SCMS Line-up

[Eija Niskanen]

I could ask my landlady - she rents one apartment on short-term basis.

Eija

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:06 PM,  <drainer at mpinet.net> wrote:
> I was going to suggest a business hotel, but then I checked Markus' link and
> it has better details:
> http://web.mac.com/leslielemond/SCMS@50-Tokyo/Accommodations.html
>
> If you're staying for 2 weeks I suggest you get a business apartment (look
> up monthly chintai), as it will be cheaper.
>
> This looks like a massive conference, many kinejapan members in the panels;
> I had no idea Josai hosted it.
>
>
> -d
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew H. Bernstein"
> <mbernst at emory.edu>
> To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 10:49 PM
> Subject: Re: SCMS Line-up
>
>
> If I may ask:
>
> I am one of probably many SCMS members and a Kinejapaner who has never
> visited Japan.
>
> I would welcome recommendations from people about hotels near the conference
> and also the best way to find information on some kind of sightseeing
> guides.  I plan to stay several extra days before or after the conference.
>
> thanks.
> Matthew
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----  From: Mark Nornes
>  To: KineJapan
>  Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 8:12 PM
>  Subject: SCMS Line-up
>
>
>  I don't recall anyone noting this, so I will. SCMS announced their line-up
> for the Tokyo conference. I take this visit to Tokyo has an
> honest-to-goodness attempt to "provincialize SCMS". Judging from the panels
> I see here, they seem to have done just that. I don't recall any conference
> anywhere with so many fascinating panels on Asia. I'm very much looking
> forward to this.
>
>
>  One other thing that surprised me was the number of panels on film
> festivals, something dear to my heart.
>
>
>  In any case, many tough decisions will have to be made this spring.
>
>
>  Markus
>
>
>  Full conference schedule:
>  http://www.cmstudies.org/conferences/TokyoConferenceProgramDraft.htm
>
>
>  And here's just the Asian-related panels:
>
>
>  Preliminary Conference Program DRAFT
>  2009 SCMS Conference
>  SCMS at 50/Tokyo: Mobilizing the Future/Screening the Past
>
>
>  Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:00-9:45 am (Session A)
>
>
>  A1: An Archaelogy of Asian Screen Representation and the Display of
> Oriental (De)cadence: Assessing the Future of Global Hollywood
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Lindy Leong (University of California, Los Angeles/Purchase
> College-SUNY)
>
>
>  Benjamin Min Han (New York University), "The Kim Sisters and American
> Television"
>  Jinhee Choi (University of Kent), "Inter-Lingual 'Translation' and
> Epistemic Risk: Reflections on Multinational Casts and Dubbing in Asian
> Co-Productions"
>  Lindy Leong (UCLA/Purchase College-SUNY), "Bangkok Dangerous and the SE
> Asian (Dis)connection: Inscrutability and Resistance in the Cinema of
> Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the Thai New Wave"
>
>
>  Respondent: Hyung-Sook Lee (Ewha Woman's University, Korea)
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  A2: Workshop: Asian Cinemas and the Neoliberal Turn: The Politics and
> Aesthetics of Gender and Sexuality
>
>
>  Room: 301B
>
>
>  Chair: Jyotsna Kapur (Southern Illinois University)
>  Co-chair: Sunny Yoon (Hanyang University)
>
>
>  Workshop Participants:
>  Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong)
>  Amy Villarejo (Cornell University)
>  Rie Karatsu (University of Nagasaki)
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  A3: War, History, and Trauma In Japanese Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Oliver Dew (Birkbeck College, University of London)
>
>
>  Mark Pendleton (University of Melbourne / TUFS), "Trauma Cinema and
> Remembering Terror: Shiota Akihiko's Canary and post-Aum Japanese Film"
>  Patrick Crogan (University of the West of England), "Shohei Imamura's Black
> Rain: Reconsidering Tradition, Ideology and Survival"
>  Mayumo Inoue (The University of the Ryukyus), "Hiroshima beyond the
> Aesthetics of Failure: History, Materialism, and the City in Suwa Nobuhiro's
> H Story"
>  Oliver Dew (Birkbeck College, University of London), "Melodrama Wars: The
> Politics of the Wound and Contested Memories of the War in Recent Japanese
> Films"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  A4: Transcultural Dialogues with Japanese Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 401
>
>
>  Chair: João Luiz Vieira (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
>
>
>  Andre Kunigami (Fluminense Federal University, UFF), "Japanese Contemporary
> Cinema and Its Vanishing 'Real': Towards a New Mode of the Image"
>  João Luiz Vieira (Universidade Federal Fluminense), "Japanese/Brazilian Pop
> Images: Mazzaropi, Laughter, Resistance and the Powers of Genre"
>  Denilson Silva (Federal University, Rio de Janeiro), "Ozu and the Search
> for a Contemporary Aesthetics of Everyday Life"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  A5: Contemporary Asian Diasporas: Redefinitions of Place and Subjectivity
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Ian Conrich (Birkbeck College, University of London)
>
>
>  Suzie Young (York University), "Cutting-edge Memory: YouTube and the Hong
> Kong Diaspora"
>  Helen Grace (Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Intertextuality and
> Migration: Diaspora and Revival in Recent Asian Australian Cinema"
>  Felicity Colman (Manchester Metropolitan University), "'If You Were Me':
> Listening to Diasporic Affect in 'Noise' (2007)"
>  Ian Conrich (Birkbeck College, University of London), "Beyond
> Biculturalism: Cross-Cultural Relationships in Asian-New Zealand Films"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  A11: A Cinematic Bestiary: The Animal in Film and Philosophy
>
>
>  Room: 503AB
>
>
>  Chair: Andrey Gordienko (University of California, Los Angeles)
>
>
>  André Dias (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), "Autopsy 'in vivo': Biopolitical
> Features Regarding Wiseman's Primate"
>  Agustin Zarzosa (Edinboro University), "Pencil's Senseless Death,
> Valentine's Unspeakable Crime, and the Incongruous Animal Melodrama"
>  Andrey Gordienko (University of California, Los Angeles), "To Live and Die
> like an Animal: The Sovereign Hero in Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom"
>
>
>  A13: Phenomenological Encounters on and beyond the Screen
>
>
>  Room: 505AB
>
>
>  Chair: Greg Tuck (University of the West of England)
>
>
>  Codruta Morari (Sorbonne Nouvelle/Harvard University), "Sensuousness of the
> Cinematic Body : Phenomenology of Style and 'Feminine Truth' in Rivette's La
> Belle Noiseuse and Sautet's Un Cœur en hiver"
>  Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary, University of London), "Luce Irigaray and Morvern
> Callar – 'Where the Look Itself Remains Tactile'"
>  Kate Ince (University of Birmingham), "Existential Phenomenology, Feminism
> and the Film Experience"
>  Greg Tuck (University of the West of England), "Dead Bodies, Live Flesh:
> the Embodiment of Love and Loss in Tsukamoto Shinya's Vital (2004)"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:00-11:45 am (Session B)
>
>
>  B1: Contemporary Asian Film Industries: Festivals, Markets and Other
> Cosmopolitan Spaces
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Aynne Kokas (University of California, Los Angeles)
>  Co-chair: Kyung Kim (University of California, Irvine)
>
>
>  Chia-Chi Wu (National Taiwan Normal University), "Hong Kong Cinema before
> Kungfu Panda"
>  Brian Hu (University of California, Los Angeles), "Rebranding the Cinemas
> of Hong Kong and Taiwan: The Cosmopolitan Labor and Technology of Global
> Film Markets"
>  Bruce Williams (William Paterson University), "Constructive Reflections:
> The Pivotal Role of Film Criticism in North Korea Nation Building"
>  Aynne Kokas (University of California, Los Angeles), "Sino-U.S. Film
> Co-production Practice and the Rise of the Chinese Film Market"
>
>
>
>
>  B3: Alternative Cinema in Japan
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Mika Ko (University of Sheffield, England)
>
>
>  Ayami Ushida (Nihon University), "The Mysterious Scene between the
> Cinematic Image and the Original Novel"
>  Justin Jesty (University of Chicago), "Dokuritsu Puro - Independent
> Production in Japan's Early Postwar"
>  Scott Nygren (University of Florida), "Yoshida's Political Purgatory"
>  Mika Ko (University of Sheffield, England), "'Abnormal' Body, Sexuality and
> Ethnicity: Matsui Yoshihiko's Cinema of Taboo"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  B5: The Evolution and Impact of China Central Television
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Ying Zhu (College of Staten Island-CUNY)
>
>
>  Ruoyun Bai (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "CCTV Dramas and the
> Re-making of Heroes in the 2000s"
>  Yik-Chan Chin (Oxford University), "Can the China Central Television Still
> Maintain the Monopoly?"
