Thursday, February 1, 2001
Thursday a.m.

1. Objectifying and Commodifying Emotions
Room 123B 9:00am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Melanie Rawls-Abrams, Florida State University

Jimmie E. Cain, Middle Tennessee State University, "Pietas in Green: the Iconic Representation of Combat Medics"

Anca Rosu, DeVry Institute, "Emotions as Action Sequences in Don DeLillo'e Libra and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver"

Michael Tierce, Kennesaw State University, "The Old Sow That Eats Her Farrow: John Huston's Adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead"

Mara Lynn McFadden, State University Of New York at Brockport, "Fight Club: A Contemporary American Tale of Awakening" 

Robert Bray, Middle Tennessee State University, "Vieux Carre and the Haunting Pain of Rejection"

2. Adapting Emotions in German Literature
Room 123A 10:40 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Peter Ruppert, Florida State University

• Ana Bonfante-Bossak, Florida State University, "A Journey Into Exile: History and Emotion in Irmgard Keun's Nach Mitternacht"
• Carrie Perla, Florida State University, "Lady and the Tramp: Identity and the Modern Lover in Schnitzler's Reigen and Ophuls's La Ronde"
• John Woodward, Florida State University, "Adapting Emotions: From Traumnovelle to Eyes Wide Shut"

3. Detachment and Displacement in Literature and Film
Room 107 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Gregory Thompson, Florida State University

• Kathleen Murphey, Camden County College, "Flatlining: Emotions in Two Booker Prize Winners (The Remains of the Day andDisgrace), The Rewards and Penalties"
• Mark Ebel, Huntingdon College, "The Dangers of Love: Emotional and Physical Boxes in Central Station"
• Monica Pombo, Ohio University, "Dislocation and Memory through the lenses of Cinema; the Emotions of Exile while watching the Brazilian movie, Central Station"

• Ricardo Castells, Florida International University, "The Silence of Exile in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent"
• Isabel Castro-Vazquez, Florida State University, "Galician Identity in A lingua das bolboretas by Manuel Rivas"
• Russell I. Gregory, Radford University, "The Short Happy Lives of Francis Macomber and Lester Burnham: The Danger of Enlightenment in a World of Fear and Envy"

4. Death and the Automobile
Room 110 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Mikita Brottman, Indiana University

Tony Williams, Southern Illinois University, "Heart Like A Wheel"

Philip L. Simpson, Brevard Community College Palm Bay "Car Crashes and Conspiracies: The Deaths of Princess Diana and Mary Jo Kopechne"

Mikita Brottman, Indiana University, "Car Crash Crucifixion Culture"

Steven Jay Schneider, Harvard University, "Death as Art; The Car Crash as Statement: The Myth of Jackson Pollock"

5. Textual and Subtextual Manipulations of Emotions
Room 117 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: John Simons, Florida State University

Janet McCann, Texas A&M University, "The Code of Emotional Expression in Graham Greene's Work"

David Van Dyke, University of Minnesota, "Spiraling Into Control: Expressionist Crisis in Arnolt Bronnen's Ostpolzug"

Cynthia Nitz Ris, University of Cincinnati, "(Dis) Passionate World Views: A Frolic Through A Frolic of His Own"

Willie Tolliver Jr., Agnes Scott College, "A Hollow Man: Absences of Affect in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley"

Paul R. Kohl, Loris College, "The Future of Human Emotions in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Clarke's Childhood's End"

Alyssa Steinberg, New York University, "Ontologically Emotional: HAL in 2001"

6. Emotions and Identity: Cultural Nationalisms in Asian Film
Room 123A 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Mike Sugimoto, University of Puget Sound
 

Phebe Shih Chao, Independent Scholar, "Romanticism in Tian's Tibet; The Nostalgic Emotions of Cultural Nationalism"

Aaron Lan, Florida State University, "Political Sentiment: Gender, Revolution, and the Representation of China in Xiu Xiu"

Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Oberlin College, "Reading China: Concubines and Cultural Identity in Raise the Red Lantern"

Joanne Izbicki, Wake Forest University, "Orphans of the Typhoon"

Mike Sugimoto, University of Puget Sound, "Undercutting Emotions and Splicing National Memory: Hirokazu Koreeda's Afterlife"

