The Program at a Glance

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Thursday Morning
Thursday Afternoon
1.   Violence in War through the Ages 
2.   Horror and Violence in Film 
3.   Comedy and Violence 
4.   Assault on the Funny Bone: Violence, Ambivalence, and the Comic Frame 
5.   (Male) Violence and (Female) Vision in Contemporary Films
6.   Violence in American Literature 
7.   Politics and Violence in German Literature and Film 
8.   Violence in Adaptations 
9.   Gender and Violence in Film 
10.  Violence in Drama
11.  Violence in Viet Nam 
12.  Stylized Violence in Film 
13.  Women Writers: Voicing the Violence
14.  Violence in the Filmic Rebirths of the Frankensteinian Myth
15.  Violence in American Film: Gender/Genre/Race/Ideology 
16.  Violence Across Continents, Violence Across Texts 
17.  Representations: The 19th Century Novel in Film and Literature 
18.  Violence in German Film and Literature 
19.  Postmodern Violence in Film 
20.  Love, Sex and Violence in Literature 
21.  Violence in Literature and Film
Friday Morning
    Friday Afternoon
22.  Violence and World War II 
23.  Violence in the Films of the Coen Brothers 
24.  Violence and Vampires in Film and Literature 
25.  Reflections on Violence 
26.  Genteel Violence: The Film of Manners
27.  Violence in Caribbean Film and Literature 
28.  Exorcising Violence in German Film and Literature 
29.  Film and Violence 
30.  Gender and Violence
31.  Cancelled
32.  Violence and Culture I
33.  Eras of Violence 
 34.  Violence in the Films of Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese 
 35.  Classic and Modern Approaches to Violence in Film 
 36.  Beyond the End: Questioning Apocalyptic Imperatives 
 37.  Violence in Latin American Literature and Film 
 38.  Violence and Race 
 39.  Violence in Films: Utopia or Dystopia 
 40.  Violence in Postmodern Children's Literature, Feminist Mystery Writers 
 41.  Violence and Culture II
Friday - Noon --  Dining Room
Lunch and entertainment by the Mickee Faust Club
 $12 fee and reservation required
Friday Evening     8:00 p.m.
Keynote Address
"Meta-Violence: Towards A New Innocence"
Mark Edmundson
Author and professor of English at the University of Virginia 

Cash Bar Reception     Fireside Lounge


 
Saturday Morning
Saturday Afternoon
42.  Men and Violence 
43.  Film Noir and Violence 
44.  Violence and Redemption in Film and Popular Culture 
45.  Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media 
46.  Violence in Spanish Film and Literature 
47.  Violence and Race in Film 
48.  The Politics of Violence in Film and Television 
49.  Theories of Violence in Literature
50.  Violence in Asian Film and Literature 
51.  Violence in Literature and Drama 
52.  Violence in Film 
53.  Violence in Literature 
54.  Violence in Film II 
55.  The Uses and Abuses of Violence in Literature and Film
56.  Violence in Film III