Papers, panels, and workshops that address the city, architecture, and geography through a film and media studies lens have been an important strand at the proceedings of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies over the past seven years, with work addressing these topics increasingly represented at the conference over that span. Former Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group Co-Chair Mark Shiel (King’s College London) culled through the conference programs from 2008 to 2014 to chart the breadth and depth of these presentations. This post lists – as closely as it can – the title and author of every SCMS presentation within this area.
In each section, on each conference, panels, workshops, and individual papers are not necessarily listed in the order in which they actually took place at the conference; mostly they are, but because these lists were generated by keyword search of the programs, there are some items out of chronological order.
Panel/workshop numbers are given in most cases as they were in the conference programs, but some are missing; in some instances, this document doesn’t distinguish between panel and workshop but it’s clear from the number of participants (some data was lost in cutting and pasting from the program .pdfs because of the source formatting).
Where a whole panel or workshop is listed, that panel/workshop title is given, but where a paper with a relevant topic was given in a panel whose overall topic was not relevant to this list only the relevant paper is listed, not the whole panel; such individual papers appear with line separators above and below; if two papers are listed together without a line separator it probably means they were on the same panel/workshop
This list was compiled manually by keyword searching and the original conference programs are large documents; if there are errors or omissions, please email the managing editors (editor@mediapolisjournal.com). We intend to make this a living, evolving document. We will update the list each year, and welcome reflections and annotations in the comments that will help us identify and analyze trends in film and media studies’ engagement with urbanism, architecture, and geography. Ideally, these conversations will help generate ideas for future work in the field and larger questions about trends within it.
2008 Philadelphia
B15 The Geography of Television
chair: Jeremiah Donovan ★ Indiana University
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick ★ DePauw University ★ “Charting the Geography of the Television Police Drama”
Benjamin Aslinger ★ University of Wisconsin, Madison ★ “Adventures in Toronto and Baltimore: Local Flavor, Popular Music, and Urban Cultural Geographies on American Television”
Thomas Gottbreht ★ Johns Hopkins University ★ “The Architecture of The Wire: Intersections of Race, Class, Space, and Police Power in Television and Media Representations of the Inner City”
Jeremiah Donovan ★ Indiana University ★ “Place as an Avenue to Investigate Television as a Medium: The Case of ‘Las Vegas TV’”
HyeRyoung Ok ★ University of Southern California ★ “Take out TV: Mobile Screen and Nomad Viewer in Urban Space”
C18 Cinematic Cities 1
chair: Carina Yervasi ★ Swarthmore College
Andrew Covert ★ University of Michigan ★ “Motor-city Modernity: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and the Detroit Model”
Michele Torre ★ University of Southern California ★ “Women on the Loose: Navigating Urban Landscapes in the Films of Evgenii Bauer”
Constantin Parvulescu ★ Washington University ★ “Grotesque Modernity: Urban Landscapes in Dusan Makavejev’s Love Affair: The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator”
Carina Yervasi ★ Swarthmore College ★ “The Dardenne Brothers’ Troubled Youth in Hostile Cities”
C19 Peter Greenaway and Architecture
chair: Steven Woodward ★ Bishop’s University
Steven Woodward ★ Bishop’s University ★ “Going Down with the Ship: Peter Greenaway’s Heterotopias”
Ted Kafala ★ College of Mount Saint Vincent/Manhattan College ★ “Mise-en-Scene Configurations in Peter Greenaway’s Films”
Michael Baumgartner ★ University of British Columbia ★ “Architecture and Body, Fascism and Illness: The Music in Peter Greenaway’s The Belly of an Architect”
Anthony Purdy ★ University of Western Ontario and Bridget Elliott ★ University of Western Ontario ★ “The Stairs/Rome: The City as Postproduction”
Sheila Petty ★ University of Regina ★ “The Architecture of Metropolis: Psychic Spaces in Dôlé”
G18 Cinematic Space, Theory, and Practice
chair: Jim Bizzocchi ★ Simon Fraser University
R. Rutsky ★ San Francisco State University ★ “Architecture without Arché”
Anne Rutherford ★ University of Western Sydney ★ “How do Stones Talk, How Does Space Dance, Why Does Mise en Scéne Pulse and Quiver? The Dramaturgy of Space in Kobayashi’s Harakiri”
Sylvia Martin ★ University of California, Irvine ★ “Explosions and Cyborgs: the Innovation and Destruction of Space and Technology on Hollywood Sound Stages and Studio Lots”
Jim Bizzocchi ★ Simon Fraser University ★ “The Virtual, the Real, and the Design of Cinematic Storyworlds”
I7 Images of a Metropolis: Cinematic Representations of Berlin from Weimar to the Present
chair: Caitlin McGrath ★ University of Chicago
Nicole Huber ★ University of Washington ★ “Screening the ‘New Objectivity’: Adolf Behne’s Cinematic Reports on Weimar Architecture”
Caitlin McGrath ★ University of Chicago ★ “Asphalt’s Architecture: Between Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit”
Ralph Stern ★ University of Nevada, Las Vegas ★ “Spies, Thrillers and Quillers: Cinema and the Cold War Berlin of the 1960s”
Janet Ward ★ University of Nevada, Las Vegas ★ “Filmic Stagings of the Berlin Wall”
D18 Cinematic Cities 2
chair: Joern Ahrens ★ Justus-Liebig University, Giessen
Laura Frahm ★ Humboldt University, Berlin ★ “Metropolis in Transformation: Filmic Spaces between Topography and Topology in City Films”
Nora Gortcheva ★ Yale University ★ “Where is Berlin—Film City in Process?”
