Re-Reading: Homage, Adaptation, Interpretation Room 9204: 9:30-11am – Chair Jonathan Buchsbaum
* Marcelline Block, “‘Tchin Tchin a toi, mon ballon’: Le Ballon rouge (1956) revisted in Le voyage du ballon rouge (2007)”
* Ryan Donovan, “Art(ifice): Performance and Intertextuality in All About My Mother”
* Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, “ Torture in Le Petit Soldat: Rewriting La Question”
Mediating character and spectator Room 9204: 11:15-12:45 – Chair: Marc Dolan
* Abe Walker, “Video Games Killed the Movie Star: Meditations On The Impossibility of Contemporary Cinema”
* Donatella Galella, “‘Suit Up!’: Camping and Containing Neil Patrick Harris”
* Randall Edwards, “Aesthetics of the Painterly: The Life Aquatic”
Soundtrack and Music Room 9205: 11:15-12:45 – Chair: Amy Herzog
* Katherine Reed, “Musical Reinscription and Unlimited Semiosis in Velvet Goldmine (1998)”
* Krystal Grant, “‘A Felicidade’: Musical Genres and the Pursuit of Happiness in Black Orpheus and Orfeu”
* Jordan Stokes, “Whistling Dixie: Notes of the Western Progress of a Musico-ideological Nomad”
Character Transformations Room 9204: 1:45-3:15 – Chair: Robert Singer
* Dan Nishimura, “Anthony Perkins, the Last American Psycho”
* William Gombash, “Finished with a Bang Not a Whimper: Reframing the Resolutions of Altman’s The Long Goodbye”
* R. Ertug Altinay, “Whatever Happened to Iffet’s Honor?: Remembering and Remaking a Turkish Prostitution Film”
Exploitation and Cult Films Room 9205: 1:45-3:15 – Chair: Heather Hendershot
* David Crohn, “Poe, Corman, and the Popular Subversive”
* Melissa Seifert, “‘Casting’ Women Out of the Revolution: Racial and Gendered Implications of Inconclusiveness in The Spook Who Sat by the Door”
* Sarah Taylor Ellis, “Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: Warping Time, Genre, and Spectatorship”
Is “The Real” Finished? Room 9204: 3:30-5:00 – Chair: Ivone Margulies
* Kerry Greaves, “Perfect Obstructions: Artifice and Distance in Jørgen Leth’s The Perfect Human Films”
* Gillian Sneed, Group Object Relations in Artur Żmijewski’s Them
* Mary Gennuso, “Hitchcock’s Rear Window: An Unfishinshed Feminist Analysis”
Intertextuality Room 9205: 3:30-5:00 – Chair TBA
* Lauren Du Graf, “Faulkner and the Author-function in Godard’s Film socialisme”
* Rachel Corbman, “Warning Graphic Violence: Hollywood Film in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven”
* Roberto Sirvent, “The Tragic Hero as Social Critic”
The <b>Cinema Studies Group (CSG)</b> is a discussion group at CUNY Graduate Center for students from all departments interested in film and media. Our primary purpose is to foster an intellectual and social community that encourages interaction across disciplines between scholars. In addition, we aim to promote professional development for students.
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