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FILM AND MEDIA 2013The Third Annual London Film and Media Conference
27-29 June 2013Institute of Education, University of London, UK
1. Draft Conference Schedule
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General Information
Registration
Our Registration Desk will be visible as you enter the Institute of Education on Level 3 fromBedford Way on Thursday 27 June and Friday 28 June.
Please come there to check in and collect your Conference materials.
The Desk will be staffed throughout the Conference if you arrive later.
On Saturday 29 June the Registration Desk will be located on Level 4.
Conference Programme
The Conference Programme, available at the event, will containthe Final Conference Schedule e together with all Abstracts and Speaker CVs.
Admission
Admission to all events is free to Registered Speakers and Delegates only.Guest Privileges are held by the Conference Administration only.
Security
For security reasons, your badge must be worn at all times.You may be asked for Proof of Identity if your badge is not worn.
The safekeeping of personal property in this busy Central London venueremains the responsibility of the owner. Please take care!
Room Allocations
Room allocations will be listed in the final Conference Programme.All rooms are close together in the venue.
All rooms are provided with an Internet-connected PCwith major packages on board, linked to a data/video projector.
Multiregion DVD playback is also available.
Refreshments
Please come and check in, collect your Conference materials, andenjoy a Welcome Coffee and Croissant
between 9am and 10am on the first day, Thursday 27 June 2013.
We also offer coffee and croissants from 8.45-9.15 prior to the morning sessionson Friday 28 June and Saturday 29 June.
Coffee, Tea and biscuits are provided in the middle of each morning and afternoon session.
Lunch is self-organised at one of the many local cafes or restaurants.
Farewell Drinks are offered following the final Keynote Address.
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PLENARY SESSIONS
Thursday 27 June 2013 9.00-10.00
Registration and Welcome Coffee and Croissant.
Plenary Session 1Thursday 27 June 2013 10.00-11.00
Keynote Address 1: Sharon Ament(Director, The Museum of London)
'Mediating the Global City:Knowledge, Pleasure and Spectacle at the Museum of London’
Plenary Session 2Thursday 27 June 2013 11.30-12.30
Keynote Address 2: Jeremy Black (Exeter University, UK)'The Cinematic Spectacle of Britishness: James Bond at 50'
Plenary Session 3Thursday 27 June 2013 5.30-6.30
Keynote Address 3: Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck London, UK)Title to be confirmed
Plenary Session 4Thursday 27 June 2013 6.30-8.00
C O N F E R E N C E R E C E P T I O N
Plenary Session 5Friday 28 June 2013 5.30-7.00
Joe Ahearne in Conversation
Leading British film and television writer and director Joe Ahearnein an illustrated discussion of his work
with FILM AND MEDIA 2013 Director Phillip Drummond.
Plenary Session 6Saturday 29 June 2013 3.30-4.30
Keynote Address 4: Toby Miller (City University, UK)'The Displeasures of the Media Spectacle:Towards an Ecology of Film and Television'
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Thursday 27 June 2013 1.30-3.00
Panel Sessions 1-8
Panel 1: Action CinemaChair: Dr. Esther Yau (University of Hong Kong, SAR) [to be confirmed]
1. Rizki Briandana (Mercu Buana University, Indonesia)Gender and the Action Film: Questions of Female Heroism
2. Nick Jones (Queen Mary London, UK)Paraspaces of the Action Film: Nolan's Inception and Snyder's Sucker Punch
3. Dr. Esther Yau (University of Hong Kong, SAR)Martial Arts Spectacle and Cultural Memory in Trans-local Hong Kong Action Cinema
Panel 2: The Body as Media Spectacle
Chair: Dr. Alexandra Simon-Lopez (University of Eastern Finland)
4. Enrique Fibla Gutiérrez (San Francisco State University)The Politics of the Female Body: HBO's Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire
5. Prof. Adele Nel (North-West University, South Africa)The Body as Spectacle: Beauty and Abjection in Aronofsky’s Black Swan
6. Dr. Alexandra Simon-Lopez (University of Eastern Finland)The Pleasures of Silence and the Flesh: Andreas Dresen’s Cloud 9
Panel 3: Digital Engagements
Chair: Prof. Jim Collins (Notre Dame University, USA)
7. Prof. Jim Collins (Notre Dame University, USA)The Spectacle of Subjectivity in the Personal Digital Archive
