9:00 - 9:30 AM
Morning Refreshments
Come early and enjoy an assortment of bagels, donuts, muffins, fresh fruit, coffee, and juices.
9:30 - 10:45 AM
Sex and Marriage in Contemporary Cinema
- Room 656
- Moderator: Elena Gorfinkel, PhD candidate, NYU Cinema Studies.
- Matt Singer. "I Married Rambo!": Schwarzenegger, Shriver, and Shifting Star Texts.
- Greg Zinman. Tying the Knot: Movies Anxious about Marriage, too.
- Karina Longworth. Those Who Screw and Those Who Don't: The Fake Orgasms of Meg Ryan.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Live on Tape: Videotape and the Preservation of the Ephemeral
- Room 656
- Moderator: Lucas Hilderbrand, PhD candidate, NYU Cinema Studies
- Jeff Martin. Live on Tape: The Introduction of Videotape and the Preservation of the Ephemeral.
- Pamela Jean Smith. Preserving Videofreex.
- Kara Van Malssen, Sean Savage, and Paula Felix-Didier. Television Pictures.
- Irene Taylor. Preserving and Narrating the Dyson-Hudson Collection at AMNH.
Film and National Identities
- Room 651
- Moderator: Ragan Rhyne, PhD candidate, NYU Cinema Studies
- Ying Xiao. "To Be Different:" Exploring the Music, Culture and Identity of Hip Hop in Contemporary China.
- Ray Vichot. We Are Fighting Dreamers!: Anime Fan-Subtitling as an Agent for Fandom Growth.
- Shi-Yan Chao. Rouge: From Queer Moments to Queer Subjectivity.
Lunch Break
- 12:30 - 1:30 PM
1:30 - 2:45 PM
Innovations in Film Aesthetics
- Room 656
- Moderator: Rahul Hamid, PhD candidate, NYU Cinema Studies
- Melanie Turpin. A History of the Particular: Subjectivity in Carl Theodor Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc.
- Zachary Campbell. Capitalism, Humanity and Genre at the New Rose Hotel.
- Peter Giannascoli. The Coming of Color.
Film and Cultural Resistance
- Room 651
- Moderator: Aparna John, PhD student, NYU Cinema Studies
- Stephen O. Rak. Shadows of a Hidden Nation.
- Jose Freire. Sub-Cultural Identity Formation in Mid-70s Britain.
- Cindy Chen. Cantonese Melodrama and Cultural Identity.
3:00 - 4:15 PM
The Creative Treatment of History
- Room 656
- Moderator: Shawn Shimpach, Ph.D.
- Pamela L. Kerpius. Zero Percent Chance of Rain: The Watergate History and All The President's Men.
- Brad Campbell. Decasia Now: Towards a Heuristic for the Use and Abuse of Historic Footage.
- Wyatt Phillips. Who Rides with Wyatt: The Fulfillment of Genre Requirements in John Ford's My Darling Clementine.
Cinema in Search of National Collectivity
- Room 651
- Moderator: Sudhir Mahadevan, PhD candidate, NYU Cinema Studies
- Melissa J. Zajk. Wine, Women and Song: Representations of Nationalism and National Identity in Casablanca.
- Nicole J. Baer. Mexican Cinema and NAFTA: The Representation and Exportation of National Identity
- Meredith A. Bak. A Study of Cinematic Tectonics: The Formation of a National Icelandic Style.
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Inanimate/Animate
- Room 656
- Moderator: Katie Model, PhD student, NYU Cinema Studies
- Sarah E. Deem. Prosthetic Goddesses: Sexualization and Abstraction of Material Reality in the Modern Prosthesis.
- Matt Hauske. The Uncanny and the Comic in THX 1138.
- Alberto Zambenedetti. Bringing Back the Dead: The Animation of Cultural Systems in the Films of the Brothers Quay.
Constructs of Race
- Room 651
- Moderator: Nina Seja, PhD student, NYU Cinema Studies
- Juan Monroy. Capitalism for All: "Father Dan," Peru, and the Alliance for Progress.
- Derek Kane-Meddock. Never Touch a Black Man's Radio: Rush Hour and the New Cultural Politics of the Biracial Buddy Film.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Reception
- Dean's Conference Room
- 12th Floor