>  Zhifeng Hu (University of China), "State, Market, and Public Interest: The
> Role of CCTV in China's Political Reform in the New Century"
>  Sixian Huang (Beijing Film Academy), "The Rise of "Star-search" Reality
> Shows and Its Cultural Ramification"
>
>
>
>
>  B7: New Media Networks: Global, Biological, Technological Networks
>
>
>  Room: 404
>
>
>  Chair: Anne Friedberg (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Wendy Chun (Brown University), "Embodied Networks: Cyworld and the South
> Korean Race/Nation"
>  Beth Coleman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Real-Time Networks"
>  Brian Goldfarb (University of California, San Diego), "Networks for
> Redefining Disorder: Internet-based Public Health Intervention Projects"
>  Scott McFarlane (Concordia University), "The Melting Pots of Biotechnology"
>
>
>  Respondent: Philip Rosen (Brown University)
>
>
>  B8: Gender and Silent Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 405
>
>
>  Chair: Laura Horak (University of California, Berkeley)
>
>
>  Michele Torre (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), "A Reel Woman:
> Zoia Barantsevich Makes Her Mark in the Movies"
>  Michael T. Williams (University of Southampton), "The Undying Past: Stars,
> Symmetry and History in Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, 1926)."
>  Bryan Hartzheim (UCLA), "An Asian Doll in French Clothes: Assimilation in
> the Films and Reception of Tsuruko Aoki"
>  Laura Horak (University of California, Berkeley), "Cross-gender Casting in
> Silent Cinema"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  B9: Film and Digital Form
>
>
>  Room: 501AB
>
>
>  Chair: Seung-hoon Jeong (Yale University)
>
>
>  Matthew Tinkcom (Georgetown University), "Primer and Digital Time: On the
> DVD, Value and Recursivity"
>  Eser Selen (New York University), "Re/booting Binaries: What is Old in the
> New Media?"
>  Maria Cruz (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), "Screening and Accessing: Space
> and Time in Contemporary Visual Culture"
>  Seung-hoon Jeong (Yale University), "A Spectatorial Turn of Digital
> Indexicality"
>
>
>
>
>  Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:15-3:00 pm (Session C)
>
>
>  C1: Perspective Matters: Transnational Perspectives on Identity Performance
> in East Asian Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Michael Baskett (University of Kansas)
>
>
>  Darrell Davis (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), "'Lust, Caution': Class
> Acts, Transgressive Consumption"
>  Michael Baskett (University of Kansas), "Between the National and
> Transnational: Performing Identity in 1960s Pan-Asian Spy Films"
>  Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (Hong Kong Baptist University), "Incriminating Spaces:
> Borderless Asia in the Films of Miike Takashi"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
>
>
>  C2: Workshop: Japanese Cinema in the World
>
>
>  Room: 301B
>
>
>  Chair: Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon)
>
>
>  Workshop Participants:
>  Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University)
>  Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (New York University)
>  Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick)
>  Scott Nygren (University of Florida)
>  Akira Lippit (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>  C3: Miike Takashi
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Dylan Ellefson (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Dylan Ellefson (University of Southern California), "Televisual Nostalgia:
> Representations of Home and the Recent Past in Miike Takashi`s Osaka Coming
> of Age Films"
>  Steven Rawle (York St. John University), "Visitor M: The Selling of Miike
> Takashi as an International Auteur"
>  Alain Chouinard (Concordia University), "The Hetero-masculine Body and the
> Transgression of its Homogeneous Boundaries in Takashi Miike's Yakuza Films,
> Ichi the Killer and Gozu"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  C4: Imagining the Urban II: Urban Geographies of Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 401
>
>
>  Chair: Pamela Wojcik (University of Notre Dame)
>
>
>  Sabine Haenni (Cornell University), "Genre/City: Toward a Theory of the
> Cinema's Urban Imagination"
>  Paola Bonifazio (New York University), "Documentary Films and the 'Housing
> Revolution': in Cold War Italy"
>  Diane Lewis (University of Chicago), ""Kyoto, Hollywood of Japan":
> Imaginary Geographies of the Japanese Film Industry after the Great Kanto
> Earthquake of 1923"
>  Brendan Kredell (Northwestern University), ""Le langage du cinéma est
> universel": The Cinema of Gentrification in the Contemporary North American
> Motion Picture Industry"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  C5: Pacific Visions: Tracing the Movement of Memory between North America
> and Asia
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Kirsten McAllister (Simon Fraser University)
>
>
>  Kirsten McAllister (Simon Fraser University), "Temporal Movements: >From
> Historical Displacements to Transnational Flow"
>  Roy Miki (Simon Fraser University), "Rewiring the Critical Affects: Reading
> 'Asian Canadian' in the Transnational Sites of Kerri Sakamoto's One Hundred
> Million Hearts"
>  Monika Gagnon (Concordia University), "Posthumous Cinema: Unfinished Films
> and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's White Dust from Mongolia"
>  Cindy Mochizuki (Emily Carr University), "Re-performing Interviews from
> Slocan to Shizuoka & on..."
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  C8: Race, Ethnicity, and Film History
>
>
>  Room: 405
>
>
>  Chair: Peter Limbrick (University of California-Santa Cruz)
>
>
>  Yuanyuan Wang (University of Hong Kong), "Nonsignification, Elusiveness and
> the Power of Fiction: Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the Cinematic
> Historicity"
>  Michael Meneghetti (Brock University), "'Emotions in the Emulsion': Acts,
> Intercessors, and History in Italianamerican and American Boy"
>  Raphael Lambert (University of Tsukuba), "The Middle Passage: Film Posters
> and the Meaning They Create"
>  Peter Limbrick (University of California-Santa Cruz), "The Seekers: Film
> History and Postcolonial Encounters in Aotearoa/New Zealand."