8. Dr. Lizzie Falvey (Emmanuel College, USA)YouTube: Gender, Voyeurism and Pleasure
9. Friedrich Kohle (NHTV, University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)The Spectacle of Social Media: Perspectives for Documentary Producers
Panel 4: Media Ontologies 1
Chair: Prof. Livia Monnet (University of Montreal, Canada)
10. Simon Hewitt (Independent Scholar, UK)The Essential Narrativity of Cinema? Morvern Callar
11. Dr. Maria Ester Maciel (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)Cinema as Cross-Media Project: The Work of Peter Greenaway
12. Prof. Livia Monnet (University of Montreal, Canada)Infinity Machines: Quantum Consciousness in the Animated Films of Mirai Mizue
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Panel 5: Narrative and GenreChair: Dr. Georgia Tres (Oakland Communty College, USA)
13. Linda Huszar (University of Sfezed, Hungary)The Pleasure of Appearances: Image and Narration in Film Noir
14. Lena Möller (Independent Scholar, Berlin, Germany)Cinema, Suspense and Spectacle
15. Dr. Georgia Tres (Oakland Community College, USA)Great Escapes in Film, TV and Videogames
Panel 6: Spectacles of History 1Chair: Prof. Frank Scheide (University of Arkansas, USA)
16. Mason Kamana Allred (University of California Berkeley, USA)History as Sensual Experience: Lubitsch’s Madam Dubarry
17. Dr. Tom Brown (King’s London, UK)Abraham Lincoln and the Spectacle of Historical Film
18. Prof. Frank Scheide (University of Arkansas, USA)Sydney and Charles Chaplin’s Evolving Ruritanian Spectacle:King, Queen, Joker (1921) and The Great Dictator (1940)
Panel 7: Technologies of Pleasure 1
Chair: Dr. Miriam Ross (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
19. Jesko Jockenhovel (University of Film and Television Postdam-Babelsburg, Germany)The Immersive Spectacle: From Analogue to Digital 3-D
20. Dr. Miriam Ross (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)Stereoscopic Affect: Embodied Relations in 3D Cinema
21. Dr. David Woods (Nottingham Trent University)High Frame Rate Cinema: A Cultural Mapping
Panel 8: Transnational Encounters
Chair: Jaap Verheul (New York University, USA)
22. Iris Haukamp (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)Transnational Cinematic Encounters in Critical Times:Germany and Japan in World War II
23. Katerina Lawless (University Limerick, Ireland)Representations of Russia and The Soviet Union in the James Bond Films
24. Jaap Verheul (New York University, USA)Media Convergence and the Pan-European Audience: The Spiral
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Thursday 27 June 2013 3.30-5.00
Panel Sessions 9-16
Panel 9: Americana 1Chair: Dr. Jennifer Beckett (University of New South Wales, Australia)
25. Dr. Jennifer Beckett (University of New South Wales, Australia)Spectacularly Ordinary:The Intricate Pleasures of Everyday Life in the Films of Wes Anderson
26. Dr. Gurevitz, Dr. Dan Arav (College of Management Academic Studies, Israel)Revisiting the Society of the Spectacle: Mad Men
27. Dr. Jasper Sharp (Independent Scholar, UK)Cinerama: Selling Americana
Panel 10: Cinema and the Psyche
Chair: Alice Haylett Bryan (King’s London, UK)
28. Maria Angélica Amâncio (Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)/Université Paris-Diderot– Paris VII (France)/CAPES)Freud, France and the Cinema:Sartre's Freud, The Secret Passion and Robbe-Grillet's It's Gradiva Calling
29. Will Bligh (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)Theories of Cinematic Identification: Sympathy, Empathy and Conflict
30. Alice Haylett Bryan (King’s London, UK)Cinema and the Primal Scene: Gaspar Noe and the New French Extremism
Panel 11Cinema from India 1: Institutional Perspectives
Chair: Dr. Nikhila Haritsa (The English and Foreign Languages University, India)
31. Dr. Vaishali Diwakar (St. Mira's College for Girls, India)The Changing Patterns of Film Consumption in India
32. Dr. Nikhila Haritsa (The English and Foreign Languages University, India)Cinema and the Making of a ‘Bhakti Public’:The Case of Kannada Films of the 1950s and 60s
33. Vamshi Reddy (University of Hyderabad, India)A Critical Analysis of Pre-independent Telugu Cinema
Panel 12: Global Queerdom 1
Chair: Rajesh James (Sacred Heart College Thevara, India)
34. Rajesh James (Sacred Heart College Thevara, India)Queerdom and Pleasure in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema
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35. Dr. Gilad Padva (Tel Aviv University, Israel)Camp, Oriental Identities and 'Bourekas' Televisionin the Israeli Gay Sitcom Mommy Queerest (Johnny)
36. Sathyaraj Venkatesan (National Institute of Technology, India)The Spectacle of AIDS: Mapping Indian Queer Cinema, 1985-2010
Panel 13: Literature and Silent CinemaCo-Chairs: Dr. Bob Hasenfratz (University of Connecticut, USA),Dr. Gregory M. Colón Semenza (University of Connecticut, USA)
37. Dr. Bob Hasenfratz (University of Connecticut, USA)The Literary Film in Britain, 1898-1903: A Radical Cinema of Sensations
38. Dr. Gregory M. Colón Semenza (University of Connecticut, USA)From Adaptation to Usurpation: Changing Attitudes towards Literature in 1920s Cinema
Panel 14: Media, Politics and Religion in AmericaChair: Dr. Nathalie Dupont l’Universite du Littoral Côte d’Opal, France)
39. Bethany Berard (University of Winnipeg, Canada)Politics, Religion, and The West Wing
40. Dr. Nathalie Dupont l’Universite du Littoral Côte d’Opal, France)Pleasure, Spectacle, Religion: Cinema and Christianity in America
41. Ahlam Tariq (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)Another ‘Other’: The Muslim Woman in Hollywood
Panel 15: Screening the Nation 1Chair: Dr. Aida Mokhtar (International Islamic University, Malaysia)
42. Jennifer Allan (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)The Pleasures of Recognition and Mediation in the Spectacle of the Nation
43. Dr. Aida Mokhtar (International Islamic University, Malaysia)Television Advertising, Censorship and Nation Building in Malaysia
44. Abongile Vanda (Film and Publications Board, South Africa)Content Regulation in the Era of Media Convergence: The South African Experience
Panel 16: Television and Its AudiencesChair: Dr. Jonathan Lupo (Saint Anselm College, USA)
45. Dr. Itay Harlap (Tel Aviv University, Israel)Irregular Television: The Israeli Television Serial Nevelot and the TVIII Spectator
46. Margaret Hass (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India/University of Bergamo, Italy)Consume, Purge, Repeat: The Spectacular Pleasure of Cultural Bulimia in U.S. Television
47. Dr. Jonathan Lupo (Saint Anselm College, USA), Dr. Chani Marchiselli (Saint Anselm College, USA)Television and Its Vampires: The Spectral Trance of Binge Viewing
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Friday 28 June 2013 9.30-11.00
Panel Sessions 17-24
Panel 17: Bollywood and the WestChair: Prof. Debashis Chakrabarti (College of Applied Science, Oman)
48. Prof. Debashis Chakrabarti, Saba Naqvi (College of Applied Science, Oman)From Hollywood to Bollywood:Spectacle and Cultural Value in Cameron's Titanic and Lutharia's A Dirty Picture
49. Dr. Marit Knollmueller (University of Maryland, USA)Bollywood does Regency: Costume and the Spectacle in Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair
50. Dr. Inês Lourenço (University of Lisbon, Portugal)Watching and Dancing Bollywood in Portugal
Panel 18: Expanded CinemaChair: Sarah Breen Lovett (University of Sydney, Australia)
51. Inês de Carvalho (Independent Scholar, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)The Cinematic Spectacle and the Audio-Walk
52. Sarah Breen Lovett (University of Sydney, Australia)Theoretical Intent and Spectacle in Expanded Cinema and Architecture
53. Tabita Rezaire (Central St. Martins College, UK)Film, Kinetic Theatre and Spectatorship: The Danse Macabre of Carolee Schneemann
Panel 19: Femininity and ViolenceChair: Dr. Adriana Stefanel (University of Bucharest, Romania)
54. Chia-wen Kuo (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)Violence, Fantasy and the Female Body: The Spectacle of Tomie
55. Samantha Lindop (University of Queensland, Australia)Postfeminism, Pleasure, and Spectacle in Tarantino's Kill Bill
56. Dr. Adriana Stefanel, Ms. Andreea Toma (University of Bucharest, Romania)The Punishment of Women in Romanian New Wave Cinema
Panel 20: Narratives of Conflict 1
Chair: Dr. Debra Ramsay (Independent Scholar, Leicester, UK)
57. Prof. Jose Mauricio Saldanha Alvarez (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)Images of National Identity: France's Lost Wars in the Films of Pierre Schoendoerffer
58. Serena Daalmans (Radboud University, Netherlands)Generation Kill: Representing Moral Complexities in the First Stages of the Iraq War
59. Dr. Debra Ramsay (Independent Scholar, Leicester, UK)‘Something to see’? War as Spectacle in the First Person Shooter Videogame
