The Program at a Glance

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Thursday Morning
Thursday Afternoon
1.   Negotiating Masculinity I: Political/Personal Identities, Reversals, and Tattoos
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3.   Intertextuality: Analogies, Transpositions
4.   Modes and Strategies of Making and Viewing Film I: The Invisible, Aesthetics, Screen Time
5.   Cultural Identities: African, Caribbean, and African American
6.    Russian Literature and Film: History, Philosophy, Myth, and Intertextuality
7.    Italian Literature and Film: Utopia, Humor, and History
8.   Vision and Revision: History, Memory, and Film
10.  Latino(a) Authors Read Their Work
11.  Noir(esque): Amnesia and Anamnesis
12. After a Century: Classical, Post-Classical, Alternative Cinema
13.  Postmodern Narratives: Incoherency, Nonlinearity, Diminishing Referentiality
14.  Negotiating Masculinity II: Fathers and Family Men
15.  On the Edge of Gender: Transcendences
16.  Colonialism/Imperialism I
18.  Adaptations of the Apocalypse
19.  Alfred Hitchcock: Sexuality, Spectatorship, Nostalgia
20.  Mythic Quests and Heroes
21.  Native Americans: (Counter) Hegemonics
22. Mixed-Race Problematics

 
Friday Morning
    Friday Afternoon
23.  Fin-de-siecle Homoerotics 
24.  Apocalypticism and Catastrophic Narrative 
25.  Revision(ism) of Racism and Sexism in American
26.  Modes and Strategies of Making and Viewing
27.  Millennial Shakespeare
28.  French Cinema at the Millennium
29.  Liminal Masculinities
30.   Film as Ideological Critique: Oppression/ Capitalism/ Nationalism
31.  (De)Mythification, Religion, Time (Cycles) and
32.  Genre and Context: Comedy, Tragedy, Satire
33.  Women Writing Women
34.  Women Writers on the Edge of Time
35.  Corporeality at the Millennium: Bodies that are gendered, raced, costumed and eaten
36.  Nostalgia: Looking Back/Looking Forward
37.   Dystopia: Objectification, Fascism, Consumerism, Abjection, High Tech
39.  New Interactivities I: Digital, Devised Video, Pokemon
40.  Jane Campion's The Piano and Sweetie: The Gaze, Gender, and Sexuality
41.  Jane Campion's The Piano and Sweetie: The Gaze, Gender, and Sexuality
42.  Violence, Race, and Gender
43.  Imagery, Ethics and Politics of Violence in in American Film and TV
44.  Sado-Masochism and Anality

 
Saturday Morning
Saturday Afternoon
45.  Textual-Visual Montage: Subversion, Fragmentation, Remembrance, Underground Comics
46.  Filmic Indeterminacy, Irony, Ambiguity, Discontinuity and the Absurd
47.  Film Documentary/"Documentary": Authenticity, Identity, Agency
48.  Science Fiction: Genre, Time/Space, Cultural Malaise and Camp
49.  Colonialism/Imperialism: Revision(ism), Orientalism
50.  New Interactivities II: Cyber Narrativity
51.   Issues of American Cultural Identity in Film
52.  I Like It Like That: A Case Study in Race, Gender and Technology
53.  Millennial Genres: Stella Dallas Meets Dr. Jekyll Meets Buster Keaton
54.  Medical Discourses and Eugenics: Misogyny, Therapy, Censorship
55.  Nostalgic Nostalgia: Spain on the Edge of Time
56.  Music in Film and Video: (Railroad) Tracking, Conducting, Composing, HipHop
57.  Ethnography: Otherness and Assimilation 
58.  The Matrix and Other SciFi Films: Myths, Dystopia, Anxiety
59.   Ideological Critique of Film and TV Reportage: Subversion, Xenophobia, Domination
60.   Montage in Film: Indeterminacy, Desire/Containment, Fiction/Fact
61.  (Re)Popularizing Shakespeare With Film
62.  (Post)Colonialism in Italian and Italian American Literature and Film
63.  Vision/Revision in and of Historical Narratives: Subjectivity, Structure, Dialectics
64.  Apocalypse, Ethics and Artistic Creativity