2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Preservation Hall Studio 2 (2nd Floor)
3025 Comic Art & Comics IX: Looking at Genres
Chair: Nicole Freim, Riverside Community College
"It Rhymes with Bust: The Failure of the First Graphic Novels"
Darren Harris-Fain, Shawnee State University
"Comics and Stories: Disney Comics in the United States after Carl Banks"
Derek Smith, Gordon College
"Forgotten Romance: Artists of a Bygone Genre"
Jacque Nodell, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"Peter Bagge’s Big Mouth: Comics as Commentary"
Amy Nyberg, Seton Hall University
Mardi Gras B (3rd Floor)
3026 Philosophy & Popular Culture IV: Philosophy and Cinema, II
Chair: Taylor Hughey, Western Kentucky University
"Curb Your Enthusiasm, Hermeneutics, and the Hidden in the Familiar”
Taylor Hughey
FRIDAY
8:00 – 9:30 A.M.
"Oh My God, They Killed Babies: A Look Into Swift’s ‘Modest Proposal’ and
South Park”
Greg Dedrick, Park University
"Eat the Rich: Marx’s Sweeny Todd”
James Leigh, Henderson State University
La Galerie 5 (2nd Floor)
3028 Film Adaptation VI: Audience Adaptations
Chair: Tim Robinson, University of Florida
"Adapting Japanese Horror: The Ring "
Beth Tsai, University at Buffalo
"Adapting Audiences and Tyler Perry"
Stephanie Franco, Texas Tech University
"Sickness and Stigma: Social Othering in Stoker's Dracula and Hooper's Texas
Chainsaw Massacre"
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