7. Female Agency and the Patriarchy
Room 123B 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Elaine Dale, Florida State University

Helen Thompson, Northwestern University, "Iterating Chivalry: Romantic Delusion and Feminine Political Agency in Charlotte Lennox'sThe Female Quixote"

Sondra Melzer, University of Connecticut, "The Rhetoric of Rage: Women in Dorothy Parker"

Michael LeBlanc, Florida State University, "Why Upset the Audience? Making Sense of Nonsense in Top Girls"

Laurie Semmes, Florida State University, "The Dance of the Tango as a Metaphor of the Struggle for Dominance Between the Genders in Tango-Canci-n"

Larry Byrne, Barry University, "Lacan Does In the Duke or Why Woman is a Symptom of Man, Even in the Old West"

Karma Waltonen, University of California, Davis, "Dark Comedies and Dark Ladies: The New Femme Fatale"

8. Sound and Image in Film: Association and Dissociation I
Room 239 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Zeina Schlenoff, Florida State University

Kyle Frank, Florida State University, "This Is Not Emotion: A Breakdown of Connection Between Sound and Image in Twelve Monkeys"

Monika Brown, University of North Carolina - Pembroke, "Philippe Sarde's Soundtrack as Omniscient Narrator in Polanski's Tess"

Oliver Speck, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, "Orpheus in the City: (E) Motion in Godard's Alphaville"

John II Turner, West Virginia Wesleyan College, "The Musical Space of Film Noir"

9. Theory and Methodology: Film
Room 244 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Tricia Welsch, Bowdoin College

Ralph E. Carmode, Jacksonville State University, "The Emotions in Film: A Media Literacy Perspective on How Emotions in Film Influence Personal and Social Values"

Brian Doan, University of Florida, "The Grammar of Glamour: Photogenie and Writing Our Desire"

Bill Scalia, Louisiana State University, "Some Poetic Grounds for the Cinema of Emotion: Reading Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique"

Helen O'Hara Connell, Barry University, "Climbing in the Magic Window: Schnitzler's Reader; Kubrik's Spectator"

Margaret C. Flinn, Harvard University, "Abel Gance's Napoleonic Architecture of Social Being"

10. Moving Company: Five Women Writers Read From Their Works
Auditorium 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Janet Burroway, Florida State University

Janet Burroway, Florida State University

Pam Ball, Florida State University

Barbara Hamby, Florida State University 

Elizabeth Dewberry, Florida State University

Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Florida State University 

11. African American Identity and Community
Room 116 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Robin Nixon, Florida State University

Michael Jarrett, Penn State University - York, "Gospel -- The Voice of Black Ecstasy?"

Jane Davis, Iowa State University, "Betrayal within the Black Community: A Psycho-Literary Analysis"

John W. Reagor, University of Central Oklahoma, "Through the Eyes of Langston Hughes"

Ellen Wright-Vance, Miles College, "Realizing the 'Authentic Self': Transformation and Joy in Enchanted April "

Glenda Weathers, University of Montevallo, "The Fear of Losing Place in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation "

Samantha Webb, University of Montevallo, "Chick Flicks, Date Movies and Domestic Novels: Consuming Jane Austen in You've Got Mail "

13. Masculinities I: Male Control, Identity and Rage
Room 116 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Dan Vitkus, Florida State University

Mary Barclay Porter-Troupe, Old Dominion University, "The Subaltern - If She Speaks, Can We Hear?"

Darren Hughes, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, "The Last Seduction: Joyce, Lacan, and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut"

James Caplinger, Ohio University, "'Oz' Wide Shut: Emotion, Cinematic Mythos and Journey in Kubrick's Final Film"

Andrew Schopp, University of Tennessee-Martin, "Performance Anxiety in the New Millennium: Fear of Failure and 'Male Rage' in Fight Club"

Peggy McCormack, Loyola University, "It's All in How You Look at It: Desire in American Beauty"

Phebe Davidson, University of South Carolina-Aiken, "Aftermath and Endings: a Comparative Reading of Two American Films"

14. Problems of Social Class and Morality
Room 117 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Juan Carlos Galeano, Florida State University

Rado Pribic, Lafayette College, "Abortive, Passionate Love in Ivan Turgenev's Short Prose"

