Tentative Schedule revised Sept 1, 2008
European Film Conference Monday-Wednesday, September 8-10, 2008.
“In kino veritas.”
Hosted by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249.
2 papers per 60 minute session with time for clips and discussion.
Registration: 8:00-12:00 M-T; 8:00-10:00 W. Buena Vista Building Lobby, UTSA Downtown campus.
Provided Daily for Registered Participants:
• 7:30-8:30 breakfast buffet in the Buena Vista Building. • Coffee and Tea available in Break room all morning. • 12:00-1:15 Box lunch M and W only. • Shuttle Service from the Radisson to the Rim (Palladium Theater).
Day ONE.
Monday, September 8, 2008.
8:30-9:30:
Session 1.1 Spain. Chair: Marta Montemayor. San Antonio College.
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1. María Elena Soliño. The University of Houston. “From Marcelino Pan y Vino to Pan's Labyrinth: Visions of Historical Trauma Through Children's Eyes." 2. Yvonne Gavela. University of Miami. “Collective Remembering through Fairy Tales and Historical Narratives: The Spirit of the Beehive and Pan’s Labyrinth.”
Session 1.2. Spain. Chair: Gunhild Chuber. UTSA.
1. Ben Arenger. Rutgers University. “Deaths Between the Monstrous and Sublime: Juan Antonio Bardem’s Muerte de un ciclista as Necrological Historiography.” 2. Rosa Tezanos-Pinto. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. “Belén Gopegui’s Social Perspectives in The Archimedes’ Principle.”
Session 1.3 Germany/Austria. Chair: Francisco Marcos- Marín. UTSA.
1. Priscilla Layne. University of California, Berkeley. “Zydeco, Transnational Encounters and Community in Schultze Gets the Blues.” 2. Christopher Wickham. UTSA. “Defining Austria: A Woman's Pale Blue Handwriting by Franz Werfel (1941) and Axel Corti (1984).”
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9:45-10:45:
Session 1.4 Europe. Chair: Christopher Wickham. UTSA.
1. Dora Fitzgerald. Incarnate Word University. “Transnationalism in European Cinema.” 2. Pierre Verdaguer. University of Maryland, College Park. “France and the American Cinematic Eye.”
Session 1.5 Spain. Chair: Jack Himelblau. UTSA.
1. Maureen Tobin Stanley. University of Minnesota-Duluth. “Spanish Reflections on the Holocaust: La niña de tus ojos.” 2. Kathryn G. McConnell. Point Loma Nazarene University. “David Trueba’s ‘Relato real’: Los soldados de Salamina.”
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Session 1.6 Italy. Chair: Molly Zaldívar. UTSA.
1. Siobhan S. Craig. University of Minnesota. “Rossellini and the Body of Film: From Fascism to Neorealism.” 2. Michael T. Ward. Trinity University. “Camaraderie and Disillusionment in Mediterraneo and C’eravamo tanto amati.”
11:00-12:00
Session 1.7 France. Chair: John Incledon. Albright College.
1. John Incledon. Albright College. “Heading for the Gates of Eden: A Lacanian Reading of Moshe Ezrahi’s Madame Rosa.” 2. Cristian Bratu. Baylor University. “Femmes dans le jardin : Éléments pour une nouvelle interprétation d’Inch’Allah dimanche.”
Session 1.8 Spain. Chair: Jack Himelblau. UTSA.
1. Beatriz Trigo. Gettysburg College. “Tendencies and Trends of the Fantastic in Contemporary Spanish Cinema.” 2. Marina Martín. St. John’s University. “Tracing Borges in Pan’s Labyrinth.”
Session 1.9 Germany. Chair: Francisco Marcos-Marín. UTSA.
1. Sabine Hake. University of Texas at Austin. “On the Place of the Transnational in German Film History.” 2. Thomas Sebastian. Trinity University. “On Brecht in von Donnersmark's Das Leben der Anderen.”
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12:15-1:00:
Session 1.10 Plenary. Buena Vista Theater.
Welcome and Introduction. Nancy J. Membrez. UTSA.
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Key-Note Speaker:
Dona Kercher. Assumption College. “Hitchcock and Spanish Film.”
