FILM STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
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ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE D’ÉTUDES CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUES
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Colloque annuel / Annual Conference
Congrès des sciences humaines Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Congress Theme Connected Understanding / Le savoir branché
June 1 – 4 juin 2010 Université Concordia University Montréal, Québec
Executive 2009-10
President Marc Furstenau (Carleton University)
Vice-President David Douglas (Concordia University)
Secretary Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia)
Treasurer Liz Czach (University of Alberta)
Members-at-Large Paul Moore (Ryerson University) Zuzana Pick (Carleton University) Aaron Taylor (University of Lethbridge) Shana McGuire (Dalhousie University)
Graduate Student Representative Aimée Mitchell (York University)
FSAC 2010
Organiser: Marc Furstenau
Local Organiser: David Douglas (Concordia University)
Special Thanks: Prof. Martin Lefebvre (Concordia University) and ARTHEMIS – www.arthemis-cinema.ca/
Webmasters: Michael Baker and Adam Rosadiuk * * * * * * All abstracts of presentations are posted at www.filmstudies.ca
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HIGHLIGHTS AND SPECIAL EVENTS
TUESDAY JUNE 1
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Meeting Place / Rendez-vous Hurley’s Pub (2nd fl.), 1225 Crescent (between St. Catherine and René Levesque) Join us if you’d like to meet fellow FSAC members before things get underway.
* * * Special Congress Event 7:30 p.m. Congress Film Festival: Montreal on Screen Location: de Sève Cinema, LB Building Curated by Concordia Research Chair: Professor Thomas Waugh Montreal Main (Frank Vitale, 1974, 88 min.) Fannie dans le temps (Miriam Ginestier, 2005, 10 min.) Comédie (Nelson Henricks, 1994, 7 min.)
WEDNESDAY JUNE 2
9:00 – 10:45 a.m. Annual Gerald Pratley Graduate Student Award Lecture Bruno Cornellier Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal “The Burden of Education: Pedagogies of Difference and the Indian Thing at the National Film Board of Canada” Location: EV 1-605
* * * 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Atelier / Workshop: Le rôle et la place de l’ACÉC au Québec / The role and place of FSAC in Quebec Location: EV 11-119
* * * 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. FSAC-CCA Reception Location: Gray Nuns Garden (GN)
* * * Special Congress Event 7:00 pm Understanding the Image Mill™ Location: D.B. Clarke Theatre, Hall Bldg.
THURSDAY JUNE 3
12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Professional Development Workshop: Grant Writing Convener: Haidee Wasson (Concordia University) Location: MB S2-115
* * * 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. PLENARY ROUNDTABLE Canadian 3-D: The Future, Then And Now Convener and Chair: Seth Feldman (York University) Participants: Steve Low – Independent Filmmaker Roman Kroitor – Independent Filmmaker Graeme Ferguson – Independent Filmmaker, IMAX Munro Ferguson – National Film Board of Canada Location: MB S2-210
* * * 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Reception and Annual FSAC Book Launch Location: EV 11-725
* * * Special Congress Event 7:30 p.m. Congress Film Festival: Montreal on Screen Curated by Concordia Research Chair: Professor Thomas Waugh Rhapsody in Two languages (Gordon Sparling, 1934, 10 min.) The Devil’s Toy (Claude Jutra, 1966, 15 min.) Le confort et l’indifférence (Denys Arcand, 1991, 89 min.) Location: de Sève Cinema, LB Building
FRIDAY JUNE 4
8:30 – 10:45 a.m. FSAC Annual General Meeting Location: MB 3-270
* * * 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. The History of Canadian Moving Image Ephemera Screening: Pizza and Movies Location: MB S2-455
* * * 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. 2nd Annual Scholars’ Screening Series Convener: Anthony Cristiano (Ryerson University) Location: MB S2-455
* * * 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Location: MB 3-270 Roundtable: History of Canadian Film Studies FSAC / ARTHEMIS Joint Event Organised and Moderated by: Mike Zryd (York University) and Haidee Wasson (Concordia University) Participants: Kay Armatage (University of Toronto) Maurice Yacowar (University of Calgary) Peter Morris (York University) André Gaudreault (Université de Montréal) John Locke (Concordia University) Location: MB 3-270
