FYI: Japan-related panels at SCMS, March 8-11

[Mark Nornes]

S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G I-T O-U-T: Typography in Film

Room:

Chair: Michael Baker (McGill University)

Matthew Soar (Concordia University), "Type Set: For a Cultural  
Economy of Lettering and Typography in Cinema"
Michael Baker (McGill University), "Wes Anderson’s Alphabet & the  
Clothes Characters Wear: Reading Directorial Style in Opening Credits"
Daniel Fineman (Occidental College), "The Text of Undoing: Typography  
in Welles’ Mr. Arkadin"
Sarah Teasley (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth), "Reading the  
Cinematic City: The Typography of Environmental Graphics in Prewar  
Japanese Film"
Respondent: Rembert Hueser (University of Minnesota)

Japanese Cinema and Culture

Room:

Chair: Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon)

Brian Ruh (Indiana University), "America’s Anime, Japan’s Anime:  
Identifying Japanese Animation in Global Circulation"
Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon), "Japanese Men with Movie  
Cameras: 'Lights, Camera, Nation!'"
Akira Lippit (University of Southern California), "At the Center of  
the Outside: Japanese Cinema Nowhere"
Alastair Phillips (University of Reading), "Unsettled Visions. Space,  
Time and Modernity in Imamura Shohei's Vengeance is Mine (1979)"

The National in the Transnational: Ventriloquism in Korean Cinema

Room:

Chair: JungBong Choi (New York University)

Hye Jean Chung (University of California, Santa Barbara),  
"Historicization of Personal Testimony: The Reclamation of Voice in  
The Murmuring"
Sangjoon Lee (New York University), "Rewriting ‘Korean National  
Cinema’ in the Age of Transnational Imaginary: The First Period of  
Shaw Brothers/Shin Film Co-productions during the 1960s"
Sueyoung Park-Primiano (New York University), "The Roundabout:  
National Identities in Transnational Korean Culture"
HyunHee Park (University of Chicago), "Between Korea and Japan: On  
Yoichi Sai’s Cinematic Instability"

Japanese Cinema: Gender and Genres

Chair: Nicholas Schlegel (Wayne State University)

Nicholas Schlegel (Wayne State University), "Identity Crisis:  
Imperialist Vampires in Japan?"
Myoungsook Park (University of Iowa), "On Minority Representations in  
Contemporary Japanese Cinema: Representations of Resident Koreans in  
Go (Yukisada Isao, 2001)"
Deborah Shamoon (University of Notre Dame), "Domesticating Japanese  
Girlhood: The Film Career of Misora Hibari, 1946-1955"
Leslie Marsh (University of Michigan), "Buraziru: The Japanese  
Immigrant and Dekassegui Experience in Tizuka Yamasaki’s Gaijin: Os  
Caminhos da Liberdade (1980) and Gaijin: Ame-me Como Sou (2005)"

Rethinking Genre II

Room:

Chair: Joseph Schaub (College of Notre Dame)

Joseph Schaub (College of Notre Dame), "When Cute Becomes Scary:  
Images of the Young Female in Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema"
Rebecca Gordon (Oberlin College), "“It’s a New System. I Wanted Us  
All to Discover It”: Crafting a Post-Feminist Horror Mythology in The  
Descent"
Donald LaCoss (University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse), "A Fistful of  
Fanon: Postcolonial Politics & the Spaghetti Western"
Jeff P. Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Film and the  
Musical Analogy: Rethinking an Old Theoretical Concept"

Historical Trajectories in Cross-Border East Asian Cinemas

Room:

Chair: Hyung-Sook Lee (University of Southern California)
Co-chair: Stephanie DeBoer (SSRC/Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo)

Dong Hoon Kim (University of Southern California), "Benshi across the  
Borders:Benshi and Byonsa in Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule"
Charles Leary (New York University), "The Didactics of Cathay Cinema  
and Hong Kong Modernity"
Hyung-Sook Lee (University of Southern California), "Transnational  
Filmmaking and Oscillating Names: The Case of Chung Chang-Wha"
Stephanie DeBoer (SSRC/Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo), "Asian Beat:  
Omnibus Asia at the Limits of the Link"



Pornography Studies I

Karen Hall (Ithaca College)

