2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
8:00 – 9:30 A.M.
2035 Horror (Fiction, Film) IV: Horror Gets it Wrong: Demonizing Cannibals,
Cryptids and Vodoun
Chair: Charles Hoge, Metropolitan State College of Denver
"From Cannibalism to Autophagy: Displacing Appetites in Film"
Roger Davis, Grant MacEwan College
"Cryptozoology Sharpens Its Claws on the Celluloid Scratch Post: A Critical
Exploration of the Misleading Savagery B-Grade Cinema Attaches to Cryptids"
Charles Hoge
"Demonizing Haitian Peasantry: The Political Mask of Cinematic Zombies"
Christian Remse, Bowling Green State University
Napoleon Suite (41st Floor)
2036 Film & History III: Other People's Places: Representations of Cities on
Film
Chair: Abigail Brown, University of Cincinnati
"Exporting the American City: General Motors’ Utopian Product"
Karen Brazier, University of Cincinnati
"The Portrayal of the Communist City through the Lens: Havana, Bucharest and
Film"
Jamie Franz, University of Cincinnati
"Border Cities in Cinema: American Border Noirs and Mexican Cabareteras of the
1950s"
Abigail Brown
"How to Join The Geopiracy Project "
Joseph Vogel, University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras
La Galerie 6 (2nd Floor)
2037 Theatre & Drama II: The Dark Side
Chair: Kayla Wiggins, Martin Methodist College
"Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies: Tracing Revenge Tragedy from Renaissance to Modern
Day"
Mary Mechler, Auburn University
"Macbeth[noir]"
Dennis Rendleman, University of Illinois, Springfield
"The Performance of Feminist Resistance in Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations "
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