Frank Pfost, Florida State University, "Pessimism, Religion, and the Individual in History: A Comparison of Two Great Contemporaries, Lev Tolstoy and Emile Zola"

Fran E. Chalfont, State University of West Georgia, "Off Their Pedestals: Re-Viewing Britain's Royal Family"

Roger Sorkin, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, "Tom Ripley's Degrees of Separation"

Steven Zani, Lamar University, "Titanic Romanticism - 19th Century Notions of Emotion and Desire in the Film Titanic"

15. "Three Masters: Ford, Hitchcock, Rohmer"
Room 123A 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Christian Keathley, Clemson University

Christian Keathley, Clemson University, "Eric Rohmer's Cinema of Attractions"

Sean O'Sullivan, Clemson University, "Frenzy and the Belated Subject"

Gilberto Perez, University of Missouri at Rolla, "Rhetoric in Young Mr. Lincoln"

Diane Stevenson, Manhattan College, "Why are we laughing? Why aren't we laughing? Comedy in John Ford's Epic The Searchers"

William Rothman, University of Miami, "How Do Movies Move Us to Tears?"

16. Issues of Female Identity: Gender, Genre, and Theme
Room 123B 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Birgit Maier-Katkin, Florida State University

Karen Weekes, Penn State Abington, "Will the Real Me Please Stand Still?: The Angst of Female Identity in Contemporary Films"

Jennifer Hobgood, Florida State University, "Paranoia, Anorexia and Schizophrenia in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman"

Arleen Salles, Montclair State University and Dagmar Voith Leemann, Rutgers University, "Can Anger Be Good? A Discussion of Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher"

Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Florida State University, "The Feminine Mystique Sliced and Diced"

Rachel Davis, Florida State University, "Female Desire in Toni Morrison's Fiction: The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Paradise"

17. Studies in Genres and Themes I: Comedy, Happiness, Love, and the Musical
Room 239 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Brenda Cappuccio, Florida State University

Arnold Preussner, Truman State University, "Tootsie as Shakespearean Comedy"

William D. Hayes and Shawn A. Schumacher, DeVry Institute of Technology, "C'mon and Get Happy: A Practical Approach to Exploring the Emotion of Happiness in Films and Literature of the Twentieth Century"

Mark Seamon, Miami University, "Marivaux's The Triumph of Love - Then and Now"

Alisia Chase, University of Minnesota, "I See Lovers, I See France: Paris as the Locus of Love in 1950's Hollywood Films"

Karen Backstein, College of Staten Island, "'The South American Way': The Musical in Brazil"

Denise DuVernay, Florida State University, "Ten Things I Hate About You: Misogyny Tamed?"

18. Theorizing the Emotions in Film and Dance
Room 244 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: David Simmons, Florida State University

Michel deBenedictis, Miami Dade Community College - Kendall, "Contemporary Cinema: How Films Make Us Laugh, Make Us Cry, and Scare the Heck Out of Us"

Michael Walsh, Florida State University, "Authenticity's Primordiality to Romantic Love"

Janet Staiger, University of Texas at Austin, "An Archive of Emotions"

David Simmons, Florida State University, "Anti-Classical, Anti-Emotional: The Independent Mode of Representation"

Henry James Butler, University of Florida, "Emotional Response and Cyber Narrative Paradigms in Film"

Caroline S. Picart, Florida State University, "Dancing Through Different Worlds: Virtual Emotions and the Gendered Body in Ballroom Dance"

19. Aesthetics of Pleasure, Pain, Despair and Sorrow in Poetry and Prose
Room 107 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Maria Morales, Florida State University

Sylvia Little-Sweat, Wingate University, "Labyrinthine Love in the Poetry of John Keats"

Bob Mielke, Truman State University, "'She Breaks It Anyway': An Emotional Reading of Sylvia Plath"

Dawn M. Cornelio, University of Connecticut, "From the Depths to the Heights: Despair in the Lyrical Poetry of Jean-Michel Maulpoix"

Cecilia Castro Lee, State University of West Georgia, "Death, Grief and the Poet: Manrique, Lorca and Silva"

Lawrence Broer, University of South Florida, "No Hay Remedios: Miss Mary's Sorrow in True at First Light "