Tung-Hui Hu ★ University of California, Berkeley ★ “Berlin, citta aperta: Redevelopment, New Media, and the Politics of Display”
Joern Ahrens ★ Justus-Liebig University, Giessen ★ “Images in Ruins. German
‘Trümmerfilm’ and the Aesthetics of Distraction”
E14 Closets and Other Places: Mapping Queer Media
chair: Kevin Ohi ★ Boston College
Christian Gay ★ University of Miami ★ “Urban Spaces and Queer Places in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus”
Amy Villarejo ★ Cornell University ★ “Tales of the City, or Stairway to Heaven: Television’s Queer Cartographies”
Hollis Griffin ★ Northwestern University ★ “Out of the Closet and on the Road: Identity, Mobility, and Geography in Gay-themed Cultural Production”
Kevin Ohi ★ Boston College ★ “Voyeurism and Annunciation in Almodóvar’s Talk to Her”
Ken Provencher ★ University of Southern California ★ “Production Design as
Urban History: Patrizia Von Brandenstein’s “Dated” New York City
Architecture in Beat Street, Working Girl, and Six Degrees of Separation”
Sandra Carter ★ Penn State, Harrisburg ★ “Urban versus Rural in Moroccan
Film: Filmmakers, Videomakers; Architectures of Place and
Representation”
Derek Kane-Meddock ★ New York University ★ “‘Uh oh, Here Come the
Gangsters’: Suspect Entertainment and the Marketing of Urban
Authenticity”
Kevin Flanagan ★ North Carolina State University ★ “Urban Apocalypse:
Dystopian Gang Films, 1979–1985”
F15 HBO’s The Wire
chair: David Lerner ★ University of Southern California
Christopher Hanson ★ Loyola Marymount University ★ “‘A Man Must Have a Code’: The Many Languages of The Wire”
David Lerner ★ University of Southern California ★ “Way Down in the Hole: Baltimore as Location and Representation in The Wire”
Daniel Herbert ★ University of Michigan ★ “The Wire and Anti-allegory Television Drama”
Marsha Kinder ★ University of Southern California ★ “Re-wiring Baltimore: The Emotive Power of Systemics, Seriality and the City”
I18 Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968
chair: Mark Shiel ★ King’s College London/Princeton University
Jennifer Stob ★ Yale University ★ “In media res: Situationist Cinematic Theory and the Cinétracts”
Jon Lewis ★ Oregon State University ★ “Medium Cool and Chicago 1968”
Mark Shiel ★ King’s College London/Princeton University ★ “On the Threshold of Revolution and Postmodern Decline: Cinematic Representations of Los Angeles circa 1968”
Ruben Gallo ★ Princeton University ★ “Cinematic Responses to the 1968 Student Massacre in Tlatelolco, Mexico City”
George Flaherty ★ University of California, Santa Barbara ★ “Poaching Space
for Memory: Rojo Amanecer at Tlatleolco, Mexico City ‘68’”
James Tweedie ★ University of Washington ★ “Delirious Cities and their
Cinema: On Koolhaas and Film Studies”
Eylem Atakav ★ Southampton Solent University ★ “Double Imprisonment:
On Metaphor of Prison in the Cities of Demirkubuz”
Anna Siomopoulos ★ Bentley College ★ “Embodying the State: Federal
Architecture and Masculine Transformation in Hollywood Films of
the 1930s”
L18 Architectures of Gender, Power, and the Law: Configurations of Urban Space from Neorealism to Neo-noir
chair: Peter Lurie ★ University of Richmond
Susan White ★ University of Arizona ★ “Driven to Hurt: The Automobile and Gendered Violence in Post-WWII Hollywood Cinema”
Hunter Vaughan ★ University of Oxford ★ “The Lost Search for Male Identity: Post-war Urban Alienation in Neorealism and Neo-noir”
Peter Lurie ★ University of Richmond ★ “Deathly Exoticism in Voyage to Italy and Don’t Look Now”
Stanley Corkin ★ University of Cincinnati ★ “The Neo-noir Spaces of Crime and Corruption: New York in the 1970s and the Global Drug Trade”
Catherine Portuges ★ University of Massachusetts, Amherst ★ “Benoit
Jacquot’s Princesse Marie (2004): Cinematic Design, Urban Space and
the Modernist Consulting Room”
P12 Cinema and Gentrification
chair: Rahul Hamid ★ New York University
Brendan Kredell ★ Northwestern University ★ “Contrasting Different Models for New Urban Cinemas in the 2000s: A Case Study”
Liz Czach ★ University of Alberta ★ “Building a Festival in a Box: The Toronto International Film Festival’s Festival Centre and Centering of Film Culture”
Ross Melnick ★ University of California, Los Angeles ★ “The ‘Minne’ Major: Minneapolis’ Lyric Theater Gentrifies the Movie House”
Ragan Rhyne ★ New York University ★ “Lights! Cameras! Gentrify! Cinema and Neighborhood Development in New York City”
Chris Cagle ★ Temple University ★ “Dead End and the Chicago School of Sociology: The Emergence of the Social Problem Discourse”
Sofia Bull ★ Stockholm University ★ “Anatomy Lessons: The Autopsy
as Urban Spectacle and Objective Science in CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation”
P18 Playing Los Angeles As Itself: Cinema, History, and Urban Archaeology
chair: Doug Cunningham ★ University of California, Berkeley
Amanda Ann Klein ★ East Carolina University ★ “‘Let’s Take ’em Back’: Reconstructing an Authentic Los Angeles in the Contemporary Hip Hop Video”
Chera Kee ★ University of Southern California ★ “Reading Disneyland: Everyday Practice, Group Invasions, and the Space for Subversion”
Dawn Fratini ★ University of California, Los Angeles ★ “Birth of an Interface: A Case Study in Design or How to Express Los Angeles As an Interactive Screen”
Doug Cunningham ★ University of California, Berkeley ★ “‘It Never Goes Away’: Whiteness, Memory, and the Ghosts of Postwar Suburbia in The Two Jakes and Devil in a Blue Dress”
Merrill Schleier ★ University of the Pacific ★ “Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last (1923): Gendered Celebration of Los Angeles’s Modernity”
Elizabeth Hornbeck ★ University of Missouri ★ “The ‘Heterotopia’ as Analytical Tool for Studying Architecture in Film: A Pedagogical Approach”
