association canadienne d`études cinématographiques film studies

association canadienne d`études cinématographiques film studies

ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE D’ÉTUDES CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUES
FILM STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (242)
Congress 2011 Congrès (Preliminary / Préliminaire)
June 1 juin
Bienvenue à Fredericton! Welcome to Fredericton!
19:00 – 20:30
35mm Screening / Projection
Tilley 102
Full Blast (Rodrigue Jean, 1999)
A rare screening of this home-grown New Brunswick feature
Une projection rare de ce film d’origine du Nouveau-Brunswick
Co-sponsored by FSAC, Congress 2011, and the New Brunswick Filmmakers Co-op
Presenté avec l’appui de l’ACEC, Congrès 2011 et la Coopérative des cinéastes du
Nouveau-Brunswick
20:45 – 23:00
Reception / Drinks and hors d’oeuvres at Brewbakers (5 min. en taxi, ou 20
min. à pied).
June 2 juin
1.A.1
9:00 – 10:30
Lost in Canada
Singer 351
Chair / Modératrice: Jennifer VanderBurgh (Saint Mary’s University)
○ Peter Lester (University of British Columbia)
■ “Canada’s Lost Frontier Epic: The Stillborn Saga of Policing the Plains”
○ Scott Preston (University of New Brunswick)
■ “‘Although you can’t see me’: Anglophone New Brunswick’s Absence from our Screens”
○ Liz Czach (University of Alberta)
■ “Recovering the Lost History of Canadian Travel Lecture Films”
1.A.2
9:00 – 10:30
Bulgarian Cinema (still) in Transition? Singer 361
Chair / Modératrice: Temenuga Trifonova (York University)
○ Lilia Topouzova (University of Toronto)
■ “The Camp Past in Bulgarian Cinema”
○ Christina Stojanova (University of Regina)
■ “New Bulgarian Cinema and the Crisis of Masculinty”
○ Temenuga Trifonova (York University)
■ “Bulgarian Cinema between the National and the Transnational”
Break / Pause
1.B.1
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:30
Spectacle and Resistance in International Cinema
Singer 351
Chair / Modératrice: Dana Cooley (University of Lethbridge)
○ David Shea (Carleton University)
■ “Inner Vision: International Co-productions and The Business of Blindness”
○ William Anselmi (University of Alberta)/Sheena Wilson (University of Alberta)
■ “Dying at the Coda of the Spectacle: Inception (2010) and Waltz with Bashir
(2008)”
○ Evangelos Tziallas (Concordia University)
■ “Resistance or Propaganda?: Situating Michael Lucas’ Men of Israel”
1.B.2
11:00 – 12:30
Modern Women
Singer 361
Chair / Modératrice: Philippa Gates (Wilfrid Laurier University)
○ Elizabeth Clarke (Wilfrid Laurier University)
■ “From Serial Queens to Patriotic Heroines: Promoting Preparedness in Wartime
Serials”
○ Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba)
■ “‘It Touched My Heart So Deeply’: Film, Affect, and Personal Modernity”
○ Cristina Lucia Stasia (Syracuse University)
■ “Sometimes a Glock is Just a Glock: Phallic Woman and Backlash Femininity”
Lunch / Déjeuner 12:30 – 13:30
1.C.1
13:30 – 15:00
Singer 351
Chair / Modératrice: Patricia Gruben (Simon Fraser University)
Bollywood/South Asian Cinemas
○ Arpita Mukherjee (University of Alberta)
■ “Western Women As the ‘Cultural Other’ in Bollywood Movies: A Comparative
Study of Lagaan and Rang De Basanti”
○ Marcin Wisniewski (Concordia University)
■ “Whatever Happens in a Dance Sequence Stays in a Dance Sequence: Bhansali’s
Devdas & the Presentation of Queer Sexualities”
1.C.2
13:30 – 15:00
Paratexts, Texts, and the Changing Contexts of Reception
Chair / Modérateur: Dino Koutras (Carleton University)
Singer 361
○ Felan Parker (York University)
■ “The Artifacts of Genre”
○ Tom Dorey (York University)
■ “The Criterion Collection and the Cultivation of Contemporary Cinephilia”
○ David Richler (Carleton University)
■ “Contextual Frames of Reference: Towards a Theory of the Paratext as
(Re)Translation”
1.C.3
1:30 – 3:00
Process, Politics and “Small Cinemas”
Tilley 309
Chair / Modératrice: Christie Milliken (Brock University)
○ Adam Szymanski (University of Western Ontario)
■ “It’s All About Minor Cinema”
○ Masaki Kondo (York University)
■ “Emerging in Flux: Understanding Philip Hoffman’s Process Cinema”
○ Don Moore (Wilfrid Laurier University)
■ “A History through Violence: The Post-9/11 War Movie”
Break / Pause
1.D.1
15:00 - 15:45
15:45 – 17:15
History/National Memory
Singer 351
Chair / Modératrice: Liz Czach (University of Alberta)
○ Kester Dyer (Concordia University)
■ “Identity, Memory and Modern Secular Nationhood: The origins of the
Cinémathèque québécoise”
○ Aimée Mitchell (York University)
■ “Itinerant Filmmaking in Ontario: The Role of the Archivist in Amateur Film Research”
○ Jennifer VanderBurgh (Saint Mary’s University)
■ “From the Blattnerphone to the Basement: Rethinking Magnetic Tape as an
Archive of Canadian Ephemera”
1.D.2
15:45 – 17:15
Viewing/Nouvelles Technologies en vue
Singer 361
Chair / Modérateur: Thomas Waugh (Concordia University)
○ Michael Baker (McGill University/Carleton University)
■ “Game-changing Motion Picture Technologies and the Legacy of
Electronovision! (Wait, what?)”