Lowrie Fawley-Helton, University of Florida, "Rhythms of Death, Patterns of Sorrow: Grief and Loss in Toni Morrison's Sula"

21. Gay/Lesbian Issues
Room 107 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Moderator: Rhonna Robbins-Sponaas, Florida State University

Kole Kleeman, University of Central Oklahoma, "Creating a Politics of Hope: Contributions of the Gay and Lesbian Cinema to Educating the Public About Gay Violence and Hate Crimes"

Liliana Jurewiez, Case Western Reserve University, "Internalized Homophobia and Sexual Identity Confusion in Griselda Gambaro's El Desatino"

Roberto Ortiz, Tulane University, "Good Machos: Vindicating the Latino Male"

22. Emotion and Film: Genre, Point of View and Identification
Auditorium 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Moderator: Carl Plantinga, Calvin College

Dirk Eitzen, Franklin & Marshall College, "'The Reality Effect': Documentary and Emotions"

Gilberto Perez, University of Missouri at Rolla, "The Sliced Eye and the Primal Scene: The Spectator in Un Chien Andalou"

Per Persson, University of Stockholm and Murray Smith, University of Kent at Canterbury, "Deictic Gazing and the Reception of POV: A Case Study in Methodology"

Carl Plantinga, Calvin College, "Shades of Antipathy in Film"

23. Studies in Genres and Themes II: Horror, Fear, Despair, and Pleasurable Pain
Room 244 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Moderator: Marina von Hirsch, Florida State University

Michael LaBossiere, Florida A&M University, "Beyond Fear: A Philosophical Examination of the Horror Genre in Film and Literature"

Kevin Sweeney, University of Tampa, "The Horrific in Sluizer's The Vanishing"

Randall Spinks, DeVry Institute of Technology, "The 'Spellbinding [Cultural] Logic' of Vertigo: The Steep Roof as Economic Structure

Don Russ, Kennesaw State University, "Heart and Artifice: Cinematic (Re) Creation of Emotion in Hitchcock's Vertigo"

J. Aaron Simmons, Florida State University, "Kant's Sublime and Foucault's Pipe: Pleasurable Pain in Aesthetic Dissimilitude"

Jeffrey Johnson, College of Charleston, "Tableaux of Terror: Louis Feuillade and The Pulp Mystery Tradition"

24. Body/Nation/Race: Embodiments of Power in Film
Room 110 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Moderator: Peter Lehman, Arizona State University

William Luhr, Saint Peter's College, "All for one and one for all:" Gladiator and the Conflation of Patriarchal Power"

Krin Gabbard, State University of New York at Stony "Pomo-Crypto-Afro: The White Negro in Pleasantville and The Talented Mr. Ripley"

Peter Lehman, Arizona State University, and Susan Hunt, Santa Monica College,"The Inner Man": The Mind, the Body and Transformations of Masculinity in The Nutty Professor"

Robert Eberwein, Oakland University, " 'Below the Frameline': Censorship in World War II Combat Films"

Christopher Sharrett, Seton Hall University, "The Third Man or, Twilight of the Evening Lands"

25. Masculinities II: Hegemony, White Gaze, Sexuality, Race, Guilt
Room 116 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Moderator: Ray Fleming, Florida State University

Ray Fleming, Florida State University, "Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and the Politics of the Sublime"

Terrence Wandtke, St. Louis University, "From 'Who Is She?' to 'She's Nobody' in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game: The Dynamics of Film Noir Conventions and the (Re) Construction of the White Male Gaze"

Marilyn Estevez, Barry University, "Death in Venice: A Portrait of One Man's Struggle with the Self. Taken from the Pages of a Novella, and Transformed to Images on a Screen"

Christian Pierce, Emory University, "Reel Men Don't Cry"

Carl Curtis, Florida State University, "Feminine Attraction to Masculine Guilt: Circuitous Desire in Kafka's The Trial"

26. The South in Literature and Film
Room 117 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Moderator: Fran Chalfont, State University of West Georgia

Barbara Ladner, West Virginia State College, "The Hamlet as Faulkner's Folklore of Bodily Emotions"

Charlotte Harrell, Independent Scholar, "Not So Simple: Sex, Emotion and the Life You Save by Writing About It: In Rosemary Daniell's Fatal Flowers"

