Program

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Morning panels in SCA 110, afternoon panel and keynote in SCA 112

9:00     –     Breakfast

9:30     –     Opening Remarks: Dr. Akira Mizuta Lippit, Chair, USC, Division of Critical Studies

Panel One. Spectres, Passages and Boundaries
Moderator: Akira Mizuta Lippit, USC, Critical Studies

Hye Jean Chung (UC Santa Barbara, Film and Media Studies)
“Spectral Bodies: Embodying Cosmopolitan Anxieties in Shutter”

Elias Krell (Northwestern University, Performance Studies)
“Identity in Process… Voice and the Transvocal Spectrum”

Noelia Saenz (USC, Critical Studies)
“Queering Patriarchy: Exploring the Architectures of Homosocial Space in Mexican Cinema”

Amber Bowyer (USC, Critical Studies)
“From Spectre to Spectator: The Dialectical Materialist Film, Spectres of the Spectrum.”

Ivan Ross (University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies)
“Infinite Irrecuperability: History’s Bird’s-eye Media Metaphors”

11:30     –     Panel Two: Contemporary Hollywood
Moderator: Tom Kemper, Crossroads School / USC, Critical Studies

Ryne Hodkowski (USC, Critical Studies)
“The Ideology of Montage in Sports Films”

Nancy Quinones (Claremont Graduate University, Cultural Studies)
“Undercover Brother and Identity Politics: Appropriating the Performance and the Mimicry of Identity”

Will Schmenner (University of Pennsylvania, History of Art)
“The Hurt Locker: A Rejection of Style?”

Leah Aldridge (USC, Critical Studies)
“Product Placement: Will Smith and Tyler Perry—a Brand of Cinematic Blackness”

1:00     –     Lunch

2:00     –     Panel Three: Knowledge and the Apparatus
Moderator: Priya Jaikumar, USC, Critical Studies

Michael Albright (UC Santa Barbara, Film and Media Studies)
“The Visible Camera: Hand-Held Camera Movement and Cinematographic Embodiment in Documentary”

Adam S. Kahn (USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism)
“As Doug Did Think: The Shared Visions of Vannevar Bush and Doug Engelbart”

Chuk Moran (UC San Diego, Communication)
“Undo Commands and Interactivity Meet “Real Time”

Stephen Mandiberg (UC San Diego, Communication)
“Other Histories: The Remake and The Sweded Film ”

4:15     –     Keynote Roundtable

The Stakes and Methods for Studying the Media Industries

Moderated by Ellen Seiter (USC, Critical Studies)

Nitin Govil (UC San Diego, Communication)

Jennifer Holt (UC Santa Barbara, Film and Media Studies)

Toby Miller (UC Riverside)

Reception to Follow