Scms Atlanta 2016 Conference Program Preliminary Draft
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1 SCMS ATLANTA 2016 CONFERENCE PROGRAM PRELIMINARY DRAFT Please review the preliminary draft of the 2016 Atlanta Conference Program and send your minor corrections or changes (affiliation, order of presentations, formatting issues or spelling corrections) to [email protected] by Friday, January 15, 2016 at 5PM CT. To look up author names select the Find button on the tool bar and enter the author's name in the upper left corner of the search box and return. You can also use Ctrl + F to locate the author's name. NOTE: SCMS cannot accommodate requests for changes to the scheduled day or time of any panel or workshop. Corrections will not be made to the preliminary draft. Corrections will be included in the final printed program that will be available at the conference. Open call panel chair assignments are not final. Due to possible changes in room assignments, room numbers will only be included in the final program. REGISTRATION Conference presenters who have not become members and paid the conference registration fee by Friday, February 5, 2016 at 5PM CT will be deleted from the final printed program. To register: https://cmstudies.site-ym.com/?page=conf_registration CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY All cancellation notifications and requests for conference registration refunds must be submitted online by Monday, February 29, 2016 at 5PM CT. No cancellations by phone or email. Conference registration refunds will be processed at 80% of the amount paid. http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=conf_cancellation (Use this link if you haven't paid the registration fee) https://cmstudies.site-ym.com/?registration_refund (Use this link if you have paid the registration fee) SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AT A GLANCE Wednesday, March 30, 2016 10:00AM-11:45 AM Session A 12:00PM-01:45 PM Session B 02:00PM-03:45 PM Session C 04:00PM-05:45 PM Session D 06:00PM-07:45 PM Session E Thursday, March 31, 2016 09:00AM-10:45 AM Session F 11:00AM-12:45 PM Session G 01:00PM-02:45 PM Session H 03:00PM-04:45 PM Session I 05:00PM-06:45 PM Session J Friday, April 1, 2016 09:00AM-10:45 AM Session K 12:15PM-02:00 PM Session L 02:15PM-04:00 PM Session M Saturday, April 2, 2016 09:00AM-10:45 AM Session N 11:00AM-12:45 PM Session O 01:00PM-02:45 PM Session P 03:00PM-04:45 PM Session Q 05:00PM-06:45 PM Session R 2 Sunday, April 3, 2016 09:00AM-10:45 AM Session S 11:00AM-12:45 PM Session T 01:00PM-02:45 PM Session U PROGRAM SESSIONS Wednesday, March 30, 2016 10:00AM-11:45AM (Session A) A1: Technologies of Time and Space: Journeys and Durations in Experimental Cinema Chair: Andrew Vielkind (Yale University) James Hansen (Ohio State University), "24-Hour Temporality: Omer Fast, Christian Marclay, and the Consequences of Playback" Andrew Vielkind (Yale University), "Ernie Gehr’s "Side/Walk/Shuttle": Panorama of an Invisible City" Michael Walsh (University of Hartford), "Minimal and Multiple: Durational Cinema as Gallery Art" Tyler Theus (Brown University), "Struggle at the Boundaries of the Nomos: The Politics of Territory and Landscape in Mortu Nega" A2: A Golden Age of Podcasting?, Part I: The Politics, Pleasures, and Production of Narrative Nonfiction Podcasts Chair: Alexander Russo (Catholic University of America) Jason Loviglio (University of Maryland), "Serial and Freddie Gray: Baltimore in Neoliberal Times" Alexander Russo (Catholic University of America), "“Shenanigans Not Stakes”: The Institutional and Cultural Production of The Mystery Show’s ‘Twee’ Affect or, The World that This American Life Wrought" Chenjerai Kumanyika (Clemson University), "Media Diversity and the Hidden Structures of Narrative Nonfiction Radio and Podcast Production" Andrew Bottomley (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Radio from the Bottom Up: Storytelling Podcasts and the Politics of Everyday Life" A3: Where is Media Theory Today? Chair: Scott Richmond (Wayne State University) Workshop Participants: Stephanie Boluk (University of California, Davis) Kris Cohen (Reed College) Anna Fisher (Cornell University) James Hodge (Northwestern University) Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago) A4: Positioning Race: Intersectional and Transnational Studies of US Film and Television Chair: Daniel Langford (University of California, Los Angeles) Philana Payton (University of Southern California), "Drip, Drop, Drip Drippity Drop…: Empire’s Selling of Black Queerness through the Commodification of Hip Hop" Sylvia Chong (University of Virginia), "Playing Kim Jong Un: Randall Park, Margaret Cho, and the Quandary of Yellow Yellowface Minstrelsy" Daniel Langford (University of California, Los Angeles), "“Sink the Boat”: Countercultural Humor and the Profane Black Image in "Putney Swope"" Franklin Cason (North Carolina State University), "On Purpose and Positions: At the Risk of Theorizing African American Cinema as Transnational" A5: Sick Celebrity: Making Sense of Fame, Mental Illness, Suicide, and Infertility Chair: Spring-Serenity Duvall (Salem College) Hilde Van den Bulck (University of Antwerp), "Celebrity Gossip Media and Audiences Framing Celebrity Suicide: Illness, Personal Responsibility and the Moral High Ground" Jessica Birthisel (Bridgewater State University), "'This whole SPN FAM loves you like crazy': Celebrity, fandom and social media as a vehicle for creating mental illness awareness and support" Brooke Edge (University of Colorado, Boulder), "'She’s Totally One of Us': Affiliating With and Lashing Out at Pregnant Celebrities on TheBump.com" Rosemary Pennington (Miami University), "‘Nail them while they’re vulnerable’ – Addiction, depression, stigma and the story of Robin Williams’s suicide" 3 A6: Re-reading the Boundaries of Art and Commercial Film Chair: William Evans (University of Alabama) Michael Laramee (Lasell College), "Unthinking Industry Conventions: Reflexivity and Media Jujitsu in "Osuofia in London"" Larrie Dudenhoeffer (Kennesaw State University), "Skin Graph(ic)s: CG Transracialization in Josh Trank’s "Fantastic Four"" William Evans (University of Alabama), "Perception in narrative and lyrical-associative film experiences: A content analysis of mainstream and art films" A7: Digital Mediations in Large and Small Screens Chair: Mi Young Park (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Sophie Christman Lavin (SUNY, University at Stony Brook), "Is the Gaze Human?" Mi Young Park (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), "A Man with a Mobile Screen: Old Palace in Hand App and Narcissism" Janina Schupp (University of Cambridge), "Creating War: The Hybridization of Cinema, Media and Video Game Technologies in Military Training" Brian Keilen (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Tying it Together: LittleBigPlanet, Modes, and Video Game Textuality" A8: Reenactment, Revival, and Other Historical Turns Chair: Lisa Jacobson (University of California, Berkeley) Lisa Jacobson (University of California, Berkeley), "From Nazi to Stasi: The Return of History as Television" Raz Yosef (Tel Aviv University), "Ghostly Witnesses: The Ethics of Documentary Reenactment in Current Israeli Cinema" Evangelos Tziallas (Concordia University), "The Spectacle of the Scaffold Returns: Retro AIDS Cinema and Pornopticism" A9: Masculinities Chair: Beatrice Flamenbaum (University of Tennessee) Joshua Vasquez (Indiana University), "Melancholy Men, Elegiac Battlefields: Representations of The Veteran in American Film as a Cultural Context for the Disquieted Masculine" Emily Satterwhite (Virginia Tech), "Backwoods Slashers and the Politics of White Masculinity" Anna Creadick (Hobart and William Smith College), "CANCELLED--Banjo Boy: Disability, Masculinity, and Difference in "Deliverance"" Beatrice Flamenbaum (University of Tennessee), "Harvey Keitel in “The Piano” (1993) and “Smoke” (1995): Foregrounding the Tender Tough Guy Role in the 1990s" A10: Anticipation and Adaptation: Film and Television as Evolution Chair: Itay Harlap (Tel Aviv University) Gilad Padva (Ben Gurion University), "Anticipating the Big Brother: Existential Reality, Mocked Stardom and Interrogated Wannabes in Hole in the Moon" Arturo Serrano (Universidad de las artes), "Toward a Definition of “Bajo Tierra” Cinema" Katheen McClancy (Texas State University-San Marcos), "Mutating History: Nostalgia, Retroactive Continuity, and 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'" Itay Harlap (Tel Aviv University), "It's not TV, it's Be-Tipul: Discussing the Discourse of Quality in the Israeli Version of “In Treatment."" A11: Difference and the Early Career Scholar: Strategies for Success Chair: Andrew Owens (Boston College) Workshop Participants: Shelleen Greene (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Vicki Callahan (University of Southern California) Laura Isabel Serna (University of Southern California) A12: Transnational Media Flow Chair: Gillian Helfield (York University) Lin Feng (University of Hull), "Hear the Unseen: Shanghai Dialect and Taiwan Cinema" Jeff Porter (University of Iowa), "The Many Lives of Harry Lime: Some Dynamics of Migratory Narratives" Geoff Lealand (University of Waikato), "We're going to be sent to Hollywood: Shirley Temple 'double' competitions in 1930s New Zealand." Gillian Helfield (York University), "The Wandering Dead: Zombies and the New American Diaspora" 4 A13: Sexualized Spaces: Encounters and Exchanges Chair: Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University) Daniel Laurin (University of Toronto), ""Is This Your First Time?": Pleasure, Desire, and Confession in Straight-Guy Porn" Ryan Powell (Indiana University), "Action-Icon: The Eroto-politics of the Trucker in 70s Gay Cinema" Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University), "Therapy, Cinema, and the Sexual Block"