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1:00 Break for Lunch. Box lunches at Subway.
Shuttle Bus from the Radisson to the Palladium at the Rim leaves at 1:45 and 5:45 p.m.
Afternoon and Evening:
The European Film Festival. Palladium.
WEAR YOUR BADGES!
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5:00-6:00:
1.11 Festival Discussion Panel. Palladium.
Host: Steven Kellman. UTSA.
Topic: “’Foreign’” Films: Subtitling, Dubbing, and Remakes.”
Guests:
Dona Kercher. Assumption College.
John Incledon. Albright College. Specialist in subtitling.
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European Film Festival Reception by invitation only (invitation in your packets). 6:30 p.m. at the Palladium (second floor).
Shuttle returns to the Radisson at 9:15 and 11:20.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008.
8:30-9:15:
Session 2.1 Plenary. Buena Vista Theater.
Introduction by Christopher Wickham. UTSA.
Key-Note Speaker:
Steven G. Kellman. UTSA. “The Role of Film Criticism in Film Culture in Europe and the United States.”
9:30-10:30:
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Session 2.2 France. Panel: “Comment le cinéma français/francophone transscende les frontières.” Chair: Maryse Fauvel. College of William and Mary.
1. Maryse Fauvel. College of William and Mary. ”Le cinéma français: un cinéma transnational.” 2. Cybelle McFadden Wilkens. UNC-Greensboro. “Transculturalisme franco-arabe dans Bedwin Hacker de Nadia El Fani.”
Session 2.3 Spain. Chair: Ana Arzoumanian. UTSA.
1. Marcelino Marcos. Lakeland Community College. “La ambiguedad como estrategia de construcción discursiva en Surcos de José Antonio Nieves Conde.” Canceled. 2. Antonio Pedrós Gascón, Colorado State University. “Calle Mayor, de Juan Antonio Bardem: represión política, represión sexual (una lectura filogay).” prescedence
Session 2.4 Germany. Chair: Christopher Wickham. UTSA.
1. Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey. SUNY-Binghamton. “The ‘Third Reich’ in Recent European Cinema.” 2. Richard Rundell. New Mexico State University. “Gruesome Fascination: The Enduring Appeal of Fritz Lang's 1931 M.”
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10:45-11:45:
Session 2.5 Italy. Chair: Carollyn Rudesill. California State University, Monterey Bay.
1. Albert Sbragia. University of Washington. “Fellini and the Auteurists.” 2. Fabrizio Cilento. University of Washington. “Pasolini on TV.”
Session 2.6 Spain. Chair: Grisel Acosta. UTSA.
1. Alla N. Fil. New York University. “Turismo en la comedia ibérica de los años sesenta y setenta en 7
España.” 2. Mary S. Vásquez. Davidson College. “Memory and Moral Debt in Antonio Hernández’s En la ciudad sin límites (2002).”
Session 2.7 Spain. Chair: MaryEllen García. UTSA.
1. Timothy Ashton. The Ohio State University. “The influence of Luis Buñuel on the films of Harmony Korine.” 2. Marcela Garcés. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. “Voices and Visions: The Madrid Movida in Recent Films.”
12:00-1:00:
Session 2.8 France. Chair: Joanne McKinnis. UTSA.
1. Toni A. Perrine. Grand Valley State University. “At The End of the World: Realism and Politics in the Romanian New Wave.” 2. Carole Martin. Texas State University. “A Classical Twist in Michael Haneke's Caché.”
Session 2.9 Spain. Chair: Grisel Acosta. UTSA.
1. Richard Reitsma. Gettysburg College. “Whoring for a Living: Caliban in Exile. An Exploration of Cubans in Spain in the Spanish Film Things I Left Behind in Havana.” 2. Tanya N. Weimer. Texas State University. “Undoing the Things I Left in Havana.”
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1:10 Break for Lunch. Pick up box lunches.
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Shuttle Bus from the Radisson to the Palladium at the Rim leaves at 2:00 and 5:45 p.m.
Afternoon and Evening:
The European Film Festival. Palladium Theater at the Rim.
WEAR YOUR BADGES!
