22.  Violence and World War II
Room 123A 9:00 a.m.-12:00p.m.
Moderator: Jim Jones, Florida State University

• Thomas Sunday, University of West Florida, "Shattering Images: Steven Spielberg's Resurrection of the World War II Movie Soldier"
• William B. Larsen, University of Tennessee, "’We don't murder, we kill’: Realism and Screen Violence in Saving Private Ryan"
• James Tomek, Delta State University, "Teaching Private Ryan: Post Modern and Epic Violence"
• INTERMISSION
• Lawrence Broer, University of South Florida, "Writers at War: Vonnegut's Quarrel with Hemingway"
• David A. Hatch, Florida State University, "Defying Snowden's Secret and Gently Taking the Aged King by the Wrist: An Examination of Obituaries and Violence in The Iliad and Catch-22"

• Sarah E. McKee, Watkins Film Institute, "Women and Children First: Female Transgression in Fargo (1996)"
• Lana A. Whited, Ferrum College, "’Well, I Just Don't Understand It’: Fargo as Morality Tale"
• Timothy R. Dee, University of Southwestern Louisiana, "Sculpting Violent Thoughts: A Screening and Discussion of the Process of Adapting the Short Story by Uncle Sidney and the Mexicans by James Lee Burke into the award- winning film short, My Uncle Sidney"
• INTERMISSION
• Jane Hill, State University of West Georgia, "No Place Like Home: Violence and Its Origins Within Domestic Space in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen"
• Marco Abel, Pennsylvania State University, "Fargo: The Violent Production of the Masochistic Contract as a Cinematic Concept"

• Wendy Sterba, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, "Roles of the Game: Violence and Seduction in the Contemporary Vampire Film"
• Jeffrey A. Baylor, Lehigh University, "Blood and Circumstances: The Societal Purpose of Vampires in Fiction"
• Carey Martin, Florida International University "’The Warrior is a Child;’ Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the ‘Just War’ Theory"
• INTERMISSION
• Jimmie E. Cain, Middle Tennessee State University, "The Influence of the Crimean War on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula"
• Jeffrey L. L. Johnson, The College of Charleston, ">From The Godfather to Dracula: Francis Ford Coppola's Montages of Violence"

• William Rothman, University of Miami, "Is the Medium of Film Inherently Violent?"
• Raphael Shargel, James Madison University, "Vapors, Jeering and Emblems of Patience: Violence in Ben Jonson’s Comedies"
• Elizabeth Coffman, University of Tampa and Michelle Glaros, Emerson College, "Serial Logic: Profiles of the Gainesville Student Murders"

• Cyndy Sullivan, State University of West Georgia, "Not Such an Innocent Age: Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence"
• Stacey Carter, State University of West Georgia, "Directional Undermining of Female Liberation: An Unmarried Woman, When Harry Met Sally, She's Gotta Have It, and Chasing Amy"
• Lori Lipoma, State University of West Georgia, "Blood Sacrifices, Democracy and Primary Colors: Depictions of Violence in the Election of the Ultimate Alpha Male"

• Rafael Acosta de Arriba, Cinematographic Information Center, "The Violence in the Cuban Cinema"
• Johanna Murchison, Florida A&M University, "The Role of Religion and the Abuse of Power in The Last Supper"
• INTERMISSION
• Humberto Lopez-Cruz, University of Central Florida, "Discourse of Violence in the Antislavery Novel Francisco by Anselmo Suarez y Romero"
• Joseph Viera, Nazareth College, "Violent Memories: The Construction of History in Cristina Garcia's TheAguero Sisters"
• William O. Deaver, Jr., Armstrong Atlantic State University, "The Last Supper: Dogma, Dogs and Do-goodism"

• Lisa Silverman, Yale University, "Repressing Violence: Holocaust and Heimat as German/Jewish Family Dramas"
• Steven Carr, Indiana University- Purdue University Ft. Wayne, "Have You Witnessed a Holocaust Lately? NBC, Ford and the Network Premiere of Schindler's List"
• Gabriele Weinberger, Lenoir-Rhyne College, "German and American Media Discourses of Violence"
• INTERMISSION
• Birgit Maier-Katkin, Florida State University, "Violence in the Nazi Concentration Camp: The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers"
• Nancy Nenno, College of Charleston, "Exorcising the Third Reich: The Aesthetics of Vengeance in Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns"