Angela G. Dunlap, University of Southern Mississippi, "Anne Tyler: Going Through the Motions and Emotions of Life and Death"

Christina Hunter, University of Southern Mississippi, "Scrutinizing the Body Politic: Female Archetypes in Tennessee Williams's Cinematic Canon"

Gary Richards, University of New Orleans, "Gone with the Wind and the Construction of Depression-Era Confederate Nostalgia"

Kristen L. Rouse, Florida State University, "Historical Distortion, Emotional Accuracy: Romanticizing Klan Violence in The Clansman and The Birth of a Nation"

27. Stanley Cavell on Moving Pictures, Feeling Words
Room 123A 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Moderator: William Rothman, University of Miami

William Rothman, University of Miami, "O the Pain of Loving Movies: Pleasure and Pain in Cavell on Film"

Robert A. Williams, University of Notre Dame, "Assessing Pleasure and Pain With the Marx Brothers: Artaud, Cavell and Moral Perfectionism"

Lawrence Rhu, University of South Carolina, "Cavell, Hamlet and Cary Grant"

Harry McCandless, University of Notre Dame, "Ekphrasis, Theatricality and Eros: On Stanley Cavell, Michael Fried and the Pre-History of Cinema"

R.M. Berry, Florida State University, "Automatism"

Charles Warren, Harvard University, "Cavell, Blonde Venus, Greek Literature, Four Quartets"

28. Women's Voices Drowned and Heard
Room 123B 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Moderator: Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University

Liora Brosh, City University of New York, "Sensation Novels and Sensational Television: Reframing Feminism as Sensation in the Television Adaptations of Lady Audley's Secret, The Woman in White, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"

Margaret Ozierski, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, "The Infinite [E] motion: Witnessing to the Drowning of the Feminine Voice in Maurice Blanchot's L'arret de mort"

Sixto Torres, Appalachian State University, "From Las Arrecogias to La Caramba: Women, History, Myth and Violence in the Theatre of Martin Recuerda" 

Rhonda Branca, Florida State University, "Unresolved Issues: Mary Shelley's Definition of Self as Mother, Daughter, and Wife"

Catherine Toolan Mammola, DeVry Institute of Technology, "Women, Money and Power: Ibsen's, Miller's, and Glaspell's Heroines and their Formative Impact on the Contemporary College Coed"

Brigitte Humbert, Middlebury College, "Emotion and Modernization in Queen Margot"

29. Narrative Practice and Reception of Film
Room 239 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Moderator: Peter Stowell, Florida State University

William Miller, Ohio University, "Narrative Practice and Audience Involvement"

Adrienne McLean, University of Texas at Dallas, "Affecting Films: Movie Story Magazines, Adaptation and Identification"

Julian Bukalski, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, "The Pains, Pleasures, and Mendacities of Nixon: Biopic Tensions Between Narrative Expectations and Human Nature"

Sarah Witte, Eastern Oregon University, "Battle Grounds of Image and Sound"

Dennis Rothermel, California State University-Chico, "How Deleuze's Application of Peircean Thinking to Cinema Theory Enlightens Issues of Sympathy, Empathy and Adaptation in Ang Lee/Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility"

30. War on Film: Love/Violence, Propaganda, Patriotism
Room 239 9:00 am - 10:20 pm
Moderator: Matthias Stephan, Florida State University

James Forsher, Florida State University, "The Japanese American Propaganda Wars"

Christine Haase, University of Georgia-Athens, "Patriot Games: Reflections on Pride and Patriotism in Films by Wolfgang Petersen and Roland Emmerich

Marylin Mell, Salem State College, "The Duplicity of Rhetoric and Ideology inThe Patriot: Deceit, Doubling Back and the Diabolical"

31. Personal and National Identities
Room 239 10:40 am - 12:00 noon
Moderator: Matthias Stephan, Florida State University

Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci, Lafayette College, "Separatism, Matriarchy and National  Identity in the Poetry of Rosalía de Castro"

Bernard Reuter, University of Minnesota, "The Joys and Pains of Belonging: Victor Klemperer's Autobiographical Writing and Its Discourse"

Damaris Serrano, Michigan State University, "La Tulivieja"