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Panel 21: Projecting the City 1Chair: Rahoul Masrani (London School of Economics, UK)
60. Prof. Wu-Tso Lin (Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology)Love, Anxiety, and the City: Woody Allen's Europe
61. Prof. John F. Lyons (Joliet Junior College, Illinois, USA)London in the American Imagination, 1945 to the Present
62. Rahoul Masrani (London School of Economics, UK)Spectacles of Exclusivity and Exclusion: ‘Glamorous’ London in Film
Panel 22: Spectacles of History 2Chair: Adam Gallimore (University of Warwick, UK)
63. Adam Gallimore (University of Warwick, UK)History, Spectacle and Subjectivity: Malick’s The New World
64. Hannah Graves (University of Warwick, UK)Sensationalism and Specious Melodrama:The Spectacle of Lynching in Warner Brothers’ Storm Warning
65. Brian Neve (University of Bath, UK)The Crowd as Spectacle in Cold War America:Cy Endfield’s The Sound of Fury/Try and Get Me
Panel 23: Technologies of Pleasure 2Chair: Nicholas Camfield (University of Nottingham, UK) [to be confirmed]
66. Nicholas Camfield (University of Nottingham, UK)Videophilia and the Commerce of Authorship
67. Sam Roggen (University of Antwerp, Belgium)CinemaScope, Panoramic Perception and the Cinephiliac Moment
68. Tomasz Zaglewski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)Postcinematic Experience: The Spectacle of IMAX
Panel 24: Visions of Britain 1
Chair: Steve Presence (University of the West of England, UK) [to be confirmed]
69. Carolyn Ellam (University of East Anglia, UK)An Ordinary Spectacle: Realism and Fantasy in Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric
70. Steve Presence (University of the West of England, UK)Spectacle, Melodrama and Affect in Social-Realist Cinema: Oldman’s Nil by Mouth
71. Marinela Saraci (State University of Durres and Tirana, Albania)Early Pinter and the Theatre of the Absurd: The Room
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Friday 28 June 2013 11.30-1.00
Panels 25-32
Panel 25Cinema from India 2 - The Role of Women
Chair: Dr. Pradipta Mukherjee (Vidyasagar College for Women, Kolkata, India)
72. Gauri D. Chakraborty (Amity School Of Communication, India)Representations of Womanhoodin Zoya Aktars Zindagi na Milegi Dobara Gauri Shinde’s English Vinglish
73. Ruta Dharmadhikari (LAD and Smt. R P College for Women, Nagpur, India)Violence, Agency and the Female Gaze in Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur
74. Dr. Pradipta Mukherjee (Vidyasagar College for Women, Kolkata, India)Women, Media and Resistance in Contemporary Indian Cinema
Panel 26: Early CinemaChair: Prof. Jon Solomon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
75. Dr. Jonathan Gilhooly (University of Brighton, UK)Spectacles of Deception: Residual Magic in the Films of Buster Keaton
76. Dr. Fabrice Lyczba (Université Paris Est (Créteil), France)The Performance of Cinematic Realism: Engaging the Audience of the 1920s
77. Prof. Jon Solomon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)Ben-Hur: The Avatar of the American Spectacle
Panel 27: Families on Screen
Chair: Prof. Cristina Signo (Cavite State University, Philippines)
78. Prof. Cristina Signo (Cavite State University, Philippines)Representations of Family Life in Filippino Cinema:Guillen’s Tanging Yaman and Lamangan’s Mano Po
79. Prof. Maria Komninos, Dr. Yannis Lambrou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)Questions of Postmodernism and Greek Cinema:Language and the Family in the New ‘Weird Wave’
80. Dr. Jamaluddin Aziz (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)Audience Understandings of the Representation of Fathers and Fatherhoodin Malay Cinema
Panel 28: Mediating SportChair: Dr. Carrie Dunn (Regents College, London, UK)
81. Dr. Carrie Dunn (Regents College, London, UK)Gender, Pleasure and the Look: Female Fans and Men's Soccer
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82. Dr. Marcus Free (University of Limerick, Ireland)Diego Maradona and the Psychodynamics of Football Fandom in International Cinema
83. Dr. Gerald Vorhees (Oregon State University, USA)Sportive Videogaming: The Spectacle of Manhood and the Rationalization of Play
Panel 29: Media Ontologies 2
Chair: Dr. Sandra Meiri (Open University, Israel)
84. Dr. Julio Cesar Lemes de Castro (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil)Cinema, Consumer Society and Spectacle