Mark Bartlett ★ San Francisco Art Institute ★ “Vanderbeek’s Social Critique of Media Production Architectures: Dome, Laboratory, TV Studio, Planetarium”
J20 Museum and/as Media
chair: Natasha Ritsma ★ Indiana University
Matthew Croombs ★ Carleton University ★ “Digital Curiosities”
Germaine Halegoua ★ University of Wisconsin, Madison ★ “Revisiting Recombinant Architecture in the Context of the Museum”
Volker Pantenburg ★ Freie Universität, Berlin ★ “Post-cinema? Movies, Museums, Mutations“
Natasha Ritsma ★ Indiana University ★ “‘Never Not an Artist‘: Remapping the Geography of the Art Museum Environment“
Catherine Portuges ★ University of Massachusetts, Amherst ★ “Benoit
Jacquot’s Princesse Marie (2004): Cinematic Design, Urban Space and
the Modernist Consulting Room”
Nicole Richter ★ University of Miami ★ “Imprisoning Women’s Bodies: The
Role of Architecture in the Films of Sofia Coppola”
Architecture, Geography, and Space in Palestinian and Israeli Cinema
chair: Peter Limbrick ★ University of California, Santa Cruz
Kamal Aljafari ★ Independent Filmmaker and Scholar ★ “A ‘Cinematic Occupation’: Reality and Fiction in Jaffa”
Peter Limbrick ★ University of California, Santa Cruz ★ “The Architecture of Memory, Ruins, and Place: Filmic Discourse and Inscriptions of Space in Kamal Aljafari’s The Roof and Maher Abi Samra’s Roundabout Chatila”
B. Ruby Rich ★ University of California, Santa Cruz ★ “Waiting for Palestine: The Mutabilities of Space, Identity, and Genre”
2009 Tokyo
Imagining the Urban I
Urban Fantasy
Chair Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University
Ken Feil ★ Emerson College ★ “Perverse Neighbors: Cities, Sexual Deviance, and Hollywood Sex Comedies of the 1950s and 1960s”
Paula Massood ★ Brooklyn College/City University of New York ★ “Imagining a Promised Land: [The Historical Precedents of] Recent Gangster Films Set in Harlem”
Pamela Wojcik ★ University of Notre Dame ★ “Whose Urbanism? The Black Apartment as Urban Critique”
Imagining the Urban II
Urban Geographies of Cinema
Chair Pamela Wojcik ★ University of Notre Dame
Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University ★ “Genre/City: Toward a Theory of the Cinema’s Urban Imagination”
Paola Bonifazio ★ Dickinson College ★ “Documentary Films and the ‘Housing Revolution’ in Cold War Italy”
Diane Lewis ★ University of Chicago ★ “’Kyoto, Hollywood of Japan’: Imaginary Geographies of the Japanese Film Industry after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923”
Brendan Kredell ★ Northwestern University ★ “’Le Langage du Cinéma est Universel’: The Cinema of Gentrification in the Contemporary North American Motion Picture Industry”
Jia Tan ★ University of Southern California ★ “Experimental Image-making in an Urbanization Experiment: ‘U-theque Organization’ and Contemporary Video Practices in Pearl River Delta Region”
Randolph Jordan ★ Concordia University ★ “In Search of the Centre: Urban Soundscapes in the Cinema of Sogo Ishii”
Katherine Lawrie Van de Ven ★ University of California, Los Angeles ★ “Dramatic Loft Living: Gentrification in the Contemporary Cinematic City”
Elizabeth Affuso ★ University of Southern California ★ “’And Everything Begins Again’: Urban Alienation, the Spectator, and the Screen in the Films of Doug Aitken”
Transnational Architectures
Chair Gary McDonogh ★ Bryn Mawr College
Yifen Beus ★ Brigham Young University, Hawaii ★ “Constructing the Location of the Past: Architectural Nostalgia and Nostalgic Architecture in Yacoubian Building”
Greg Cohen ★ University of California, Los Angeles ★ “Brasília at the End[s] of Modernity: Cinematic Space, Urban Design, and the Distant Horizon in a Forgotten Film by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade”
Luis Urbano ★ University of Porto ★ “Silent Rupture. Space and Politics in Paulo Rocha’s The Green Years and Alvaro Siza’s Earliest Work.”
Gary McDonogh ★ Bryn Mawr College ★ “Transforming the Banlieue: Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle, Filmic Spaces and the Cultural Geographies of Metropolitan Power”
Screening the City
Past, Present and Future
Chair Melvyn Stokes ★ University College London
co-Chair Gilles Menegaldo ★ University of Poitiers
Melvyn Stokes ★ University College London ★ “Screening Urban Entertainment: Charlot and Mass Culture”
Raphaelle Costa de Beauregard ★ University of Toulouse Le Mirail ★ “Screening the City: Past, Present and Future in Blade Runner [1982]”
Alain J. Cohen ★ University of California, San Diego ★ “Cityscapes in American Cinema”
Gilles Menegaldo ★ University of Poitiers ★ “Screening the City: Tradition and Modernity, Memory and Projection in Chris Marker’s Sunless [1983]”
Mayumo Inoue ★ The University of the Ryukyus ★ “Hiroshima beyond the Aesthetics of Failure: History, Materialism, and the City in Suwa Nobuhiro’s H Story”
City as Site
Chair Rochelle Simmons ★ University of Otago
Pavel Skopal ★ Masaryk University ★ “Schoolmates Go to the Cinema: The Cinema Distribution and Reception in a Czechoslovak City, 1945–1970”
Kyle Conway ★ University of North Dakota ★ “Winnipeg as Regional Media Capital”
Rochelle Simmons ★ University of Otago ★ “The City in New Zealand Film”
Evan Lieberman ★ Cleveland State University ★ “Building the Story City: The Wire as Matrix Narrative”
Tokyo Stories
Cosmopolitan Imaginaries of the City in Contemporary Screen Media
Chair Jiwon Ahn ★ Keene State College
Gabriella Lukacs ★ University of Pittsburgh ★ “Tokyo as Allegory in 1990s Japanese Cinema”
Jiwon Ahn ★ Keene State College ★ “From the ‘Colonial Sticks’: Tokyo in the Postcolonial Cinemas of Taiwanese and Korean Auteurs”
Martin Roberts ★ The New School ★ “Anime City: Tokyo as Subcultural Utopia”
respondent Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto ★ New York University
