9:30 - 10:00 AM
Morning Refreshments
Come early and enjoy an assortment of bagels, donuts, muffins, fresh fruit, coffee, and juices.
10:00 - 10:45 AM
History in the Melodramatic Mode
- Room 656
- Moderator: Carla Marcantonio, PhD candidate, NYU Cinema Studies
- Christopher Wisniewski. All That History Allows: Far From Heaven and the Queering of Sirk.
- Jinjing Li. Melodrama: The Narration of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
History Remembered: Memory in Cinema
- Room 656
- Moderator: Robert Sklar, Professor, NYU Cinema Studies
- Graig Uhlin. Rememberance of Things Future: Cinema, Memory, Futurity.
- Ryan Pierson. Night and Fog and the Aesthetics of History (or, "I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust").
Lunch Break
- 12:00 - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Humor, Horrors, and Heists: Topics in Genre
- Room 656
- Moderator: Michael Dow, PhD student, NYU Cinema Studies
- Stephen Snart. Genre Identitification: Linda Williams and the Gross Out Comedy.
- Carrie Dodson. Eat the Rich: Redneck Cannibalism in American Horror.
- Brad Westcott. Notes on the Heist Film: On the Prowl, or Strong.
3:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Orson Welles: Magician of Radio and Theater
- Room 656
- Moderator: William G. Simon, Professor, NYU Cinema Studies
- Alberto Zambenedetti. Introducing Shakespeare: The Incipit in Orson Welles' Adaptations.
- Rob Sweeney. Authenticity, Deconstruction, and Joy in F For Fake.
- James Crawford. Orson Welles: Narrating The Lives of Harry Lime.
- Matt Hauske. "An Idea in the Mind": Orson Welles' Moby Dick-Rehearsed.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Faculty Panel: Genre and Transnationality in Film and TV
- Room 656
- Professor Christine Gledhill, Moderator
- Professor Moya Luckett
- Professor William G. Simon