2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

FRIDAY
6:30 – 8:00 P.M.
Chair: Katherine Wells, University of Wisconsin Madison
"Sculpting the American Pioneer Woman: Gender, Race, and Middlebrow Tastes"
Janet Galligani Casey, Skidmore College
"Minna Citron's Social Conscious: Images of Newspapers in the ‘Feminanities’
Series"
Jennifer L. Streb, Juniata College
"Nobody Loves a Fat Girl: Gendered Aesthetics and the ‘Low’ Culture of Fat
Women Postcards"
Michelle Morgan, University of Southern Maine
"Look! Up in the Heavens! It's a Sun, It's a Planet...It's A Vagina Dentate: A Reexamination
of THE TRANSFORMERS' Unicron"
Sarita K. Heer, University of Illinois at Chicago
La Galerie 3 (2nd Floor)
3214 Film XX: Cinematic Surrealism: Orson Welles, Terry Gilliam, & Andre
Breton
Chair: Tom Rechtin, Misericordia University
"Phenomenological Shadows: The Worlding of Orson Welle's The Trial"
Amanda Davis, University of Chicago
"The Complication of Fantasy and Reality in Terry Gilliam's Brazil"
Andy Myers, Brigham Young University
"What's Out There Is What's In Here (and Vice Versa): Surrealism in Contemporary
Cinema"
Tom Rechtin
Preservation Hall Studio 2 (2nd Floor)
3215 Comic Art & Comics XIV: A Closer Look at Images
Chair: Nicole Freim, Riverside Community College
"The Revelation of Whiteness"
Katharine Polak, University of Cincinnati
"Inciting Misogynistic Oppression: Wonder Woman Cover Art In The Late 1960s
and 70s"
John Ellis-Etchison, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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