Panel Information

ALL PANELS TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY, MARCH 30TH

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”