinema and the Pleasures of the Audience: Problems and Possibilities William E. McRae, Lebanese American University, Beirut There Ain't No Camels Here-Film in Lebanon |
| J6
Regency C |
The Feminine, the Masculine, the
Gaze, and the Voice in Global Cinema and Television
Chair: Chris Scodari, Florida Atlantic University Antje Ascheid, New York University Female Stardom, Womanhood and the Popular Media in Nazi Germany Kirk Ashworth, University of Oklahoma Shades of the Feminine: Spectral Images of Women in Weimar German Cinema Aida Hozic, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Gaze and Voice as Money Objects: Representing Violence in Global Media Patricia Caille, University of Pittsburgh Un Hero Tres discrèt: An Ironic Commentary on the Production and Reproduction of a National Masculinity in Contemporary French Film Culture |
| J7
Polo D |
Queer: Sexual Identities, Places and
Pleasures
Chair: Thomas Waugh, Concordia University Harmony Wu, University of Southern California From Genre to Gender Trouble: Pedro Almodovar's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and the Perverse Pleasures of Patriarchy Chantal Nadeau, Concordia University Ma Vie en Rose … or My life with Pinky Dots Craig Fischer, Appalachian State University "Are You Saying You're a Homosexual?": Robert Reed, The Fourth Sex, and Personal Criticism Thomas Waugh, Concordia University Sexual Revolution, Canadian Cinema, and Other Queer Paradoxes |
| J8
Polo E |
Latin American Film
Industries
Chair: Richard Abel, Drake University Margarita De La Vega-Hurtado, University of Michigan A National Cinema in Search of Its Industry: The Colombian Case Tamara Falicov, University of Kansas The Argentine Film Industry 1994-1998: The Impact of Television Finance on a National Cultural Industry Elena Espinoza-Leyva, University of Southern California Global Media and the Borderlands: The Politics of the Third Space |
| J9
Polo F |
Memoir and Biography
Chair: Michael Renov, University of Southern California Nicole Keating, University of Pennsylvania Sex, Prozac, and Oral History: Historical Documentaries and the "Age of Memoir" Tina Wasserman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Cinematic Remembering Michael Renov, University of Southern California The End of Autobiography or New Beginnings? |
| J10
Regency D |
Media Bodies, Fat and Thin
2.
Chair: Elizabeth Young, Mt. Holyoke College Mark Wolf, Concordia University, Wisconsin A Brief History of Morphing Jerry Mosher, University of California - Los Angeles Doing a De Niro: The Big Weight Gain in the Age of the Morph Brenda Weber, Miami University, Ohio Fat, Frumpy and Frustrated: Barbra Streisand and Eddie Murphy as Professional Bodies of Excess Michael Raine, University of Iowa Film and the Figuration of the Youthful Body in Late 1950s Japan |
| SESSION K | 11 AM - 12:45 PM |
| K1
Gallery A |
Workshop: Pluralism and Method in
Film Studies
Chairs: Stephen Prince, Virginia Tech; Peter Lehman, University of Arizona Robert Eberwein, Oakland University Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh Gilberto Perez, Sarah Lawrence College Carl Plantinga, Hollins College William Rothman, University of Miami Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College |
| K2
Gallery B |
Global Media
Chair: Patricia Keeton, Ramapo College Emperatriz Arreaza-Camero, Instituto de Filosofia del Derecho. Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela Media industry in Venezuela and its relations with the US media: Past, Present and Future Dag Asbjornsen & Ove Solum, University of Oslo Public Service Cinema? On Strategies of Legitimacy in Norwegian Cinema Politics Peter Lutze, Boise State University Mittledeutche Rundfunk After Reunification: A Case Study of Public Broadcasting in Eastern Germany Rudiger Steinmetz, University of Leipzig European Digi-TV Strategies: Investments and Political Regulations |
| K3
Gallery C |
The Fifties Across Media and
History
Chair: Mary Beth Haralovich, University Arizona Norma Coates, University of Wisconsin Citizen Ed: The Ed Sullivan Show and the Contradictions of Civic Television James Kreul, University of Wisconsin - Madison High School Confidential: Notes on Avant-Garde Distribution and Exhibition in the Fifties Bambi Haggins, University of California - Los Angeles Why 'Beulah' and 'Andy' Still Play Today: Minstrelsy for the New Millenium Susan Murray, University of Texas Our Man Godrey: Arthur Godfrey and the Selling of Stardom in Early Television |
| K4
Regency A |
Peter Greenaway's Post-Cinematic
Art-World
