Medieval Youth Hostile: Child Soldiers in Medieval(esque) Cinema Peter Burkholder, Fairleigh Dickinson University The Black Tent (1956) and Bengazi (1955): Two different post World War II Journeys into the Deserts of Libya. Richard A. Voeltz, Cameron University PANEL 0532B Explorers and Exploration II: Space . . . The Final Frontier Chair: A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Independent Scholar Galactic Journeys: The Quest for Home in Science Fiction Television Kimberly Yost, Lourdes University “These Are the Voyages . . .”: Star Trek and the Age(s) of Discovery Bowdoin Van Riper, Independent Scholar PANEL 0533B Journeys of Identity II: Women, War and Revolution: History and Identity During Times of National Change Chair: Saundarya Thapa, University of California, Los Angeles Bomb Girls: Industrial Work and Canadian Women’s Identity During WWII Deborah Adelman, College of DuPage Lucia: A Revolutionary Vision of Cuban Women’s Journey Towards Independence Maya Adelman Cabral, Hollins University Session 3C: 12:45 – 2:45 PANEL 0534 Queer Film and Television II: Representing Queerness in National Cinemas and Television Chair: Florian Vanlee, Ghent University, Belgium We’re not all like that!: Sissies, Queens, Butches, Bitches, Transfolk, and ‘Straight Gays’ in Popular Mass Media Aaron Gurlly, Beloit College Fighting an Uphill Battle: A Contextual Analysis of LGBT Representations in Flemish Television Fiction Florian Vanlee, with Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel, Ghent University, Belgium
Christopher Sieving, University of Georgia It’s Tough to be a Front Runner: The Challenges Facing LGBTQ Cinema in the 1980s Chelsea McCracken, University of Wisconsin-Madison PANEL 0653 Road Movies I: Traveling through Time and Space—Alone, Together, in a Collective Chair: Carolina Gomez-Jones, Andrews University “We Blew It”: A Spatial Reading of Easy Rider (1969) Peter Niehoff, University of Cincinnati Sherman's March (1985) in the Era of YouTube Proliferation Carolina Gomez-Jones, Andrews University PANEL 0654 Television III: Activating Agency and Influence in the Shaping of Early American Television Chair: Alexandra Castro Klarén, University of Pittsburgh “Housewives Don’t Show Their Bosoms”: Pre-Code Television Viewers and the Quest for Government Censorship Deborah Jaramillo, Boston University “A Singing Psychologist for Children”: Fred Rogers, public pedagogy, and the rhetoric of ethical emotionality Alexandra Castro Klarén, University of Pittsburgh Negotiating Independence: The Female Detective in Honey West Catherine Martin, Boston University PANEL 0655 Studio System II: Advertising, Foreign Hollywood, and Exploitation: Overlooked Studio System History Chair: Rochelle Miller, New York University Cogs in the Dream Machine: Still Men and Hollywood Production Andrew Scahill, Georgetown University Everything Covered: Columbia’s Exploitation and “Tie-ins” for Cover Girl (1944) Rochelle Miller, New York University PANEL 0656 Journeys of Identity VI: Journeys To Self Through Others: Travel and Identity
“Keening for the Dead Picture Industry”: The Paramount Decision and the Haunting of Sunset Boulevard Victoria Smith, Texas State University PANEL 0735 Go West! III: Changes in the Western Journey Chair: Christopher Minz, Georgia State University The Virginian’s Journeys Benjamin Hufbauer, University of Louisville Johnny Yuma, The Rebel, roaming to? Erwin F. Erhardt, III, University of Cincinnati The Evolution of Jessie James (and the ‘Coward’ Robert Ford) Rodney Wallis, University of New South Wales, Australia A Long Day’s Journey into Death: Age as Breakdown and Impasse in the Peckinpah Western Christopher Minz, Georgia State University PANEL 0736 Classical Antiquity IX: Journeys of Ascent, to Sea and Sky Chair: Matthew Taylor: Beloit College First Man on the Munchausen: Moon Voyages & Katasterism in Lucian & Terry Gilliam Brett Rogers, University of Puget Sound Crossing Time and Reality in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) Velvet Yates, University of Florida The Journeys of the Ten Thousand in The Warriors (1979) Vincent Tomasso, University of South Florida "Get to THA-LASSAH!" Predator (1987) and the Anabasis Matthew Taylor: Beloit College Session 4: 3:00-4:30 PANEL 0741 Exploitation VII: Unruly Bodies, Social Identities: Representational Politics in Exploitation Cinema Chair: Maureen Rogers, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Road Not Taken: Slaves, Mandingo, and Slavesploitation’s Lasting Legacies
When Film Historical Categories Break Down: The 1930s Studio System in Bombay Debashree Mukherjee, New York University Hollywood’s Booking Breakdown: How Small Theaters Resisted Early Feature Distribution Practices, 1920-23” Derek Long, University of Wisconsin-Madison PANEL 0812 Go West! V: Gender and Travelling West Chair: Katherine Johnson, Indiana University Going West, and then East: Remapping Women’s Journeys in The Homesman J. Paul Johnson, Winona State University Gendered Journeys: Resisting the Wendigo and Manifest Destiny in Ravenous (1999) Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann, Eastern Illinois University Westward the Women: a breakdown of conventions on the journey West Katherine Johnson, Indiana University PANEL 0813 Queer Film and Television VII: Understanding Queer Aesthetics Chair: Bridget Kies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee An Affective Map of Queer Aesthetics: Exploring the Glitch in Rebecca Thomas’ Electrick Children (2012) Ryan Kendall, Emory University PANEL 0814 Sound Decisions: Case Studies in the International Reception of Road to Life, the First Soviet Feature-Length Sound Film Chair: Vincent Bohlinger, Rhode Island College “Thoroughly Russian”: Road to Life in the United States Vincent Bohlinger, Rhode Island College A Lamb Astray: Road to Life and Its Cultural Afterlife in China Ling Zhang, University of Chicago “Our Only Guide to Sound Cinema:” Nikolai Ekk’s Road to Life and Its Reception in Japan Anastasia Fedorova, Hokkaido University, Japan PANEL 0815 Journeys of Love II: Unexpected Love