45. Textual-Visual Montage: Subversion, Fragmentation, Remembrance, Underground Comics
Room 244 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Bill Cloonan, Florida State University

John Smith, Clemson University, "Dickens, Eisenstein, and the Illustrations in Oliver

David Hatch, Florida State University, "Collaborating with Samuel Beckett: Re-Volution and Re-Vision"

Karen Osborne, Columbia College of "The Red Leaf: Time and Syncope in Carol Maso's  Ghost Dance and AVA"

Alvise Mattozzi, University of Florence, "HistoryThrough Quotation: The Case of Underground  Comics"

Ernest Fontana, Xavier University, "Benjamin, Aura and Sebald's Emigrants"

Francesca Royster, DePaul University, "My All-Girl Othello: Confronting Shakespeare in  Contemporary Culture"

46. Filmic Indeterminacy, Irony, Ambiguity, Discontinuity and the Absurd
Room 110 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Antoine Spacagna, Florida State University

Christina Hunter, University of Southern Mississippi, "Period of Adjustment: Seriocomedy and the Williams  Cinematic Canon"

Michael Walsh, Florida State University, "Ang Lee's The Ice Storm (1997)"

Marshall Deutelbaum, Purdue University, "Time, Space and the Braided Narrative of Sliding

Michael Tierce, Kennesaw State University, "Defying the Great, Golden Authority that Hovers  above Us All: Teaching Cool Hand Luke as a Classic  of Absurdism"

Kim McGhee, University of Alabama, "Leonardo da Vinci and Piero della Francesca References in Tarkovsky's Final Films: Two Perspectives on Sacrifical Responses to

47. Film Documentary/"Documentary": Authenticity, Identity, Agency
Room 123A 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Julie Sloan Brannon, Florida State University

Michael Chase, "Everything Old Is New Again: 'Revolutionizing' the Genre with The Blair Witch Project"

Jim Schneider, Muhlenberg College, "Documentary Images as Public Discourse: Truth  Claims and Community Building"

Troy Pugmire, New York University, "(Mis)representing the Exotic"

Mark J. Charney, Clemson University, "Everything Old Is New Again: 'Revolutionizing' the  Genre with The Blair Witch Project"

Barbara Mortimer, Georgia Perimter College, Dunwoody "Vietnam after 'Vietnam': Three Legacies in Tony Bui's Three Seasons"

Jennifer Bottinelli, University of North Dakota, "Revisiting the 'Woman's Film': Female Agency and Expression in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves"

Burlin Barr, Amherst College, "Wandering with Precision: Cultural Anti-destinations and Alienated Desire in Chris Marker's Sans Soleil"

48. Science Fiction: Genre, Time/Space, Cultural Malaise and Camp
Room 123B 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Mark Cooper, Florida State University

Todd McGowan, Southwest Texas State University, "Hegel and the Impossibility of the Future in Science Fiction"

John III Turner, Denison University, "From Desert Storm to Y2K: The Reckless Spawn of Science Fiction Cinema"

Anneke Metz, Montana State University, "The Three Person Salute: "Reboot and Forget It" as a Y2K Containment Strategy in Sphere"

Edwin Williams, Ohio State University, "Charlton Heston - The Last Man on Earth"

Thomas Beliech, Pensacola Junior College, "Was This Trip Necessary? The Ethics of Time Travel in Science Fiction"

Michael LaBossiere, Florida A&M University, "When Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday: A Philosophical Examination of the Science Fiction Genre"

49. Colonialism/Imperialism: Revision(ism), Orientalism
Room AUD 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Zeina Schlenoff, Florida State University

Aaron Lan, Florida State University, "Metamorphosing in Time: Death and Resurrection of Mulan"

Mike Sugimoto, University of Puget Sound, "Japan as an Aesthetic Symbol in Nineteenth Century Narrative"

Waqas Ahmad Khwaja, Agnes Scott College, "Politics of Sexual Representation in Three British Films on Indian Subjects"

John Wright, University of South Carolina - Union, "What Krishna Whispered to Arjuna in Brook's Bhagavadgita"

Mark Ebel, Huntingdon College, "Cultural Exchange and Domination: Contrasting Views of the Spanish Conquest in Latin American and European Films"

50. New Interactivities II: Cyber Narrativity
Room 107 9:00 am-10:20 am
Moderator: Jean Graham-Jones, Florida State University

William Miller, Ohio University, "Cyber Media, Cyber Consciousness"

Henry James Butler, City College, "Cyber-narrative: Voyeur to Participant and the Role of Cyber-Fabula"

Kendrick Kelley, Purdue University, "Automatic Writing, Autocratic History: Photography, Cyberpunk, and the Extension of the Human"

