SCMS Line-up

[Mark Nornes]

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

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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)

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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)"

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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"

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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"

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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"

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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

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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"

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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"

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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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