85. Dr. Sandra Meiri (Open University, Israel),Dr. Odeya Kohn-Raz (Sapir College/Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Visual Pleasure in Crisis: Actors, Characters, Spectators
86. Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow (University of Sydney, Australia)Cinematic Spectacle and the Ontology of Film
Panel 30: Sound and Image 1Chair: Dr. Woodrow Hood (Wake Forest University, USA)
87. Dr. Woodrow Hood (Wake Forest University, USA)Renegotiating Early Cinema: New Soundtracks for Old Films
88. Dr. Nataliya Kononenko (State Institute for Arts Studies, Moscow, Russia)On the Cinematic History of a Baroque Musical Theme: Bach's ‘Erbarme Dich’
89. Dr. Samuel Paiva (Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil)Cinema and Music in Brazilian Road Movies, 1960-1980
Panel 31Technologies of Vision
and the Pleasures of Appropriation
Chair: Prof. Martine Beugnet (University of Paris 7 Diderot, France)
90. Prof. Martine Beugnet (University of Paris 7 Diderot, France)Pleasures in Minature: On Watching Films on an iPhone
91. Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (University of Essex, UK)Rethinking Aerial Affect
92. Prof. Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (University of California Davis, USA)Network Identities and Political Dissidence: The Work of Anonymous
Panel 32: Violence, Identity and Spectatorship
Chair: Dr. Dominique Liao (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
93. Dr. Shannon Brownlee (Dalhousie University, Canada)Spectacle and Trauma: The Cinematic Legacy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
94. Dr. Dominique Liao (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)Questions of Violence and Identity in the Gangster Film
95. Dr. Sean Moreland (University of Ottawa, Canada)Violence and Spectatorship in Laugier’s Martyrs and Haneke’s Funny Games
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Friday 28 June 2013 2.00-3.30
Panels 33-40
Panel 33: Americana 2
Chair: Prof. Lawrie Barnes (The University of South Africa)
96. Prof. Lawrie Barnes (The University of South Africa)Visions of the Amish: Witness and Amish Grace
97. Izabela Kurczewska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland)Postmodernism and the Spaghetti Western: Tarantino’s Django Unchained
98. Tamas Nagypal (York University, Canada)The Post-Phallic Spectacle of American ‘Snow Noir’
Panel 34: Darkness, Voyeurism and Desire
Chair: Sarolta Mezei (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
99. Sarolta Mezei (University of Debrecen, Hungary)Darkness in Contemporary Ghost Movies: An Interpretation
100. Jakub Morawski (Jagellonian University, Poland)The Origins of Pleasure: Cinematic Desire
101. David Evan Richard (University of Queensland, Australia)Embodied Voyeurism in Campion’s In the Cut
Panel 35: Ethics and Aesthetics of VirtualityChair: Dr. Kit Wise (Monash University, Australia)
102. Susan Engel (92Y, New York, USA)The ‘Live’ Event in a Digital World
103. Scott Wark (University of Melbourne, Australia)Media Aesthetics and Network Relations
104. Dr. Kit Wise (Monash University, Australia)Rethinking De-realisation: The Ethics of the Spectacle
Panel 36:Media Education 1 –
Strategies for Learning and UnderstandingChair: Dr. Nigel Morris (University of Lincoln, UK)
105. Prof. Paul Chilsen, Christine Wells (Carthage College, USA)Transformative Learning through Making Media
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106. Dr. Ali Nihat Eken (Sabanci University, Turkey)Student Understandings of Media Representations: Findings from a University Classroom
Panel 37:Michael Bay and the Aesthetics of Spectacle
Chair: Dr. Bruce Isaacs (University of Sydney, Australia)
107. Dr. Bruce Bennett (Lancaster University, UK)Michael Bay and the Aesthetics of Excess
108. Dr. Leon Gurevitch (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)The Industrial Object as Spectacular Commodity: Transformers - Adverts in Disguise?
109. Dr. Bruce Isaacs (University of Sydney, Australia)The Mechanics of Continuity: The Image of Action in Michael Bay’s Transformers Franchise
Panel 38: Projecting the City 2Chair: Martin Ed Chatterton (Southern Cross University, Australia)
110. Dr. Jennifer Brown (University of Tasmania)
Projecting Canberra: Centenary Dis/pleasures
111. Martin Ed Chatterton (Southern Cross University, Australia)A Multimedia Book of Liverpool: The Last Slave Ship
112. Lydia Jakobs (University of Trier, Germany)Poverty as Spectacle? Victorian Magic Lantern Shows and the Urban Poor
