The Program at a Glance
 
 

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Thursday Morning
Thursday Afternoon
1. Objectifying and Commodifying Emotions
2. Adapting Emotions in German Literature
3. Detachment and Displacement in Literature and Film
4. Death and the Automobile
5. Textual and Subtextual Manipulation of Emotions
6.Emotions and Identity:  Cultural Nationalisms in Asian Film
7. Female Agency and the Patriarchy
8. Sound and Image in Film:  Association and Dissociation I
9. Theory and Methodology:  Film
10. Moving Company: Five Women Writers Read From Their Works
11. African American Identity and Community

 
Friday Morning
    Friday Afternoon
12. The Emotional Journey of Self-Justification
13. Masculinities I:  Male Control, Identity and Rage
14. Problems of Social Class and Morality
15. Three Masters: Ford, Hitchcock, Rohmer
16. Issues of Female Identity:  Gender, Genre and Theme
17. Studies in Genres and Themes I:  Comedy, Happiness, Love and the Musical
18. Theorizing the Emotions in Film and Dance
19. Aesthetics of Pleasure, Pain, Despair and Sorrow in Poetry and Prose
21. Gay/Lesbian Issues
22. Emotion and Film:  Genre, Point of View and Identification
23. Studies in Genres and Themes II: Horror, Fear, Despair, and Pleasurable Pain
24. Body/Nation/Race: Embodiments of Power in Film
25. Masculinities II: Hegemony, White Gaze, Sexuality, Race, Guilt
26. The South in Literature and Film
27. Stanley Cavell on Moving Pictures, Feeling Words
28. Women's Voices Drowned and Heard
29. Narrative Practice and Reception of Film
Keynote Address: "Love is a Many Spendored Thing"
Laura Kipnis, Northwestern University
Auditorium 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

 
Saturday Morning
Saturday Afternoon
30. War on Film: Love/Violence, Propaganda, Patriotism
31. Personal and National Identities
32. Disciplining Emotions
33. "How Queer!” The Disciplining of Emotion Through Genre
34. Cinematic Strategies of Visualization: Fragmentation, Oscillation, and Border Crossing
35. Genre, History and Class in Hispanic Literature and Titanic Emotions
36. Female Sexuality: Control and Liberation
37. "Of Course, The Book Was So Much Better!" Well…Maybe
38. Troubled Passions in Film: Paranoia, Deception, Jealousy
39. Emotional Colonization and Integration
40. Emotions in the Cinema: Gender/Genre/Aesthetics/Theory
41. Italian Literature and Film and Italian/American Film
42. Men's Emotions and the Threat of Violence in American Narrative Film
43. Lost in Translation: Madwomen, Literature and Women in Film
44. Affect and Emotion in Deleuze's Film Theory
45. Human Dualities; and "Wholly Other" Intersubjectivities
46. Utopia/Dystopia in Literature and Film
47. Sound and Image in Film: Association and Dissociation II
48. Screening American Culture: Cohesion, Estrangement, Violence
49. Masculinities III: Masculine Manipulations