Sex and the Global City
Chair Homay King ★ Bryn Mawr College
Sylvia Chong ★ University of Virginia ★ “East Asian Ménages à Trois: Heterosexual and Homosocial Triangulations of the Global Model Minority in Sayonara and Go For Broke”
Guo-Juin Hong ★ Duke University ★ “’I Don’t Want to Have Sex Alone’: Failed Intimacy and the Global City in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Films”
Rei Magosaki ★ Chapman University ★ “The Other Sex and the City: Considering the Margins of the Global City”
respondent David Eng ★ University of Pennsylvania
sponsor Asian/Pacific American Caucus and Queer Caucus
Spaces of Modernity
Ozu, Uchida, Yoshimura
Chair Alex Jacoby ★ University of Warwick
Woojeong Joo ★ Nagoya University ★ “Digesting Modernity: Eating and Drinking Out Spaces in Ozu’s Films of the Early 1930s”
Alex Jacoby ★ University of Warwick ★ “Yoshimura’s Kyoto: Space and Femininity in the Postwar City”
Alastair Phillips ★ University of Warwick ★ “Fractured Landscapes: Space, Location and History in Uchida’s A Fugitive from the Past [1965]”
respondent Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano ★ Carleton University
Cinematic Monuments
Chair Merrill Schleier ★ University of the Pacific
Alan Marcus ★ University of Aberdeen ★ “The Dachau Memorial Filmed and the Role of Public Memory”
Joshua Kitching ★ Rice University ★ “Haunting the Golden Gate Bridge: Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Spectrality and Imperial San Francisco”
Merrill Schleier ★ University of the Pacific ★ “The Griffith Observatory in Rebel Without a Cause [1955]: Mystical Temple and Spatiotemporal Structuring Device”
Caroline Eades ★ University of Maryland ★ “A New Cinematic Paris? Popular Views of the Capital City by Cédric Klapisch, Abdellatif Kechiche and Jean-Pierre Jeunet”
Cinema and the Postmetropolis
Chair Christoph Lindner ★ University of Amsterdam
Lawrence Bird ★ McGill University ★ “Post Metropolis: Re-animations of Global Power in the Animated City”
Christoph Lindner ★ University of Amsterdam ★ “The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai’s Hong Kong”
Ran Ma ★ University of Hong Kong ★ “Floating Tracks into the Ruins: West of the Tracks and the Poetics of Wasteland in Postsocialist China”
Anna Notaro ★ University of Dundee ★ “Screening the Post-metropolis: Issues of Post-humanism, Ecocide and Love in Wonderful Days [Moon-saeng Kim, Korea 2003] and Natural City [Byung-chun Min, Korea 2003]”
Catherine Benamou ★ University of California, Irvine ★ “Media Strategies of Dis-Illusionment in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s City-Society of Spectacles [Amores Perros, Mexico, 2000]”
Will Brooker ★ Kingston University ★ “Welcome to Tomorrowland: Filming the Science Fiction City from Camera- Eye to CG-Eye”
2010 Los Angeles
Jia Tan ★ University of Southern California ★ “Experimental
Image-making in an Urbanization Experiment: ‘U-theque
Organization’ and Contemporary Video Practices in Pearl
River Delta Region”
Juan Rodriguez ★ Georgia Institute of Technology ★ “Havana
Online: Virtual Communities, Urban Imaginaries, and
Documentary in the Digital Age.”
Imagining the Urban I
Urban Fantasy
Ken Feil ★ Emerson College ★ “Sex, Comedy and the City: Kiss
Me Stupid, What’s New, Pussycat?, and Metropolitan Taste”
Paula J. Massood ★ Brooklyn College, City University of New York ★
“Imagining a Promised Land: [The Historical Precedents of]
Recent Gangster Films Set in Harlem”
Katherine Lawrie Van de Ven ★ University of California,
Los Angeles ★ “Dramatic Loft Living: Gentrification in the
Contemporary Cinematic City”
Pamela Wojcik ★ University of Notre Dame ★ “Whose
Urbanism? The Black Apartment as Urban Critique”
CHAIR Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University
Imagining the Urban II
Urban Geographies of Cinema
CHAIR Pamela Wojcik ★
University of Notre Dame
Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University ★ “Genre/City: Toward a
Theory of the Cinema’s Urban Imagination”
Paola Bonifazio ★ Dickinson College ★ “Documentary Films
and the ‘Housing Revolution’ in Cold War Italy”
Brendan Kredell ★ Northwestern University ★ “‘Le langage
du cinéma est universel’: The Cinema of Gentrification in
the Contemporary North American Motion Picture Industry”
Rochelle Simmons ★ University of Otago ★ “The City in New
Zealand Film”
Screening the City
Past, Present, and Future
CHAIR Melvyn Stokes ★
University College, London
CO-CHAIR Gilles Menegaldo ★
University of Poitiers
Melvyn Stokes ★ University College, London ★ “Screening
Urban Entertainment: Charlot and Mass Culture”
Raphaelle Costa de Beauregard ★ University of Toulouse Le
Mirail ★ “Screening the City: Past, Present and Future in
Blade Runner [1982]”
Alain J.J. Cohen ★ University of California, San Diego ★
“Cityscapes in American Cinema”
Gilles Menegaldo ★ University of Poitiers ★ “Screening the
City: Tradition and Modernity, Memory and Projection in
Chris Marker’s Sunless [1983]”
The City and Film I
CHAIR Homay King ★ Bryn Mawr College
Joanne Hershfield ★ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ★
“Urban Youth, Urban Culture: The Cinematic City in
Contemporary Mexican Film”
Guo-Juin Hong ★ Duke University ★ “’I Don’t Want to Have
Sex Alone’: Failed Intimacy and the Global City in Tsai
Ming-Liang’s Films”
Rei Magosaki ★ Chapman University ★ “The Other Sex and
the City: Considering the Margins of the Global City”
Elizabeth Affuso ★ University of Southern California ★ “’And
Everything Begins Again’: Urban Alienation, the Spectator,
and the Screen in the Films of Doug Aitken”
Apparatus From Scopic Control to Scopic Potentials
CHAIR Jon Yoder ★ Syracuse University
McLain Clutter ★ University of Michigan ★ “Imaginary
Apparatus: Film Production and Urban Planning in John V.