5:00-6:00:
2.10 Festival Discussion Panel. Palladium.
Host: Christopher Wickham. UTSA.
Topic: “European Cinema/European Stereotypes in America.”
Pierre Verdaguer. University of Maryland, College Park.
Marita Nummikoski. UTSA.
Shuttle returns to the Radisson at 8:45 and 11:30 p.m.
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Day THREE.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008.
8:30-9:15:
Session 3.1 Plenary. Buena Vista Theater. Introduction by Nancy J. Membrez. UTSA.
Key-Note Speaker:
Cathleen Rountree. Scholar and Film Critic. “The Film Director as Present- Day Shaman.”
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9:30-10:30:
Session 3.2 Spain. Chair: Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz. UTSA.
1. Tom Deveny. McDaniel College. “Amenábar as Composer: Music in Mar adentro.” 2. Valeria Garrote. Rutgers University. “La movida: música, clase y amistad en ¿Qué hace una chica como tú? (Colomo, 1978) y Pepi, Luci y Bom y las chicas del montón (Almovodar, 1980).”
Session 3.3 Austria. Chair: Susanne Kimball. UTSA.
1. Laura A. Detre. Washington & Jefferson College. “The Construction of the Austro-Hungarian Soldier in the Films of István Szabó.” 2. Joseph W. Moser. Washington & Jefferson College. “The (Self)Righteous Austrian in Franz Antel’s Der Bockerer I.”
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1. Amol Gheewala. University of Miami. “From Godard's A bout de souffle to Soderbergh's Out of Sight: An Existential Evolution.” 2. Nina Ekstein. Trinity University. “Irony in Carrère’s La Moustache.”
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10:45-11:45:
Session 3.5 Spain. Chair: Gilberta Turner. UTSA.
1. Barbara Zecchi. University of Massachussetts. “El cuerpo ‘maduro’: la mujer invisible en el cine español.” 2. Nathalie Iñiguez. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. “Memory in Los lunes al sol and Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets.”
Session 3.6 Workshop in Film Studies.
1. Nancy J. Membrez. UTSA. “Teaching Film as Film: Toys and Training the Eye.”
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12:00 Farewell LUNCHEON at the Radisson!
Shuttle Bus from the Radisson to the Palladium at the Rim leaves at 2:15 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Afternoon and Evening:
The European Film Festival. Palladium.
WEAR YOUR BADGES!
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5:00-6:00:
3.7 Festival Discussion Panel. Palladium.
Host: Nancy J. Membrez.
Topic: “The Magic of Film.”
Guests:
Cathleen Rountree. Scholar and Film Critic.
Craig Rainey. Local film actor.
Shuttle returns to the Radisson at 7:15 and 11:45.
After the Conference, the Film Festival continues…
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Note: No transportation from the hotel to the Rim today.
5:00-6:00:
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4.1 Festival Discussion Panel. Palladium.
Host: Nancy J. Membrez.
Topic: “What Makes Foreign Films Foreign?
Guests:
Dora Fitzgerald. Incarnate Word University.
Ron Wojnar. Northwest Vista College. Former editor at Matchframe.
The European Film Festival 2008 is organized and presented by The European Film Festival Corporation. Co-sponsors are the Consulates of France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland as well as the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, the San Antonio Convention and Visitors’ Bureau and International Affairs Department. Co- organizers are Santikos Theatres and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
WEAR YOUR BADGES!
Problems: call organizer Nancy Membrez 210-838-2913; email: [email protected].
If you decide you want to explore downtown San Antonio in the afternoon, the trolley stops in front of the Radisson. We recommend the River Walk (especially the 45 minute River cruise from River Center), the Alamo, the Hemisfair Tower, The Spanish Governor’s Palace and La Villita (for shopping). The River Center Imax Theater features “The Price of Freedom” an hour film about the battle of the Alamo.
Within walking distance of the Radisson is El Mercado. The Mexican restaurant Mi Tierra is right next door to it and worth a look, if only for the décor.
The Spanish Missions are worth seeing but they are difficult to get to without a car. ---- At the Rim, there are restaurants with a variety of cuisines. In the Palladium itself, there’s a Greek restaurant, a bar (second floor), and a Starbuck’s.