• Dina Smith, University of Florida, "Mobility, Misogyny and The Night of the Hunter"
• Becky McLaughlin, University of South Alabama, "Another Antigone: Breaking the Law in Breaking the Waves"
• Gary Grizzle, Barry University, "It's Not About Dysfunctional Families: History, Symbols, and Violence in Once Were Warriors"
• INTERMISSION
• Roy M. Anker, Calvin College, "Violence and Meaning in the Godfather Saga: The Morality and Metaphysics of Filmic Massacre"
• Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinnati, "To Kill or Not To Kill: Cold War Westerns and the Law of the Gun"

• Jan Loveland, Wayne State University, "Missing Images: Visualizing the Sexual Violence of Plantation Life, 1915-1995"
• Peter Mascuch, University of New Hampshire, "Two Different Struggles in the Seventies for a Politically Conscious Female Star Persona: Klute and Foxy Brown"
• Cynthia Erb, Wayne State University, "Death as a Happy Ending in Breaking the Waves"

• Michael Jarrett, Pennsylvania State University At York, "Cutting Sides: Effacing Labor in Jazz Record Production"
• John Kimsey, DePaul University, "And Do You Have A Picture of the Pain?: The Zapruder Film as Postmodern Artifact "
• Eric S. Faden, University of Florida, "Crowd Control: Cinema, Technology and Violence"
• Mikita Brottman, Indiana University, "Star Cults/Cult Stars: Cinema, Psychosis, Celebrity, Death"
• INTERMISSION
• Grant Rich, University of Chicago, "The Phantastically Phallic Phone: Erotic Exaggeration in Truth, Fiction and The Starr Report"
• Don Hedrick, Kansas State University, "Teaching Violence Here and Abroad"
• Fran Chalfant, State University of West Georgia, "The Last Post: Smith of the Titanic"

33. Eras of Violence
Room 123A 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Moderator: Hunt Hawkins, Florida State University

• Harvey Young, Cornell University, "The Violent Era: American Cinema 1969-1976"
• Bernie Cook, Georgetown University, "Beyond Good Taste: Shifts in the Representation and Interpretation of Violence in American Film During the 1960's"
• Cynthia Fuchs, George Mason University, "’I am so All-American, I'd sell you suicide’: Consuming Boys, Bodies and Addictions"
• INTERMISSION
• J. David Slocum, New York University, "The Hollywood Gesamtkunstwerk and Beyond: Revisiting MOMA's Violent America, The Movies"
• James Berger, Hofstra University, "The End and After the End: Post-Apocalyptic Cinema, 1950-1999"
• Nicholas Bromell, University of Massachusetts, "Violence and the Narration of History: The Case of the 1960s in Easy Amherst Rider and Forrest Gump"

• Julian D. Bukalski, Lawrence University, "Stylization of Violence in Natural Born Killers"
• Sharif Ewees, Clemson University, "Violence on the Road: Exploring the Different Portrayals of Violence in Natural Born Killers and Kalifornia"
• INTERMISSION
• Jim Potter, University of New England, "Don’t Try This at Home: Violence and Ambivalence in the FilmsOf Martin Scorsese"
• Christopher Lohr, Clemson University, "Jesus of Nazareth and the Dalai Lama: Conveying Compassion Through the Violent Metaphysical Visions in The Last Temptation of Christ and Kundun"

• Roman Zylawy, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, "Spiraling Space Reductionism in Rules of the Game"
• Davinia Thornley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Dreams As Inner Damage: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries"
• Thomas Hemmeter, Beaver College, "A Murderous Pursuit of Loneliness: The Sociology of Violence in Hitchcock's American Films"
• Cathy L. Whaley, Clemson University, "Random Acts: Violence in the Films of Robert Altman"
• INTERMISSION
• Don Russ, Kennesaw State University, "My Sister, My Daughter: Love, Violence, and the Device of Doubling in Chinatown"
• Daniel W. Burns, Clemson University, "Bleeding Between the Lines: Violence as Emotional Currency in Sam Peckinpah's Marital ‘Road’ Trilogy"