Lindsay’s New York City”
James O’Leary ★ University of the Arts, London and Kristen
Kreider ★ Royal Holloway, University of London ★
“Displaced Occupations: Revisiting the Atmospheric Space
of Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia”
Jon Yoder ★ Syracuse University ★ “Inhabit the Image: The
Widescreen Apparatuses of John Lautner”
RESPONDENT Erkki Huhtamo ★ University of California, Los Angeles
Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba ★ University of Texas, Austin ★
“The Place of Violence: Representation of Women Bodies and
Urban Space in Documentaries on Femicides in Ciudad Juarez”
Leila Lehnen ★ University of New Mexico ★ “Mi Buenos
Aires Olvidada: Israel Adrián Caetano’s Cinematographic
Narratives of Urban Misery”
HyeRyoung Ok ★ University of California, Irvine ★ “Outdoor
Screens: Networked Urban Spectacle”
Los Angeles
Screens, Spaces, Sex
CHAIR Shannon Mattern ★ The New School
Lauren Steimer ★ New York University ★ “Skylight Cinema:
Film and Urban Space in Los Angeles”
Scott Ruston ★ University of Southern California ★ “In Situ
Analysis: Intersecting Place and Text with Mobile Media”
Alexander Chase ★ University of Southern California ★
“Labyrinths of Desire: Architecture, Ambience and Virtuality
in Hard-core Spaces of Los Angeles”
Shannon Mattern ★ The New School ★ “Phoning Fredric
Jameson: Bonaventure Hyperspace and Pre-Cinematic LA”
Modern Spaces
From City to Wilderness
CHAIR Jennifer Peterson ★
University of Colorado, Boulder
Greg Miller ★ University of Oregon ★ “The Soviet ‘I’ in
Kalatozov’s I am Cuba: Cinema and the Nostalgia of Socialist
Modernization”
Aubrey Anable ★ Hamilton College ★ “Aspen Movie Map: The
Urban Crisis and Techno-paranoia in the 1970s”
Carla Marcantonio ★ New York University ★ “Homelessness
of Narrative: The Vacated Melodrama of Pedro Costa’s
Colossal Youth”
Jennifer Peterson ★ University of Colorado, Boulder ★
“Wilderness Noir: Landscape in On Dangerous Ground and
Day of the Outlaw”
Leah Aldridge ★ University of Southern California ★ “Gregory
Everett’s 41st & Central: Toward a Spatial Trialectic of Urban
Black Subjectivity”
German Cities/German Cinema
CHAIR Marco Abel ★ University of Nebraska
Priscilla Layne ★ University of California, Berkeley ★ “Reading
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Whity [1971] as National
Allegory and Universal Lesson of Freedom”
Laura Frahm ★ Humboldt University, Berlin ★ “Modernity’s
Past[s]: Temporality and Transformation in German City
Films of the 1950s and 1960s”
Hans Staats ★ State University of New York, Stony Brook ★
“Re-envisioning Postwar Berlin: Childhood and National
Identity in Fred Zinnemann’s The Search, and Gianni
Amelio’s Le Chiavi di casa”
Marco Abel ★ University of Nebraska ★ “Yearning for Genre:
The Cinema of Dominik Graf”
The City and Film II
CHAIR Anthony Kinik ★
University of New Brunswick
Brigitte Humbert ★ Middlebury College ★ “Nostalgia and
Modernity in Recent Paris Films”
Evan Elkins ★ Independent Scholar ★ “‘Sometimes So
Young-seeming, Sometimes So Ancient’: Guy Maddin’s My
Winnipeg and the Excavation of Self, City, and Media”
Katrina Sark ★ McGill University ★ “Fashion Documentaries:
Locationality of Fashion, Film, and Cities”
Anthony Kinik ★ University of New Brunswick ★ “Manhattan
Project: New York and the Origins of the City Symphony”
Evan Lieberman ★ Cleveland State University ★ “Building the
Story City: The Wire as Matrix Narrative”
Imagining the Urban I
Urban Fantasy
CHAIR Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University
Ken Feil ★ Emerson College ★ “Sex, Comedy and the City: Kiss
Me Stupid, What’s New, Pussycat?, and Metropolitan Taste”
Paula J. Massood ★ Brooklyn College, City University of New York ★
“Imagining a Promised Land: [The Historical Precedents of]
Recent Gangster Films Set in Harlem”
Katherine Lawrie Van de Ven ★ University of California,
Los Angeles ★ “Dramatic Loft Living: Gentrification in the
Contemporary Cinematic City”
Pamela Wojcik ★ University of Notre Dame ★ “Whose
Urbanism? The Black Apartment as Urban Critique”
Will Brooker ★ Kingston University ★ “Welcome to
Tomorrowland: Filming the Science Fiction City from
Camera-Eye to CG-Eye”
Catherine Benamou ★ University of California, Irvine ★
“Media Strategies of Dis-illusionment in Alejandro
González Iñárritu’s City-Society of Spectacles [Amores
Perros, Mexico, 2000]”
The City and Film I
CHAIR Homay King ★ Bryn Mawr College
Joanne Hershfield ★ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ★
“Urban Youth, Urban Culture: The Cinematic City in
Contemporary Mexican Film”
Guo-Juin Hong ★ Duke University ★ “’I Don’t Want to Have
Sex Alone’: Failed Intimacy and the Global City in Tsai
Ming-Liang’s Films”
Rei Magosaki ★ Chapman University ★ “The Other Sex and
the City: Considering the Margins of the Global City”
Elizabeth Affuso ★ University of Southern California ★ “’And
Everything Begins Again’: Urban Alienation, the Spectator,
and the Screen in the Films of Doug Aitken”
Kathleen Lotze ★ University of Antwerp ★ “’No Blockbusters
for Antwerp’—Film Distribution and Exhibition in a
European City [Antwerp, Belgium] in the Late 1960s and
Early 1970s”
Grace Yan-yan Mak ★ Hong Kong Baptist University ★
“Embrace Singapore, Disengage from Hong Kong: The Lion
City [1960]”
Taking Place
How Film, Media and the Visual Arts are Reshaping
Hollywood, California
CHAIR Matthew Reynolds ★
Whitman College
Eric Gordon ★ Emerson College ★ “The Database City:
Hollywood Boulevard as Platform for Emerging Patterns of
Digital Spectatorship”
Anne Bray ★ L.A. Freewaves ★ “Freewaves Bargains Between
Artists and Audiences in Hollywould”
Josh Stenger ★ Wheaton College ★ “‘Foreign Quarters’ or ‘The
Great White Way of the West,’ or Just What is Los Angeles
‘Redeveloping’ in Hollywood?”
