23. Fin-de-siecle Homoerotics
Room 244 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Linda Saladin, Florida State University

Stephanie Brinson, University of Tennessee, "What did you do, grow up in a Norman Rockwell painting? or, the Reappropriation of Nostalgia in Su Friedrich's Hide and Seek"

Dawn Terrick, Missouri Western State College, "The Lore and Lure of the Vampire: Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire"

Kole Kleeman, University of Central Oklahoma, "Gay and Lesbian Cinema at the End of the Century"

Scott Banville, Florida State University, "Fin-de-siecle sexualities, history repeating itself in Brian Gilbert's Wilde"

Denis J. Berenschot, University of West Georgia, "(Re)Writing Gender Performance in Cuban Film"

Tim Libretti, Northeastern Illinois University, "Visitations of Spirits: Rethinking Tradition, Redirecting the Future in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam and Randall Keenan's A Visitation of Spirits"

24. Apocalypticism and Catastrophic Narrative
Room 110 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Christopher Sharrett, Seton Hall University

Christopher Sharrett, Seton Hall University, "To Live and Die in America: The Fate of the Male in Postindustrial Civilization"

Philip L. Simpson, Brevard Community College Palm Bay "Apocalypse and the Celebration of Capital in the Disaster Movies of the 1990s"

John Kimsey, DePaul University, "Apocalypse in Astro-Black: Sun Ra, Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton"

Mikita Brottman, Indiana University, "Apocalyptic Laughter in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice"

25. Revision(ism) of Racism and Sexism in American Film
Room 123A 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Chella Courington, Huntingdon College

Donald Chalfont, State University of West Georgia, "Margaret Mitchell at Millenium's End"

Judylyn Ryan, Ohio Wesleyan University, "Black Women Filmmakers Charting Futures"

James Forsher, Florida State University, "Will Hays, Joseph Breen and the Hollywood Production Code: How did the code effect racist and stereotypical portraits on the film?"

Sharon Jones, Earlham College, "Slavery and the Silver Screen: Representations of African American Women in Gone With the Wind and Beloved"

26. Modes and Strategies of Making and Viewing Film II: Rhetoric, Magic, Semiotics, Auteurism, Cinematic Event
Room 123B 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Karen Laughlin, Florida State University

Cynthia Stone, College of the Holy Cross, "Technology and Magic: Shamanic Possession in Latin American Historical Films"

Ronald Wilson, University of Kansas, "The Second Cine-Century: Technology and them Cinematic Event in the 21st Century"

Ann Kibbey, University of Colorado, "The Semiotics of Credibility: An Analysis of The Verdict and Before the Rain"

Roman Zylawy, University of Virginia @ Wise, "The Night of Varennes: The King Who Lost His

Brian Doan, University of Florida, "Between the Cracks, A Visual Culture: New Waves and Film Studies Spectacles"

Lisa Hartman, Clemson University, "The Truth in Fiction: Woody Allen's Discovery of the Writer in Deconstructing Harry"

27. Millennial Shakespeare
Room AUD 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California - Santa Cruz

Karin Magaldi-Unger, Portland State University, "Finding Richard in the Mirror"

Candace Vogler, University of Chicago, "Fourteen Sonnets for an Epidemic"

Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Out of Love with Shakespeare in Love"

Lauren Reichel, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Romeo + Juliet + MTV"

28. French Cinema at the Millennium
Room 107 9:00 am-10:20 am
Moderator: Walter Metz, Montana State University

Walter Metz, Montana State University-Bozeman, "What's Brakhage Got To Do With It? The Radical Reworking of Les Vampiers in Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep (1996)"

Tom Conley, Harvard University, "Revamping Irma"

Steven Carr, Indiana - Purdue University, Fort Wayne, "The Holocaust in the Text: Film Adaptations of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables in the 1990s"

29. Liminal Masculinities
Room 107 10:40 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University

Ben Gunter, Florida State University, "Mystery Men: Masculinity at the Edge of the

Frank Trezza, Bradley University, "Romance and the Sensitive Guy: Victimization and Feminization of the Male Hero in the Films of Nora Ephron"

Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University, "Bob Flanagan: Taking It Like A Man"

30. Film as Ideological Critique: Oppression/Capitalism/Nationalism
Room 116 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Ernie Rehder, Florida State University

Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida, "No Bad Boys: Boys Town and Popular Boyology"

Lisa Odham Stokes, Seminole Community College, "The Presence of Absence: Post-1997 in Hong Kong 'Japanese Occupation' Films"

Eric Cazdyn, University of Toronto, "The End of Literary Adaptation: Origin, Nation and Other Causalities of Globalization"

Heidi Kenaga, University of Memphis, "Tom Davenport's Live Action Fairy Tale Adaptations"

Jeff Marker, University of Georgia, "Orson Welles' Macbeth: Allegory of

Michael Hoover, Seminole Community College, "The Presence of Absence: Post-1997 in Hong Kong's Japanese Occupation Films"

Christopher Orr, Glenville State College, "Raising Cain in the P.R.C.: Ju Dou and The Postman Always Rings Twice"

31. (De)Mythification, Religion, Time (Cycles) and History
Room 117 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Carole Policy, Florida State University

John Davidson, Ohio State University, "Time is on My Side, or How the Reason of Detective Films Has Fallen into Myth

Francoise Fregnac-Clave, Washington and Lee University, "History and Myth: Contest and Subtext in Julien Gracq's La Presqu'ile"

Don Russ, Kennesaw State University, "Timelessness in Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus"

Charles A. Perrone, University of Florida, "De/myth/mystification: Orfeu and the Brazilian Filmic Imagination"

Richard D. Freed, Eastern Kentucky University, "The American Myth: The New Eden, as Seen in Films…in Odessa, Ukraine, 1998"

Mark Allen Jackson, Louisiana State University, "Robin Hood or Just Robbing?: History and Myth in Woody Guthrie's Pretty Boy Floyd"

32. Genre and Context: Comedy, Tragedy, Satire
Room 239 9:00 am-10:20 am
Moderator: Deborah Hall, Florida State University

Alanna Preussner, Truman State University, "Taking It All Off: Comedy and the Grotesque in Carl Hiassen's Striptease"

George Butte, Colorado College, "Discourses of Comedy in Raising Arizona"

John Hathaway, Valdosta State University, "Evita as Aristotelian Tragedy: The Movie Versus the Stage-Play"

33. Women Writing Women
Room 239 10:40 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Deborah Hall, Florida State University

Kendra Lee, Florida State University, "A Council Between Equals: Destabilizing Marriageand Gender in The Temple of My Familiar"

Deborah Kay Ferrell, Finger Lakes Community College, "Crystal Clear: The Inviolability of the Southern Belle Archetype in Lee Smith's Black Mountain Breakdown"

Donna L. Alday, Independent Scholar, "Transcendental Heroines"

34. Women Writers on the Edge of Time
Room 244 3:30 pm-6:30 pm
Moderator: Janet Burroway, Florida State University

Barbara Hamby, Florida State University,

Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Florida State University,

Claudia Johnson, Florida State University,

Pam Ball, Florida State University,

Janet Burroway, Florida State University,

35. Corporeality at the Millennium: Bodies That Are Gendered, Raced, Costumed and Eaten
Room 110 3:30 pm-6:30 pm
Moderator: Krin Gabbard, State University of New York - Stony Brook

Krin Gabbard, State University of New York at Stony "The Invisible Signifier: Race and the Soundtrack"

Peter Lehman, Arizona State University, "But Wait: Time, Masculinity and Race in RoyOrbison's and Count Basie's Versions of Oh, Pretty

Mary Rawlinson, State University of New York at Stony "Liminal Ethics II: Cannibalism as Justice"

William Luhr, Saint Peters College, "Nazi Tropes and Apocalyptic Discourse"

Robert Eberwein, Oakland University, "As A Mother Cuddles a Child: Male Sexuality in the WWII Combat Film"

36. Nostalgia: Looking Back/Looking Forward
Room 123A 3:30 pm-6:30 pm
Moderator: Raymond Fleming, Florida State University

Denise Cummings, University of Florida, "Meet Me In St. Louis and the Production of

Susan Scrivner, Bemidji State University, "Look Back in Bewilderment: The Loss of Tradition in Recent British Cinema"

Kanchana Ugbabe, University of Jos, "Looking Back/Looking Forward: Memory and Creativity in Nigerian Adolescent Fiction"

