NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference

Saturday, March 26, 2005

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

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

Film and Cultural Resistance

  • Room 651
  • Moderator: Aparna John, PhD student, NYU Cinema Studies

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