Matthew Reynolds ★ Whitman College ★ “Ed Ruscha’s
Moving Pictures: Hollywood Boulevard Then & Now”
Grounded Subjects and Visceral Narration
The Flat Ontology of the Ordinary Cosmopolitan in International Cinema
CHAIR Stephanie Hemelryk Donald ★
RMIT University
CO-CHAIR Tim Bergfelder ★
University of Southampton
Tim Bergfelder ★ University of Southampton ★ “In Transit:
Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, Cinema, and Transnational
Desire”
Erica Carter ★ University of Warwick ★ “The Cosmopolitan
Sensibility: Understanding the Émigré Audience”
William Marshall ★ University of Stirling ★ “Connecting
Membranes of Local and Global: Robert Lepage’s Quebec
City Films”
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald ★ RMIT
University ★ “Grounded Cosmopolitanism and the Right to
the City: Children and Local Mobility in Film”
RESPONDENT Christoph Lindner ★ University of Amsterdam
James Hay ★ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ★
“The Birth of the ‘Neoliberal’ City and Its Media”
Transnational Architectures
CHAIR Gary McDonogh ★ Bryn Mawr College
Yifen Beus ★ Brigham Young University, Hawaii ★ “Constructing the Location of the Past:
Architectural Nostalgia and Nostalgic Architecture in Yacoubian Building”
Luis Urbano ★ University of Porto ★ “Silent Rupture, Space and Politics in Paulo Rocha’s
The Green Years and Alvaro Siza’s Earliest Work”
Daniel Bashara ★ Northwestern University ★ “Gerald
McBoing Boing Meets the Modernists: Architecture, Design,
and the Postwar American Cartoon”
Gary McDonogh ★ Bryn Mawr College ★ “Transforming the Banlieue: Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle,
Filmic Spaces, and the Cultural Geographies of Metropolitan Power”
2011 New Orleans
Deborah Jaramillo ★ Boston University ★ “Suburban Narcos: Border Violence, Cable TV, and the New Vision of the Mexican Drug Dealer”
B8 WORKSHOP
Towards an Urban Approach to Cinema and Media StudiesROOM Carrollton, Level One
CHAIR Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University
CO-CHAIR Brendan Kredell ★ Northwestern University
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Pamela Wojcik ★ University of Notre Dame
Mark Shiel ★ King’s College London
Erica Stein ★ University of Iowa
John David Rhodes ★ University of Sussex
Katherine Lawrie Van de Ven ★ University of California, Los Angeles
SPONSOR Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
E10 Shooting City Spaces
Location Filmmaking During the “Urban Crisis”
CHAIR Joshua Gleich ★ University of Texas, Austin
CO-CHAIR Jennifer Peterson ★ University of Colorado, Boulder
Erica Stein ★ University of Iowa ★ “Subverting Monumental Space: Shirley Clarke’s Appropriated New York Landmarks”
Joshua Gleich ★ University of Texas, Austin ★ “From Noir Night to Urban Blight: Shooting San Francisco in Experiment in Terror (1962) and Dirty Harry (1971)”
Joshua Kitching ★ Rice University ★ “The Pornography of Place: The Cultural and Cinematic Spaces of 1970s San Franciscan Hardcore”
Josh Glick ★ Yale University ★ “Filming Urban Roots: Wattstax, Black Identity, and the Cultural Geography of Los Angeles”
SPONSOR Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Matthew Fee ★ Ithaca College ★ “Celtic Tigers, Pink Panthers and Irish Cinema’s Queer Urban Sites”
Deniz Bayrakdar ★ Kadir Has University ★ “Shared Borders of Poverty and Hope: Cinematic Urbanism in Istanbul”
Aleksandra Kaminska ★ York University ★ “Site-Specificity in the Post-Socialist City: Ephemeral Urban Interventions in the Work of Polish Media Artists, Aleka Polis and Rafal Jakubowicz”
Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University ★ “Urban Attachments: Spectatorial and Social Contracts in René Allio’s Films”
Stacy Rusnak ★ Georgia State University ★ “Cinematic Tactility and Spectacle: Amores perros and the Dream of ‘Mobility’ in Mexico’s Urban Youth Culture”
Aubrey Anable ★ Hamilton College ★ “New Media/New Cities: The Interactive Urban Address and DIY Urban Planning”
K23 Mapping the Cinematic City
CHAIR Heidi Cooley ★ University of South Carolina
Adam Capitanio ★ Michigan State University ★ “Harry Bergman: Amateur Auteur of the Transforming Cityscape”
David Gray ★ University of California, Santa Barbara ★ “The Exiles, Angels Flight and Downtown Los Angeles’ Commemorative Spaces: A Walking Tour”
Katy Ralko ★ University of California, Los Angeles ★ “Cinematic Bunkers: A Changing Conception of Modern Military Urbanism in Gunner Palace”
Germaine Halegoua ★ University of Wisconsin, Madison ★ “The Urban Politics of Media Policy: Harnessing The Motor City as Media City”
L18 WORKSHOP
Urban Informatics, Geographic Data, and the Media of MappingROOM Evangeline, Level Two
CHAIR Shannon Mattern ★ The New School
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Germaine Halegoua ★ University of Wisconsin, Madison
Brendan Kredell ★ Northwestern University
Daniel Makagon ★ DePaul University
Jesse Shapins ★ Harvard University
Nicole Starosielski ★ University of California, Santa Barbara
SPONSOR Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Pamela Wojcik ★ University of Notre Dame ★ “Fantasies of Neglect: The Urban Child”
Nathan Holmes ★ University of Chicago ★ “The Parking Garage and the Shadowed Self: Urban Mobility and Isolation in Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy”
Merrill Schleier ★ University of the Pacific ★ “Alan Pakula’s The Parallax View (1974): Architectural Modernism and Public Violence”
A13 Treme’s Promise
The Authenticity and Potential of David Simon’s New Orleans
CHAIR Ethan Tussey ★ University of California, Santa Barbara
Justin Harlacher ★ York College of Pennsylvania ★ “Following The Wire: Audience Expectation and David Simon’s Treme”
Helen Morgan ★ University of Minnesota ★ “Producing the Creative City: Treme, Television Culture, and the Neoliberal Neighborhood”
Katie Moylan ★ National University of Ireland, Maynooth ★ “Negotiating Spatiality in Treme”
