FSAC Graduate Colloquium 2010
School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University
Co-hosted by School of Canadian Studies
Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature Art and Culture
Thursday, February 11
Registration and Welcome: 6:00PM-7:00PM
School for Studies in Art and Culture
Foyer, 4th Floor, St. Patrick’s Building
Keynote Presentation: 7:00PM-8:30PM
Professor Charles O’Brien, Film Studies, Carleton University
"Digital Color in Cinema: Between Filmmaking and Restoration"
St. Patrick’s 415
Reception: 8:30PM-10:00PM
Foyer, 4th Floor, St. Patrick’s Building
Friday, February 12
Breakfast Buffet
8:30AM
Panel 1: 9:00AM – 10:30AM
Looking at the Cinema: Orientations, Discourse and Perception
Chair: Marc Furstenau
Julien Lapointe (Concordia University, Ph.D.)
Britton vs. Bordwell: Perspectives in Film Studies
Evangelos Tziallas (Concordia University, Ph.D.)
Surveillance and Sexuality after 9/11 in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus
Jennifer Huzera (Carleton University, M.A.)
Alfred Hitchcock’s Criminal Queers
Panel 2: 10:45AM – 12:15PM
Digital Hollywood
Chair: TBA
Andrew Kannegiesser (University of Toronto, M.A.)
Digital Adaptations and the New Totalized Cinema
Jake Dole (Carleton University, M.A.)
Organized Excess: Speed Racer and Neo-Baroque Aesthetics
Samuel Burd (Concordia University, M.A.)
Understanding Bullet-Time: Eisenstein, Imitation and The Matrix
Lunch
12:15PM – 1:30PM
Panel 3: 1:30PM – 3PM
Actors: Affect, Labour and Subjectivity
Chair: TBA
Michael Audette-Longo (Carleton University, Ph.D.)
‘In-between’ Being and Becoming: Outlining Affective Circuits in A History of Violence
Salah Hassanpour (York University, Ph.D.)
Inflation, Consolidation and Negotiation Have Begun: Acting Labour Power, New Hollywood, and the 1980 SAG Strike
Felix Rebolledo (Concordia University, M.A.)
Getting With It: The Cinematic Event as a Machinic Assemblage
Panel 4: 3:15PM – 4:45PM
Auteurs: Promotions and Computations
Chair:TBA
Thomas Dorey (York University, Ph.D.)
“Smart Film” Revisits Its Childhood: the Promotion of Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox
David Richler (Carleton University, M.A.)
World Cinema in Translation: On How Paratexts Mediate Cultural Difference
Mohsen Nasrin (Carleton University, Ph.D.)
Computational Touch: Statistical Analysis of Stars and Performance in the Films of Ernst Lubitsch
Reception
5:00PM-7:00PM
Foyer, 4th Floor, St. Patrick’s Building
Saturday, February 12
Breakfast Buffet
8:30AM
Panel 1: 9:00AM – 10:30AM
Horror/Fantasy
Chair: Marc Furstenau, Film Studies, Carleton University
Jacquelyn Cain (York University, Ph.D.)
Jennifer’s Body Kicks Ass
Murray Leeder (Carleton University, Ph.D.)
Méliès's Skeleton: The Vanishing Lady in the X-Ray's Light
Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg (University of Toronto, M.A.)
The First Person Camera in Contemporary Horror Film: A Fictional Reality
Panel 2: 10:45AM – 12:15P
New Currents in Animation
Chair: TBA
Jenna Stidwill (York University, M.A.)
Fingerprinting Nick Park: Claymation in the Digital Age
David Shea (Carleton University, M.A.)
The Presence of the Past: Historiographical Discourse and Millennium Actress
Janelle MacDonald (Carleton University, M.A.)
Translating Culture: Fansubbing as a Site of Resistance
Lunch
12:15PM – 1:30PM
Panel 3: 1:30PM – 3PM
National Productions and International Markets
Chair: André Loiselle, Canadian Studies, Carleton University
Kelsey Blair (University of Toronto, M.A.)
Where Are We Now?: Contemporary Youth Television Within National and Global Contexts
S. Robyn Lusk (University of Toronto, M.A.)
Inuit Cinema: A History of Non-Existence
Heather Macdougall (Concordia University, Ph.D.)
A Tale of Two Trailers: Dealing with Canada’s Linguistic Divide
Panel 4: 3:15PM – 4:45PM
New Media, Remediation and Digital Culture
Stacey Feero (University of Toronto, M.A.)
Sally Potter’s Rage and the ‘Virtual Mobilized Gaze’: The Reconfiguration of the Cinematic Serial for the Mobile Spectator
Emily Reid (University of Toronto, M.A.)
The Digital Era: A Revision of the Aura
Kaitlin Bernard (University of Ottawa, M.A.)
A Multimedia History of Electronic and Digital Culture: Why We Should Call Off the Digital Cinema Revolution
SCREENING: 7:00PM
All FSAC Graduate Colloquium participants are invited to a special screening
ALL FALL DOWN
dir. Philip Hoffman
Canada
94 minutes
Auditorium, Library and Archives Canada
More information:
CLOSING RECEPTION: Location TBA