Program

Registration/Light Refreshments

Welcome Address

Charles Exley, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures,
Associate Director of the Film and Media Studies Program

Questions of Narrative

Moderator: Lucy Fischer, Department of English, Emerita

• Yasmine Anderson (University of Pittsburgh), “Ancestral Haunting, Trauma Time, and Reparative Refusal in Jordan Peele’s Us”
• Alyssa Canepa (University of Wyoming), “Corporeal Christ: Transgression in Steve McQueen’s Hunger”
• Jordan Parrish (University of Pittsburgh), “The Moebius Crime Film: Doubles, Mirrors, and Four-Dimensional History in Hollow Triumph”
• Aurel Rotival (Université Lyon 2), “Poetics of Cannibalism in 1970s Films: The Limits of Rebellion, between Eucharist and Anthropophagy”

Sound(ing)

Moderator: Neepa Majumdar, Department of English

• Eli Boonin-Vail (University of Pittsburgh), “‘A High-Grade Machine and Skilled Operator’: Exposition Image/Sound Aesthetics of Chautauqua in its Circuit and Assembly Contexts”
• Olga Tchepikova-Treon (University of Minnesota), “SignScope Dis/Continued: Deafula‘s Transition from Deaf to Cult Film”
• Emily Best (Birkbeck, University of London), “Hearing the (Ob)scene: How Audio Circumvents the Constraints of the Image in Samuel Beckett’s Rough for Radio II”

Screening – Limited Inventory 1929-1978

Greg Pierce, The Orgone Archive

Light Refreshments

Rethinking Histories of Cinema

Moderator: Adam Charles Hart, Department of English

• Muxin Zhang (Columbia University), “Censored Gangsters: Hollywood Mafia’s Wasted Years between Scarface and The Godfather”
• Navid Darvishzadeh (Georgia State University), “The Snowman: Heteronormativity and Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Cinema”
• Éloïse Thompson-Tremblay (New York University), “Dances with Codes: Dance and Sex in the Code Era”

New Publics

Moderator: Nancy Condee, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

• Denis Saltykov (University of Pittsburgh), “Esoteric Revolt in Russia: Slavic Neopaganism in Documentary Series Game of Gods”
• Yumo Yan (Columbia University), “From Online Danmei Literature to Web Series: A Study of Chinese Internet-Based Adaptations Under Censorship”
• Katherine Contess (Brown University), “(Dis)Enclosure of the Fitness Commons”

Industrial Networks

Moderator: Charles Exley, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

• Katrina Margolis (University of Texas), “Fear and Explosions in Los Angeles: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Blow-Up, and the End of the Production Code”
• Eva Ivanilova (Independent Scholar), “The Inner Empire: Yakut Industry of Horror”
• Akriti Rastogi (New York University), “Balancing Act: Mapping Competition and Collaboration in Hindi Film Industry”

Keynote – Canonical Badness and the New Terrible

Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University

Catered Reception