2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

"Bollywood Film Noir: Femme Fatales from the 1950s to the Present"
Natasha Ali, San Diego State University
FRIDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
"Imagining the Homeland: Nation, Nostalgia, and the World’s Largest Talent Hunt
Show"
Kritika Agarwal, SUNY-Buffalo
Preservation Hall Studio 3 (2nd Floor)
3089 Travel & Tourism V: East Meets West
Chair: Amelia Adams, University of Oklahoma
"Searching for the Big Rock Candy Mountain: The Hero Quest in Contemporary
American Memoirs about Riding Freight Trains "
Jessica Hahn, San Jose State University
"Staten Island Tourism: From Genteel Summer Retreat to Ferry Turn-Around"
James A. Kaser, The College of Staten Island/CUNY
"Doing Time: Rhetoric, Performance, and Interpretive Strategy in the Emergence of
the Alcatraz Cellhouse Audio Tour"
Stace Treat, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"America through the Eyes of an African-American Tourist"
Amelia Adams
Preservation Hall Studio 1 (2nd Floor)
3090 Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., & Electronic Gaming) VI: Practical
Applications of Adaptation
Chair: Dennis Cutchins, Brigham Young University
"Adapting Jefferson Davis"
Wendi Berman, Flying Chaucer Films
"Adapting Popular Culture: Turkey and Canada"
Laurence Raw, Baskent University
Gozde Kilic, Brock University
"Why Adaptations Matter to Your Students"
Dennis Cutchins
Preservation Hall Studio 9 (2nd Floor)
3091 Women's Studies XI: Media and Gender Imaging
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