“Eye Candy: Consuming Moving Images at the Cinema and Beyond” Conference Program
All events are at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall Street. All events are free and open to the public.
Friday, February 13
4:30-5:30 PM ––Registration (WHC 208)
5:30-6:30 PM –– Keynote Address (WHC Main Auditorium)
Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
“The Cops and the Commons: Life, Love and Value After Ferguson”
6:30-7:30 PM ––Reception (WHC 108)
7:30-8:45 PM ––Special Screening: Daisies (1966, 35mm print, 74 min.) (WHC Main Auditorium)
Introduction by Ila Tyagi
Saturday, February 14
9:00-10:00 AM –– Late Registration and Light Breakfast (WHC 208)
10:00-10:05 AM ––Opening Remarks (WHC 208)
Swagato Chakravorty and Regina Karl
10:05-11:45 AM ––Session One: Auteurs and their Visual Universe(WHC 208)
Moderator: Dudley Andrew, Professor of Film and Media and Comparative Literature, Yale University
Megan Alvarado-Saggese (University of California, Berkeley):
“‘Gorgeous Lifelike Color’: James Turrell and Cinematic Space”
Noa Merkin (University of Chicago):
“The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Life and Death of Images”
Stephanie Lebas Huber (City University of New York):
“Pastel Paradigm: Jacques Demy’s Adoption of the Hollywood Musical Aesthetic and Treatment of the Abject in Demoiselles de Rochefort”
Anna Shectman (Yale University):
“Cinematic Pictorialism:Sadakichi Hartmann and the Esthetic Significance of the Motion Picture”
11:45-1:30 PM –– Lunch Break
1:30-3:15 PM –– Session Two: New(ish) Media (WHC 208)
Moderator: Francesco Casetti, Professor of Film and Media, Yale University
Shari Wolk (New York University):
“Beyond Compression: The Uncanny Perpetuation of the GIF”
Neta Alexander (New York University):
“From Genres to Micro-tags: Reverse-Engineering Tastes and Desires”
Christopher Goetz (University of California, Berkeley):
“Nintendo’s Fruit-Snack Aesthetic: How Games Taste”
Carolyn Kane (Brown University):
“The Animated GIF: Compression Aesthetics as Affective Labor”
3:30-5:15 PM –– Session Three: Insatiable Appetites(WHC 208)
Moderator: Name TBD, Title TBD, Yale University
Marco Bohr (Loughborough University):
“Tampopo: Food, Hedonism and Decadence in Japan’s Bubble Economy”
Michael Turcios (University of Southern California):
“The Appetite to Consume ‘Otherness’ in the French Colonial Cinema of Claire Denis”
Fareed Ben-Youssef (University of California, Berkeley):
“‘Attendez la Crème!’: Food and Cultural Trauma in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained”
Troy Bordun (Trent University):
“Porn in the Art Gallery: Aesthetics and Sensory Disciplining”
Sunday, February 15
9:00-10:00 AM –– Light Breakfast (WHC 208)
10:00-11:30 AM –– Session Five: Capitalism Across Genres(WHC 208)
Moderator: John MacKay, Professor of Film and Media and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Kenneth Berger (Brown University):
“Spectacle, Anxiety, and the Aesthetics of Refusal”
ElisaCuter (Freie Universität Berlin):
“Post-Modern Times: On the Representation of Precarity in Italian Comedies”
Joshua Kierstead (University of Iowa):
“Frontier Commodities: Tales of Greed in Anthony Mann’sBend of the River,The Naked Spur, andThe Far Country”
11:30-1:30 PM –– Lunch Break
1:30-3:15 PM –– Session Six: Border Crossings(WHC 208)
Moderator: Brigitte Peucker, Professor of Film and Media and Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Sophie Schweiger (Columbia University):
“Ideologies of Transgression: Ulrich Seidl’s Import/Export”
Laura Schwab (New York University):
“Pierrot le fou: Consumerism, Americanization, and Popular Culture”
Dewey Musante (Georgia State University):
“‘Is This the Dancing of a Talentless Idiot?!’: Bodies, Sex, and Anti-Normativity in the Films of John Waters and Sacha Baron Cohen”
Natasha Suresh Raheja (New York University):
Cast in India screening
3:30-4:00PM –– Closing Remarks (WHC 208)
Ronald Gregg, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, Yale University
“Title TBD”