* * * 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Annual Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture FSAC / ARTHEMIS Joint Event
Prof. André Gaudreault Université de Montréal
Home cinema et agora-télé: deux oxymores de notre modernité médiatique (with simultaneous translation) Location: MB 1-210
* * * 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. FSAC 2010 Closing Reception Location: EV 11-725
Main FSAC events held in: EV, MB and GN
EV and MB buildings connected via underground tunnel, with access also to Montreal Metro station Guy-Concordia (Green Line)
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
Tues. June 1 Wed. June 2 Thurs. June 3 Fri. June 4
9:30-10:45 9:00-10:30 8:30-10:45 Bruno Cornellier Session B1 FSAC Annual General Annual Gerald Pratley Panels B1.1-B1.5 Meeting Lecture Location: MB 3-270 Location: EV 1-605
Break Break Break
11:00-12:30 10:45-12:15 11:00-12:30 Session A1 Session B2 Session C1 Panels A1.1-A1.5 Panels B2.1-B2.5 Panels C1.1-C1.5
12:30-1:30 12:15-1:30 12:30-1:30 Atelier/Workshop Student Workshop Screening (+Pizza) FSAC in Quebec Grant Writing Canadian Moving ACÉC au Québec Location: MB S2-115 Image Ephemera Location: EV 11-119 Location:MB S2-455
1:30-3:00 1:30-3:00 1:30-3:00 Session A2 Session B3 Session C2 Panels A2.1-A2.5 Panels B3.1-B3.5 Panels C2.1-C2.5
Break Break Break
3:30-5:00 3:30-5:00 3:30-5:00 Session A3 Session B4 Session C3 Panels A3.1-A3.5 Panels B4.1-B4.5 Panels C3.1-C3.4
5:00-7:00 5:30-7:30 5:30-7:00 6:00-7:30 Rendez-vous FSAC/CCA Reception Plenary Roundtable André Gaudreault Meeting Place Gray Nuns Garden NFB 3-D Annual Martin Walsh Hurley’s Pub (GN) Location: MB S2-210 Lecture 1225 Crescent Location: MB 1-210
7:00 Congress Event 7:00-9:00 7:30-9:00 Understanding the FSAC Book Launch Closing Reception Image Mill™ and Reception Location: EV 11-725 D.B. Clarke Theatre, Location: EV 11-725 Hall Bldg.
7:30 7:30 Congress Event Congress Event “Montreal on Screen” “Montreal on Screen” De Sève Cinema De Sève Cinema LB Building LB Building
EVENT AND PANEL LOCATOR
WEDNESDAY June 2 THURSDAY June 3 FRIDAY June 4 9:00-9:30 9:00-10:30 8:30-10:45 Breakfast Buffet B1.1 MB 3-430 Breakfast Buffet 9:30-10:45 B1.2 MB 3-435 FSAC AGM Pratley Lecture B1.3 MB S2-455 MB 3-270 EV 1-605 B1.4 MB S2-401 B1.5 MB 3-270
11:00-12:30 10:45-12:15 11:00-12:30 A1.1 EV 1-605 B2.1 MB S2-455 C1.1 MB 3-430 A1.2 EV 2-184 B2.2 MB 3-270 C1.2 MB S2-455 A1.3 EV 6-809 B2.3 MB 3-435 C1.3 MB S2-401 A1.4 EV 6-735 B2.4 MB 3-430 C1.4 MB 3-270 A1.5 EV 2-776 B2.5 MB S2-401 C1.5 MB 3-435
12:30-1:30 12:15-1:30 12:30-1:30 Atelier/Workshop Professional Ephemera Screeening ACÉC au Québec Development Workshop MB S2-455 EV 11-119 MB S2-115 1:30-3:00 1:30-3:00 1:30-3:00 A2.1 EV 6-809 B3.1 MB 3-270 C2.1 MB 3-435 A2.2 EV 1-605 B3.2 MB 3-435 C2.2 MB 3-430 A2.3 EV 2-776 B3.3 MB S2-401 C2.3 MB S2-401 A2.4 EV 6-735 B3.4 MB S2-455 C2.4 MB S2-455 A2.5 EV 2-184 B3.5 MB 3-430 C2.5 MB 3-270
3:30-5:00 3:30-5:00 3:30-5:00 A3.1 EV 2-184 B4.1 MB 3-435 C3.1 MB 3-430 A3.2 EV 6-735 B4.2 MB 3-270 C3.2 MB S2-455 A3.3 EV 2-776 B4.3 MB 3-430 C3.3 MB S2-401 A3.4 EV 6-809 B4.4 MB S2-455 C3.4 MB 3-435 A3.5 EV 1-605 B4.5 MB S2-401
5:30-7:00 5:30-7:00 6:00-7:30 FSAC/CCA Reception Roundtable Martin Walsh Lecture Gray Nuns Garden NFB 3-D André Gaudreault (GN) MB S2-210 MB 1-210 7:00-9:00 7:30-9:00 Reception and Book Closing Reception Launch EV 11-725 EV 11-725
TUESDAY JUNE 1
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Meeting Place / Rendez-vous – 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Hurley’s Pub 1225 Crescent – 2nd Floor (between St. Catherine and René Levesque)
Join us if you’d like to meet fellow FSAC members before things get underway.
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Special Congress Event
Congress Film Festival: Montreal on Screen 7:30 p.m. de Sève Cinema, LB Building
Curated by Concordia Research Chair in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Professor Thomas Waugh with MA Film Studies student Marcin Wisniewski See concordia.ca/congress2010/onscreen.php for further info
Montreal Main (Frank Vitale, 1974, 88 min.) Fannie dans le temps (Miriam Ginestier, 2005, 10 min.) Comédie (Nelson Henricks, 1994, 7 min.)