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  C11: Transformations of the Flesh
>
>
>  Room: 503AB
>
>
>  Chair: Sophia Harvey (Vassar College)
>  Co-chair: Mike Dillon (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Raphael Raphael (University of Oregon), "Planet Kong: Transnational Use of
> the Chronotope of King Kong (1933) in Japan and Southeast Asia"
>  Mike Dillon (University of Southern California), "Impossible
> Representations: The 'Thinking Bomb' of The Terrorist (Santosh Sivan,1999)"
>  Sophia Harvey (Vassar College), "Who's the Dummy? Mapping Subjectivity,
> Materiality, and Corporeality in Pin (Sandor Stern, 1988) and Magic (Richard
> Attenborough, 1978)"
>
>
>  Respondent:: E. Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:15-5:00 pm (Session D)
>
>
>  D1: Cinema as Heterotopia in East Asia: Past, Present, and Future
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Derek Lam (University of Hong Kong)
>
>
>  Shota Ogawa (University of Rochester), "Curtain Call: Contesting Nostalgia
> at the End of Cinema, at the Edge of Honshu"
>  Yiping Lin (University of Hong Kong), "Summer Palace Mon Amour: Memories of
> Youth and Postsocialist Aesthetics"
>  Mathias Windelberg (Academy of Fine Arts), "The Wired City: Tracks, Games,
> Ball-bearings & Cherry Blossoms"
>  Derek Lam (University of Hong Kong), "Dreams and Nightmares: Simulation and
> Heterotopias in East-Asian Sci-Fi"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  D3: Revisiting Europe's Past: Japanese Anime Travelogues in Europe and the
> Future of Japanese Animation
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Enrique Garcia (Middlebury College)
>
>
>  Jinying Li (New York University), "A European Past vs. a Futurist Tokyo:
> Mapping the Global Trajectory of Japanese Anime through Narrative Settings"
>  Nikolina Dobreva (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Monarchy or
> Republic?: 18th Century European Elites and Nationalism in the Japanese
> Anime Le Chevalier D'eon"
>  Matthew Penney (Concordia University), "Wartime Germany and
> "Multidirectional Memory" in Space Battleship Yamato"
>  Enrique Garcia (Middlebury College), "Naoki Urasawa's Monster: An
> Ideological Travelogue Through Post-cold War Europe"
>
>
>  D4: Visualizations of Japan in an International Context
>
>
>  Room: 401
>
>
>  Chair: Miryam Sas (University of California, Berkeley)
>
>
>  Sarah Teasley (Northwestern University), "Exhibition Technology: Display
> Design and the Postwar Conceptualization of Japan"
>  Miryam Sas (University of California, Berkeley), "New Languages of
> Photography and Experimental Film in 1960s Japan"
>  Steven Ridgely (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Terayama Shūji and
> Post-new Wave Experimental Cinema"
>  Deborah Shamoon (University of Notre Dame), "Casshern's Fictional
> Landscapes"
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  D5: European Art Cinema and Asia
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Jie Li (Harvard University)
>
>
>  Anne Rutherford (University of Western Sydney), "Eisenstein and Takemitsu:
> Polyphonic Montage, Mimetic Correspondences and Cinematic Perception"
>  Homay King (Bryn Mawr College), "Yamamoto's Jacket: Wim Wenders' Notebook
> on Cities and Clothes"
>  Tracy Biga MacLean (Claremont Colleges) and Jon Wagner (California
> Institute of the Arts), "Greenaway in Japan: Pages and Screens in The Pillow
> Book"
>  Jie Li (Harvard University), "The Maoist Mise-en-Scène: Antonioni, Ivens,
> and the Chinese Cultural Revolution"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  D6: The Economics, Politics, and Art of Film Festivals
>
>
>  Room: 403
>
>
>  Chair: Lisa Dombrowski (Wesleyan University)
>  Co-chair: James Udden (Gettysburg College)
>
>
>  Ramona Curry (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Working Locally,
> Watching Globally: Origins and Impact of the San Francisco International
> Film Festival"
>  Cindy Wong (College of Staten Island, City University of New York), "Beyond
> Electric Shadows: The Hong Kong International Film Festival and the
> Globalization of Chinese Language Cinemas"
>  James Udden (Gettysburg College), "Political Pariahs, Festival Faves:
> Taiwan, Iran and the Cinematic Art of Cultural Diplomacy"
>  Lisa Dombrowski (Wesleyan University), "Bringing Festival Cinema Back Home:
> IFC's First Take and Fest Direct"
>
>
>
>
>  D8: Camp and Public Screens
>
>
>  Room: 405
>
>
>  Chair: Chunchi Wang (National Dong Hwa University)
>
>
>  Hollis Griffin (Northwestern University), "Public Screens, Commercial
> Spaces, and Media Culture's Gay Consumer-Citizen"
>  Nan McVittie (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), "Sending Camp to Kids:
> Youth Audiences and the Queer Politics of Paul Reubens and John Waters"
>  Chunchi Wang (National Dong Hwa University), "Camp in Context: Rethinking
> Camp Through Contemporary Taiwanese Gay Film"
>
>
>  D9: Origins of Animation
>
>
>  Room: 501AB
>
>
>  Chair: Casey Riffel (University of Southern California)
>  Co-chair: Annie Manion (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Casey Riffel (University of Southern California), "Origin Stories:
> Animation and Animalization in the Work of Winsor McCay"
>  Annie Manion (University of Southern California), "Discourses of
> Japaneseness: Animation, Modernity, and National Identity"
>  Lora Mjolsness (University of California, Irvine), "The Brumberg Sisters:
> The Early Years of Soviet Animation"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Lucy Fischer (University of Pittsburgh)
>
>
>
>
>  D11: Horror in Cross-cultural Context
>
>
>  Room: 503AB
>
>
>  Chair: Meheli Sen (DePaul University)
>
>
>  Hyo Kim (New York University), "Aesthetics of Moral Values in Asian Horror
> Films: An Analysis of Three Extreme"
>  Li Zeng (Northwestern University), "The Chinese Horror and The Return of
> the Historical Trauma:The Lonely Ghost in the Dark Mansion (1989)"
>  Usha Iyer (University of Pittsburgh), "The Tantric in the Hindi Horror
> Film: Monster or Mystic?"