Adetutu Abatan, Floyd College, "Looking Back/Looking Forward: Memory and Creativity in Nigerian Adolescent Fiction"

Carey Martin, Barry University, "Outsider Nostalgia in Dazed and Confused and Detroit Rock City"

Cassandra M. Ellis, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Reconsidered on the Edge of Time"

37. Dystopia: Objectification, Fascism, Consumerism, Abjection, High Tech
Room 123B 3:30 pm-6:30 pm
Moderator: Delia Poey, Florida State University

Alexander Williams, Florida A & M University, "High Tech Advances in a Stifled Society"

Deborah Geis, University of Tennessee, "Ideology and Gender in the Modernist/Postmodernist Dystopia of Godard's Alphaville"

Mark Brodie, Bowling Green State University, "The Sickness Until Death - Dystopian Abjection in the Figure of the Irish Mobster in the Films State of Grace and Sleepers"

Sixto Torres, Appalachian State University, "Doubling and Splitting: Disturbing Images in Jose Martin Recuerda's Las reinas"

Paul R. Kohl, Loras College, "The Future in Film: Dystopian Visions, Business Realities"

Ernest Rehder, Florida State University, "The Turner Diaries as Nazi Utopian Literature"

39. New Interactivities I: Digital, Devised Video, Pokemon
Room 107 3:30 pm-6:30 pm
Moderator: Jean Graham-Jones, Florida State University

Jennifer Davis, Truman State University, "Introducing a Digital Manifestation, Digital Video and The Addiction Trilogy: Todd Verow, a Revolutionary"

Robert Pekurny, Florida State University, "Devised Videos"

Jon Cates, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "PokePower: Cross-platform Pop-mythologies"

40. Jane Campion's The Piano and Sweetie: The Gaze, Gender, and Sexuality
Room 116 3:30 pm-4:50 pm
Moderator: Rachel Davis, Florida State University

Chella Courington, Huntingdon College, "Campion's Sweetie: Blurring Sexual Lines"

Jaime Bihlmeyer, Southwest Missouri State University, "The Piano: The Female Gaze and the Historical Film"

41. Stanley Kubrick's 2001 and Eyes Wide Shut: Time, Genre, Sex/Gender
Room 116 5:10 pm-6:30 pm
Moderator: Rachel Davis, Florida State University

Todd Neuman, University of West Florida, "Once upon a Millennia: Stanley Kubrick's Use ofTime as a Thematic Device"

Arnold Preussner, Truman State University, "Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut as ShakespeareanTragicomedy"

Bob Mielke, Truman State University, "Stanley Kubrick at the Fin de Siecle: Eyes Wide Shut and its Intertexts"

42. Violence, Race, and Gender
Room 117 3:30 pm-6:30 pm
Moderator: Erdmute Wenzel White, Purdue University

Hilary Neroni, Southwest Texas State University, "Representations of Gender at the End of the 21st Century: Violence and Femininity in Contemporary American Film"

Phebe Davidson, University of South Carolina-Aiken, "Seeing in Black and White: Submerged Racial Violence and the American Trans-racial Buddy

Robin A. Nixon, Florida State University, "Masani Montague's Dread Culture and the Suppression of Rastafarian Women in Literature and

Kathleen Roddy, Georgia Perimeter College, "On the Edge of Peace: The Shifting Position ofMedbh McGuckian amid the Violence of Northern

Deborah Thompson, Colorado State University, "Raping Repertoires: The Theatrical Strategies of Bullins, Baraka, and the Black Panthers"

Pamela Grace, New York University, "Joan of Arc, Millennial Girl"

43. Imagery, Ethics and Politics of Violence in American Film and TV
Room 239 3:30 pm-4:50 pm
Moderator: James M. Bowers, Florida State University

Robert Hill, Kennesaw State University, "Minus Man and Counting: Killers of the 1990s"

Ben McCorkle, Ohio State University, "Moving Towards the Tunnel: A Defense of American Psycho"

44. Sado-Masochism and Anality
Room 239 5:10 pm-6:30 pm
Moderator: James M. Bowers, Florida State University

Joshua Malitsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Passolini's Onion: Sadomasochistic and Mimetic Sexuality in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo or 120 Days of Sodom"

David Bird, Florida State University, "Three Views of Sado-Masochism: Unamuno, Camus, and Orwell"