2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Session Chair: Nicole Freim, Riverside Community College
FRIDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
"Scott Pilgrim Versus the Infantalist Ethos: How Late-Model Capitalism Affects the
Use of Magic Realism in Alternative Comics"
B. Rory Brown, Clemson University
"Blondie, Seriality, and the End of History"
Stephanie Boluk, University of Florida
"Parker and Caulfield: Survivor’s Guilt in The Amazing Spider-Man and the
Catcher in the Rye"
Christopher Irving, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Bad-Brother-Man: Black Folk Figure Narratives in Comics"
James Braxton Peterson, Bucknell University
Mardi Gras B (3rd Floor)
3170 Philosophy & Popular Culture VI: Philosophy and the Self
Chair: Chris Richardson, University of Western Ontario
"Popular Culture and the Denigration of the Self”
Eric Bain-Selbo, Western Kentucky University
"An Army of Clones: Fight Club’s Space Monkeys as Baudrillard’s Fourth Order of
Simulacra”
Denelle Overman, Independent Scholar
"The Dread of (No) Difference: A Critique of Dialectical Monster-Making in the
Candyman Trilogy"
Chris Richardson
Preservation Hall Studio 9
3170B Visual & Verbal Culture III: Cinema
Chair: Carol Samson, University of Denver
"‘India’ in American Movies: From Shirley Temple to Slumdog Millionaire"
James Aubrey, Metropolitan State College of Denver
"Confederacy of Misfits: The Cult Appeal of The Big Lebowski"
Anne Evans, Metropolitan State College of Denver
"Pop Shakespeare: Representations of William Shakespeare in Popular Culture"
Rebecca Gorman, Metropolitan State College of Denver
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