2015PreliminaryConfProgDraft

Martha Shearer (King's College London), "Frances Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Gender, Urban Instability, andthe Creative City in Frances Ha and The Giant Mechanical Man"Olga Klimova (Duquesne University), "The ‘Liberated’ Urban Space in Late-Soviet Cinema under Brezhnev"Yongzhen Shu (Widener University), "Cinema of Attractions and Emerging Structures of Feeling in ChineseCinema Today"B16: Outlanders: Authorship and Genre ReconsideredRoom: 16Chair: Heather Osborne-Thompson (California State University Fullerton)Franklin Cason (Temple University), "Reading the Signature: African American Cinema and the Auteur Theory"Kathryn Frank (University of Michigan), "In Living Color: Comic-to-Live-Action Adaptations as Genre andImplications for Racial Representation in Popular Media"Nina Martin (Connecticut College), "Tapping at the Celluloid Ceiling"Heather Osborne-Thompson (California State University Fullerton), "Locating Gender and Genre in Outlander"B17: Affective PedagogiesRoom: 17Chair: David Johnson (Salisbury University)Aaron Kerner (San Francisco State University), "The (Nasty) Taste and Scent of Seduction in Wetlands"Laura Stamm (University of Pittsburgh), "Film as Queer Pedagogy: Learning to Be an Affected Body"Elizabeth Losh (University of California, San Diego), "Sensing Not Seeing: Augmented Reality Literature andMultimedia for Books that Read"David Johnson (Salisbury University), "Synthetic Criticism and the Essayistic Mode in Cinema and MediaStudies"B18: Twin Peaks at 25: Examining the Legacy and Contexts of a Television IconRoom: 18Chair: Ross Garner (Cardiff University)Dana Och (University of Pittsburgh), "All Laura Palmer’s Children: Twin Peaks and Gendering the Discourse ofInfluence"Karra Shimabukuro (University of New Mexico), "The Mystery of the Woods: Twin Peaks and the FolkloricForest"Ross Garner (Cardiff University), "It Is Happening Again?: Twin Peaks, Staged Anniversaries and AuthorialMeanings"Rebecca Williams (University of South Wales), "The Show from Another Place: Twin Peaks and Its Social MediaAfterlife"B19: Network Studies: Grappling with the History and Visual Design of DataRoom: 19Chair: Daniel Faltesek (Oregon State University)Steven Malcic (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Inter-entity Communication: The Ontological Imaginaryof Early Network Design"