I hope everyone is gearing up for what I’m sure will be a very exciting conference. We have an excellent batch of presenters, so be sure to check out the full schedule here (an earlier issue with the PDF version of the program has been fixed).
We look forward to meeting everyone this weekend!
The CFP for our upcoming conference, Film & Philosophy: Corpus//Bodies, featuring keynote speakers Kaja Silverman, Christiane Paul, and Eugenie Brinkema is now available on our Conference page. The conference will be held in conjunction with FLEXfest, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival.
This Friday, 08/31, the Graduate Film Studies Group will hold its first meeting of the year. Anyone who’s interested in film is welcome, and we especially encourage new grad students to come out and meet us! In addition to general socializing, we will discuss elections, the coming conference “Film and Philosophy: BODIES,” and other plans for the group this year. Some snacks and drinks will be provided, but feel free to bring something along.
Date: 08/31
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Allison’s Apartment (email arittmayer_at_ufl.edu for directions)
Below is a schedule of all UF graduate students and faculty presenting at this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Boston, MA March 21-25th.
Wednesday March 21
2:00-3:45pm
Melissa Molloy (Chair) “Sex, Brutality, and Childhood in Films of the Argentine Countryside”
Gerardo Muñoz (Co-chair) “Violence as Potentiality: The Case of Aristarain’s Tiempo de Revancha”
Panel: Violence in Contemporary Latin-American Cinema
Room C2
Thursday March 22
11:00am-12:45pm
Scott Nygren (Chair) “Animals, Communists, and Caves: Benjaminian Time in Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)”
Panel: Aesthetics and Politics
Room F12
Melanie Brunnell (Chair) “Paradise Lost, Hope Regained: The Tramp’s Final Journey in Modern Times”
Wylie Lenz (Co-chair) “Cinematic Solutions to Economic Crisis”
Panel: Depictions of Poverty in American Cinema
Room F15
1:00-2:45pm
Ying Xiao (Chair) “From Body Crossing to Border Crossing: Refiguring Gender, Genre, and Transnational Imaginary in Postwar Chinese Cinema”
Panel: Cold War Politics and East Asian Cinema Reconsidered
Room G11
3:00-4:45pm
Kevin Sherman (Chair) “Dennis Tupicoff’s Chainsaw and the Politics of Location”
Todd Jurgess “Texture as Gesture in His Mother’s Voice”
Panel: The Paradoxes of Truth and Evidence: The Work of Dennis Tupicoff
Room H11
Maureen Turim “Designs of Spaces One Survives with Difficulty”
Panel: Cinema, Architecture, Space
Room H21
5:00-6:45pm
Lauren Glenn (Chair) “‘You Know You Can Shoot People Here’: American Cinematic Identity in Post-9/11 Combat Films”
Panel: Cinematic Identity Formation: The Ethics of Representation in Historical Fiction Films
Room I13
Craig Cieslikowski (Participant)
Workshop: Video Essays: Film Scholarship’s Emergent Form
Room I25
Friday March 23
12:15-2:00pm
Allison Rittmayer (Chair) “The Unseen and the Unseeable: Using Ellipsis to Represent Torture”
Panel: Historical Fiction Film: Questions of Form and Ethics
Room K17
Saturday March 24
9:00-10:45am
Emily Murphy (Chair) “The Politics of Play in John and Faith Hubley’s Windy Day”
Panel: Experimental Animation
Room M16
11:00am-12:45pm
Barbara Mennel “Potiche: Camp and Reproductive Labor”
Panel: The Ethics of Labor in Contemporary Cinema: Working Bodies and Gendered Affects
Room N13
3:00-4:45pm
Mark Reid (Respondent)
Panel: Beyond Blaxploitation, 1970–1975
Room P15
5:00-6:45pm
Tamar Ditzian “Transgender’s Transgressions Undone in Hedwig and Rocky Horror: Reviewing Queerness in the Glam Rock Musical”
Panel: Sing-a-longs and Dance-a-thons Re-visioning the Contemporary Musical on Film and Television
Room Q2
Sunday March 25
9:00-10:45am
Mark Reid “Many Rivers to Cross with Christian and Muslim Flows”
Panel: The Trouble with Britishness
Room R7
Marina Hassapopoulou “Interactive Cinema: Expanding and Updating Film Theory”
Panel: Expanded Cinema in Four Dimensions: Origins, Senses, Interactivity, Publicness
Room R25
11:00am-12:45pm
Anthony Coman “Nev’s Dilemma, or the Coming Community of Catfish”
Panel: Communities/Masses/Networks
Room S8
Craig Cieslikowski “Writing Sounds: Cinematic Writing and Cinephilia”
Panel: “A Cinema Haunted by Writing”
Room S10
The Graduate Film Studies Group is proud to co-sponsor the conference on Early Revolutionary Cuban Film 1961-1968: Ideology, Aesthetics, Censorship An Homage to Fausto Canel.
Press Release: The event Early Revolutionary Cuban Film 1961-1968: An Homage to Fausto Canel, made possible by the Graduate Film Studies Group, the Center for Latin American Studies and organized by Gerardo Munoz, will take place November 10, 2011. The event will consist of a panel discussion with prominent critics of Cuban culture and film around the legacies and histories of early 1960s revolutionary Cuban film, taking as the starting point the “P.M. affair”. The event will include a screening of Cuban filmmaker Fausto Canel’s important film, Desarraigo (1964). Fausto Canel, to whom the event is dedicated, was a leading a film critic of the important cultural supplement Lunes de Revolucion, headed by prominent Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante, as well as a pioneer in the early years of the Cuban Film Industry. He directed documentaries that include Carnaval (1960), Hemingway (1962), and later the features Desarraigo (1964) and Papeles son papeles (1966). The event is honored to have Fausto Canel present during both sessions of the event. The panel discussion and talk by Fausto Canel to take place in Pugh Hall room 210 beginning at 9:35 am; the screening of Desarraigo (1964) will be presented by Prof. Lillian Guerra in Matherly Hall room 18 at 6:00 pm.
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