32. Disciplining Emotions
Room 123A 9:00 am - 10:20 am
Moderator: Jean Graham-Jones, Florida State University

Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University, "Type Casting or Type Training"

James Bell, Florida State University, "Lip-synching Theatre: Using a Recorded Text in the Hill Cumorah Pageant"

Anita Gonzalez, Florida State University, "Urban Bush Women, Praise House, and the Performance of Black Women's Rage"

33. "How Queer!": The Disciplining of Emotion Through Genre
Room 123A 10:40 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Laura Edmondson, Florida State University

Leah Lowe, Miami University of Ohio, "Genre Trouble: Two Girls in Love and the Hollywood Romance"

Kyle Bostian, Florida State University, "Road to Emasculation: Trust, Hollywood-style, in Arthur Kopit's Road to Nirvana"

Caleb Boyd, Florida State University, "Revelation, not Revulsion: Contemporary Representations of the Southern Gothic Community"

34. Cinematic Strategies of Visualization: Fragmentation, Oscillation, and Border Crossing
Room 116 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Kristen Rouse, Florida State University

Mary A. McCay, Loyola University, "Tracking Asperger's Syndrome in 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould and PI"

Christopher Ames, Agnes Scott College, "Cutting on Emotion: Narrative Juxtaposition and Character in Robert Altman's Short Cuts"

David Mickelsen, University of Utah, "Mouths and Eyes: Competing Agents of Emotion inThe Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover"

Leonard Koos, Mary Washington College, "Screening Hate: Identity and the Media in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine"

Richard Seiter, Central Michigan University, "Shadow and Light on the American Prairie: Reaffirmation and Repentance in the FilmSarah Plain and Tall"

Richard Vela, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, "Crossing the Border: Mexico as Emotional Boundary in American Films"

35. Genre, History and Class in Hispanic Literature and Titanic Emotions
Room 117 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Ernest Rehder, Florida State University

Ernest Rehder, Florida State University, "Genre Ambiguity in Valle-Inclan's Decadentist Writings"

Heather Portorreal, Florida State University, "Dreadfully Divine: The Impression of Spanish Catholicism on the Child Narrator in Valle-Inclan's Mihermana Antonia'"

Ed Montanaro, Florida State University, "Demons and Demonization: Supernatural Means to Familial Ends in Valle-Inclan's Mi Hermana Antonia'"

Joseph Tyler, State University of West Georgia, "Old Gringo: Fact, Fiction and Film"

Eric Skipper, Gordon College, "The Schoolmaster as a Conduit for Class Criticism in Lorca's Dona Rosita and in Hernandez-Cata's El Maestro"

Maricarmen Martinez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, "Hollywood and 'The Titanic': Resurrection of the Sentimental Subject"

36. Female Sexuality: Control and Liberation
Room 123B 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Florida State University

Marie-Pierre Baggett, South Dakota State University, " 'Three Women with Man Trouble': Sexuality and Nationalism in Rouan'sAlgeria"

Todd Rohman, Governors State University, "Film and the Female Abject: Repression and Revolution in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland"

Antje Ascheid, State University Of New York-New Paltz, "The Gothic Revisited: Post-feminist Passions in Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park and Sandra Goldbacher's The Governess"

Penny Tucker, Harvard University, "Uncloak Desire: Epic Form and Female Sexuality in David Lean's Ryan's Daughter"

Susan Scrivner, Bemidji State University, "'How Could I Have Known That Murder Can Sometimes Smell Like Honeysuckle?': The Film Noir Woman and Feigned Emotion"

37. "Of Course, The Book Was So Much Better!" Well…Maybe
Auditorium 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Dick Gibson, Jacksonville University

Mary Willingham, Mercer University Atlanta, "Toni Morrison's Beloved: The Movie Isn't as Bad as You Think"

Carmen Burton-Hardee, University of South Florida, "Romeo and Juliet: The Movies Aren't as Bad as You Think'"

Dick Gibson, Jacksonville University, " Hamlet: Some of the Movies Aren't as Bad as You Think"

Dorothy Roberts, Independent Scholar, "End of the Affair': The Second Movie Isn't as Bad as You Think" 

38. Troubled Passions in Film: Paranoia, Deception, Jealousy
Room 244 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Nicoletta Ghisas, Florida State University