>  Meheli Sen (DePaul University), "Futile Family Romance: Hindi Horror in the
> Bollywood Network"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  D14: Transnational Perspective on Cinema and Media in Africa
>
>
>  Room: 506
>
>
>  Chair: Augusto De Oliveira (University of Bristol)
>
>
>  Michael Laramee (University of Miami), "Oral Histories and Digital Futures:
> Why Nigerian and Ghanaian Film and Video Should Be In Focus"
>  J van Staden, "Ghost Money: Film, Globalization and the Capitalist Uncanny"
>  Aboubakar Sanogo (University of Southern California), "African and Asian
> Cinemas: Transversal Perspectives"
>  Augusto De Oliveira (University of Bristol), "Mobilizing the Future:
> Screening the Past in Mozambican Postcolonial Cinema"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Friday, May 22, 2009 8:00-9:45 am (Session E)
>
>
>  E1: Global Desires: East Asian Film/Cultural Policies and Industries
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Yoshi Tezuka (Komazawa University)
>
>
>  Yoshi Tezuka (Komazawa University), "Globalization and the Japanese Film
> Culture and Industry"
>  Kukhee Choo (University of Tokyo), "Playing the Global Game: Tokyo, the
> Anime Industry, and Nation State in Tekkon Kinkreet (2006)"
>  Yongmei Wu (Beijing Foreign Studies University), "Current Conditions and
> Challenges of China's Animation and Comic Industry"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Yoshitaka Mouri (Tokyo University of the Arts)
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  E2: Teaching Japanese Cinema and Media Outside Japan: A Pedagogical
> Workshop
>
>
>  Room: 301B
>
>
>  Chair: Ted Hovet (Western Kentucky University)
>
>
>  Workshop Participants:
>  Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame)
>  David Desser (University of Illinois)
>  Susan Napier (Tufts University)
>  Stephen Prince (Virginia Tech University)
>
>
>  This Workshop Session is dedicated to the memory of friend and colleague
> Keiko McDonald
>
>
>
>
>  E3: Unpacking a New Archive: "Korean" Films of Japan's Total War Period
> (1937-1945)
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Akira Lippit (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Kyung Kim (University of California-Irvine), "Viral Colony: Young-il's Sick
> Body in Spring of Korean Peninsula (Pando ûi pom, 1941)"
>  Young Jae Yi (The University of Tokyo), "Being a Volunteer Soldier, a
> Prescription of Melancholia ---An Imperial Soldier's Colonial Body in
> Volunteer (An Suk-Young, 1940)"
>  Kyeong-Hee Choi (University of Chicago) and HyunHee Park (University of
> Chicago), "The Old in the 'New': Thinking Propaganda through Gender in
> Wartime Chosŏn (Korean) Cinema"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Naoki Sakai (Cornell University)
>
>
>  E4: Tokyo Stories: Cosmopolitan Imaginaries of the City in Contemporary
> Screen Media
>
>
>  Chair: Jiwon Ahn (Keene State College)
>
>
>  Gabriella Lukacs (University of Pittsburgh), "Tokyo as Allegory in 1990s
> Japanese Cinema"
>  Jiwon Ahn (Keene State College), "From the 'Colonial Sticks': Tokyo in the
> Postcolonial Cinemas of Taiwanese and Korean Auteurs"
>  Martin Roberts (The New School), "Anime City: Tokyo as Subcultural Utopia"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (New York University)
>
>
>  E5: Intra-Asian Cross-Currents
>
>
>
>
>  Chair: Adam Knee (Nanyang Technological University)
>
>
>  Adam Knee (Nanyang Technological University), "Bollywood Does Bangkok:
> Perils of the Intra-Asian Gaze"
>  Stephen Teo (Nanyang Technological University), "The Chinese Blockbuster: A
> Question of Genre, Nation, and Trans-Nation"
>  See-Kam Tan (University of Macau), "Qiqing Romance Films from the Shaw
> Archive"
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  E6: Reception and Consumption
>
>
>  Room: 403
>
>
>  Chair: Bakirathi Mani (Swarthmore College)
>
>
>  Paul Roquet (University of California, Berkeley), "Regional Production and
> Rural Fantasy in Oguri Kohei's Nemuru Otoko (1996)"
>  Seio Nakajima (University of Hawaii at Manoa), "Film as Social Practice in
> Contemporary China"
>  Jaibeom Kim (Stanford University and SKKU) and Young Eun Park (Seoul
> National University), "Cultural Discount in Inter-Asian Movies"
>  Bakirathi Mani (Swarthmore College), "The Dancing Maharaja: Tamil Cinema
> and Japanese Fan Culture"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  E7: First Persons Plural: Image Correspondence, Networks, and Traffic
> Before and After Digital Publics
>
>
>  Room: 404
>
>
>  Chair: James Tobias (University of California, Riverside)
>  Co-chair: Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto)
>
>
>  James Tobias (University of California, Riverside), "Intimate Extimacy:
> Articulating the First Person Plural in Tokyo"
>  Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto), "The Traffic in Images: Relays of
> the Self in the Visual Essays of Hito Steyerl"
>  Feng-Mei Heberer (University of Southern California), "Sense and Self in
> Two Chinese Documentaries"
>
>
>  Sponsor: Experimental Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Friday, May 22, 2009 10:00-11:45 am (Session F)
>
>
>  F1: Transnational Asian Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Christina Klein (Boston College)
>
>
>  Jane Park (University of Sydney), "Remaking the Korean Blockbuster: A Case
> Study of My Sassy Girl"
>  Darcy Paquet (Kyung Hee University), "Fluid Borders: The Transnational
> Cinema of Zhang Lu"
>  Sean Metzger (Duke University), "Cui Zi'en, Queer Cinema and Transnational
> Distribution"
>  Christina Klein (Boston College), "Transnational Anime: Michael Arias'
> Tekkon Kinkkreet"
>
>
>
>
>  F3: Decentering Theory: The Case of Japanese Film Theory
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Aaron Gerow (Yale University)
>
>
>  Aaron Gerow (Yale University), "Theory Questioning Theory: Gonda, Nagae and
> Matsuda and the Strategies of Japanese Film Theory"
>  Naoki Yamamoto (Meiji Gakuin University), "Overcome by Reality: A Critical
> Approach to Realist Film Theories in Prewar Japan"
>  Patrick Noonan (University of California, Berkeley), "The Alterity of
> Cinema: Subjectivity, Self-negation, and Self-realization in Yoshida Kijû's
> Film Theory"
>  Ryan Cook (Yale University), "Strange Bedfellows: Ôshima Nagisa, Hasumi
> Shigehiko and Japanese Film Theory circa 1980"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  F4: Benshi across Time and Media: Utsushi-e (Magic Lantern), Cinema, and
> the Japanese Performance Tradition of Visual Media Narration
>
>
>  Room: 401
>
>
>  Chair: William Gardner (Swarthmore College)
>
>
>  Michiko Usui (Waseda University), "Utsushi-e (Japanese Magic Lantern) as a
> Medium for Narration"
>  Kyoko Omori (Hamilton College), "The Benshi as a Modernist: Tokugawa Musei
> and Psychological Films of the Early Twentieth Century"
>  William Gardner (Swarthmore College), "Sawato Midori and the Contemporary
> Performing Art of Katsudo Benshi (Silent Film Narrators)"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Richard Abel (University of Michigan)
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  F5: Interrogating Queer Spaces in East Asian Media
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Patricia White (Swarthmore College)
>
>
>  Akiko Mizoguchi (University of Rochester), "Reading and Living Yaoi:
> Male-Male Fantasy Narratives as Women's Sexual Subculture in Japan"
>  Yau Ching (Lingnan University), "Trans as Survival: Transgender
> Possibilities and Politics of CJ7"
>  Patricia White (Swarthmore College), "Asian Lesbian Directors and
