Program

Welcome Address by Adam Lowenstein

Director of Film Studies

Dividing Lines: Mediating Conflict through the Image

Moderator: Jen Waldron, English

• Anastasia Kostina (Yale University), “Rough Is the New Credible: Reality Claim in Russian and Ukrainian Online Documentary Projects”
• Annie Sullivan (Northwestern University), “Mediating Post-Rebellion Detroit: Local Television, Civil Governance, and Confronting the Racial Divide”
• Michael Svedman (University of Pittsburgh), “A Mad World, My Masters: Jean Rouch’s Jump Cuts”
• Kristin Juarez (Georgia State University), “Images of Palestine: Politics of Abstraction in the Video Installation of Jumana Manna”

Historical Formations: Constructing Industrial Memory

Moderator: Lucy Fischer, Film Studies

• David Cottis (Birkbeck College, University of London), “The Four Feathers and the British Colonial Film”
• Francis M. Agnoli (Unaffiliated), “Make Mine Freedom: A Reformulation of a Cold War Cartoon’s Identity”
• Matt Connolly (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “‘An Ever More Attractive Tagline The More It Appears to Fade’: New Queer Cinema as Critical Rubric in Contemporary LGBT Film”
• John Taylor (University of Pittsburgh), “‘Stories Come out of the Woods’: Nostalgia and Rural Resistance in 1970s Independent Cinema”

Shock and Awe: Radical Forms and the Avant-Garde

Moderator: Marcia Landy, Film Studies

• Swagato Chakravorty (Yale University), “Shocking Politics, Screening Bodies: LiveLeak.com and the Anti-Aesthetic”
• Ignasi Gozalo i Salellas (University of Pennsylvania), “The Digital Archival Impulse: Towards a Transformative Archive”
• Kenneth Berger (Brown University), “Critique, the Avant-Gardes, and the Remaking of Life”
• Adam Hebert (University of Pittsburgh), “‘Roll Forever’: Street Skateboarding, its Image-making, and Politics In Potentia”

Water Cooler Politics: Reading the Zeitgeist

Moderator: Jinying Li, Film Studies

• Danning Ma (Columbia University), “Chinese Chick Flicks, Postfeminism and Postsocialist China”
• James N. Gilmore (Indiana University), “The Interview and the Everydayness of Media Circulation”
• Cooper Long (University of Toronto), “Seen Any Good Movies Lately: Agonistic Politics and Small Talk about Cinema”
• Carrie Reese (University of Toronto), “Out of Bounds: Les ‘No-Go Zones’ and the Cartographies of Fox News”

Scare Tactics and Strategies: Bodies as Political Tools

Moderator: Brent Malin, Communication

• Iggy Cortez (University of Pennsylvania), “Mother’s Dissociative Public Sphere”
• Jeffrey Gordon Baker (Birkbeck College, University of London), “The Inappropriate/d Politics of Adoption Monsters in Horror and Documentary Films”
• Ingrid Nordgaard (Yale University), “Photographic Flesh and Pensive Imagery: The Political Potential of the Wounded Body in Works by Boris Mikhailov and Pyotr Pavlensky”
• Nicole Scalissi (University of Pittsburgh), “Body Swap: Race, Grief, and Shifting Identities in Ana Mendieta’s Rape Scene”

Us vs Them:(Re)appropriating the Narrative

Moderator: Mark Lynn Anderson, Film Studies

• Nova Smith (University of Chicago), “Seventh Art of the Seventh Son: Infiltration Narratives and the Subversive ‘Sellout’”
• Anthony E. Jones (University of Florida), “Tongues Untied and Brother to Brother: A Political Filmic Kinship”
• Matthew Durkin (Duquesne University), “Affect and Martyrdom: The Case of David Kato in Call Me Kuchu and God Loves Uganda”
• Jamicia Lackey (Yale University), “(Neo)Liberal Feeling: Postcolonial Nostalgia and the Mattering of Black Lives in Déjà Vu”