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SCHEDULE
The San Francisco State University
11th Annual International Film Conference
Breaking Barriers: Borders and Beyond
Liminality in Cinematic Media
Thursday, October 15th
11:00am — 8:30pm
11:00am — 12:30pm
Registration
12:30pm — 1:00pm
Opening Remarks by Prof. Bill Nichols (SFSU)
1:00pm — 2:30pm
Reasonable Doubt: Framing Contingencies in Documentary Form and Voice
- Moderator: Bill Nichols
Chair: Max Goldberg - "Hybrid-documentary: the Ephemeral Moment of Hybridity between Fiction and Non-Fiction Cinema." Papagena Robbins (Concordia University)
- “‘The Personal Must Be Political’: Anxieties and Imperatives at the Emergence of Autobiographical Documentary” Jennifer Malkowski (UC-Berkeley)
- “Spectral Monuments: Hitchcock's Vertigo and San Francisco's Haunted Spaces of Commemoration” Joshua Kitching (Rice University)
2:45pm — 4:15pm
Unbound Gender(s): Female Masculinities/Male Femininities
- Moderator: Jennifer Hammett
Co-Chairs: Alice Choe and J.A. Masko - “When the Phallus is a Knife: Violent Women in Slasher Films” Megan Vroljik (SFSU)
- “Multivalent Masculinities: The Bromance and the Male Dyad” J.A. Masko (SFSU)
- “The Amateur's Effect on Gay Studio Produced Internet Pornography” Brandon Arroyo (NYU)
5:00pm — 6:30pm
Phenomenology and Aesthetics: Noetic Liminality Between the Immanent and the Transcendent
- Moderator: Aaron Kerner
Chair: Zach Cheney - “Imagine! Late Neorealism in Bertolucci's ‘Last Tango in Paris’ and Antonioni's ‘The Passenger’” Niels Niessen (University of Minnesota)
- “TBA” Zach Cheney (SFSU)
- “The Ballade: Drift and Cinematic Deterritorialization within Pasolini’s Mamma Roma” Matthew Hipps (Columbia University)
7:00pm — 8:30pm
Petra Kuppers: Keynote Address
*we are asking a $3 donation for this keynote, free w/ student ID
Friday, October 16th
9:30am — 4:00pm
10:00am — 12:00pm
Discordant Technologies: Exploring Affective and Epistemological Ruptures in Film Form
- Moderator and Chair: Theresa Geller
- “Memory and the Cinematic Subject: Deconstructive Editing Techniques in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” Sam Stragand (Grinnell College)
- “Score, Soundtrack, and the Chora: A Feminist Analysis of Sound in the Television Series Twin Peaks (1990-91)” Amanda A. Stromquist (Grinnell College)
- “The Visual Vibrato of U.S. Third World Feminism: Oppositional Consciousness in Daughters of the Dust” Courtney Sheehan (Grinnell College)
- “Todd Haynes' Cinema of Abjection: Safe as Feminist Counter-Cinema” Eleanor Russell (Grinnell College)
1:00pm — 2:30pm
Characterization of the Outsider in Narrative Cinema
- Moderator: Julian Hoxter
Chair: Alice Choe - “Ghost Riders on the Screen” Archer Neilson (UT-Austin)
- “TBA” Alice Choe (SFSU)
- “Genre and Reception: The American Slasher Film experiences a short-lived Surrealist rebirth” Ayesha Khan (Emory College)
2:45pm — 4:15pm
Co-Opting Ethnic Marginality: Cultural Resistance in a Globalized World
- Moderator: R.L. Rutsky
Chair: Rafael Flores - “Between Hollywood and Bollywood: Economic and Aesthetic Relationships in the Age of Globalization” Jonathan J. Cavallero (Penn State)
- “Return to the Mirror Stage: Resisting Xenophobic Greek Society by Projecting and Perceiving a Specular I in the Albanian Cinematic Mirror” Diana Wade (Columbia University)
- “The Politics of Conformity: Chicano Third Cinema in the First World” Rafael Flores (SFSU)
Saturday, October 17th
11:00am — 7:30pm
12:00pm — 1:30pm
Globalization and Mobility: Mapping Movement and Transmission in the Age of Migration
- Moderator and Chair: Chu-hui Yang
- “‘Art’ Against the Current: Aesthetics and Politics of Mobility in a Decentralized ‘Europe’” Nilgun Bayraktar (UC-Berkeley)
- “The Topography and Politics of the Migrant ‘Home’ in Indian Cinema” Sukanya Sen (CalArts)
- “Displacement and Disappearance in Up the Yangtze” Athena Tan (UC-Santa Barbara)
2:00pm — 3:30pm
Industrial Interstices: Technology and Industrial Standards Examined
- Moderator: Max Goldberg
Chair: J.A. Masko - “Terminology at the Margins: A Historical Examination of “Independent Film” Mary Erickson (University of Oregon)
- “The Visible Frame: Technological Change and Non-Photographic Space in the Cinema” Rielle Navitski (UC-Berkeley)
- "Authentic Stasis/Transcendent Movement: The Liminal Space of Motion Comics" Douglas Alan Cunningham (U.S. Air Force Academy)
4:00pm — 5:30pm (followed by reception in Creative Arts Building #154)
Rick Prelinger: Keynote Address
*we are asking a $3 donation for this keynote, free w/ student ID
∗ This event is free and open to the public. ∗
October 15-17, 2009
Coppola Theater FA 101
San Francisco State University