> Trans/national Spaces"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Soyoung Kim (Korean National University of Art)
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  F6: Exhibition, Distribution, Marketing
>
>
>  Room: 403
>
>
>  Chair: Soojeong Ahn (Korea National University of Arts)
>
>
>  Vinnie Yu (Goldsmiths,University of London, UK), "The Social Practices of
> Contemporary Taiwanese Audiences' 'Cinemagoing' in the Digital Era"
>  Colleen Laird (University of Oregon), "The F1-sou and 'Girl's Style'
> Cinema: Selling Independent Female Filmmakers in Japan"
>  Chris Robinson (University of Kansas), "The 'Exotic,' the Universal, and
> the Art-House Gross: East-West Relations and Marketing Japanese Film to
> Foreign Audiences, 1951-1957"
>  Soojeong Ahn (Korea National University of Arts), "Why Pusan?: The
> Political Economy of the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea"
>
>
>  F8: Sex and the Global City
>
>
>  Room: 405
>
>
>  Chair: Homay King (Bryn Mawr College)
>
>
>  Sylvia Chong (University of Virginia), "East Asian Ménages à Trois:
> Heterosexual and Homosocial Triangulations of the Global Model Minority in
> Sayonara and Go For Broke"
>  Guo-Juin Hong (Duke University), "'I Don't Want to Have Sex Alone': Failed
> Intimacy and the Global City in Tsai Ming-Liang's Films"
>  Rei Magosaki (Chapman University), "The Other Sex and the City: Considering
> the Margins of the Global City"
>
>
>  Respondent:: David Eng (University of Pennsylvania)
>
>
>  F9: Psyche and Automaton: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of the Animated
> Image
>
>
>  Room: 501AB
>
>
>  Chair: Muneaki Hatakeyama (Waseda University)
>
>
>  Muneaki Hatakeyama (Waseda University), "Eisenstein's Animal: A
> Reconsideration of the Eisensteinian Notion of "Movement""
>  Tetsuya Miura (University of Tokyo), "Robert Bresson and the Mise-en-scène
> of Automaton"
>  Takeshi Kadobayashi (University of Tokyo), "Trajectory of the Cyborgian
> Smile: Man-machine Romances in Japanese Visual Culture"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Yoshiaki Sato (University of Tokyo)
>
>
>
>
>  F12: Revisions of Light: The Cinematography of International Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 504
>
>
>  Chair: Patrick Keating (Trinity University)
>
>
>  Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon), "Re-imagining Japanese Aesthetics:
> Lights and Shadows in Miyagawa Kazuo's Cinematography"
>  Frances Guerin (Ruhr University, Bochum), "Stereoscopic Visions in Color of
> Amateur Film from Nazi Germany"
>  Patrick Keating (Trinity University), "Neorealism, Narrative, and the
> Cinematography of Aldo Graziati"
>  Michael Aronson (University of Oregon), "No One Ever Hated Billy Bitzer: A
> Cinematographer And His Work"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  Friday, May 22, 2009 1:15-3:00 pm (Session G)
>
>
>  G1: Genre and the Transnational: Audiovisual Futures in the Asia-Pacific
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Michelle Cho (University of California, Irvine)
>  Co-chair: Ramon Lobato (University of Melbourne)
>
>
>  Ramon Lobato (University of Melbourne), "Circulatory Aesthetics: on
> Distribution and Genre"
>  Michelle Cho (University of California, Irvine), "The Negative Hermeneutics
> of Genre in the Films of Kim Ji-Woon"
>  Kim Icreverzi (University of California, Irvine), "The Sensation of Affect:
> Genre and Tactics of Spectatorship"
>  Sunhee Han (Yonsei University), "Digital Cinema as a Generic Form and the
> Role of Film Festivals"
>
>
>  G2: Workshop: State or the Art: International Co-production in East Asia
>
>
>  Room: 301B
>
>
>  Chair: Alexander Zahlten (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
>
>
>  Workshop Participants:
>  Stephanie DeBoer (Indiana University, Bloomington)
>  Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham)
>  Yong-Soon Hwang
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  G3: Spaces of Modernity: Ozu, Uchida, Yoshimura
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Alex Jacoby (University of Warwick)
>
>
>  Woojeong Joo (Nagoya University), "Digesting Modernity: Eating and Drinking
> Out Spaces in Ozu's Films of the Early 1930s"
>  Alex Jacoby (University of Warwick), "Yoshimura's Kyoto: Space and
> Femininity in the Postwar City"
>  Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick), "Fractured Landscapes: Space,
> Location and History in Uchida's A Fugitive from the Past (1965)"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University)
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  G4: Modern Femininity and Consumer Culture in Cinema of Imperial Japan
> During the 1930s
>
>
>  Room: 401
>
>
>  Chair: Sachiko Mizuno (University of California, Los Angeles)
>
>
>  Ryoko Misono (University of Tokyo), "Fallen Women on the Edge of Empire:
> Shimizu Hiroshi's films on Yokohama and the Image of Imperial Japan in the
> 1930s"
>  Miyoko Shimura (Waseda University ), "Japanese Women's Films and Cosmetic
> Advertisement in the 1930s"
>  Hana Washitani (Meiji-gakuin University), "The Economy of Geisha in the
> 1930s Japanese Cinema: Circulation of Women, Textiles, and Antiques in
> Sisters of Gion (1936)"
>  Sachiko Mizuno (University of California-Los Angeles), "Reconfiguring
> Modern Femininity for Empire: Moving Images of Professional Woman and Tokyo
> in Women in Tokyo (1939)"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  G5: East Meets Far East: Media Issues between Korea and the Philippines
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Joel David (Inha University)
>
>
>  Jongsuk Ham (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "Unstable
> Boundaries between Visual Pleasure and Identification in MMORPGs: A
> Comparison of Korean and Philippine Players' Experiences"
>  Taeyun Yu (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "Eastern
> Gunslingers: Andrew Cunanan and Cho Seung-Hui in the Western Media
> Imaginary"
>  Joel David (Inha University), "Problems and Prospects in the National
> Cinemas of Korea and the Philippines"
>  Chanhee Yom (Institute for East Asian Studies), "Cold War National
> Formations in the Cinemas of Korea and the Philippines"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Friday, May 22, 2009 3:15-5:00 pm (Session H)
>
>
>  H1: Asian-Pacific Cinemas: Distribution and Reception
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Ruby Cheung (University of St Andrews)
>
>
>  Yun Mi Hwang (University of St. Andrews), "Contested History and Reception
> of East Asian Martial Arts Epics"
>  Ruby Cheung (University of St Andrews), "From The  Warlords to Red Cliff:
> The Politics of Film Promotion in the Asia-Pacific and the Diasporic Chinese
> Online Fandom"
>  Daniel Martin (Queen's University Belfast), "Hype, Censorship and Critical
> Controversy: Kim Ki-duk in the UK"
>  Mary Ainslie (Manchester Metropolitan University), "Post-war Thai Cinema: A
> 'Traditional' Art Form of Colonialism"
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  H3: Contemporary Japanese Cinema – Distinctive Narrative Strategies
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Robert Davis (California State University, Fullerton)
>
>
>  Kendall Heitzman (Yale University), "The Anxiety of Influence in Kurosawa
> Kiyoshi's Loft"
>  Candice Wilson (University of Pittsburgh), "Empty Spaces, Repetition, and
> Remembrance: Kore-eda's Still Cinema"
>  Jerry Turner (University of North Carolina, Pembroke), "Narrative
> Techniques and the Search for a Postmodern Identity in the Films of Sono
> Sion"
>  Andrijana Cvetkovik (Nihon University, College of Art ), "The 'Flowing'