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WEDNESDAY JUNE 2
Annual Gerald Pratley Graduate Student Award Lecture 9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast Buffet (Coffee, Tea, Juice, Fruit and Pastries)
9:30 – 10:45 Location: EV 1-605 Bruno Cornellier, PhD Candidate Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal
“The Burden of Education: Pedagogies of Difference and the Indian Thing at the National Film Board of Canada”
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 SESSION A1
A1.1: Location: EV 1-605 Poetics, Politics and Arab Cinema – Lebanon, Israel, Palestine Panel Convener and Chair: Tim Schwab (Concordia University)
Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University) Lebanese Media Arts of the Post-Postwar Period
Walid El Khachab (York University) Mapping National Skin: Rugs, Dresses and Palestine
Nasrin Himada (Concordia University) The Palestinian Cinema Archive
Tim Schwab (Concordia University) Palestinian Cinema – Inside/Outside
Wednesday June 2
A1.2: Location: EV 2-184 Film and Cultural Policy I Panel Convener and Chair: Brendan Kredell (Northwestern University)
Lee Parpart (York University) Cultural Policy and CanLit: Corus Entertainment, The W Network, and the Postfeminist Positioning of The Atwood Stories and The Shields Stories
Christian Poirier (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) The Film Industry and Movie Policies in Queebec: Politicval, Cultural and Economic Issues
Amanda Coles (McMaster University) Unintended Consequences: Examining the Impact of Tax Credit Programs on Work in the Canadian Independent Film and Television Production Sector
A1.3: Location: EV 6-809 Vampires! Chair: Troy Rhoades (Concordia University)
Shannon Brownlee (Dalhousie University) Pleasure Bites: Adaptation as Sadomasochism in Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Sara Swain (York University) Between the Two-Deaths: Vampires and the Lure of the Lacanian Real in the Twilight Franchise
Peter Lester (Concordia University) Cults, Coffins and Canons: The Fidelity of Adaptation and the Case of Jesús Franco’s Count Dracula
A1.4: Location: EV 6-735 Sound, Image, Technology Panel Convener: Kelly Egan (York/Ryerson Universities) Chair: Mike Zryd (York University)
Kelly Egan (York/Ryerson Universities) Visual Rhythm/Mechanical Speed: Early Avant-Garde Film, the Art of Noises and the Technology of Mechanical Reproduction
Randolph Jordan (Concordia University) Audiovisual Ecology in the Cinema
Wednesday June 2
Benjamin Wright (Carleton University) Sound from Start to Finish: Evaluating the Sound Chain of The Dark Knight
A1.5: Location: EV 2-776 Euro-America Chair: Liz Czach (University of Alberta)
Kate Rennebohm (Concordia University) Chantal Akerman’s Ethical Hollywood: A Study of Demain on déménage, Un divan à New York, and La captive
Andrew Lesk (University of Toronto) The End(s) of Irony: Sirk/Fassbinder/Haynes
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH
Atelier / Workshop: Le rôle et la place de l’ACÉC au Québec / The role and place of FSAC in Quebec EV 11-119 Modérateur: Martin Lefebvre (Film Studies, Concordia University)
Participants: André Gaudreault (Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal) Germain Lacasse (Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal) Janine Marchessault (Department of Film, York University) Catherine Russell (Film Studies, Concordia University) Jerry White (Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta)
1:30 – 3:00 SESSION A2
A2.1: Location: EV 6-809 Re-narrating Diaspora through Intermediality in Cinema Panel Conveners and Co-Chairs: Hudson Moura (Simon Fraser University) and Silvestra Mariniello (Université de Montréal)
Hudson Moura (Simon Fraser University) Exploring Subtitles as a Diegetic Speech-Act in Robert Guédiguian’s Le Voyage en Arménie Wednesday June 2
Virginie Mesana (University of Ottawa) From Literature to Cinema: The construction of Diasporic Experiences through Adaptation
Julio Costa (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS / Université de Montréal) and Julie Routhier (Collège Lionel-Groulx) Culture immatérielle dans la ville de Javé, Brésil Narration et oralité : pour une résistance dans la diaspora
A2.2: Location: EV 1-605 Documentary Politics Chair: Michael Baker (McGill University)
Thomas Waugh (Concordia University) Témoignage and Ventriloquism in pre-ART [anti-retroviral therapy] Canadian AIDS Video Documentary
Darrell Varga (NSCAD University) Political Documentary on the Margins: Fish or Cut Bait
Irene Rozsa (Concordia University) Documenting Transformation: Cuba in Early 1960s Documentaries
A2.3: Location: EV 2-776 Experimental Chair: David Douglas (Concordia University)
William C. Wees (McGill University) Making It Through: Sickness and Health in Su Friedrich’s The Odds of Recovery
Michael Zryd (York University) Frampton and Mallarmé: Navigating Boundaries of Image and Text