David Andrews (Independent Scholar), "Does Porn Need Sex, or is S-e-x  
Enough? Toward an Analytic Definition of Pornography"
Katrien Jacobs (City University of Hong Kong) and Chantal Zakari  
(School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), "Soft Arousal Latex  
Party: Web Affairs and Pornification in The Twilight Zone"
Young Eun Chae (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),  
"Visualizing Female Pleasure on the World Wide Web: Internet  
Pornography in South Korea, Japan, and the United States"
Karen Hall (Ithaca College), "Covering the Iraq Netwar: War  
Pornography and the Occupation in Public Space"

Formal Conventions and Textual Relations

Room:

Chair: Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame)

Dan Russek (University of Victoria), "Politics of the Image: Modern  
Media in the Literary Works of Julio Cortázar and Tomás Eloy Martínez"
Greg Wright (Michigan State University), "Provocative Developments:  
Photographic Logic and Quantum Uncertainty in the Multiple Forms of  
The Big Sleep"
Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University), "Effacing Nationality:  
Hollywood's Adaptation of Contemporary Japanese Films"
Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame), "The Office: An American  
Success Story"

Cinema and Translation: Technologies, Styles and the Politics of  
Language Transfer

Room:

Chair: Natasa Durovicova (University of Iowa)

Sheila Skaff (University of Texas, El Paso), "Intertitles and  
Language Conflict in Bydgoszcz, El Paso and Juarez, 1908-1920"
Charles O'Brien (Carleton University), "Dubbing Technique and Its  
Stylistic Consequences: The Translation into French of Alfred  
Hitchcock’s Waltzes from Vienna (1934)"
Joshua First (University of Michigan), "Making Socialist Cinema Multi/ 
National: The Politics of Film Translation in the Soviet Union,  
1960-1980"
Mark Nornes (University of Michigan), "Dangerous Liaisons: Traders,  
Traitors and the Film Festival Network"

Performance, Projection, and the Asian Diaspora

Room:

Chair: Peter X Feng (University of Delaware)

Peter X Feng (University of Delaware), "King vs. Chairman, or the  
Comedy of Extreme Sports: Translating Japanese Television for U.S.  
Audiences"
Ju Yon Kim (Stanford), "Playing the Part, Burying the Body: Racial  
Performance and Performativity in Better Luck Tomorrow"
Steven Lee (Stanford), "Viktor Tsoi at Sundance: Soviet  
Counterculture and the Korean Diaspora"

Constructions of Racial Identity

Chair: Adam Knee (Ohio University)

Hilaria Loyo (Universidad de Zaragoza), "Blinding Blondes Go West:  
Whiteness, Star, Genre and Nation in the Early Fifties"
Christine Guzaitis (University of California, San Diego), "Seeing  
Double: Interracial Desire and Gender Deviance in U.S. Filmic  
Representations of Post-World War II Japan"
Adam Knee (Ohio University), "White Chicks in a New York Minute:  
Performing/Transforming White Femininity in Contemporary Hollywood"
Nancy Inouye (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst), "Hollywood’s  
‘Yellowface’: The Spectacle of Orientalism in Film Scoring and  
Performance"

Project Sternberg

Chair: Janet Bergstrom (University of California, Los Angeles)

Janet Bergstrom (University of California, Los Angeles), "Josef von  
Sternberg: Salvation Hunter"
Jason Skonieczny (University of Southern California, Los Angeles),  
"American Lyrical Abstraction: Sternberg in Light of Deleuze"
Andrew Woods (UCLA), "Sternberg at RKO"
Sachiko Mizuno (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Saga of  
Anathan and Sternberg in Japan"
Respondent: Lea Jacobs (University of Wisconsin, Madison)


  “Extreme” East Asian Cinema and Cult Film Canons

Chair: Hye Seung Chung (Hamilton College)

Chi-Yun Shin (Sheffield Hallam University), "All in the Name: Tartan  
Asia Extreme Films"
Hye Seung Chung (Hamilton College), "Hooking the Audience: The  
Repulsive Attraction of Kim Ki-duk’s Yopgi Cinema"
James Fiumara (University of Pennsylvania), "Narration, Aesthetics,  
and Torture in Takashi Miike’s Audition"
Ruby Cheung (University of St Andrews), "(De)Territorializing Horror:  
Domestic Specificities and Transnationalism in Fruit Chan’s Dumplings  
(2004)"
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