Announcing: The NYU Department of Cinema Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference Saturday, February 26th and Sunday, February 27th, 2000 Location: 721 Broadway (Tisch School of the Arts building), 6th floor, room 656 Conference Schedule Saturday, February 26 11:00am - 12:20pm Asian Cinema Panel Moderator: Augusta Palmer Presentations: Ajay Gehlawat "Bollywood and Playback" Michael Duffy "Hong Kong Film: A Better Tomorrow in America?" Jeff Strabone "Re-imagined Community: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Anti-Teleological History of Taiwan in The Puppetmaster" 12:30 - 1:50 Documents Panel Moderator: Peter Decherney Presentations: Ina Archer "Or Does it Explode?" (on race and the archive) Ken Rogers "Serial Photography" Denise Mckenna "The Cult of Celebrity: Fame and the Serialized Image" 2:00 - 2:40 Student screening: Weighing the Risks (approx. 15 min.) Heather Macmillan 2:45 - 4:20 Gender and Reception Panel Moderator: Elena Gorfinkel Presentations: "The Politics of the Pronoun: Popular Press Reviews of Boys Don't Cry" Ragan Rhyne "The Immorality of Men and the Excitement of Technology in Modern Germany" Frances Guerin "Cinematic Tropes in Winifred Holtby's Poor Caroline" Lucy Laird "Early Cinema, Opera and the Female Spectator" Annie Hill 4:30 - 6:00 Television Studies Panel Moderator: Anna McCarthy Presentations: "Text.com: Audiencing the Internet" Rowan Morris "Heckling on the Satellite of Love: Audience Interactivity and Mystery Science Theater 3000" Louisa Ellen Shein "Desi Arnaz as Star Text" (working title) Rosselly Ann Torres Rojas "'What is she doing?': The Explicit Body on MTV's The Real World" Natalie Bender Sunday, February 27 11:30am - 1:00pm Soviet Film Panel Moderator: Pavle Levi Presentations: "Power as the political-aesthetic project of the Russian avant-garde and Stalinist cinema" Andrei Khrenov "Pabst and Pudovkin: Early Sound, Socialist Realism, and International Solidarity of Workers" Sergei Kapterev "Kino Iconology: Relations between Church and State in Soviet Cinema to 1929" Edoardo Moretti 1:15 - 2:45 Auteur Panel Moderator: Steven Schneider Presentations: "The Word Made Color: Bresson's Une femme douce" Brian Price "Faulkner and Godard: Two or Three Things I Know About Them" Meghan Sutherland "Domestic Values and Capitalist Ideology in 1940s America: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt" Maria San Filippo 3:15 - 4:45 Gender and Sexuality Panel Moderator: Nitin Govil Presentations: "The Talented Post-structuralist: Hetero-masculinity, Gay Artifice, and Class Passing" Chris Straayer "Incest Times Five: Phallic Anaphora and the Problem of Reciprocation" Amy Nelson "Peggy Ahwesh's The Color of Love and the Felt Object of Film History" Elena Gorfinkel 5:00 - 7:00 Faculty Panel on Interdisciplinarity Moderator: Federico Windhausen Presenters*: Richard Allen Anna McCarthy Toby Miller Zhang Zhen *This is a tentative list of presenters for an informal panel. Additional faculty members will likely join in the discussion, and some may present as well. This panel is conceived as an opportunity for student-faculty dialogue. 7:00-11:00 Closing Reception Location: Dean's Conference Room, 12th floor ______________________________________________________________________ For inquiries, feel free to contact the conference committee: Elena Gorfinkel <[log in to unmask]> Louisa Ellen Shein <[log in to unmask]> Federico Windhausen <[log in to unmask]> This is a free event, open to the public. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html