Yomi
Braester, University of Washington (conference organizer)
John Lent, Temple University
(ACSS president)
9:00-10:20
1. Rethinking film history
John
Lent, Temple University, and Xu Ying, China Film Archives: "Two First
in Chinese Animation: The Wan Brothers' The Dance of the Camel and
Princess Iron Fan"
Brian Yecies, University
of Wollongong: ""Lost Memories of Korean Cinema: Film Policies
Under Japanese Rule, 1919-1937"
Yuki Shigeto, University
of Washington: "Performance of madness: the collapse of organic representation
in Page of Madness"
10:30-11:50
2.
Recent trends
Richard
MacDonald and May Ingawanij, University of London: "The Value of an
Impoverished Aesthetic: The Iron Ladies and its Audiences"
Ying Zhu, CUNY - State
Island: "The Cross-Fertilization of Chinese Film and Television Industries"
Chen Xihe, Shanghai
University, "On the Father Figures in Zhang Yimou’s Films: From
Red Sorghum to Hero"
11:50-12:00
Welcoming
remarks
Jennifer
Bean, University of Washington
LUNCH BREAK
1:00-2:15
3.
Performing modernity
Joelle
Collier, College of Santa Fe: "Performing Youth/Youth as Performance:
Negotiation of Modernity in Wonderful Youth"
Wang
Yiman, Duke University: "Authentic and/or Spectacular: on Zhang Yimou's
Not One Less"
Jinhee
Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Art Cinema or Art in Cinema:
Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Puppetmaster"
2:25-3:40
4.
Nation and history
Suzie
Young, York University: "Love
Without End and the Body Politic Through the Decades"
Peter Thornton, The
London Consortium: "Kurosawa and the Police: The Advent of Postwar
Social Discipline in High and Low"
Adam Knee, Bucknell
University: "History and Nation in the Films of Nonzee Nimibutr"
3:50-5:30
5.
The urban imagination
Phillip
Kaffen, University of Washington: "Ichikawa Kon's Tokyo Olympiad
and the Olympic Body of Memory"
Timothy
Iles, University of Victoria: "The Lazy Gaze: The Aesthetics of Consumerism
in Itami Juzo's Tampopo"
Ping Fu, Carleton College:
"Hope and Threat: The Urban Uncanny on the Screen and Stage, Viewed
from A Beautiful New World and Beijing Bicycle"
Justine Toh, "Godzilla
and the Sublime Nuclear Apocalypse"
Sunday,
June 1
9:00-10:15
6.
Transnational cinemas
1
Lisa
Stokes, Seminole Community College: "John Woo's War: Real Dreams, Windtalkers
and Hollywood"
Anne Ciecko, Amherst
University: "The Costume of Identity: Contemporary Korean and Korean-American
Women Artists"
Eija Niskanen,
University of Wisconsin- Madison, "Regional Stars and Media Synergy"
10:25-11:40
7.
Transnational cinemas
2
Gaik
Cheng Khoo, University of Victoria: "Contesting Diasporic Subjectivity:
James Lee, Malaysian Independent Filmmaker"
Jacqueline Levitin, Simon Fraser University: "Postmodern Diasporic
Identits and Communities in the Work of Mina Shum"
Jim Udden, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Cinematic Persistence of Tradition in Hong
Kong and Japanese Cinema"
11:50-12:45
ACSS business meeting + LUNCH
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