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Jasmine Trice (University of California, Los Angeles), "Projectors, Floods, and Generators: The Materiality of theCinema Theater in Colonial Manila"Carolyn Condon (Columbia University), "Spectators in Transit, Citizens in Transition: Film Screenings onTransatlantic Voyages in the Late Silent Era"Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang (University of California, Berkeley), "Splicing an Amorous State: Nymph, Cut-pieces, andthe Trans-Asian Porn of the 1970s"B24: States of ConsciousnessRoom: 24Chair: Carol Vernallis (Stanford University)Kevin Chabot (University of Toronto), "Psychedelic Cinema: Form and Affect"Tanya Twombly (Oklahoma State University), "Personal Apocalypse: Isolation and Mental Illness in Take Shelterand Melancholia"Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (University of Barcelona), "Touch is Discreet, or It Is Nothing: Proximate Distance and theCinema of Isabel Coixet"Carol Vernallis (Stanford University), "Toward the Limit: Michael Bay's Transformer's 4: Age of Extinction"Wednesday, March 25, 2015 02:00PM-03:45PM (Session C)C1: The Spoilage of America: Garbage, Junk, and Audiovisual Noise in US Film and TVRoom: 1Chair: Allison Rittmayer (Northwestern State University of Louisiana)Michael Rowin (University of Florida), "Noise and Spectatorship in Lynch's Films"Tania Darlington (Santa Fe College), "From Hill Street to Farmington: The Station House as Symbol of UrbanNeglect in Television Police Procedurals"Jacob Agner (University of Mississippi), "Salvaging The Counselor: Watching Cormac McCarthy’s Really TrashyMovie"Allison Rittmayer (Northwestern State University of Louisiana), “‘Deswamped and Denuded, and Derivered’:Some Aspects of the Southern Gothic in Rural Noir Landscapes"C2: Ephemeral, Invisible: Animation Out of SightRoom: 2Chair: Paul Ward (Arts University Bournemouth)Paul Ward (Arts University Bournemouth), "Hiding in Plain View: The In/visibility of Animated Interstitials"Bella Honess Roe (University of Surrey), "Visualizing the Invisible: Animating the Inside of the Human Body inPopular Film and Television"Aylish Wood (University of Kent), "Seeing the Invisible: Excavating Animation Software Algorithms"Respondent: Karen Beckman (University of Pennsylvania)C3: Mediated MemoriesRoom: 3Chair: Roger Hallas (Syracuse University)