2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

"Animation and Abstract Realism"
Alex Jukes, Edge Hill University
"Brick by Brick: Notes on Blu’s MUTO and the Animated Utterance"
Catherine Clepper
Beauregard (5th Floor)
3189 Westerns & the West II: Social Politics in Westerns
Chair: Ralph Turner, Southern Utah University
"The Cowboy Goes to War: Charles Starrett's World War II Films"
R. Philip Loy, Taylor University
"The End of History and America First: The 1990s Film Western"
Craig Rinne, University of Florida
"The Action Hero's Journey: From Shane to Spider-Man"
Ralph Turner
FRIDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
Balcony L (4th Floor)
3191 Science Fiction & Fantasy XVII: Taking the TWILIGHT Saga to Task: A
Roundtable Presentation and Discussion
Chair: Tanya R. Cochran, Union College
Panelists: Samuel Banford, Utah Valley University; Tanya R. Cochran, Union
College; Jennifer Farrell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Gianna Martella,
Western Oregon University; Thomas Parham, Azusa Pacific University; and
Rhonda V. Wilcox, Gordon College
Touching on topics from (anti)feminism to fandom, from the violation of vampire
lore to the comparison and contrast of the Stephenie Meyer’s saga with Buffy the
Vampire Slayer and True Blood, we begin this session with pithy comments by each
panelist before opening the conversation to all in attendance.
Preservation Hall Studio 5 (2nd Floor)
3192 Food in Popular Culture IV: Food and Geographical/Cultural Identity
Chair: Beverly Taylor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Flatter than a Pancake; or, Kansas ‘Cuisine’"
Roger Adams, Kansas State University
"‘Is It Spicey?’: How Americans Eat Culture"
Rasha Ramzy, Georgia State University
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