Panel 39: The Spectacle of the OtherChair: Dr. Azza Ahmed (Cairo University, Egypt/Abu Dhabi University, UAE)
113. Dr. Azza Ahmed (Cairo University, Egypt/Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates)The Impact of Television Drama Viewing on Student Perceptions of Egyptian Societyin the United Arab Emirates
114. Yoo Mi Chin (University of California Los Angeles, USA)Understandings of Women’s Higher Education and Career Pathsin the Hollywood Romantic Comedy on the Part of Female College Students in Korea
115. Ankhi Mukherjee (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India)Tintin and the Spectacle of the ‘Non-West’
Panel 40: Visions of Britain 2Chair: Dr. Brett Bebber (Old Dominion University, USA)
116. Dr. Brett Bebber (Old Dominion University, USA)A National Endeavour? Media and Race Relations Organisation in Postcolonial Britain
117. Dr. Lindsay Davies (New York University, USA)Questions of British National Identity and Scottish Devolution in Chariots of Fire
118. Dr. Barbara Knorpp (Brunel University, UK)Towards an Ethnography of the National Film and Television Archive
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Friday 28 June 2013 4.00-5.00
Panels 41- 48
Panel 41: The Digital SpectacleChair: Dr. Anastasia Logotheti (DEREE, The American College of Greece)
119. Dr. Dario Llinares, Sarah Arnold (Falmouth University, UK)Rethinking Spectatorship, Space and Spectacle: The Pleasures of the Digital
120. Dr. Anastasia Logotheti (DEREE, The American College of Greece)In the Service of the Virtual: Redefining the Internet through Spectacle
Panel 42: Generic Pleasures - Comedy 1Chair: Dr. Orna Ben-Natan (Open University, Israel)
121. Dr. Orna Ben-Natan (Open University, Israel), Dr. Gilad Padva (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Intercultural Language as Comic Device in the Israeli Internet Sitcom Pinney
122. Dr. Iris Fruchter-Ronen (University of Haifa, Israel)Gender and Humour in the Films of Nadin Labaki
Panel 43:Media Education 2 - Theories of Screen Literacy
Chair: Dr. Nigel Morris (Unversiy of Lincoln, UK)
123. Dr. Patrick Crogan (University of the West of England, UK)Film and Media Literacy: Questions arising from the Work of Gunning and Stiegler
124. Prof. Jane Mills (University of New South Wales, Australia)From Word to Image: Challenges for Screen Literacy
Panel 44: Music Video 1Chair: (Dr. Daniela Chana (Independent Scholar, Austria)
125. Sierra Austin (Ohio State University, USA)Transnational Hip Hop Feminism: The Performative Politics of Nicki Minaj
126. Dr. Daniela Chana (Independent Scholar, Austria)Music, Text and Image in the Songs and Music Videos of Tori Amos and Fiona Apple
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Panel 45: Nollywood
Chair: Dr. Emily Oghale God’spresence (Port Harcourt University, Nigeria)
127. Rev. Fr. Damian Amana, Dr. William Onogu (Kogi State University, Nigeria)Remediation of Religion in Nigerian Cinema
128. Dr. Emily Oghale God’spresence (Port Harcourt University, Nigeria)Female Identity and Visual Culture: A Study of Two Nollywood Films
Panel 46: Pakistani Cinema
Chair: Dr. Ali Khan (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
129. Ahmad Bilal (Nottingham Trent University, UK)New Developments in Pakistani Cinema
130. Dr. Ali Khan (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)Film Poster Art and the Pakistan Film Industry
Panel 47: Representing Femininity 1Chair: Dr. Kim Nguyen (Oregon State University, USA)
131. Dr. Kim Nguyen (Oregon State University, USA), Dr. Krista McQueeney (MerrimackCollege, USA)Femininity and Meanness in the American Media Landscape
132. Barbara Plotz (King’s College London, UK)The Spectacle of Fatness in Hollywood Cinema
Panel 48:The Social Narratives of Turkish Cinema
Chair: Dr. Eylem Atakav (University of East Anglia, UK)
133. Dr. Eylem Atakav (University of East Anglia, UK)Women and Turkish Cinema:Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Questions of Representation
134. Prof. Senem Duruel Erkilic, Prof. Hakan Erkilic (Mersin University, Turkey)Narrative and the Carnivalesque in New Turkish Cinema: The Films of Ezel Akay
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Saturday 29 June 2013 9.30-11.00
Panels 49-56
Panel 49: Intercultural Identities
Chair: Vinod Balakrishnan (National Institute of Technology, India)
135. Vinod Balakrishnan (National Institute of Technology, India)Beowulf: An Allegory of Yoga