51. Issues of American Cultural Identity in Film
Room 116 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Beth Watzke, Florida State University

Zelda Provenzano, Drexel University, "The Saviors or 'The Word': The Meek Preservers in Recent Films"

Lisa DeTora, University of Rochester, "To Boldly Go: The Astronaut as Family Man in Twentieth Century Films"

James Campbell, University of Central Florida, "$aving Private Ryan: The Economics of Memory in Spielberg's Other WWII Epic"

Mo Lyons, Purdue University, "Hieroglyphics of an Oral Culture: Mickey and Mallory Knox as the Greater Mickey and Minnie

William Larsen, University of Tennessee, "If At First You Do Succeed, Why Not Try Again: What Shop Around the Corner and You've Got Mail Reveal About American Cultural Myths"

Lawrence Broer, University of South Florida, "Bowling for Meaning in The Big Lebowski"

52. I Like It Like That: A Case Study in Race, Gender and Technology
Room 117 9:00 am-10:20 am
Moderator: Alexander Weheliye, State University of New York - Stony Brook

Cecilia Milanes, University of Central Florida, "Latin Looks: Latina Identity in I Like it Like That"

Alexander Weheliye, State University of New York - Stony "An Auditory Free Territory in the Americas"

Jillana Enteen, University of Central Florida, "Constructing Community: Establishing Shots in I Like It Like That"

53. Millennial Genres: Stella Dallas Meets Dr. Jekyll Meets Buster Keaton
Room 117 10:40 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Kevin Sweeney, University of Tampa

Elizabeth Coffman, University of Tampa, "Maternity at the Millennium"

Elizabeth Winston, University of Tampa, "Self and Shadow: The Millennial Revolution in the Jekyll/Hyde Narratives"

Kevin Sweeney, University of Tampa, "The Three Ages: Keaton's Millennial Narrative"

54. Medical Discourses and Eugenics: Misogyny, Therapy, Censorship
Room 239 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: Wendy W. McLallen, Florida State University

Maryhelen Harmon, University of South Florida, "Prescriptions and Proscriptions: 19th Century Medical Counsel Books"

Erdmute White, Purdue University, "German Expressionism and the Art of Chromotherapy: Painting and Literature"

Kylo-Patrick Hart, University of Virginia's College at Wise, "Assessing AIDS and the Cinematic City on the Edge of the Pandemic's Third Decade"

Doug Grigsby, Clemson University, "They're Going to Kill Us All: Modern Reproductive Issues in Larry Cohen's It's Alive Trilogy"

Ray Guins, University of Leeds, The V-Chip: Household Cleaning for the 21st

Octavia Davis, National University, "'An Error Apt to Arise': Geography and Eugenics in  Bram Stoker's Dracula"

55. Nostalgic Nostalgia: Spain on the Edge of Time
Room 244 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Silvia Bermudez, University of California - Santa Barbara

Jonathan Mayhew, University of Kansas-Lawrence, "Three Apologies for Poetry: Discourses of Literary Value in Contemporary Spain"

Silvia Bermudez, University of California Santa Barbara, "Versions and Visions of the Past: The Cultural Melancholia of late Twentieth Century Spanish

Joseba Gabilondo, Bryn Mawr College, "Nostalgia Interrupta: Postcolonial Spain and the Global Imaginary"

Timothy McGovern, University of California - Santa Barbara, "Schizophrenic Nostalgia: The Fifth Series of Benito Perez Galdos' Historical Novels"

56. Music in Film and Video: (Railroad) Tracking, Conducting, Composing, HipHop
Room 110 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Barry Faulk, Florida State University

Thomas Cohen, University of Florida, "Maestros and Metronomes: Musical Conducting and Motion Pictures"

Vera Stegman, Lehigh University, "Film Music: The Case of Hanns Eisler"

Mary M. Wiles, University of Florida, "Sounding out the Operatic in Jacques Rivette's

Monika Brown, University of North Carolina - Pembroke, "Composing a Culture: The Soundtrack in Animated Historical Films"

Cynthia Fuchs, George Mason University, "This is our world, me and my girls: Hiphop Girls Go Millennial"

Michael Jarrett, Penn State University - York, "Tracking Shots: A Few Thoughts on the Sound of Trains"

57. Ethnography: Otherness and Assimilation
Room 123A 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Willie Hobbs, Florida State University

Peter Reed, Florida State University, "Of Ethnography and Other Demons"

Joseph Viera, Nazareth College, "'When Fidel Falls': Forty Years of Cuban American Fantasies, Fears and Fiction

David Hitchcock, Wesleyan College, "Illusory Assimilation and Color Blindness in Armendariz's Las cartas de Alou"

