2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

WEDNESDAY
8:30 – 10:00 P.M.
Wednesday, 8:30 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.
La Galerie 3 (2nd Floor)
1113 Film IV: Post-9/11 Film Adaptations: Adapting to Political, Sexual, &
Cultural Trauma
Chair: Allen Jones, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
"Alex Cox's Revenger's Tragedy and the Foreclosure of Apocalyptic Teleology"
James Keller, Eastern Kentucky University
"Trauma and The Fantastic in Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin and Asia Argento's
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things"
Tom O'Connor, Tulane University
"Saying ‘Yes’ to Process: Collaborative Dialectics in Sally Potter's Yes"
Allen Jones
Balcony L (4th Floor)
1114 Science Fiction & Fantasy V: Genre and Bodies of Text II
Chair: Diana Botsford, Missouri State University
"Narrating Existence in Phillip K. Dick’s Flow my Tears, The Policeman Said "
Marie Hendry, University of Louisiana—Lafayette
"Drifting Discourse: Multiple Narratives in The Amulet of Samarkand "
Shannon Bilunas, Purdue University—Calumet
"Beyond 9/11: The Birth of Naturalistic Science Fiction in Television"
Diana D. Botsford, Missouri State University
Lindsey A. Davis, Missouri State University
Preservation Hall Studio 7 (2nd Floor)
1115 Gender & Media Studies II: Gender, Masculinity and the Media
Chair: Margaret McFadden, Colby College
"Re-Imagining Black Masculinity and Sexuality on the Cinematic Landscape"
Theresa R. White, California State University, Northridge
"Dexter Finds a Friend and Becomes a Vigalante"
Lisa Arellano, Colby College
"Performing the Self-Made Man: Materialism and Social Mobility as Tropes for
Black Masculinity in Nineteenth and Twenty-First Century Popular Culture"
Robert D. Jiles, California State University, San Bernardino
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