136. Juanita Kwok (Charles Sturt University, Australia)Spectacle and Subversion in Trenchard-Smith’s The Man from Hong Kong
137. Nathaniel Weiner (York University, Canada)Fashion, Film, and Subculture: The Button-Down Shirt
Panel 50: Music Video 2
Chair: Dr. Stephanie Shonekan (University of Missouri, USA)
138. Dr. Yael Maurer (Tel Aviv University/Kibbutzim Teachers’ College, Tel Aviv, Israel)Englishness and Its Discontents: Morrissey's Every Day is Like Sunday
139. Dr. Stephanie Shonekan (University of Missouri, USA)
Nigerian Hip Hop Videos: Hybrid Sounds, Alien Images
Panel 51: Narratives of Conflict 2
Chair: Dr. Christa Van Raalte (Teesside University, UK)
140. Richard Gehrmann (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)The Hidden Reality of War in Afghanistan and Iraq: Challenges for the Fiction Film
141. Dr. Marcus O’Donnell (University of Wollongong, Australia)Film, Spectacle and Torture: Zero Dark Thirty
142. Dr. Christa Van Raalte (Teesside University, UK)Renegotiating the Spectacle: Authorship and the Gaze in Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty
Panel 52: Projecting the City 3Chair: Dr. Sherin B.S. (English and Foreign Languages University, India)
143. Federico Passi (RMIT University, Australia)The Uncanny Pleasures of the Urban Spectacle:Marvellous Melbourne – City Queen of the South (1910)
144. Dr. Sherin B.S. (English and Foreign Languages University, India)The Indian City as Cinematic Spectacle: Spatial Hierarchies in Cinema from Kerala
145. Sabrina Rocha Stanford Thompson (UNICAMP Campinas, Brazil)Candomble and the Expression of Ethnic Identity in Faria’s City of Women
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Panel 53: Representing Femininity 2Chair: Dr. Elena Boschi (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
146. Dr. Helena Bassil-Morozow (Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK)The Poetics of Maternal Loss in Tarkovsky’s The Mirror
147. Dr. Elena Boschi (Liverpool Hope University, UK)Performing Women and Foreignness in Carlo Verdone’s Sono pazzo di Iris Blond
148. Prof. Louis-Paul Willis (University of Quebec, Canada)Beyond Lolita: Traversing the Cinematic Fantasy of Girlhood
Panel 54: Spectacles of Death and Destruction
Chair: Dr. Douglas Keesey (California Polytechnic State University, USA)[to be confirmed]
149. Dr. Douglas Keesey (California Polytechnic State University, USA)Seeing Your Own End: Prefigurations of Death in the Final Destination Films
150. Elena Woolley (King’s College, University of London, UK)The Unlikely Pleasures of the Destructive Spectacle
Panel 55: Spectacles of History 3Chair: Dr. J. E. Smyth (University of Warwick, UK)
151. Dr. Harvey Cohen (King’s College, London, UK)Footlight Parade and the New Deal
152. Justin Harrison (Victoria University, Australia)Pleasures of Nostalgia, Problems of Authenticity: 1970s America in Crowe’s Almost Famous,Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, and Scorsese’s The Last Waltz
153. Dr. Jennifer E. Smyth (University of Warwick, UK)The Spectacle of Postmodern Cinematic History: Forman’s Ragtime
Panel 56: US Serial DramaChair: Dr. Michael Richardson (Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK)
154. Dan Arav, Shikma Sharon (Israel)
The Politics of the Television Vigilante since 9/11: The Case of Dexter
155. Joanna Kellond (University of Sussex, UK)Representations of Therapeutic Culture in Television Drama: In Treatment
156. Dr. Michael Richardson (Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK)The Untouchables: The Making of a Myth
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Saturday 29 June 2013 11.30-12.30
Panels 57-64
Panel 57: Authorship and IdeologyChair: Dr. Sian Mitchell (SAE Institute, Australia)
157. Dr. Alex Ling (University of Western Sydney, Australia)Lars von Trier and the End of Cinema: Melancholia
158. Dr. Sian Mitchell (SAE Institute, Australia)Deleuzian Affect and the Transformative Film Experience: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
Panel 58: Changing Forms of ExhibitionChair: Ana Moraes (University of Glasgow, UK) [to be confirmed]
159. Dr. Teresa Duarte Martinho (University of Lisbon Institute for Social Sciences,Portugal)The Astute Melancolia of Fernando Pessoa:Exhibition Strategies for Botelho's Film of Disquiet
160. Ana Moraes (University of Glasgow, UK)Alternative Cinema Exhibition Venues: A Threat to the Traditional Theatrical Format?