Ethan Tussey ★ University of California, Santa Barbara ★ “Wendell Pierce’s Treme: Displaying Authenticity in Television Paratexts”
SPONSOR Television and New Media Scholarly Interest Group
Kevin Sanson ★ University of Texas, Austin ★ “Slow Television’s Most Global City? The Pleasures of Place in HBO’s Treme”
Brenda Austin-Smith ★ University of Manitoba ★ “Who Knows the Occupied City? Spatial Practices in Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention”
ROOM Mercier Terrace, Level Fourteen
K23 Mapping the Cinematic City
CHAIR Heidi Cooley ★ University of South Carolina
Adam Capitanio ★ Michigan State University ★ “Harry Bergman: Amateur Auteur of the Transforming Cityscape”
David Gray ★ University of California, Santa Barbara ★ “The Exiles, Angels Flight and Downtown Los Angeles’ Commemorative Spaces: A Walking Tour”
Katy Ralko ★ University of California, Los Angeles ★ “Cinematic Bunkers: A Changing Conception of Modern Military Urbanism in Gunner Palace”
Germaine Halegoua ★ University of Wisconsin, Madison ★ “The Urban Politics of Media Policy: Harnessing The Motor City as Media City”
Aubrey Anable ★ Hamilton College ★ “New Media/New Cities: The Interactive Urban Address and DIY Urban Planning”
Stephen Babish ★ Northwestern University ★ “Maps of Power, Spaces of Control: Evaluating Postmodern Architecture as Mass Media in The Prisoner”
Maeve Connolly ★ Institute of Art, Design and Technology ★ “Media Citizenship, Television and the Contemporary Art Museum”
J16 Architectural Spaces
On and Off the Screen
CHAIR Jennifer Johung ★ University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Drew Ayers ★ Georgia State University ★ “The Prismatic Subjectivities and Material Imagination of Kieslowski’s Decalogue”
Richard Farmer ★ University College London ★ “The Dying of the Light: Cinemagoing and the Blackout in Britain During the Second World War”
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece ★ Northwestern University ★ “Film’s Endless Space: The Streamlined Movie Theatre, Spectatorship, and Modernist Architecture”
Amy Herzog ★ Queens College, City University of New York ★ “Visualizing the Virtual Citizen: Architectural Rendering Software, ‘Aspirational’ Aesthetics, and the Colonization of Public Space”
2012 Boston
Amy Herzog ★ Queens College, CUNY ★ “Renderings, Ruins, Rats: Architectural Planning, Digital Media, and the Territorialization of Urban Space”
B11 WO R K S H O P
Teaching the City
Pedagogical Issues in Urban Cinema and Media Studies
CHAIR: Brendan Kredell ★ University of Calgary
CO-CHAIR: Paula Massood ★ Brooklyn College, CUNY
Workshop Participants:
Amy Corbin ★ Muhlenberg College
Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University
Shannon Mattern ★ The New School
Mary N. Woods ★ Cornell University
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
I5 Cinematic Cities
Beyond the Metropolis
CHAIR: Lawrence Webb ★ King’s College London
Lawrence Webb ★ King’s College London ★ “Up in the Air: Post-crisis Hollywood and the City as Infrastructural Resource”
Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University ★ “Narrating the Center in the Peripheral City”
Arunima Paul ★ University of Southern California ★ “Another Countryside: New Dexterities in Bollywood’s Provincial Cop Film”
Donna Deville ★ Concordia University ★ “Blue Sunshine: A Case Study of Microcinema in Montreal”
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
J12 The Host City 1
Comparative Studies of Media Festivals and Urban Spaces
CHAIR: Michelle Stewart ★ SUNY, Purchase College
Roya Rastegar ★ University of California, Santa Cruz ★ “Arabian Nights – Competing Cinema in the Middle East”
Michelle Stewart ★ SUNY, Purchase College ★ “North African Screens: French-Maghrebi Film Exhibition in Marseille
Robert Peaslee ★ Texas Tech University ★ “‘Where Buzz Is Born’ vs. ‘Lubbock or Leave It’: A Tale of Two (Host) Cities”
Brendan Kredell ★ University of Calgary ★ “From City Branding to City Building: The International Film Festival as Urban Development Strategy”
SPONSORS: Film and Media Festivals Scholarly Interest Group Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Zeynep Yasar ★ Indiana University, Bloomington ★ “Moviegoing Meets Cultural Activism: Policy and Urban Space in the Case of Emek Movie Theater”
K10 East Asian Cinema, Urbanism, and Globalization
CHAIR: Doug Dibbern ★ Independent Scholar
Doug Dibbern ★ Independent Scholar ★ “Jia Zhang-ke and the Motifs of Travel and Performance: Globalization and the Aesthetics of the International Film Festival Circuit”
Jiwei Xiao ★ Fairfield University ★ “The Site of Memory: The Ruins in Jia Zhangke’s Films”
Julian Cornell ★ New York University ★ “Restructuring the Family Melodrama in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata”
Rahul Hamid ★ New York University ★ “Modernity and Moral Uncertainty in the Cinema of Lee Chang Dong”
K14 The Host City 2
Case Studies of Media Festivals and Urban Spaces
CHAIR: Robert Peaslee ★ Texas Tech University
RESPONDANT: Marijke de Valck ★ University of Amsterdam
Ran Ma ★ University of Hong Kong ★ “Celebrating the International, Disremembering Shanghai: The Curious Case of Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF)”
Ioana Uricaru ★ University of Southern California ★ “Outgrowing the Stereotype: Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj, Romania”
Iain Simons ★ Nottingham Trent University ★ “Games and the City”
SPONSORS: Film and Media Festivals Scholarly Interest Group and Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Pamela Wojcik ★ University of Notre Dame ★ “Acting Urban: Children, Performance, and Space”
Philippe Meers ★ University of Antwerp ★ Sofie Van Bauwel ★ Ghent University ★ and Kevin Smets ★ University of Antwerp ★ “Diaspora Cinemagoing and Urban Cultures: A Study on Turkish and Indian Film Audiences in Antwerp (Belgium)”
L17 WO R K S H O P
Bridging Disciplines in Media and Urban Studies