> Narrative in Contemporary Japanese Film"
>
>
>  H4: Cinema and the Postmetropolis
>
>
>  Room: 401
>
>
>  Chair: Christoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam)
>
>
>  Lawrence Bird (McGill University), "Post Metropolis: Re-animations of
> Global Power in the Animated City"
>  Christoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam), "The Postmetropolis and Mental
> Life: Wong Kar-Wai's Hong Kong"
>  Ran Ma (University of Hong Kong), "Floating Tracks into the Ruins: West of
> the Tracks and the Poetics of Wasteland in Postsocialist China"
>  Anna Notaro (University of Dundee), "Screening the Post-metropolis: Issues
> of Post-humanism, Ecocide and Love in Wonderful Days (Moon-saeng Kim, Korea
> 2003) and Natural City (Byung-chun Min, Korea 2003)"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  H5: Queer Asia
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Rachel Lewis (Cornell University)
>
>
>  Rachel Lewis (Cornell University), "Towards a Transnational Lesbian Cinema"
>  Yin-chin Chen (University of Oregon), "Taiwanese Queer Cinematic Aesthetic
> and Its Exploration on Nationality in Spider Lillies"
>  Jeffery Tan (University of Cambridge), "Exploiting Lesbianism: The Shaw
> Studio's Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan"
>  Yongwoo Lee (McGill University), "Invisibly Visible, Unlocatably
> Everywhere;Queer Appropriation of 70's Hostess Movie Genre and
> Melodramatized Queerscape in Lee Songheeil's No Regret"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  H13: The Cinema and its Masses: Politics and Aesthetics
>
>
>  Room: 505AB
>
>
>  Chair: Yuriko Furuhata (McGill University)
>
>
>  Philip Rosen (Brown University), "From 'The Masses' To 'The Media': Marxist
> Film Theory And Contemporary Critique"
>  Yuriko Furuhata (McGill University), "Theorizing Plasticity and the Masses:
> Hanada Kiyoteru and Sergei Eisenstein"
>  Gertrud Koch (Freie Universitaet, Berlin), "Screening the Mass: Inclusion
> and/or Exclusion"
>  Volker Pantenburg (Freie Universität, Berlin), "Monitoring the Masses:
> Video, Surveillance and the Public Sphere"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:00-9:45 am (Session I)
>
>
>  I1: International Film Festivals and the Framing of (Transnational) East
> Asian Cinemas and Auteurs
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Shujen Wang (Emerson College)
>
>
>  Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham), "Global Auteurs and the
> International Film Festival Economy"
>  Nikki J. Y. Lee (Yonsei University), "Film Festivals Present 'Japanese
> Auteur Directors': Miike Takashi and the International Film Festival
> Rotterdam"
>  Shujen Wang (Emerson College), "National Cinema, International Film
> Festivals/Sales, and the Location of Tsai Ming-Liang's Films"
>  Chris Fujiwara, "Japanese Films in International Festivals"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  I2: Workshop: Korean Cinema in a Transnational/Pedagogical Frame
>
>
>  Room: 301B
>
>
>  Chair: Hye Seung Chung (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
>
>
>  Workshop Participants:
>  Earl Jackson (Korea University)
>  Soyoung Kim (Korean National University of Art)
>  David Scott Diffrient (Colorado State University)
>  Hye Seung Chung (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
>  Hyangjin Lee (Rikko University, The University of Sheffield )
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  I3: The Importance of Sogo IshiiI
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Randolph Jordan (Concordia University)
>  Co-chair: Peter Rist (Concordia University)
>
>
>  Alexander Zahlten (Johannes Gutenberg University-Mainz), "Free-floating
> Intensity, Attraction, and Failure: Sogo Ishii at the Shifting Center of the
> Film Industry of Japan"
>  Tom Mes (Midnighteye.com), "Key Factor: Music in the Life and Work of Sogo
> Ishii"
>  Randolph Jordan (Concordia University), "Rustling Trees and Humming Power
> Poles: Soundscapes of the Divide between Tradition and Modernity in the
> Cinema of Sogo Ishii"
>  Peter Rist (Concordia University), "Sogo Ishii's Shuffle and the Evolution
> of the Chase Motif in World Cinema"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  I4: Genre Cinema in Japan
>
>
>  Room: 401
>
>
>  Chair: Adam Lowenstein (University of Pittsburgh)
>
>
>  Mark Best (University of Pittsburgh), "Eating Gamera: Giant Monsters,
> Childhood, and Camp in Rearticulations of Daikaiju Gamera"
>  Theresa L. Geller (Grinnell College), ""Borderless" Postmodernism: Nikkatsu
> Action Cinema and the Rise of Transnational Noir"
>  Røssaak Røssaak Adam Lowenstein (University of Pittsburgh), "Ring Around
> Japanese History: Surrealism and J-Horror"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  I5: Political Caution in Lust, Caution
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Evans Chan (Northwestern University)
>
>
>  Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong), "Lust, Caution: China, Japan, and
> the KMT (Guo Min Dang/The Nationalist Party) on Screen--Present and Past"
>  Evans Chan (Northwestern University), "Desiring Fascism? – On Ang Lee's
> Lust, Caution"
>  Adrian Xiang (University of Chicago), "Understanding the Nationalist
> Backlash against Lust, Caution in China"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Vivian Lee (City University of Hong Kong)
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>
>
>  I14: Television Distribution and 'Global' Media Culture
>
>
>  Room: 506
>
>
>  Chair: Seiko Yasumoto (The University of Sydney )
>
>
>  Patty Ahn (University of Southern California), "MTV Asia and Regional
> Geographies: Mapping Music and Taste through Global Television"
>  Janet McCabe (Manchester Metropolitan University ) and Kim Akass
> (Manchester Metropolitan University), "Not So Ugly: Local Production, Global
> Franchise and the Ugly Betty Phenomenon"
>  Jennifer Gillan (Bentley College), "The Mobile and the Global: Circulation
> Practices and Problems for U.S. Network TV Products"
>  Seiko Yasumoto (The University of Sydney ), "Impact of Soft Power on
> Cultural Mobility: Japan to East Asia"
>
>
>  Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:00-11:45 am (Session J)
>
>
>  J1: Zoom in Cinematic China of the 1990s: The Local-global Uncanny on
> Multiple Displays
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Ping Fu (Towson University)
>
>
>  Ping Fu (Towson University), "Encircling the City: Chinese Farmers on
> Screen"
>  Kaiman Chang (University of Texas, Austin), "Taipei Families Inside Out:
> Sexual Mobility in Three Taiwanese Films of the 1990s"
>  Wai Luk Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University), "Hong Kong Cinema in the 1990s:
> Themes and Aesthetics of Cultural Positioning in a Changing Time"
>  Dennis Broe (Long Island University), "Jia Zhangke's Still Life and the
> Dialectics of Chinese Globalization"
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  J3: Old and New in Contemporary Japanese Anime and Games: Animation in the
> Age of Digital Production and Consumption
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Satomi Saito (Bowling Green State University)
>
>
>  Stefan Riekeles (Independent Scholar), "The Gap: Exploiting Cinema in
> Anime"
>  Eija Niskanen (University of Art and Design, Helsinki), "Riding Through Air
> and Water – The Relationship Between Character, Background, Fantasy and
> Realism in Hayao Miyazaki's Films"
>  Satomi Saito (Bowling Green State University), "Crying Out Love in the
> Center of the World: The Language of Bishojo Game"
>  Kumiko Sato (Earlham College), "Regionalism in the Era of Neo-nationalism:
> Background Art and Women in Japanese Games and Anime from the Late-1990s to
> Present"
>
>
>
>
>  J6: Lust in Lust, Caution
>
>
>  Room: 403
>
>
>  Chair: Giorgio Biancorosso (The University of Hong Kong)
>
>
>  Maureen Sabine (University of Hong Kong), "The Dark Underworld of the
> Family Romance in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution"
>  Kien Lim (National Chiao Tung University), "Becoming Noir"
>  Giorgio Biancorosso (The University of Hong Kong), "Sex as a Performing Act
> in Lust, Caution"
>  Katrien Jacobs (City University of Hong Kong), "The Hong Kong response to
> Boudoir Realism: From Erotic Masterpieces to D.I.Y. Porn"
>
>
>
>
>  J12: Conflicted Visions: Japanese Icons of the Past and Present
>
>
>  Room: 504
>
>
>  Chair: Lindsay Nelson (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Lindsay Nelson (University of Southern California), "Little Monsters:
> Modernity, Media, and the Figure of the Child in Contemporary Japanese
> Cinema"
>  Ken Provencher (University of Southern California), "Japan's Reluctant
> Visitor: Sayonara and Postwar Transnational Cinema"
>  Yuka Kanno (University of California, Irvine), "Implicational
> Spectatorship: Hara Setsuko and Queer Visual Formation"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Chika Kinoshita (University of Western Ontario)
>
>
>
>
>  Saturday, May 23, 2009 1:15-3:00 pm (Session K)
>
>
>  K1: Rethinking Aesthetic Heritage in East Asian Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Shuk Ting Yau (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin)
>
>
>  Vivian Lee (City University of Hong Kong), "Towards a Poetics of East Asian
> Film"
>  Siu Wah Yu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Forging a Cultural
> Heritage: 'Innovative' Use of Chinese Music in Recent Movies"
>  Siu-leung Li (Lingnan University (Hong Kong)), "John Woo's Undoing of
> Chinese Opera in Princess Cheung Ping and Red Cliff"
>  Shuk Ting Yau (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin), "A 'Horrible'
> Legacy: Noh and J-Horror"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Stephanie DeBoer (Indiana University-Bloomington)
>
>
>  K2: Workshop: Film Historiography and Chinese Cinemas
>
>
>  Room: 301B
>
>
>  Chair: Guo-Juin Hong (Duke University)
>  Co-chair: Weihong Bao (Columbia University)
>
>
>  Workshop Participants:
>  Zhen Zhang (New York University)
>  Song Lim (University of Exeter)
>  Jason McGrath (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
>  Feii Lu (National Chengchi University)
>  Ru-Shou Chen (National Chengchi University)
>
>
>  Sponsor: Asian/Pacific American Caucus
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  K3: Revisiting Kurosawa: Cinema as a Platform for 'Cultural Dialogue'
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Yuna de Lannoy (Oxford Brookes University/ University of Antwerp)
>
>
>  Olga Solovieva (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Colliding Languages in
> Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala"
>  Nariman Skakov (University College, University of Oxford), "Kurosawa's
> Hakuchi and Bakhtin's Concept of 'Outsideness"
>  Yuna de Lannoy (Oxford Brookes University/ University of Antwerp), "Soviet
> 'Pollen' in Japanese Cinema: Legacies of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in
> Three Films by Akira Kurosawa"
>  Dolores Martinez (School of Oriental and African Studies, London),
> "Hollywood Genealogies: Kurosawa, Eisenstein and the Global Flow"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Olga Solovieva (Georgia Institute of Technology)
>
>
>  K5: Film Theory and Art History: Intersections, Part 2
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Luca Caminati (Colgate University)
>
>
>  Nora Alter (University of Florida), "Between Documentary and Art: Placing
> Non-fiction"
>  Dudley Andrew (Yale University), "Bazin, Malraux, Cinema, and Painting"
>  Sharon Hayashi (York University), "Moments of Convergence: Film Theory in
> Japan"
>  Luca Caminati (Colgate University), "Pasolini's Primitivism and the Arte
> Povera Movement"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  K8: Sex and Politics
>
>
>  Room: 405
>
>
>  Chair: Carol Siegel (Washington State University, Vancouver)
>
>
>  Maureen Turim (University of Florida), "Desire as Political Allegory:
> Japanese Film in the Sixties and Chinese Film in the Eighties"
>  Hoang Tan Nguyen (Byrn Mawr College), "Bottom Dwelling: Sexual Shame and
> Racial Politics"
>  Patrick Boyle (University of California, Irvine), "Corporeal Acts, Fleshly
> Desire, and Ideological Restraints: Performance and Colonial Discourse in
> Ang Lee's Lust, Caution"
>  Carol Siegel (Washington State University, Vancouver), "Make Relationships
> Not War: The Place of Sexuality in Anti-war Films in 1968 and Now"
>
>
>  K13: Korean Cinema History
>
>
>  Room: 505AB
>
>
>  Chair: Hyongshin Kim (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Eunsun Cho (University of Southern California), "Tears and Time of Woman in
> Korean Modern Melodrama of the 1950s"
>  Nam Lee (Chapman University ), "Towards a Minjung Aesthetics: Lee Jang-ho
> and the 1980s Korean New Wave Cinema"
>  Hyongshin Kim (University of Southern California), "Korean Cinema during
> the Colonial Period:"
>  Young Eun Chae (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), "Capturing
> Japanese Colonialism in Recent South Korean Blockbuster Films: Postcolonial
> Trauma in 2009 Lost Memories (2002, Lee Si-Myung) and Hanbando (2006, Kang
> Woosuk)"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>  Saturday, May 23, 2009 3:15-5:00 pm (Session L)
>
>
>  L1: Japanese Cinema at the Crossroads: Masumura Yasuzô and the Showa 30s
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Ayako Saito (Meiji Gakuin University)
>
>
>  Ayako Saito (Meiji Gakuin University), "The Melodramatic Body as a
> Discursive Critique of Patriarchy in Masumura Yasuzô's Films of the 1960s"
>  Mark Roberts (University of California, Berkeley), "High-growth Satire:
> Masumura Yasuzô in the Showa 30s"
>  Michael Raine (University of Chicago), "Masumura Yasuzô and the
> Significance of 'Film Study'"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Naoki Yamamoto (Meiji Gakuin University)
>
>
>
>
>  L3: Contemporary Youth Film In Asia
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Jenny Lau (San Francisco State University)
>
>
>  Jenny Lau (San Francisco State University), "Re-assessing Memories— Films
> of Innocence from China"
>  Xuelin Zhou (The University of Auckland), ""No Man Driving": Youth Culture
> in Contemporary Chinese Cinema"
>  David Desser (University of Illinois), ""Of Waterboys and Swing Girls: The
> Post-postmodern Japanese Youth Film""
>  Frances Gateward (Ursinus College), "Talkin' 'Bout My Generation: The Youth
> Films of Noh Dong-seok"
>
>
>
>
>  L5: Representations of Gender in Philippine Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: David Corpuz (Don Bosco Technical College)
>
>
>  Roehl Jamon (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "The Women of
> Fernando Poe, Jr.: Portrayals of Women in FPJ Films"
>  Jose III Gutierrez (San Beda College Alabang), "Images of the Mother in
> Lino Brocka Films: 1970-1991"
>  David Corpuz (Don Bosco Technical College), "The Gay Film According to Cris
> Pablo"
>  Paulo Formalejo (University of the Philippines Film Institute), "Philippine
> Cinema Imaging of the Filipino Lesbian"
>
>
>
>
>  L9: Elastic Pasts: Relocations in Contemporary Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 501AB
>
>
>  Chair: Esther Yau (University of Hong Kong)
>
>