Panel 59: Cinema and Literature 2Chair: Robyn Ludwig (Independent Scholar, Victoria, Canada)
161. Robyn Ludwig (Independent Scholar, Victoria, Canada)From 2D Page to 3D Screen:Intertextual Spectacle in Scorsese’s Adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret
162. Dr. Linda A. Robinson (University of Wisconsin Whitewater, USA)The Age of Innocence in the Age of Cinematic Remediation
Panel 60: Generic Pleasures - Comedy 2
Chair: Niels Henrik Hartvigson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
163. Niels Henrik Hartvigson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)Questions of Gender and Sexuality in Cross-Dressing Comedies
164. Dr. Beatriz Oria (University of Zaragoza, Spain)Generic Pleasures: Sánchez Arevalo’s Primos, a Spanish “homme-com”
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Panel 61: Gender and Genre: The Horror FilmChair: Raphael de Boer (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
[to be confirmed]
165. Raphael de Boer (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)Horror, Gender and the Gaze
166. Erez Genish (San Francisco State University, USA)‘Reality Horror’: The Abject
Panel 62: Ideas of DocumentaryChair: Rayma Watkinson (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) [to be confirmed]
167. Haruka Kawakami (Osaka City University, Japan)Surrealism and the Documentary Film
168. Rayma Watkinson (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)Disrupting the Ethnographic Spectacle: Rouch’s Les Maîtres Fous
Panel 63: Turkish Media IdentitiesChair: Ayca Ciftci (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) [to be confirmed]
169. Dr. Aysun Akan (Izmir University of Economics)A Critical Analysis of Kemalist Press Coverage of the Kurdish Peace Initiative
170. Ayca Ciftci (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)Politics of Text and Context: Kurdish Films in Turkey
Panel 64: Visions of Britain 3
Chair: Lucy Brown (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
171. Lucy Brown (University of Hertfordshire, UK)The Spectacle of the Reveal: Grand Designs
172. Lottie Hoare (Institute of Education, UK)Gender, Education and the Television Documentary:John Boorman’s Citizen 63: Marion Knight
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Saturday 29 June 2013 1.30-3.00
Panels 65-71
Panel 65: Global Queerdom 2Chair: Jessica Escue (Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA)
173. Jessica Escue (Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA)Androgyny and Queer Sexualities in Alternative British Film Culture:Jose Larraz’s Vampyres
174. Maria Golinelli (University of Bologna, Italy)Queerdom, Popular Cinema, and the ‘Tourist Gaze'
175. Andree Lafontaine (Concordia University, Canada)Lesbian Pleasures and Dorothy Arzner’s ‘Spectacularly Spineless’ Men
Panel 66: MasculinitiesChair: Dr. Joanne Knowles (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
176. Dr. Debbie Ging (Dublin City University, Ireland)The Spectacle of Male Linguistic Anxiety in Recent Irish Cinema
177. Dr. Joanne Knowles (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)Masculinity, Masquerade and Cultural Politics in Popular Film Comedy
178. Linda Wight (University of Ballarat, Australia)Pleasure, Masculinity, and the Spectacle: Skyfall
Panel 67: Narrative and IdeologyChair: Dr. Michael Richardson (Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK)
179. Smita Dalvi (Indian Institute of Technology, New Bombay)Spectacle, Space and the Tragic in the Hindi Devdas films
180. Wajiha Raza Rizvi (Centre for Research on Pakistani Media/Film Museum, Pakistan)Politics. Propaganda and Film Form: Battleship Potemkin and Triumph of the Will
181. Dr. I-fen Wu (Tamkang University, Taiwan)Spectacles of Asian Minimalism:The Long Shot/ Long Take Stylistics of Contemporary East Asian Cinema
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Panel 68:The Politics of Cultural Memoryin Spanish Film and Television
Chair: Prof. Norberto Mínguez-Arranz (University Complutense of Madrid, Spain)[to be confirmed]
182. Prof. Norberto Mínguez-Arranz (University Complutense of Madrid, Spain)The Politics of Memory in Spanish Fiction and Non-Fiction Film: A Comparative Analysis
183. Dr. Laura Miranda (University of Oviedo, Spain)Cinema, Religion and Politics in Franco’s Spain: Juan de Orduña's Teresa de Jesús
184. Dr. Elena Oliete-Aldea (University of Zaragoza, Spain)Visual pleasures of a Traumatic Past:Re-visiting the Civil War and Francoism in Contemporary Spanish Television
Panel 69: Screening the Nation 2
Chair: Dr. Terri Ginsberg (International Council for Middle East Studies, USA)[to be confirmed]
185. Paula Callus, Dr. Reza Yousefzadeh (Bournemouth University, UK)The Politics of Identity and the Exotic Spectacle:Moving images by Artists from the Middle East and Africa
186. Dr. Terri Ginsberg (International Council for Middle East Studies, USA)The Politics of Contemporaneity: Koff’s Occupied Palestine
Panel 70: Sound and Image 2Chair: Titas Petrikis (Bournemouth University, UK)
187. Karolina Albinska (University of Lodz, Poland)Visualised Radio? Research Findings from Britain and Poland
188. Titas Petrikis (Bournemouth University, UK)Creating a New Sound World for Todd Browning’s Dracula (1931)
189. Dr. Heidi Wilkins (University of Essex, UK)Spectacular Soundscapes in Jurassic Park
Panel 71: Stardom and CelebrityChair: Dr. Chin-Pang Lei (University of Macau)
190. Dr. Chin-Pang Lei (University of Macau)Questions of Stardom and Gender in Post-colonial Hong Kong Culture: Anita Mui
191. Tracy Miles (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)Judy Davis and the Pleasures of Private Performance
192. Prof. Lisa Pecot-Hebert (DePaul University, USA)Celebrity and Media Spectacle: Toddlers and Tiaras