Chair: Paula Willoquet-Maricondi, Indiana University, Bloomington Paula Willoquet-Maricondi Is It Real or Is It Virtual? The Virtually Real Art-World of Peter Greenaway Anthony Purdy, University of Western Ontario Ceci n'est pas un musée/Ceci n'est pas un film: Curatorial Strategies in Greenaway's Cinema Lia M. Hotchkiss, University of South Alabama The (Im)material Body of Theater in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books and The Baby of Mâcon Michael Anderegg, University of North Dakota Prospero's Books: Text, Subtext, Intertext, Hypertext |
| K5
Regency B |
Mining Black Experience in the South:
Independent and Mainstream Cinema
sponsored by the Black Caucus Chair: Phyllis Klotman, Indiana University Michele Wallace, City College of New York & City University of New York Graduate Center Silent Versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Reconsideration Charlene Regester, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill In Search of Feminism and Adulthood Through the Black Female Body: An Examination of Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding Elizabeth Amelia Hadley, Simmons College Memories, Repression, Imagination and Second-Sight in Eve's Bayou Kristy Anderson, producer, BlackSouth: The Life Journey of Zora Neale Hurston, a film-in-progress, directed by Julie Dash |
| K6
Regency C |
Workshop: Histories and Legacies of
the Spanish-America War of 1898 in Audiovisual Discourse
(sponsored by the Latino/a Caucus)
Chair: Catherine Benamou, University of Michigan Catherine Benamou, University of Michigan Histories and Legacies of the Spanish-American War of 1898 in Audiovisual Discourse James Castonguay, University of Michigan Intertextuality, Intermediality, and the Cuban-Spanish-American War Susan Ryan, The College of New Jersey The Bells of Balangiga and Mediation of the Philippine-American War Carmen Elisa Gómez, Universidad de Guadalajara International Exchange in the 1930's: Mexicans in Hollywood, Americans and Hispanics in Mexican Cinema Garry Keller, Arizona State University Film's First Technological and Marketing Surge: The Impact of the Spanish-American War (1898) Charles Musser, Yale University Edison, Hearst and the Wars of 1898 |
| K7
Polo D |
The Cultures of Indian
Cinema
Chair: Lalita Gopalan, Georgetown University Lalita Gopalan, Georgetown University Loving Haunted Spaces: Ramgopal Verma's Rath/Night and Peyi/Ghost Virdi Jyotika, University of Windsor Teaching Hollywood's Other in a Multicultural Curricula: Lessons from Bandit Queen (1994) Ranjan Chhibber, State University of New York, Buffalo Dropping the Bomb on Merchant-Ivory: Targeting Their Racial Stereotypes in the Aftermath of India's Nuclear Tests Gopalkrishnan Iyer, Florida Atlantic University Popular Media and the Transition to a Market Economy: The Case of India |
| K8
Polo E |
Opera and Cinema
Chairs: Mary M. Wiles, University of Florida; Clark Farmer, University of Iowa Mary M. Wiles, University of Florida "Incantation, Myth, and Mysterious Islands: Sounding Out the Operatic in Jacques Rivette Clark Farmer, University of Iowa The Right to Open: Opera and the New German Cinema Li-Mei Chang, Wayne State University The Dualism of Tradition/Opera/Femininity vs. Modernity/Cinema/Masculinity in Painted Faces Victoria Duckett, University of California - Los Angeles, Centre d'Etudes Critiques The Diva on Display |
| K9
Polo F |
Exploiting the Media Archive: The
Logic of Repetition
Chair: Derek Kompare, University of Wisconsin - Madison Tim Anderson, University of Arizona Reproduce, Repackage, and Repeat!: The Logic of Media Catalogues from the Perspective of the Music Industry Derek Kompare, University of Wisconsin - Madison Expanding Canons: Digital Cable and the New Video Archive Kirsten Pullen, University of Wisconsin - Madison Media Archives and Economies of Repetition Brian Taves, Library of Congress Re-writing the Father: The Novels and Rediscovered Films of Michel (Jules) Verne |
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Regency D |
Plotting the Popular: Histories of
Popular Cinema in Germany
Chairs: Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan; Temby Caprio, University of Chicago Temby Caprio, University of Chicago Postfeminism, Star Culture, and Post-Wall German Cinema: Katja Riemann Stephen Lowry, HBK Braunschweig Cheering up the Third Reich: Popular Film Comedy and Nazi Cinema Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan Young German Cinema Goes Pop: Rudolf Thome's Rote Sonne David B. Pratt, Emory University 'With the Force of a Tidal Wave': Joe May and German Serial Film in America |
| 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Gallery A |
Publishing Workshop |