Jerry White (University of Alberta) Les racines canadiennes de Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, de William Greaves
A2.4: Location: EV 6-735 Film as Memory in Transnational Cinema Convener and Chair: Russell Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Don Moore (Wilfrid Laurier University and Guelph-Humber University) Terrorizing Film: Post-9/11 Cinema and the Politics of Memory Wednesday June 2
Katherine Quanz (Wilfrid Laurier University) Transnational Nostalgia in Wong Kar Wai's Hong Kong Trilogy
Stefan Sereda (Wilfrid Laurier University) Hyperreal Revolutionary: Che, Steven Soderbergh, and Transnational Memory in the Biopic
A2.5: Location: EV 2-184 Perception Chair: Scott Birdwise (York University)
Karen Forhan (Ryerson and York Universities) Along the Lines of Connectivity: Please Mind The Gap
Mireille Mai Truong (Ryerson University) Seeing and Seeing As in Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
Troy Rhoades (Concordia University) Below the Threshold of Perception: Paul Sharits and “Not-Seen” Colours
3:00-3:30 BREAK
3:30-5:00 SESSION A3
A3.1: Location: EV 2-184 Screening In/Visibility: Engendering Embodied Difference in Canadian Visual Culture Panel Convenors and Chairs: Susan Knabe and Katherine Lawless
Katherine Lawless (University of Western Ontario) In/visible Pathology, Imagined Woman: David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers
Wendy Gay Pearson (University of Western Ontario) Wilby Visible: Playing with Queer In/Visiblity
Susan Knabe (University of Western Ontario) Telling the Truth about Sex: Made in Secret:The Story of the East Van Porn Collective
Wednesday June 2
A3.2: Location: EV 6-735 Art Spaces Chair: William Wees (McGill University)
Sylvain Duguay (Université du Québec à Montréal) Film on Stage: Involving the Spectator, Inside Out
Eli Horwatt (York University) Perfect Films (and Videos): The Moving Image as Readymade
A3.3: Location: EV 2-776 Television Chair: Jerry White (University of Alberta)
Jennifer VanderBurgh (St. Mary’s University) TV on Film: Television as Anxiety and Videotape as Therapy in the Work of Toronto Filmmakers (1980-2000)
Andy Djaballah (Independent Scholar) Television, Discursive Practices, and Film Studies in the University
Scott Preston (York University) “Hate’s all tied up with love”: The Suburbs and the Problem of Evil in Durham County
A3.4: Location: EV 6-809 Techno-Bodies Chair: Philippa Gates (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Quintin Zachary Hewlett (York University) A Future in Which We Eat and Watch TV: Food and That Jump Cut in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Christian Roy (Université de Sherbrooke) Sea Change: A McLuhanian Reading of James Cameron’s The Abyss
Tamar Ditzian (University of Florida) Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Animal, and Becoming-Photograph in Ginger Snaps
Wednesday June 2
A3.5: Location: EV 1-605 Special Effects: Histories and Practices Panel Convener and Chair: Katharina Loew (University of Chicago)
Laura Lee (University of Chicago) Defining the Cinematic in 1920s Japan: Trick Photography and Classic Film Style
Katharina Loew (University of Chicago) Magic Mirrors: The Schüfftan-Process
Julie Turnock (University of California, Davis) The Problem of Classical Studio Rear Projection
Kristen Whissel (University of California, Berkeley) The Life and Death of Digital Creatures
5:30 – 7:30 FSAC-CCA Joint Reception Gray Nuns Garden (GN) – rain or shine
Catered Reception, with hot and cold hors d’oeuvres, cheese, fruit and a cash bar, in a beautiful garden setting (tent available for inclement weather)
Special Congress Event
Understanding the Image Mill™
7:00 pm D.B. Clarke Theatre, Hall Bldg. www.concordia.ca/congress2010/understanding-the-image-mill.php
Janine Marchessault (York University) Philippe Dubé (Université Laval) John Greyson (York University) Joseph-Yvon Thériault (Université du Québec à Montréal)
THURSDAY JUNE 3
9:00 – 10:30 SESSION B1
B1.1: Location: MB 3-430 Generic Encounters With Sound Panel Convener and Chair: Lisa Coulthard (University of British Columbia)
Jessica Hughes (University of British Columbia) The Sounds of the Vampire
Lisa Coulthard (University of British Columbia) ‘Get Your Motor Runnin’: Sound, Spectacle and the Car Chase in American Action Cinema
Christine Evans (The University of Kent) Her Neighbor’s Voice: Destababilizing Universality in James Cameron’s Avatar
Andrew deWaard (Independent Scholar) Mise-en-Scene, Sound, Cinema, Synergy, Samurai
B1.2: Location: MB 3-435 Cities Chair: David Douglas (Concordia University)
Anthony Kinik (University of New Brunswick) Montage, Metropolis, Memory: Luc Bourdon’s La Mémoire des anges
Papagena Robbins (Concordia University) My Winnipeg and The Memories of Angels: The Clash between Nostalgic Image and Dialectical Image in Two Recent Canadian City Hybrid- Documentaries