• William Luhr, Saint Peter's College, "Beyond the End: Apocalyptic Coalescence and Dissipation in The ButcherBoy"
• Robert Eberwein, Oakland University, "Representing Masculinity in World War II Films"
• Peter Lehman, University of Arizona, "Beyond the End: Authorship and Roy Orbison's Post-Mortem Career"
• INTERMISSION
• Mary Rawlinson, State University of New York at Stony Brook "An Anatomy of Violence: Reading American Crime Fiction and Film"
• Krin Gabbard, State University of New York at Stony Brook "Saving Private Ryan Too Late, or How Spielberg Gets Away with It"

• Salvador Velazco, Claremont McKenna College, "The Representation of the Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexican Cinema:Rojo Amanecer by Jorge Fons"
• Anne T. Doremus, Carroll College, "Violence and National Identity in Mexican Narrative and Film during the 1920's to the 1950's"
• Joseph Tyler, State University of West Georgia, "Ultimo Round: Julio Cortazar's Literary Boxing Corner"
• Dennis Miller, Jr., Florida State University, "A Postmodern Interpretation of Ernesto Cardenal's El Estrecho Dudoso"
• INTERMISSION
• Cecilia Townsend, University of Florida, "Maria Elena Moyano and Tita de la Garza: Cooking up Recipes for Historical and Fictional Survival"
• Yvonne S. Unnold, University of Southern Mississippi, "Representing the Unrepresentable: Literature of Trauma in Chile"
• Reina Barreto, Florida State University, "Levels of Illusion in Camilo Jose Cela's Postmodern Text, La Familia dePascual Duarte"

• Laura Doyle,University of Massachusetts- Amherst, "Between Being and Knowing: Faulkner's Phenomenology of Racial Violence"
• Lynn Wilson, Florida State University, "Ernest Gaines: Violence Equals Masculinity"
• INTERMISSION
• Daniel M. Scott, III, Rhode Island College, "BEAT: Amiri Baraka and the Language of Violence"
• Darcy Howe, Lehigh University, "Shattered Lives: Violence but No Heroes in Beloved and Gone With theWind"

• Richard Marshall, University of Indianapolis, "Utopias: Dangerous to the Family Bond?"
• Richard Vela, University of North Carolina-Pembroke, "Breaking The Skin: Construction and Destruction in Dystopian Films"
• Teresa Hobby, Southwest Texas State University, "Apes, Terminators and Twelve Monkeys: The Semiotics of Time Travel"
• Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California-Irvine "Aliens On the Brink of the Space Age: Utopic vs. Dystopic Visions"
• INTERMISSION
• Silvia Kratzer, Chapman University, "Violent Utopias/Aggressive Dystopias, Collapsed Dimensions: Contemporary German Exile Cinema"
• Wayne Hensley and Susan Hensley, Virginia Polytechnic University, "Blue Skies or Blue Velvet?"

• Mary Willingham, Mercer University-Atlanta "Cautionary Tales for Children Past and Present: Fairytale Fantasy Versus Postmodern Realism"
• Dorothy Roberts, "Feminist Champ or Porno Victim: The Postmodern Feminist Mystery Writers' Dilemma"
• Carmen Burton, University of South Florida, "The Escalation of Violence and the Stasis of Sex: A Study of the Nurse's Scene in Romeo and Juliet"
• Richard Gibson, Jacksonville University, "To Gore or Not to Gore: Language and Violence in Gibson's and Branagh's Hamlet"

• Thomas Cohen, University of Florida, "’It's not Blood; It's Red (Meat)’: Deleuze on Godard and Metaphor"
• Doug Grigsby, Clemson University, "The Assassin’s Credo: Man Bites Dog and the Philosophy of the Will"
• Bob Mielke, Truman State University, "Rhetoric and Ideology in the Nuclear Test Documentary"
• INTERMISSION
• Jennifer Stimson, University of Louisville, "Killing Bare-Handed, Killing Hillary: Two Film Constructions of the Un-Clinton"
• Ellen Schendel, University of Louisville "Reading the Presidency: The Rhetoric of Presidential Speeches in Dave and The American President"