○ Donna De Ville (Concordia University)
■ “The Sociality of Early 20th Century Nontheatrical Film Exhibition Spaces”
○ Audrey Bélanger (Université de Montréal)
■ « Cinéma, télévision et nouveaux médias au Québec »
Dinner / Dîner
17:15 – 18:45
Conférence Commémorative Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture 19:00 – 20:30
Tilley 102
○ Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick)
■ “Sites and spaces of British Film and Television”
Joint Reception FSAC-CCA / Recéption Jointe ACEC-ACC
Harriet Irving Library 111
20:30 – 23:00
JUNE 3 juin
2.A.1
9:00 – 10:45
Conférence Pratley Lecture
Tilley 303
○ Shana MacDonald (York University)
■ “Inhabiting the Thresholds: Formal Dissonance in Canadian Women's
Experimental Film 1977-1987”
Modératrice / Moderator Philippa Gates (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Break / Pause
2.B.1
10:45 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:30
Memory, Mind Bending & Narrative
Singer 351
Chair / Modérateur: Aaron Taylor (University of Lethbridge)
○ Stefan Sereda (Wilfrid Laurier University)
■ “Maximum Ambiguity 2.0: David Fincher, Zodiac, and the Art Film as MindBender in the Information Age”
○ T. A. Pattinson (Wilfrid Laurier University)
■ “The Childhood, Adulthood, and Old Age of Mnemonic Cinema: A Comparative
Analysis of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire (1987) and Jean-Luc Godard’s
Éloge de l'amour (2001)”
○ Patricia Gruben (Simon Fraser University)
■ “Immersion and Disintegration: Interactivity in Late Fragment and The Tracey
Fragments”
2.B.2
11:00 – 12:30
Cinema Direct/Candid Eye
Singer 361
Chair / Modérateur: Seth Feldman (York University)
○ Fernando Weller (Federal University of Pernambuco & CAPES Foundation,
Brazil/Concordia University)
■ “Issues Surrounding the Reception of Direct Cinema in Cahiers du Cinéma
Magazine in the 1960s.”
○ Scott Mackenzie (University of Toronto)
■ “Detourned Documentary: Guy Debord, cinéma direct and cinéma memoire”
○ Scott Birdwise (York University)
■ “’The Voice of Gould’: The Existentialism of Recording in Glenn Gould Off/On
the Record”
Lunch / Déjeuner
12:30 – 13:30
2.C.1.
