2015PreliminaryConfProgDraft

F. Hollis Griffin (Denison University)Sujata Moorti (Middlebury College)Reece Peck (College of Staten Island, CUNY)A20: Representing Race and Racial Truths: Authorship and Ideology in US TelevisionRoom: 20Chair: Mobina Hashmi (Brooklyn College)Anne Mecklenburg (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "'In this One, Uncle Tom Talks': Race and Self-Authorship in Showtime’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin"Artel Great (New York University), "Too Hot For TV? Race, Sketch Comedy, & the Politics of Crossing Over:From Pryor & Mooney to Key & Peele"Aruna Ekanayake (University of California - Los Angeles), "The End of Soul! in America: The Restructuring ofPublic Television Programming and Appropriations during the Nixon White House Era"Mobina Hashmi (Brooklyn College), "Public Space, Vulnerability, and Entitlement: Deconstructing Post-racial andPost-feminist Discourses on Violence"A21: WORKSHOP Digital Violence: Theorizing Screen Violence in a Post-cinematic WorldRoom: 21Chair: Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University)Workshop Participants:Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University)Catherine Zimmer (Pace University)Jason Middleton (University of Rochester)Lisa Coulthard (University of British Columbia)A22: Industrial Logics, Creative Practices, and LaborRoom: 22Chair: Donald Crafton (University of Notre Dame)Rachel Fabian (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Beasts of the Southern Wild and the Place ofContemporary Collective Filmmaking"James Lyons (University of Exeter), "‘A Woman with an Endgame’: Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures, andAmerican Independent Film Production"Matthew Selway (University of East Anglia), "Brains for Hire: Psychiatric Consultation and Film ProductionPractices"Donald Crafton (University of Notre Dame), "The Celluloid Ceiling Begins: Edna Williams, Pioneer FilmDistribution Executive"A23: EcocriticismRoom: 23Chair: Kirsten Strayer (University of Pittsburgh)Derek Woods (Rice University), "Media Concepts in Ecology: The Critique of Homeostasis, Adam Curtis’s AllWatched over by Machines of Loving Grace, and the Discourse of the Postnatural"