2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
10:00 – 11:30 A.M.
Preservation Hall Studio 7 (2nd Floor)
2076 Gender & Media Studies III: Makeovers, Beauty and Popular Culture
Chair: Kelly A. March, Mississippi State University
"Local Performances, Global Identities"
Mignonette Chiu, Columbia University
"Learning by Example One Tummy Tuck at a Time: How Women Negotiate
Identity through the Viewing of Reality Makeover Programs"
Lisa Pecot-Hebert, DePaul University
"Extraordinary Familes, Ordinary Mothers: Kate Gosselin, Michelle Duggar, and
Amy Roloff of The Learning Channel "
Kathryn Pallister, Red Deer College
"The Blonde, the Brunette, the Redhead, and Me: The Narrative Voice and the
Typifying Impulse in Sex and the City"
Kelly A. Marsh,
Preservation Hall Studio 6 (2nd Floor)
2077 Visual Culture III: Photographic Possibilities
Chair: Royce W. Smith, Wichita State University
"National Unconsciousness: Larry Clark's Tulsa"
Matthew Smith, University of Western Ontario
"The Art of Storytelling in LIFE Magazine: A Case Study"
Florence Moreau, Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot
"The Nicholson Photographs: A Federal Relief Caseworker’s Visual Record of
Rural Clients in the South During the Depression"
Patsy Watkins, University of Arkansas
Balcony L (4th Floor)
2078 Science Fiction & Fantasy VII: Gender, Romance, and What It Means to
Be(come) a Woman
Chair: Janice C. Crosby, Southern University—Baton Rouge
"Performing Gender, Performing Romance: Pixar’s WALL-E"
Carol A. Bernard, Northeast Lakeview College
"Not Too Soft, Not Too Hard, Just Right: Why TV’s Sarah Connor Gets an “A” for
Effort as a Feminist Role Model"
Carmen D. Siering, Ball State University
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