Conference Schedule
Saturday, February 21, 2004
10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Film Theories, Film Practices
Room 656
Richard Allen, Moderator
Andrew D'Aurora. The Formalism of Eisenstein and Deren.
Glenn Osten Anderson. A Problem of Totality: Questioning Fredric Jameson's Approach to Cinema.
Jason Coyle. blank pages, canvases, and screens: allegories of obsolescence.
Elizabeth Stoll. Problems with Global Theories of Cinematic Interpretation.
Auteurs: Motifs and Personalities
Room 651
Rahul Hamid, Moderator
Adam Burnett. The Coen Brothers and the Existential Motifs of Film Noir.
Kevin Curtis. The Future is Now: Postmodernisn and the Coen Brothers.
Brendan Heldenfels. Being Jerry Bruckheimer: The Last Producer-Auteur.
Michael Rowin. Spectacle and Performance in the Films of Federico Fellini.
11:30 AM – 1:15 PM
Issues in Stardom: Past and Present
Room 656
Doug Dibbern, Moderator
Sarah E. Deem. Hero of the Twenty-First Century: Nell Shipman's Talking Heart and a Journey Back to God's Country.
Dana Gravesen. Lipstick on his Collar: Tim Curry's Stardom in the Wake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Kim Reyes. The Invisible Mr. Oldman: Gary Oldman's Star Persona Through Transparent Performance and Self-Parody.
Karina Longworth. De-queering Female Excess.
Graig Uhlin. Smooth Criminal: Michael Jackson's Mug Shot.
War, Spectacle, and Simulacra
Room 656
Robert Stam, Moderator
Kate Bernstein. War as Theatre: Time and Space in Emir Kusturica's Underground.
Rob Cavanaugh. Simulation and Melodrama: The Logic of the War on Terror.
Katherine T. Model. Hitler Gives the Jews a Town: Performance, Nazism and A Visitor From the Living.
Vicente Rodr’guez-Ortega. Fight Club: A problematic Ground Zero...or the Revenge of the one-frame Cock.
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
Lunch Break
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
Author and Society in Contemporary US Film
Room 656
Vicente Rodr’guez-Ortega, Moderator
Jordan Foster. God's Lonely and Violent Men: A Comparative Analysis of Martin Scorsese's Travis Bickle and Max Cady.
Matt Hauske. Writing in Film: Mise-en-sc?ne and the Novel in The Royal Tenenbaums.
Jimmy Long. Yuppie as Psychopathic Killer.
Brendan Lynch. Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!
Silent Cinema: Other Cinema, New Histories
Room 651
Antonia Lant, Moderator
Irene Garcia. Mimi Derba: The First Female Filmmaker in Mexico.
Torey Liepa. Representations of Vernacular Speech in Silent Film Intertitles.
Sudhir Mahadevan. The Traffic in Technologies: Revising the Contexts for a History of Silent Cinema in India.
Christina Petersen. "Reol" Race Rivals: Robert Levy and Oscar Micheaux.
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM
Transnationalism in Asian Cinema
Room 656
Ragan Rhyne, Moderator
Joseph Graham. Dragon Ex-Boyfriend: Spirited Away and the Lost History of Japan.
Joshua Rothenberger. Ambivalence, Subversion, Transformation: Chinese Independent Film Production in the Age of Global Capitalism.
Fiona Siang Yun Sze. Being Nouveau and Intercultural: Kurusawa as a Hybrid.
Nicolas Roeg: The Man Who Fell to Earth
Room 651
Michael Bowen, Moderator
Chris Bonet. Comparative Montage in Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout.
Antoinette Bueno. Mise-en-sc?ne and Meaning: Rending the Veil of Civilization on Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout.
David Reilly. The Madness of Clairvoyance: Flashback and Flashforward in Don't Look Now!
Frank Rinaldi. The Audible Jumpcut: Some Sound Motifs in The Man Who Fell to Earth.
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Culture and Media on Display
Room 656
Lilith Dorsey. Bodies of Water: Voodoo Identity and Transformation. Preview. (2004, 6 min).
A personal exploration into the mysterious world of Voodoo. Paramount in the Voodoo tradition is a connection to the water as a site of spiritual healing and growth. In this film people are represented as connected to this elemental power constantly changing and adapting like the waterways they mimic providing guidance, direction, and nourishment.
Cristina Ester‡s Ortiz. Inside Tats Cru Inc. Preview. (2004, 5 min).
They began painting New York subway trains in the eighties when they were young teenage boys. Today, they own and successfully run the only mural and graphic art design company in New York. Inside Tats Cru Inc. is the story of a group off graffiti artists who have contributed to the legitmization, commercialization, and globalization of aeresol spray art.
Brooke Nixon. Under Surveillance. (2003, 20 min).A chronicle of the activities of the Surveillance Camera Players, a New York-based group that protests public surveillance. Through their activism, the film explores the complex and ambivalent roles of visuality and visual culture in a contemporary urban setting.
Lauren Shweder. Abraham's Daughter: A Bat Mitzvah Story. (2003, 20 min).Following one family as they prepare for their daughter's upcoming Bat Mitzvah, Abraham's Daughters explores the multiple dimensions of this coming of age ceremony as it is practiced within the Reform movement in contemporary New York City.