>  Bishnupriya Ghosh (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Audio
> Remains: Spectral Idiom in Phillip Scheffner's The Halfmoon Files"
>  Esther Yau (University of Hong Kong), "Cruel Stories of Youth: Trauma and
> Memoryscape in Peacock and Shanghai Dreams"
>  Rolando Tolentino (University of the Philippines Film Institute),
> "Lingering Simultaneity of Time: The Cinema of Memory of Lav Diaz"
>  Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Plasticity and
> the Popular: Bombay Cinema's Ecstatic Secularism"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  L10: Transnational Media in a Historical Perspective
>
>
>  Room: 502
>
>
>  Chair: Tommy Gustafsson (Lund University)
>
>
>  Nick Deocampo (Center For New Cinema, Philippines), "Hegemonic Cultural
> Wars on the Native Film Screen: The Colonial Phase of Philippine Cinema"
>  Nadi Tofighian (Stockholm University), "Distributing Scandinavia:
> Scandinavian Films and Commodities in Asia in the 1910s and 1920s"
>  Pietari Kääpä (University of Nottingham-Ningbo), "Reindeer Sushi in Global
> Helsinki: The Reciprocal Transnational Circulation of Finnish and Japanese
> Cinematic Cultures"
>  Tommy Gustafsson (Lund University), "Swedish Television News Coverage and
> the Historical Media Memory of the Rwandan Genocide"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  Sunday, May 24, 2009 8:00-9:45 am (Session M)
>
>
>  M1: History/Memory/Nation in South Asian Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Veena Hariharan (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas, Austin), "Cinephilia and History in
> Contemporary Bombay Films"
>  Nandini Bhattacharya (Texas A&M University), "Saadat Hasan Manto, Ritwik
> Ghatak and the Shifting Shapes of National Memory"
>  Veena Hariharan (University of Southern California), "Screening Out the
> Past: Documentary Representations of Violence in South Asia"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>  M3: Traces and Echoes: Japan in Postcolonial/Postwar Korean Film
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Steven Chung (Princeton University)
>
>
>  Steven Chung (Princeton University), "Enlightenment-scapes in Colonial and
> Postcolonial Korean Cinema"
>  Chong Chung (Chung-Ang University), "Hybrid Styles in South Korean Popular
> Films after the Korean War: Han Hyong-mo's Genre Films in the 1950s"
>  Jinsoo An (Hongik University), "Entangled Gestures: Historiography,
> Representation and Politics of Justice in the South Korean film Yeraishang"
>  Sueyoung Park-Primiano (New York University), "Resistance to Remember,
> Reluctance to Forget: The Haunting of the Colonial Past in Yu Hyon-mok's
> Pharmacist's Kim's Daughters and Naruse Mikio's Floating Clouds"
>
>
>  Respondent:: Moonim Baek (Yonsei University)
>
>
>  M5: Perspectives on Authorship and Production
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Kenneth Chan (University of Northern Colorado)
>
>
>  Eva Redvall (University of Copenhagen), "The Collaborating Auteur: The
> Introduction of New Collaborative Screenwriting Practices in Danish Feature
> Filmmaking after Dogma 95."
>  Shu Ching Chan (University of Texas, Austin), "Housekeepers of Hong Kong
> Cinema"
>  Tadao Sato (Japan Academy of Moving Images), "Shohei Imamura's Studio: The
> Japan Academy of Moving Images"
>  Kenneth Chan (University of Northern Colorado), "The Shaw-Tarantino
> Connection: Globalizing the Camp Pleasures of Hong Kong Trash Cinema"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:00-11:45 am (Session N)
>
>
>  N1: Silence to Sound in Asian Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 301A
>
>
>  Chair: Rosie Thomas (University of Westminster)
>
>
>  Kyoung Lae Kang (University of Rochester), "Translated or (De)translated
> Narration: Considering the Korean Silent Film Era and the Cultural
> Transformation of Byunsa Lecturer"
>  Bennet Schaber (SUNY Oswego), "Soseki's Cinema"
>  Michael Frangos (University of California, Santa Barbara), "The Vamp and
> the Floating Weeds: Modernism, Decadence, Japanese Silent Film"
>  Rosie Thomas (University of Westminster), "Distant Voices, Magic Knives:
> Lal-e-Yaman and the Transition to Sound in Bombay Cinema"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  N3: Classical Japanese Cinema
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Catherine Russell (Concordia University)
>
>
>  Mark Nornes (University of Michigan), "'Classical Japanese Cinema' and the
> Question of Sameness"
>  Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University), "Classical Japanese Cinema and the
> Question of Global Hegemony"
>  Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University), "The Power of the B Movie in
> Classical Japanese Cinema"
>  Catherine Russell (Concordia University), "Classic Modernity: Melodramatic
> Features of Japanese Cinema"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  N4: Softcore
>
>
>  Room: 401
>
>
>  Chair: Anne McKnight (University of Southern California)
>
>
>  Anne McKnight (University of Southern California), "Home Alone: The Pink
> Film and the Gendering of Everyday Life, 1971-1979"
>  Michael Arnold (University of Michigan), "On Location: Tsuda Ichiro, Pink
> Photography, and the Possibilities of Representation"
>  Minhwa Ahn (Cornell University ), "Affect of Marginalized Female Subjects:
> Melodramatic Contemporaneity among Korean, Japanese, and American Cinemas
> during and after the US Occupation Period"
>  Austin Miller (University of Southern California), "Wild Screen Reviews:
> Reconceiving the Sexploitation Film in Adults-Only Publications, 1963-1969"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  N5: Lost (and Found) in Translation: Remaking Asian Media
>
>
>  Room: 402
>
>
>  Chair: Jun Okada (State University of New York-Geneseo)
>
>
>  Yiman Wang (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Made in China, Remade
> in US -- From Chinese Cinema to 'Chinese Elements,' or What's Happened to
> Border Politics?"
>  Hyung-Sook Lee (Ewha Woman\'s University (Korea)), "Hollywood Goes to
> Korea: Film Remaking and Reconfiguration of Global Cultural Order"
>  Jun Okada (State University of New York-Geneseo), "The Ring: Statelessness
> and J-horror"
>  Peter Feng (University of Delaware), "Exports and Formats: US/Japan
> Television Collaboration"
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>  N13: The Future of Rancière
>
>
>  Room: 505AB
>
>
>  Chair: Jonathan Hall (University of California-Irvine)
>
>
>  Targol Mesbah (California Institute of Integral Studies), "Suicidal
> Dispersions"
>  Jonathan Hall (University of California-Irvine), "Image as Argument: Kawai
> Masayuki's Visual Philosophy"
>  John Culbert (Independent Scholar), "The Well and the Web"
>
>
>
>
>  Sunday, May 24, 2009 12:00 noon - 1:45 pm (Session O)
>
>
>  O2: Workshop: Media Literacy, Education, and Activism in East Asia and the
> U.S.: A Comparative Conversation
>
>
>  Room: 301B
>
>
>  Chair: James Castonguay (Sacred Heart University)
>  Co-chair: Rob Williams (Action Coalition for Media Education)
>
>
>  Workshop Participants:
>  Carole Gerster (University of California-Santa Cruz)
>  Seongsoo Baeg (Kanda University )
>  Kiyoko Toriumi (University of Tokyo)
>  Shin Mizukoshi (University of Tokyo)
>  Tessa Jolls (Center for Media Literacy)
>
>
>  Sponsor: Media Literacy and Outreach Interest Group
>
>
>  Index - Top
>
>
>
>
>  O3: The Cinema of Kitano Takeshi
>
>
>  Room: 302
>
>
>  Chair: Elena del Rio (University of Alberta)
>
>
>  Rea Amit (Tokyo Geijtsu Daigaku), "Japanese Aesthetics, Violence, and the
> Cinema of Kitano Takeshi"
>  Elena del Rio (University of Alberta)