2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
Audubon (5th Floor)
2193 Collective Behavior: Panics, Fads & Hostile Outbursts II
Chair: V.J. Brown, Shepherd College
"The Power of Parody: Race, Simulation, and Collective Behavior"
Mary Adams, University of Louisiana, Monroe
"What Can a Hippy Contribute to Our Community? Culture Wars, Moral Panics,
and the Woodstock Festival"
Ronald Helfrich, University of Albany
"Obama on a Food Stamp: Blogging in the Aftermath of Racist Email Circulations"
Katrice Albert, Lousiana State University
Margaret Smith, Lousiana State University
"The Media and Contemporary Collective Delusions: An Update"
V.J. Brown, Jr.
Preservation Hall Studio 7 (2nd Floor)
2194 Gender & Media Studies IV: Film, Gender and Popular Culture
Chair: Alyxandra Vesey, Universtiy of Texas, Austin
"Gendering Robot Romances: From Artoo and Threepio to Wall-E and Eve"
Jaime Warburton, Ithaca College
"The Amazing Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A Closer Look at Cinema's ‘Free’ Spirit"
Kiarra Mudd, Dartmouth College
"She Doesn't Sweat: A Comparison of Heroes and Heroines in Action"
Ryan M. Monk, Utah State University
"What You Can't See: The Female Deejay as Final Girl in American Culture"
Alyxandra Vesey, University of Texas, Austin
Balcony M (4th Floor)
2195 Black Music Culture III: Blues and Jazz
Chair: Angela M. Nelson, Bowling Green State University
"The Elegant New Negro: The Cultural Politics of Duke Ellington's Early Film
Appearances"
Michael Borshuk, Texas Tech University
"Lightning Hopkins: Life on the Music Business Plantation"
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