Charlie Lessard-Berger (Concordia University) The Windows of Our Cities: Architectural Projections and the Image Mill
B1.3 – Location: MB S2-455 Film and Cultural Policy II Panel Convener and Chair: Brendan Kredell (Northwestern University)
Mireille Mai Truong (Ryerson University) Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Funding Art-House Cinema in Canada
Thursday June 3
Brendan Kredell (Northwestern University) TO Live With Film: Film and Cultural Policy in Contemporary Toronto
B1.4: Location: MB S2-401 Early Cinemas: Silent and Sound Chair: Paul Moore (Ryerson University)
Philippe Gauthier (Université de Montréal/Université de Lausanne) and Santiago Hidalgo (Université de Montréal) An Historical Sketch of Animated Pictures: New Perspectives on Historical Discourses in Early Cinema
Katherine Spring (Wilfrid Laurier University) ‘To sustain illusion is all that is necessary’: Voice-Doubling in Early Sound Cinema
Elizabeth Clarke (Wilfrid Laurier University) ‘Unprecedented Sensation!’ and ‘Crowded Houses!’: The Wargraph and Popular Sentiment, 1898-1900
B1.5: Location: MB 3-270 Documenting Social Realities Chair: Christina Stojanova (University of Regina)
Peter Baxter (Queen’s University) Exclusion in Politics and On Screen
Jonah Corne (University of Manitoba) Occulted Orientations: Route 181 and Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Nathan Holmes (University of Chicago) In the Seams of Life-worlds: Alan J. Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy and the Urban Environment
10:30 – 10:45 BREAK
Thursday June 3
10:45 – 12:15 SESSION B2
B2.1: Location: MB S2-455 The Politics of Identity Chair: Susan Lord (Queen’s University)
Evren Ozselcuk (York University) Exploring European Multiculturalism through Fatih Akin’s Films
Mohsen Nasrin (Carleton University) Re-Distancing the Aftermath of the Revolution in Persepolis (2007)
Jacqueline Levitin (Simon Fraser University) Convolutions of Feminism, Politics and Ethnic Identity in Palestinian-Arab Israeli Filmmaker Ibtisam Salh Maraïana’s Lady Kul el-Arab
B2.2: Location: MB 3-270 The History of Canadian Moving Image Ephemera Part I: Panel on the History of Canadian Moving Image Ephemera Co-Convener and Chair: Zoë Druick (Simon Fraser University)
Liz Czach (University of Alberta) Where are the Home Movies? Home Movie Day and Regional Archive Collections
Paul Moore (Ryerson University) Richard A. Hardie, Canada's Earliest Orphaned Filmmaker
Gerda Cammaer (Ryerson University) A Peculiar Case of Canadian Ephemeral Cinema: Stray NFB Film Prints
Joseph Clark (Simon Fraser University) Rethinking History in the Newsreel Archive: Orphan Film as Dialectical Image
B2.3: Location: MB 3-435 Transnationalism and Cinema: New Methods and Approaches Panel Convener and Chair: Christopher Meir (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine)
Malini Guha (Carleton University) Fortress Paris: The Post-Imperial Cityscape in Haneke’s Code inconnu (2000) Thursday June 3
Rosanna Maule (Concordia University) Pedro Almodóvar, the Transnational Auteur Par Excellence
Christopher Meir (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine) Theorizing Co-Production
B2.4: Location: MB 3-430 Masculinity Chair: Lisa Coulthard (University of British Columbia)
William Beard (University of Alberta) Gran Torino: Eastwood as Fallen Saviour
Brent Strang (University of British Columbia) ‘That’s Just Hot Shit! You’re a Wild Man’: Frontier Masculinities in The Hurt Locker
Lisa Funnell (Wilfrid Laurier University) Asian-American Action Men of the Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema
B2.5: Location: MB S2-401 Classical Hollywood Revisited Chair: Aboubakar Sanogo (Carleton University)
Ara Osterweil (McGill University) Depression Darlings: Adolescent Attractions in Child Bride and The Wizard of Oz
Patrick Faubert (Wilfrid Laurier University) Crafting Spaces: the Use and Construction of Dialogue in Preston Sturges’s The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Barbara Bruce (Carleton University) and Cameron McFarlane (Nipissing University) “The Wind that Overturns the World”: Disaster and Its Aftermath in John Ford’s The Hurricane
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH
Thursday June 3
FSAC Executive Meeting 12:15 – 1:30 Location: MB 13-101
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Professional Development Workshop: Grant Writing 12:15 – 1:30 Location: MB S2-115 Convener: Haidee Wasson (Concordia University) Participants: Heather Macdougall (Concordia University, Interdisciplinary Humanities PHD) Kristina Huneault (Concordia Research Chair, Art History, Concordia)
This workshop, organised and moderated by Professor Wasson, will provide practical advice for graduate students, non- and pre-tenure faculty, and anyone else interested in learning more about the ins-and-outs of writing successful grant applications.
