2015PreliminaryConfProgDraft

Bjorn Sorenssen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), "Radical Big Brother: The Swedish Modeland Its Norwegian Emulations in the 1960s and 1970s as Harbingers of the ‘Norwegian Documentary NewWave’ of the 2000s"Anu Koivunen (Stockholm University), "Redistributing Feelings: Migrant Memories in Finnish Blood, SwedishHeart (Mika Ronkainen, Finland-Sweden 2012)"Deirdre Boyle (The New School), "Danish Documentary: The Future of Global Cinema’s Best Kept Secret"Anna Estera Mrozewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University), "Finnish Teller, Western Viewers and Shared Space: PirjoHonkasalo’s The 3 Rooms of Melancholia"G9: Burning Down the House: Downtown Film and TelevisionRoom: 9Chair: Joan Hawkins (Indiana University)Jonathan Haynes (University of California, Berkeley), "Downtown Godard"Joan Hawkins (Indiana University), "The TV Show That’s Sometimes a Party"Laurel Westrup (University of California, Los Angeles), "Ephemeral Media: The Downtown Scene on YouTube"Respondent: Katharine Streip (Concordia University)G10: Performance in Indian CinemaRoom: 10Chair: Anuja Jain (Rice University)Monika Mehta (University of Binghamton, SUNY), "Authorizing Gesture in Bombay Cinema"Usha Iyer (University of the West Indies), "A Genealogy of Gestures: Comic Male Dancing from Bhagwan toBachchan"Anupama Kapse (City University of New York, Queens College), "Autobiographies of Dissent: Memories ofScreen Acting in the Early Sound Film"Anuja Jain (Rice University), "Performance and the Self in Contemporary Indian Documentary Cinema"G11: Revisiting Postwar French Film Theory: Historical PerspectivesRoom: 11Chair: Syed Feroz Hassan (University of Michigan)Colin Burnett (Washington University, St Louis), "The Vernacular of Rhythm: How the Language of Postwar FilmCulture Elaborated on a Musical Analogy"James Younger (Trinity College), "Left, Right, Left: André Bazin and the Platonist Tradition in French Philosophy"Angela Dalle-Vacche (Georgia Institute of Technology), "The Cinema: Andre Bazin and Jean-Paul Sartre"Syed Feroz Hassan (University of Michigan), "Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest and the FrenchDialectics of Hope and Despair"G12: Sound TracksRoom: 12Chair: Jack Curtis Dubowsky (Academy of Art University)Monique Bourdage (University of Michigan), "'You Don’t Appreciate True Musical Genius': Negotiating Genderand Musical Taste on Playboy After Dark"