San
Francisco State University Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference
October 3rd and 4th, 2003
October 3rd and 4th, 2003
Conference Panels
Adrift In the Mainstream: Hollywood and the Subversive Body
"Panic Space, Panic Time, Action Heroine"
Abigail Salerno, Duke University
“‘Can't You See I'm Working Here?’: Mel does Marx”
Amy Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Guilty Observer: Spectatorship in Boogie Nights"
Kieryn McKay, University of Sydney
Outside the Norm: Explicit Bodies and Textual Perversities
"Sexual Simulacra"
Albert de Plazaola, Georgetown University
"Identities, Abjection, and Body Genres in Music Videos"
Abigail Sandige, Emory University
"The Road to Shame: Stereotypes, Images, and Postmodernity In Daytime Entertainment Television"
Kevin Sherman, San Francisco State University
Bodies And Borders: Representation and Crossing Cultures
"Screened Body/Embodied Screen: Woman's Veiled Body in Iranian Cinema"
Z. Pamela Karimi, MIT
"Mummified Alive: Ancient Egypt, Horror and the Cinematic Experience"
Leslie Lewis, Northwestern University
"Chamma chamma: the all new singing and dancing Bollywood body in Moulin Rouge"
Anupama Prabhala Kapse, UC Berkeley
Diseased Bodies: Anxiety and Infection in Cinematic Reproduction
"Mis-Reading the Body: The Posthuman and the Organic in The Ring"
Stephanie Benn, University of Northern Colorado
"Terrors of the Invisible Spectral Body and the Visible Medium in Peter Tscherkassky's Outer Space"
Michelle Puetz, University of Chicago
"Scanning for Viruses: Saramgao, Markovic and Lars Von Trier"
Shahnaz Habib, New School University
Inanimate Objects:Pleasure and Technology in the Dead and Decaying
"Moving Death: Cinema's Interest in the Dying Body, 1893-1908"
Scott Combs, UC Berkeley
"'It's a bit more complicated than that:' Resident Evil, Late-Capitalism, and the Pleasure Principle"
Ben Stork, San Francisco State University
"Hyperaging and Cinephilia"
Ara Osterweil, UC Berkeley
Subject to Suffering: Bodily Mediations and Manipulations
"Revolution without Copulation: Decóupage, Bodies, and Politics in Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade"
Vance L. Byrd, University of Pennsylvania
"Cut Bodies"
Andrea Bellavita, University of Milan
"Grappling with the Body: Race, Sex and the Ritual of the Sun Vow"
Matthew Kiesner, Emory University
Citing Symptoms: Between The Body and Its Reflections
"Our Bodies, Other Selves: Representing the Machine in Human Form"
Leah Reich, UC Irvine
"Forrest Gump and Fight Club: What Remains of the Forgotten Body?"
Natalie Wilson, PhD University of London
"Invisible Matters: Ideology, The Matrix and Working Through Representation"
Kevin Mcdonald, San Francisco State University
Normalizing Desires: Bodies and the Social Landscape
"The Canadian Landscape and the Psycho-geography of the/an Anus"
Peter Hobbs, University of Rochester
"Dreaming the Father's Body: Nuclear Masculinities and the Cold War Imaginary"
Chris Dumas, Indiana University
"Bodies, Rest & Motion: Transgendered Identities in Flawless and Normal"
Shannon Donaldson-McHugh, McMaster University
Look at Us Now: Visible Bodies and Issues of Spectatorship
"Perver-sive Spectatorship: Impotence and Pleasures in Suite 16"
Lili Hsieh, Duke University
"Lovely and Amazing: Rewriting Women's Bodies on Screen"
Kate Bernstein, New York University
“The Exploration of the Body as the Site of Vulnerability and Lack of Autonomy in the Work of Almodovar"
Susana Perez Pico, San Francisco State University
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