SCMS Line-up

Matthew H. Bernstein mbernst at emory.edu
Mon Feb 2 22:49:30 EST 2009


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), "Form and Performance of Death in the Cinema of Kitano Takeshi"
  Nathaniel Heneghan (University of Southern California), "Takusan no Takeshi: Coceptualizing Celebrity and Identity in Kitano's Takeshis”


  Respondent:: Darrell Davis (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)


  Index - Top


  O9: Cyborgs, Mutants, and Other Border Crossers


  Room: 501AB


  Chair: Livia Monnet (University of Montreal)


  Cary Jones (Northwestern University), "Galateas Gone Wild: Technology, Memory and the Feminine in 1980s Cinema"
  Katherine Farrimond (Newcastle University), "‘This Isn’t You’: Mutant Femmes Fatales and Parasitic Power in Contemporary Cinema"
  Plue Su (Hong Kong Baptist University), "Whose Resurrection? – Or ‘A Radical Question’ of ‘Who Cyborgs Will Be’: Issues of Transgression and Recuperation in Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection"
  Livia Monnet (University of Montreal), "Anatomy of Permutational Desire: Perversion, Modernity, and the Animated Image in Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence"


  Index - Top




  O10: Globalization and Transnationalism


  Room: 502


  Chair: Jecheol Park (University of Southern California)


  Lu Pan (University of Hong Kong), "Cosmopolitan Nostalgia:Memory and Imagination in Contemporary Hong Kong Film"
  Jecheol Park (University of Southern California), "Anticipating a Transnational Community to Come: the New Aesthetic in Hou Hsaio hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon"
  Jeong Chang (University of Oregon), "Mobile Phones and Mobile Relationships: Telecommunications and the Network of Care in Take Care of My Cat"
  Lisa Lowe (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Metaphors of Globalization"


  Index - Top






  O14: International TV Formats and their Interrogation


  Room: 506


  Chair: Brenda Weber (Indiana University)


  Amber Watts (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "I Survived a Most Extreme Japanese Game Show Challenge: Cultural Comedy and the International Reality Format Trade"
  Brenda Weber (Indiana University), "Mind over Manners: Gendering a Global Empire in an Anglophone Television Mediascape"
  Kotaro Nakagaki (Tokiwa University), "The Possibility of Post Documentary Style: A Comparative Analysis of American and Japanese Reality TV"

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