2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

SATURDAY
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
D’Lane Compton, The University of New Orleans
Leah DeVun, Texas A&M University
"Desperado and Saddledrag: Female Performances Queering Cowboys"
Anna Campbell, Grand Valley State University
"Queer Cowboygirls: Romance, Race, Gender and Passing in Penny Hayes’
Lesbian Western Fiction"
Sharon Barnes
Preservation Hall Studio 10 (2nd Floor)
4100 Documentary III: Questioning the Documentary Form
Chair: Danny Shipka, Louisiana State University
"John Milton and the Devil of West Memphis: A Postmodern Areopagitica in
Defense of the West Memphis Three"
Julia Guernsey-Shaw, University of Louisiana at Monroe
"Documentary Gone Wild: The Mondo Film"
Danny Shipka
La Galerie 3 (2nd Floor)
4101 Film XXVII: 21st-Century Japanese Horror: Pulse, Visitor Q, & Audition
Session Chair: Virginia Grant, University of North Alabama
"Ailing Screens, Viral Video: Technological Ghosts in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse"
Kit Hughes, The University of Texas at Austin
"Family Values and Microphone Rape: Takashi Miike's Visitor Q and the American
Culture Wars"
Justin Thurman, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"‘I became the real heroine’: Justifying Violence in Takashi Miike's Audition"
Virginia Grant
Jackson (5th Floor)
4103 Film and Media Studies V: Roundtable on The American Superhero
Zeitgeist from Comics to Screen
Chair: J. Brian Wagaman, scholar
"The American Superhero Zeitgeist from Comics to Screen"
Marc Azard, University of North Texas
Maja Bajac-Carter, University of North Texas
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