1:30 – 3:00 SESSION B3
B3.1: Location: MB 3-270 Twenty Years After the Polytechnique Massacre: Film, Video and Media Practice and the Politics of Memory Panel Conveners and Co-Chairs: Brenda Longfellow (York University) and Julianne Pidduck (Université de Montréal)
Julianne Pidduck (Université de Montréal) Camera-Witness: Audiovisual Dynamics of the Polytechnique Shootings
Brenda Longfellow (York University) The Politics of Memory and Memorialization: Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique
Maude Gauthier (Université de Montréal) La représentation des féminismes et de leurs apports à une mémoire nationale
Maureen Bradley (University of Victoria) Memento Mori: Polytechnique
Thursday June 3
B3.2: Location: MB 3-435 The Japanese Media Mix Panel Convener and Chair: Marc Steinberg (Concordia University)
Marc Steinberg (Concordia University) From Marketing to Anime to Film: Developing the Media Mix
Thomas Lamarre (McGill University) Only What Diverges Communicates: Three Syntheses of Media Mix
Heather Lee Mills (McGill University) Sound Worlds: Media Mix through Mutation
B3.3: Location: MB S2-401 Audiences Chair: Matthew Croombs (Carleton University)
Richard M. Pope (York University) Symbolic Ruins: Contemporary Independent Cinema and its Audiences
Donna de Ville (Concordia University) Love, Film, Wine and Revolution: The Role of the Cafe in Alternative Film Scenes
Thomas Dorey (York University) ‘Smart Film’ Revisits Its Childhood: The Promotion of Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox
B3.4: Location: MB S2-455 Global and Local Chair: Dominique Russell (University of British Columbia)
Ian Robinson (York University) Cinematic Border Spaces: Translocality and the Moving Image
Sharanpal K. Ruprai (York University) Global Spotlight: Child Stars from the Slums of India in the film Slumdog Millionaire
Florian Grandena (Université d’Ottawa) La Meurtrière : entrée dans le néo-libéralisme et sortie de l’humanité (Elle est des nôtres, Siegrid Alnoy, 2003) Thursday June 3
B3.5: MB 3-430 Dissonance: Cinema and the Media Convener and Chair: Yuriko Furuhata (McGill University)
Victor Fan (McGill University) An Ontological Aporia: A Cinematic New Wave that Began on Television(?)
Yuriko Furuhata (McGill University) Hijacking the Image: Repetition of Media Events in the Work of Wakamatsu Kôji
Tess Takahashi (York University) A Question of Identity: Technology, Difference, and the Subject
Alanna Thain (McGill University) Johan Grimonprez’s Unnatural Selection: Hitchcock v. Hitchcock
3:00 – 3:30 BREAK
3:30 – 5:00 SESSION B4
B4.1: Location: MB 3-435 Fallen Women Chair: Zoë Druick (Simon Fraser University)
Brian McIlroy (University of British Columbia) Fallen Women and Unnecessary Flags: BC Film Censorship 1914-1930
Cristian Melchiorre (University of Western Ontario) Lulu in Danger: The Aesthetics of Sexual Violence in the Films of Louise Brooks
Yuriy Zikratyy (Concordia University) The Worst Bette Davis Movie
Thursday June 3
B4.2: Location: MB 3-270 Mid-Century American Film Culture Chair: Marc Furstenau (Carleton University)
Paul Monticone (University of Texas – Austin) The Noir Western: Genre Theory and the Problem of the Anomalous Hybrid
Paul McEwan (Muhlenberg College) Becoming Film History: The Birth of a Nation and Postwar Film Culture
Gareth Hedges (Concordia University) Damn Citizens! Constructing an Urban South through Crime and Reform in 1950s American Cinema
B4.3: Location: MB 3-430 National Cinemas Chair: TBA
Dominique Russell (University of British Columbia) Noise as Music and Other New Argentine Cinema Experiments
Christina Stojanova (University of Regina) Moving Minimalism: The New Romanian Cinema
Temenuga Trifonova (York University) Pensiero Debole: What Is ‘Weak National Cinema’?
B4.4: Location: MB S2-455 Mind, Body, Experience Chair: Felan Parker (York University)
Matthew J. Raimondo (York University) [REC]ording Terror: Verité Aesthetics and Spectatorship in Contemporary Horror
Tina Benigno (York University) Imagination and Memory through the Advanced Lens of Amélie and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Adam Slight (Carleton University) Getting More Than Just Your Head in the Game
Thursday June 3
B4.5: Location: MB S2-401 Margins Chair: Joseph Clark (Simon Fraser University)
Philippa Gates (Wilfrid Laurier University) Detecting Assimilation: Chinese Identity as Model Minority in Classical Hollywood Film
Robert Read (McGill University) The Non-Emergence of Poverty Row: Double Features and the End of Independent Silent Cinema
Ellen Vincer (York University) Early Cinema and Freak Shows
PLENARY ROUNDTABLE 5:30 – 7:00 p.m., MB S2-210
Canadian 3-D: The Future, Then And Now Convener and Chair: Seth Feldman (York University)
Participants: Steve Low – Independent Filmmaker Roman Kroitor – Independent Filmmaker Graeme Ferguson – Independent Filmmaker, IMAX Munro Ferguson – National Film Board of Canada
7:00 – 9:00 Reception and Annual FSAC Book Launch (Location: EV 11-725) Catered Reception, with hot and cold hors d’oeuvres, cheese, fruit and a cash bar. Join us on the 11th floor terrace, for great views of the city.