Carey Martin, Barry University, "Paranoia in the Collaborations of Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant"

Alanna Preussner, Truman State University, "Fishing for Souls: Religious Hucksters in Elmer Gantry and Double Whammy"

Ahmet Bayazitoglu, Princeton University, "True Emotion: Godard's Pierrot Le Fou and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut"

John Freed, Marylhurst University, "The Eroticism of Jealousy in Kubrick, Jordan and Munch"

Inge Wimmers, Brown University, "Reading Complex Emotions: The Nature of Jealousy in Proust's In Search of Lost Time"

Rebecca Graves, Princeton University, "Jealousy in/on Film: Three Adaptations of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu"

39. Emotional Colonization and Integration
Room 107 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Aaron Simmons, Florida State University

Elisabeth Simmons, Old Dominion University, "Ann S. Stephens's Malaeska as the Other in Literature"

Andres Stefan Johnson, Florida State University, "Mental Colonization: The Process of Losing Oneself"

Kimberly Chabot Davis, American University, "White Readers and Viewers Encounter the 'Other': Oprah and the Politics of Cross-Racial Sympathy"

Margie Hendrix, Kennesaw State University, "South Africa: An Emotional Landscape"

Robert Hill, Kennesaw State University, "At the Intersections of Right and Wrong: Films of South Africa"

Clif Warren and Adrian Cook, University of Central Oklahoma, "No Way Out and Island in the Sun: Art, Politics, and Emotional Integration"

40. Emotions in the Cinema: Gender/Genre/Aesthetics/Theory
Room 110 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator: Frank Tomasulo, Georgia State University

Frank Tomasulo, Georgia State University, "'Reciprocal Pity': Performance, Identity, and the 'Silent Soliloquy' in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura"

Tricia Welsch, Bowdoin College, "The Gallows Walk: Execution Scenes in 1930's Crime Films"

Jack Boozer, Georgia State University, "Emotion and Identity in the Televirtual Film"

Gregory Smith, Georgia State University, "Emotional Work: The Joy Luck Club and the Limits of the Emotional System"

Martha P. Nochimson, Mercy College, "Stanley Kubrick Has Himself an Oxymoronic Little Christmas: Eyes Wide Shut and the Emotions"

Nina K. Martin, Emory University, "Never Laugh at a Man With His Pants Down: The Affective Dynamics of Comedy and Porn"

41. Italian Literature and Film and Italian/American Film
Room 239 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: William Leparulo, Florida State University

Nicoleta Ghisas, Florida State University, "Il Neorealismo di Rossellini, Calvino, e Pavese"

Matthias Stephan, Florida State University, "Pirandellian Masks and Umorismo in La vita e' bella"

Anthony Tamburri, Florida Atlantic University, "Spectacular Imagery in Italian/American Short Films: Race as Stage-Display Pageantry"

William Leparulo, Florida State University, "Emotion and 'Tour De Force' in Maurizio Nichetti's Films"

Onofrio Cerbone, University of Bucharest, "La Gestione delle Emozioni in Tabucchi e Calvino"

Andrea Guiati, Buffalo State University, "Emozioni e Reazioni di Alcuni Personaggi Bassaniani"

42. Men's Emotions and the Threat of Violence in American Narrative Film
Room 116 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Moderator: Barbara Mortimer, Georgia Perimeter College - Dunwoody

Barbara Mortimer, Georgia Perimeter College-Dunwoody "The Stakes of Men's Emotions in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry"

Ellen Barker, Georgia Perimeter College-Clarkston, "American Beauty's Rhetoric in Masculine (E) Motion"

Anna Schachner, Georgia Perimeter College-Dunwoody "What Miracle Is This? The Milagro Beanfield War's Depiction of Chicanas"

43. Lost in Translation: Madwomen, Literature and Women in Film
Room 123B 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Moderator: Jennifer Driscoll, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Panel Discussion with Brooke Thomas and Jennifer Driscoll, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

44. Affect and Emotion in Deleuze's Film Theory
Room 123A 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Moderator: Rei Terada, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Rei Terada, University of Michigan, "Cinema's Abstraction of Affect"

