2015PreliminaryConfProgDraft

F4: The Blockbuster Resurgence of Midnight Movies in the Age of Digital CinemaRoom: 4Chair: David Church (Independent Scholar)Carter Moulton (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "‘The Line Goes Ever On and On’: Midnight Blockbustersand Thematic Immersion"Margaret Rossman (Indiana University), "Exhibiting Emotion: The Fan Performance of Allegiance in the TweenMidnight Screening"David Church (Independent Scholar), "Liveness and Death at Midnight: The Aurora Theater Shooting andTechnologies of Surveillance/Mourning"Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia), "'Vampire from Alcatraz Live Here': The Global Reception of TheRoom as a Timeless Live Event"F5: WORKSHOP Intersecting Approaches at the Margins: Deviant Methodologies for Deviant ObjectsRoom: 5Chair: Jane Gaines (Columbia University)Workshop Participants:Linnea Hussein (New York University)Daniel Humphrey (Texas A&M University)Marc Francis (University of California, Santa Cruz)Jane Gaines (Columbia University)F6: Politics of the Image IRoom: 6Chair: Leigh Duck (University of Mississippi)Zachary Campbell (Northwestern University), "The Audiovisual Otherwise: Valences of Media as PoliticalFigurations"Jenelle Troxell (Union College), "Mind-Cure and Mysticism on the Pages of Close Up"Chiara Ttognolotti (University of Florence), "Photogenie and Orientalism: Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasoliniand the (Third) World Cinema"Leigh Duck (University of Mississippi), "Devastated City, Mon Amour: Trauma, Cinema, and the Question ofAffect"F7: Rethinking Hollywood-Europe Relations: Transatlantic Practices between 1920s and 1960s.Room: 7Chair: Amanda Minervini (Colorado College)Co-Chair: Maria Elena D'Amelio (Fordham University)Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton), "The Eurospy Phenomenon of the 1960s: The TransnationalMutations of a Popular Genre"Maria Elena D'Amelio (Fordham University), "The Old and The New: Hollywood on the Tiber Era and theLaborious Production of Camerini’s Ulysses (1954)"Anna Cooper (University of Sussex), "Exile and Imperialism in the Europe-set Film Noir"