2015PreliminaryConfProgDraft

Nicholas Hanford (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), "A Topology of Frames: Adapting the Filmic Frame forGamic Action"Jason Coley (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), "Playing in the Interactive Archive: Adaptation of Genre in RedDead Redemption as Neo-Baroque Entertainment Art"Caroline Bem (McGill University), "The Pursuit of Vertigo: On the Use of Graphic Sex in Two Rockstar® Games"Sandra Danilovic (University of Toronto), "Procedurally Yours: Love, Debugging Trauma, and the Mundanity ofGame Design Practice"C24: Modes of Documentary, New and OldRoom: 24Chair: Francesco Pitassio (University of Udine)Daniel Cohen (Stanford University), "The Clamor of Documentary: Polyphonic Mediation and the Politics of Art"Whitney Pow (Northwestern University), “‘That Is the Last Picture of My Dad Alive’: Google Maps as an AffectiveArchive of Grief"Mi Young Park (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), "Touchscreen and Entrepreneur of the Self: HansRichter and the i-Phone"Francesco Pitassio (University of Udine), "Recurring Removal. Trauma and Historical Discourse in Post-warItalian Documentary"Wednesday, March 25, 2015 04:00PM-05:45PM (Session D)D1: “Plugged In: Brazilian Television Fiction and Reflections on Recent Social, Political and EconomicTransformations”Room: 1Chair: Joseph Straubhaar (University of Texas, Austin)Esther Hamburger (University of Sao Paulo), "Avenida Brasil: Extra-Diegetic References to Ongoing SocialProcesses"Ana Lopez (Tulane University), "Domestic Service, Transmediality and the Contemporary Brazilian Telenovela"Joseph Straubhaar (University of Texas, Austin), "The Political Economy of Race, Class, and Favela Depictionsin Brazilian Telenovelas"Leslie Marsh (Georgia State University), "Self- and Place-branding in Contemporary Brazilian Telenovelas"D2: Queer Media Affect: Locations and Mobilities of FeelingRoom: 2Chair: Alexander Cho (University of Texas, Austin)F. Hollis Griffin (Denison University), "Affective Networks in Tales of the City"Misha Kavka (University of Auckland), "The Reparative Impulse of SpongeBob QueerPants"Alexander Cho (University of Texas, Austin), "Liberté, Égalité, Beyoncé”: Queer Youth of Color and Territories ofInsurgence"Respondent: Dana Heller (Old Dominion University)D3: Media Specificity and Cognition in Animation and Digital Visual Effect Cinema