David Mikics, University of Houston, "M. Deleuze, I'm Ready for My Close-Up: The 'Affection-Image' in Deleuze and Altman"

James Morrison, North Carolina State University, "Deleuze, Cinema, and the Sublime"

45. Human Dualities; and "Wholly Other" Intersubjectivities
Room 107 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Chrishawn Speller, Florida State University

Sara Lewis Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University, "Moviegoing: Holden, Binx, Ignatius"

Zeynep Nilufer Patterson, University of Washington, "An Affair of Love: On reading One-an-other"

Dennis Miller Jr., Florida State University, "Dreaming of Women in Rolando Steiner's Judit"

Patricia C. Roby, University of Wisconsin-Washington County, "Kafka's 'Secret Raven' in Das Urteil"

Jutta Ittner, Case Western University, "In Love With The Animal Other: Human-Animal Relationships in 20th Century Literature"

Gillian Silverman, City University of New York, "Relating to books: Reading and Intersubjectivity in American Sentimental Fiction"

46. Utopia/Dystopia in Literature and Film
Room 110 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Reina Barreto, Florida State University

Reina Barreto, Florida State University, "Utopia Deferred: The Search for Paradise in Julieta Campos's The Fear of Losing Eurydice"

Beth Beggs, State University of West Georgia, "Leaving 'Normal': A Female Road Trip to Utopia"

Sylvia Stevens, University of Missouri-Kansas City, "Civilized Monsters or Monstrous Civilization in Peter Handke's Kaspar, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and King Kong?

Pamela Grace, New York University, "All in the (Roman) Family: Incest, Jealousy, and Patricide in Ridley Scott's Gladiator"

Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia, "Avatamsaka's Journey of Transformation from Sutra to Novel and to Film"

Kathleen Roddy, Georgia Perimeter College, "Emotional Entropy in Ha Jin's Waiting"

47. Sound and Image in Film: Association and Dissociation II
Room 117 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Terra Williams, Florida State University

Kelly Otter, New York University, "The Role of Music in the Construction of Gender in Gone With the Wind"

Steve Elworth, Saint John's University/Mercy College, "Off Key: Non Professional Singers and Utopian Possibilities"

Michael Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University, "Fear, Loathing, Singing, and Dancing: Co-opting Rock Culture in Bye Bye Birdie and Grease"

Robert Clewis, Boston College, "Wonder in The Thin Red Line"

Margit Grieb, University of Florida, "Wim Wenders and the Emotions of Seeing"

Dan Jones, Truman State University, "Foreign Emotions"

48. Screening American Culture: Cohesion, Estrangement, Violence
Room 244 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Tonia Eastman, Florida State University

William Larsen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, "It's A Wonderful Life, Or Is It?: How It's A Wonderful Life and American Beauty Use Emotion toInteract with American Cultural Myths"

Jean Lauer, Arizona State University, "The Ice Storm and American Beauty: The Estranged American Family"

Richard Laing, Independent Scholar, "Between Two Mirrors: Reality and Artifice in Contemporary Film and Society"

Jane Hill, State University of West Georgia, "Boxing Our Emotions: Representations of Television in Avalon and Pleasantville"

Vanessa Levrier Leggett, University of Houston-Downtown, "Fade to Black: Fear in Film in the Age of Virtual Violence"

Alison Matika, Teacher's College, Columbia University, "Violence Viewed: Adolescent Spectators of Cinematic Violence and Pedagogical Implications for Secondary School English Classrooms"

49. Masculinities III: Masculine Manipulations
Auditorium 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderator: Joseph Allaire, Florida State University

Shawn Smolen-Morton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Child's Play: Emotional Manipulation and Masculinity in Goethe'sWilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre"

Derek Royal, North Georgia College and State University, "Engendering Cultural Memory: Ethnicity, Gender, and Paternal Relationships in Philip Roth's Patrimony"

Donald N.S. Unger, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Ted Kramer and 'the other mother': How Men Can Become Homemakers"

Robert Self, Northern Illinois University, "Engendered Subjects: Dr. T and the Women"

Michael Pinsky, University of South Florida, "Paul Schrader: Ethics Out of Darkness"

Dennard Clendenin, Independent Scholar, "Racial/Sexual Perspectives in American Film: John Ford's, Sergeant Rutledge"