Derek Royal, North Georgia College and State Univ, "Fictional Realms of Possibility: Reimagining the Ethnic Subject in Philip Roth's American Pastoral"

Ron Gilmer, Florida State University, "Writing Updike Writing Culture"

Gary D. Keller, Arizona State University, "The Binational 5 de Mayo Project: A Visual History of the 5 de Mayo Holiday in Mexico and the United

58. The Matrix and Other SciFi Films: Myths, Dystopia, Anxiety
Room 123B 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Thomas J. Herrington, Florida State University

Richard Laing, Independent Scholar, "Millennium Movie Madness: Public Exculpation in Hollywood Film"

Melanie Rawls, Florida A&M University, "The Matrix: Not Mind Over Matter After All"

Christopher Ames, Agnes Scott College, "Technofables for the End of Time: 2001, Bladerunner, Terminator 2, The Matrix"

Karen Schneider, Western Kentucky University, "The Matrix: Millennial Anxiety, Ideological Critique, and the Postmodern Dilemma"

Arthur L. Terry, Wheaton College, "It's the Question That Drives Us: Five Interpretations of The Matrix"

Mary A. McCay, Loyola University, "Millennial Anxiety in The Matrix and Enemy of the

59. Ideological Critique of Film and TV Reportage: Subversion, Xenophobia, Domination
Room AUD 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Jabbar A. Al-Obaidi, Bridgewater State College

Barry S. Sapolsky, Florida State University, "Sex on Television: The Early Years"

Jabbar Al-Obaidi, Bridgewater State College, "On the Edge of 2000: A Culture's Memory The Siege: A Negative Light and A New Way of

Cheryl Urbas, Florida State University, "Sex on Television: The Early Years"

Timothy McCracken, Union County College, "The Monsters of Incuriosity and The Framing of

Edward Miller, College of Staten Island/CUNY, "Millennial Media and the Secrets of Disaster"

Rebecca Rodgers, Florida State University, "The Displacement of Youth and Beauty: A 1990s Construction of 54"

Corless Smith, San Francisco State University, "Why It Matters If Adapters Change the Story: A  National Resources Model"

60. Montage in Film: Indeterminacy, Desire/Containment, Fiction/Fact
Room 107 2:00 pm-3:20 pm
Moderator: Joana Owens, Florida State University

Patrick S. Brennan, University of Florida, "Montage in Anger: Form and Desire in Scorpio

Jeffrey Johnson, College of Charleston, "Mistah Kane-- He Dead: Images of Finality in Orson Welles' Masterpiece

61. (Re)Popularizing Shakespeare With Film
Room 107 3:40 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Joana Owens, Florida State University

Jane M. Kinney, Valdosta State University, "Art thou Base, Common and Popular: Taking Shakespeare on Film into the New Milennium"

Shawn A. Schumacher, DeVry Institute of Technology, "We Thinkst They Don't Protest Too Much: Teaching Shakespeare on Film within a Technical Environment"

William D. Hayes, DeVry Institute of Technology, "We Thinkst They Don't Protest Too Much: Teaching Shakespeare on Film within a Technical Environment"

62. (Post)Colonialism in Italian and Italian American Literature and Film
Room 116 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: Mark Pietralunga, Florida State University

Wiley Feinstein, Loyola University of Chicago, "The Representation of Fascist State Anti-Semitism from Bertolucci's Conformist to Benigni's Life is Beautiful: Comedy Italian Style and the Denial of the Historical Record"

Paolo Giordano, Loyola University of Chicago, "Il paese di cuccagna, ovvero 'la Merica di Nanetto Pippetta"

Ilaria Serra, Purdue University, The colonization of the foreigner in American and Italian

Mark Pietralunga, Florida State University,

Anthony Tamburri, Purdue University, "Race and Bigotry in Italian/American Culture"

63. Vision/Revision in and of Historical Narratives: Subjectivity, Structure, Dialectics
Room 117 2:00 pm-3:20 pm
Moderator: David Swanson, Florida State University

Christopher Nank, Florida State University, "The Individual and the Collective: Naked and the Dead and Saving Private Ryan as Hegelian

Frank Darwiche, Ohio State University, "For A Phenomenological Reading of Beowulf's History and Text"

Jonathan Fegley, Middle Georgia College, "Vision/Revision as Narrative Structure in William Styron's Sophie's Choice"

64. Apocalypse, Ethics and Artistic Creativity
Room 117 3:40 pm-5:00 pm
Moderator: David Swanson, Florida State University

Heather Neff, Eastern Michigan University, "The Black Puritans: The Tropes of Apocalypse and Redemption in African American Film"

Amy Johnson Frykholm, Duke University, "Reading the Rapture: Fiction and Truth in Left