2015PreliminaryConfProgDraft

Adam Szymanski (Concordia University), "Composing Peace through the Ecosophic Aesthetic of ApichatpongWeerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives"Suzanne Beth (University of Montreal), "Ending Ozu's Films: Bodies Standing for an Explanation"Respondent: Silvestra Mariniello (University of Montreal)E11: Hear and There: The Politics of SoundRoom: 11Chair: Allison McCracken (DePaul University)Jim Knippling (University of Cincinnati), "Vicissitudes of Normativity in Non-diegetic Film Music: 1940-1975"Tim Bell (Indiana University), "White Jazz: Music and Fantasies of English Modernity in The Avengers (1961-69)"Cassie Blake (Academy Film Archive), "Better Seen Than Heard: The Anomaly of Female Voiceover inTheatrical Trailers"Allison McCracken (DePaul University), "Blind Auditions and Vocal Politics: Enacting and Exposing VocalEssentialism on NBC’s The Voice"E12: Queer Media Culture: International Case StudiesRoom: 12Chair: Gregoire Halbout (Francois Rabelais University)Jing (Jamie) Zhao (Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Problematizing a 'Desirable' Queer Media Culture: AStudy of the Chinese Reality Talent Shows Super Girls,The Voice of China, and Your Face Sounds Familiar"Itay Harlap (Tel Aviv University), "The New Normative: Gay Fatherhood on Israeli Television"Ivan Ramos (University of California, Berkeley), "The Slowness of Despair: The Films of Julian Hernández andMexican Queerness."Gregoire Halbout (Francois Rabelais University), "Normative Queerness: Gay Intimacy Goes Public on HBO"E13: The Politics and Poetics of the Short Format Film and VideoRoom: 13Chair: Jillian Sandell (San Francisco State University)Jillian Sandell (San Francisco State University), "Community Representation through Short Films"Jennifer Wager (Essex County College), "Viral Video from Kinetoscopes to Vines: Short Form Visual Media andIts Historical Antecedents"Natalie Bookchin (Rutgers University), "Long Story Short"Jennifer Hammett (San Francisco State University), "Short Films Got Nobody"E14: Media Imaging and/as Productive PedagogiesRoom: 14Chair: Sarah Childress (Bowdoin College)Christopher Pullen (Bournemouth University), "Sexual Diversity and the Use of Irony within School Classrooms:Discouraging Bullying through Media Representations"Se Young Kim (University of Iowa), "Out of the Classroom, into the Battlefield: Battle Royale and Japan’sStrange Kids"