13:30 – 15:00
Social Documentary
Singer 351
Chair / Modératrice: Christina Stojanova (University of Regina)
○ Thomas Waugh (Concordia University)
■ “Socialist Realism: Utopia, Conformism, and Cynicism”
○ Christie Milliken (Brock University)
■ “Kids With Cameras: Agency, Art and the Tradition of the Victim in Born Into
Brothels”
○ Hannah Spaulding (Concordia University)
■ “Personal Mimesis: Autobiographical Documentary and the Affected Spectator”
2.C.2
13:30 – 15:00
Singer 361
Narratives of Reception
Chair / Modératrice: Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba)
○ Donna-Lee Wybert (University of Calgary )
■ “Movies & Personal Meaning: Exploring Narrative Lives Through Narrative
Films”
○ Aaron Taylor (University of Lethbridge)
■ “‘Dear Mr. Capra:’ Fan Letters and the Wonderful Life Cult”
○ Frank Thomas Meyer (University of Siegen)
■ “The epistemology of the image: The face in Cinema”
Break / Pause
2.D.1
15:00 - 15:30
15:30- 17:00
Singer 351
Chair / Modérateur: Marc Furstenau (Carleton University)
Experiments in Non-Fiction
○ Dino Koutras (Carleton University)
■ “The Hills: 19th Century Naturalism As The New Reality”
○ Peter Urquhart (Wilfrid Laurier University)
■ “‘Hoax,’ Art, Documentary Form: Exit Through the Gift Shop”
○ (Julia) Morgan Charles (McGill University)
■ “Memory and the City: The Filmic Architecture of Thom Andersen’s Los
Angeles Plays Itself”
2.D.2
15:30- 17:00
Tilley 309
3rd annual Scholars’ Screening Series
○ Seth Feldman (York University)
■ “The Dachau Line (and Mine)”
Dinner / Dîner
17:15 – 18:45
Screening / Projection
19:00 - 20:00
Alumni Memorial Bldg (President’s Room)
Recent Short Works by New Brunswick Filmmakers
Selected by Scott Preston (UNB) & Tony Merzetti (Exec. Dir., NB Filmmakers Co-op)
Reception / Réception
20:00 – 23:00
Alumni Memorial Bldg (Alumni Lounge)
FSAC Members Book Launch & Reception
Lancement des nouveaux livres des membres d’ACÉC
June 4 juin
3.A.1/3.B.1
8:30 – 12:30
Tilley 303
FSAC Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale annuelle d’ACEC
Lunch / Déjeuner
3.C.1
12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 15:00
Early Cinema / Cinéma aux temps prémiers: Perspectives
Chair / Modérateur: Paul Moore (Ryerson University)
Singer 351
○ André Gaudreault et Philippe Gauthier (Université de Montréal)
■ « Griffith, l’espace et le sauvetage de dernière minute: nouvelles perspectives sur
l’avènement du montage alterné »
○ Peters Mersereau (University of Toronto)
■ “Film at the Service of the Fatherland: The Political Imagination of Early
German Cinema”
3.C. 2
13:30 – 15:00
Directorial Visions
Singer 361
Chair / Modérateur: Darrell Varga (NSCAD University)
○ Micheal Audette-Longo (Carleton University)
■ “He Belongs to Me: Fetishizing Celebrity in I’m Not There”
○ Marc Furstenau (Carleton University)
■ “Hitchcock’s Vanishing Lady: Appearances and Disappearances in the Railway
Film”
○ Jenna Stidwill (Independent Scholar)
■ “State of the Art: The Author and the Machine in Wallace & Gromit”
3.C.3
13:30 – 15:00
Origins and Adaptation
Tilley 309
Chair / Modérateur: Scott Preston (University of New Brunswick)
○ Kornelia Taborska (Adam Mickiewicz University)
■ “Global Merchandising: Anglo-American and Maori Merchant(s) of Venice in
relation to Shakespeare’s Cultural Status”
○ Patrick Faubert (Wilfrid Laurier University)
■ “Adaptation Studies Revisited, Again”
○ James Hrivnak (Wilfrid Laurier University)
■ “One Episode at a Time: The Secret Origins of the Superhero Genre”
Break / Pause
3.D.1
15:00– 15:30
15:30 – 17:00
Canadian Place/Space
Singer 351
Chair / Modérateur: Peter Urquhart (Wilfrid Laurier University)
○ Dana Cooley (University of Lethbridge)
■ “We Show up on Doorsteps of Our Old Homes: Film, Memory, and Place in
Maddin’s My Winnipeg”
○ Darrell Varga (NSCAD University)
■ “John Walker’s Passage: To the Margins of Empire with Harold Innis”
○ Shana McGuire (Dalhousie University)
■ “Silence and Solitude in Rodrigue Jean’s Lost Song”
3.D.2
15:30 – 17:00
Canadian Screens/Regional Views
Singer 361
Chair / Modérateur: Peter Lester (University of British Columbia)
○ Gregory Canning (Dalhousie University)
■ “Attracting Women and Children: Giveaways and Prizes in Nova Scotian Motion
Picture Theatres, 1908 – 1919”
○ Lee Knuttila (York University)
■ “Saskatchewan Wheat Pool’s Touring Film Program”
○ Paul S. Moore (Ryerson University)
■ “The American Vitagraph in the Maritimes and Newfoundland, 1904-1905”
The End / FIN
17:00 – 18:30
Dinner and Drinks / Dîner et boissons @ TBA…