Special Congress Event
Congress Film Festival: Montreal on Screen Curated by Concordia Research Chair in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Professor Thomas Waugh with MA Film Studies student Marcin Wisniewski See www.concordia.ca/congress2010/onscreen.php for more information 7:30 p.m., de Sève Cinema, LB Building Thursday June 3
Rhapsody in Two languages (Gordon Sparling, 1934, 10 min.) The Devil’s Toy (Claude Jutra, 1966, 15 min.) Le confort et l’indifférence (Denys Arcand, 1991, 89 min.)
FRIDAY JUNE 4
8:30 – 10:45 FSAC Annual General Meeting Breakfast buffet will be provided Location: MB 3-270
There will be limited funding to cover travel costs to attend the AGM. Travel funding will be awarded (in order of priority) to graduate students, sessional/unaffiliated faculty and then affiliated faculty. Request forms for travel funding only (no accommodation or conference fees) will be available at the AGM.
10:45 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 SESSION C1
C1.1: Location: MB 3-430 Time, Space, and Narrative Chair: Scott Preston (York University)
Caroline Bem (McGill University) From Writing Tablets to System Reboots: The Diptych in Contemporary Cinema
Caroline Verner (York University) Subtractive Storytelling: Interpreting Narrative Motivation in Sidney Calumet’s Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
Zorianna Zurba (Independent Scholar) The Sandy Surfaces and Rough Relationships in Woody Allen's Interiors (1978)
C1.2: Location: MB S2-455 Cultures of Consumption Chair: Thomas Dorey (York University)
Malcolm Morton (York University) Danny Boyle: Bard of Consumerism
Katrina Sark (McGill University) Fashion Documentaries: Locationality of Fashion, Film, and Cities
Friday June 4
David Richler (Carleton University) Considering the Criterion: Wong Kar-Wai and the Recontextualizing Function of DVDs
C1.3: Location: MB S2-401 The Cinematic Experience Chair: Anthony Kinik (University of New Brunswick)
Glen W. Norton (Brock University) Notes Toward a Theory of Cinematic Moments
Ryan Robert Mitchell (York University) Between the Saying and Said and the Seeing and Seen: Ethical Criticism of Film
Stacey DeWolfe (Concordia University) Points of Entry: Rethinking Cinema Spectatorship
C1.4: Location: MB 3-270 The History of Canadian Moving Image Ephemera Part II: Workshop on the History of Canadian Moving Image Ephemera
Co-Convener and Chair: Charles Acland (Concordia University)
Participants: Zoë Druick (Simon Fraser University) Louis Pelletier (Concordia University) Joanne Stober (National Archives) Blaine Allan (Queen’s University) Aboubakar Sanogo (Carleton University)
C1.5: Location: MB 3-435 John Greyson Chair: Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba)
Susan Lord (Queen’s University) The Fables of Empire: The Intimate Histories of John Greyson
Jennifer Huzera (Carleton University) The Queering of Space and Time in John Greyson’s Lilies
Friday June 4
Brendan Curran (Concordia University) Appropriating an Epidemic: Zero Patience (1993) and Rent’s (2005) Song & Dance About AIDS
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH
The History of Canadian Moving Image Ephemera Part III Canadian Moving Image Ephemera Screening: Pizza and Movies Location: MB S2-455
1:30 – 3:00 SESSION C2
C2.1: Location: MB 3-435 Acting Chair: Donna de Ville (Concordia University)
Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba) Acting Matters: Noting Performance in Three Films
Paul Babiak (University of Toronto) The Art of Invisibility: Canadian Performers as Media Presences of the 1950s and 1960s
Jacquelyn Cain (York University) David Cronenberg’s Camera and the Actor’s Presence: Ontology, Indexicality and the Digital Image of Time
C2.2: Location: MB 3-430 Do It Yourself Chair: TBA
Matthew Ogonoski (Concordia University) DIY Meaning: Sweding and the Art of Imitation
Evangelos Tziallas (Concordia University) Studying Pornography in the Digital Era: XTube, Amateur Sex, Self- Surveillance and the Archive Friday June 4
Felan Parker (York University) Simulating Genre in Uplink: Hacker Elite: The Hacker Sub-Genre Between Cinema and Digital Games
C2.3: Location: MB S2-401 An Education Chair: TBA
Salah Hassanpour (York University) ‘Flying in a Pocket of Silence’: Pedagogy in British Cinema and Marxist Theory of the 1960s
Tyson Stewart (York University) Vocation with Vacation: Anti-Intellectualism in American Observational Comedies of the 2000s
Alexander Carson (Concordia University) Post-Secular Cinema: The Religious Imagination in Viewer-Response Studies of Breaking the Waves
C2.4: Location: MB S2-455 2nd Annual Scholars’ Screening Series Convener: Anthony Cristiano (Ryerson University)
Anthony Cristiano (Ryerson University) Author/Filmmaker/Scholar: What is His/Her Role and What Contributions Does He/She Make? Film: A Minute Life with a Movie Camera (A. Christiano, 2009, HD/DV, 13 mins.)
Charlie Egleston (University of Western Ontario) The Consequence of Being Here Film: The Consequence of Being Here, Part III, ‘Birthmarks’ (Charlie Egleston, 2008, 16mm, 5 mins.)
Randolph Jordon (Concordia University) Integrating Research, Creation and Family Film: Keelia Takes Manhattan (Randolph Jordan, 2010, Super 8, trans. to DV, 14 mins.)
Friday June 4
C2.5: Location: MB 3-270 Roundtable: History of Canadian Film Studies FSAC / ARTHEMIS Joint Event Organised and Moderated by: Mike Zryd (York University) and Haidee Wasson (Concordia University)
Participants: Kay Armatage (University of Toronto) Maurice Yacowar (University of Calgary) Peter Morris (York University) André Gaudreault (Université de Montréal) John Locke (Concordia University)
3:00-3:30 BREAK
3:30 – 5:00 SESSION C3
C3.1: Location: MB 3-430 Rockumentary / Shockumentary / Documentary Chair: Gerda Cammaer (Ryerson University)
Michael Baker (McGill University) The Investigative and the Impressionistic: Two Photographic Tendencies in Rockumentary Cinema
Scott Birdwise (Carleton University / Canadian Film Institute) Eye Cont(r)act: The Prosthetic Imagination of the Documentary
Marcin Wisniewski (Concordia University) Nationalism, Film and Paul Cowan's The Kid Who Couldn't Miss
C3.2: Location: MB S2-455 Structures of Desire Chair: Matthew Croombs (Carleton University)
Robert Gray (University of New Brunswick) Amorous Delays: Cyborg Women, Writing, and Traveling Trains of Longing in Wong Kar Wai’s 2046
Friday June 4
Julien Lapointe (Concordia University) ‘Cutting Right Through’: Desire, Language and Truth in Jane Campion’s In the Cut
Lauren Davine (University of Toronto) ‘Queering’ the Family Tree: “Queer Families” and the Problem of Heteronormativity in A Taste of Honey and Victim
C3.3: Location: MB S2-401 Contemporary Cinema and Technology Chair: Peter Lester (Concordia University)
W. Anselmi and S. Wilson (University of Alberta) Nine! Oh, Surrogate of the God-like: Of the Epistemological Divide, Organic and Technological
Ray op’tLand (University of Calgary) Visions of Chrome: Tracing Future Technologies in Current Cinema
Dru H. Jeffries (Concordia University) Two (Clown) Princes: Theatricality vs. Verisimilitude in the Superhero Film
C3.4: Location: MB 3-435 Political Modernisms in Europe Chair: Katherine Spring (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Scott MacKenzie (University of Toronto) ‘The Cinema, too, Must be Destroyed’: Guy Debord, Documentary, détournement and the Cinematic dérive
Katarina Mihailović (Concordia University) Between Art Cinema and Avant-Garde Film Practice: The ‘Political Modernisms’ of Makavejev, Pasolini and Godard
Friday June 4
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Annual Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture – FSAC / ARTHEMIS Joint Event Location: MB 1-210
Prof. André Gaudreault Université de Montréal
Home cinema et agora-télé: deux oxymores de notre modernité médiatique (with simultaneous translation)
Co-fondateur en 1997 du Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité (dont il a été le directeur jusqu'en 2005), André Gaudreault est professeur titulaire en études cinématographiques au Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques de l'Université de Montréal. Il y dirige le Groupe de recherche sur l’avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique (GRAFICS) ainsi que la revue Cinémas. Il a notamment publié un ouvrage de narratologie filmique (From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema, UofT Press) et un livre sur l’historiographie du cinéma (Cinéma et attraction. Pour une nouvelle histoire du cinématographe, CNRS Éditions). André Gaudreault mène des recherches sur l'avènement du cinéma, en mettant l'accent sur le contexte ouvertement intermédial qui a prévalu au cours de l'époque ayant précédé l'institutionnalisation du cinéma, et s’intéresse depuis quelques années à la fracture numérique et à ses conséquences sur l’identité du cinéma comme média.
7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Closing Reception
Location: EV 11-725 Catered Reception, with hot and cold hors d’oeuvres, cheese, fruit and a cash bar
Join us for a farewell reception on the 11th floor terrace, with great views of the city
All FSAC Delegates are invited to attend the sessions of the ARTHEMIS Conference www.arthemis-cinema.ca/
CULTURAL MEDIATIONS
The Cultural Mediations Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary doctoral program housed in the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) at Carleton University. The program reflects theoretically informed approaches to art and culture that cross traditional disciplinary divides. The program is designed to advance knowledge and understanding of that body of cultural theory and those cultural practices that inform literary studies, cinema studies and work in music, art history and technology, along with the historical, intellectual and social frames of reference that this work invokes.
For information visit our web site: http://www.carleton.ca/icslac/
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