CHAIR: Joshua Gleich ★ University of Texas, Austin
Workshop Participants:
Mark Shiel ★ King’s College London
Merrill Schleier ★ University of the Pacific
Erica Stein ★ University of Arizona
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Vanessa Chang ★ Stanford University ★ “MUTO: Urban Space as Spectacular Encounter”
M14 The Place of the Festival and Its Impact on Local and Global Film and Media Arts Communities
CHAIR: Skadi Loist ★ University of Hamburg
Rob Drew ★ Saginaw Valley State University ★ “‘Hell’s Half Mile’: Media Festivals and Community—Renewal in the Post-industrial Heartland”
Vera Zambonelli ★ University of Hawai’i ★ and Katia Balassiano ★ Iowa State University ★ “The ARTS at Marks Garage”
Ratheesh Radhakrishnan ★ Rice University ★ “Zanussi’s Betrayal: Film Festival, Kerala, and the ‘International’”
Dorota Ostrowska ★ Birkbeck, University of London ★ “Non-Urban Film Festival Locations: Cinema’s Gardens of Eden”
SPONSORS: Film and Media Festivals Scholarly Interest Group and Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
R. Bruce Brasell ★ Independent Scholar ★ “Degeneracy, Urban Space, and Readership Taking a Walk on the Wild Side”
Aswin Punathambekar ★ University of Michigan ★ “Make Room for Television Comedy: Television and the Making of an Urban Middle Class in 1980s India”
Anuja Jain ★ New York University ★ “Love Sex Aur Dhoka: A Study of Urban Transformations, Media Ecologies, and ‘New’ Morphology of Bombay Cinema”
P19 Representing the Post-industrial City
Film, Television, and the Geography of Unproductive Urban Centers
CHAIR: Stanley Corkin ★ University of Cincinnati
Stanley Corkin ★ University of Cincinatti ★ “Free Markets, Free Drugs, and Post-industrial Baltimore in The Wire”
Nathan Holmes ★ University of Chicago ★ “Synthesizing the Post-industrial City: Location and Form in Detroit 9000 (1973)”
Mark Shiel ★ King’s College London ★ “Post-industrialism and the Cinematic Landscape of Los Angeles”
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Nathan Blake ★ University of California, Irvine ★ “The Sets of The Set-Up: Framing the Boxer’s Fight against Urban Corruption”
Michelle Kelley ★ New York University ★ “Visions of Equality: National Urban League Film Production After World War II”
S25 The Mediated City
CHAIR: James Deutsch ★ Smithsonian Institution
Ian Robinson ★ York University ★ “History, the Cinematic City, and the Politics of Place”
Nate Brennan ★ New York University ★ “Poison in the Melting Pot: Cinema, Protest, and Public Sphere in New York City, 1933–1941”
Eric Gordon ★ Emerson College ★ “Location Aware Media and the Production of Urban Places”
James Deutsch ★ Smithsonian Institution ★ “Split-Screen Beantown: The Fragmentation of Boston in 1968 Cinema”
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Cathy Hannabach ★ University of Pittsburgh ★ “Between Blood and the Bomb: Vampires and Atomic Cities in Todd Reeves’s Let Me In”
Q17 Postmodern Cities and Cinema
CHAIR: Gary McDonogh ★ Bryn Mawr College
Dennis Lo ★ University of California, Los Angeles ★ “Towards the Limits of the National: The Poetics of Traveling in Jia Zhangke’s Platform and Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Dust in the Wind”
Pamela Flores ★ University of the North, Colombia ★ “Representations of Bogota in Contemporary Cinema: The Unrevealed City of In-between Spaces”
Phoebe Bronstein ★ University of Oregon ★ “Dis/Locating New Orleans: Tourists Traps and Mapping Treme’s New Orleans”
Gary McDonogh ★ Bryn Mawr College ★ “Staging Chinatowns: Place, Visibility and Otherness in Contemporary European Film”
James Gilmore ★ University of California, Los Angeles ★ “Processing the Image Event: Scarred Cityscapes in Post-9/11 American Cinema”
Stephen Charbonneau ★ Florida Atlantic University ★ “Fogo in the City: The State, Participatory Experiments, and ‘Exercise in Democracy’”
Maria Vinogradova ★ New York University ★ “‘People’s Film Studios’ in Leningrad in the 1980s”
Heather Lee ★ Brown University ★ “Is This Chinese? Representations of Cultures in 1930s New York City Chinese Restaurants”
Chuong-Dai Vo ★ Massachusetts Institute of Technology ★ “Gendering the City and the Countryside in Vietnamese Cinema”
Catherine Martin ★ Boston University ★ “Re-imagining the City: Contained Criminality in The Radio Adventures of Sam Spade”
Claudia Calhoun ★ Yale University ★ “The Story You Are About to Hear Is True: Civic Architecture and Civic Instruction in Postwar Police Procedurals”
Isolde Vanhee ★ Sint-Lucas Visual Arts Ghent ★ “Staging the Family: An Analysis of the Domestic Architecture in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011)”
H21 Cinema, Architecture, Space
CHAIR: Lucy Fischer ★ University of Pittsburgh
Giuliana Bruno ★ Harvard University ★ “Surface Matters: The Architecture of the Screen”
Lucy Fischer ★ University of Pittsburgh ★ “Art Nouveau, Antonio Gaudi, and the Cinema”
Ranjani Mazumdar ★ Jawaharlal Nehru University ★ “Bombay’s Retro Imagination in Contemporary Cinema”
Maureen Turim ★ University of Florida ★ “Designs of Spaces One Survives with Difficulty”
SPONSOR: CinemArts: Film and Art History Scholarly Interest Group
R8 Inventing Hollywood
The Early Years of Motion-Picture Production and Promotion in Los Angeles
CHAIR: Luci Marzola ★ University of Southern California
CO-CHAIR: Charlie Keil ★ University of Toronto
Hilary Hallett ★ Columbia University ★ “A Star Is Born: Re- Reading Hollywood’s First Sex Scandal”
Brian Jacobson ★ Oklahoma State University ★ “Fantastic Functionality: Early Studio Architecture and Its Photographic Representations”
Denise McKenna ★ University of California, San Diego ★ “Respectability and the Civic Role of Celebrity”
Luci Marzola ★ University of Southern California ★ “Hollywood at the Fair: Promoting Los Angeles at the Motion Picture Industrial Exposition of 1923”
2013 Chicago
B3 Berlin Documentary Films
Chair: Katrina Sark ★ McGill University
Co ‑Chair: Susan Ingram ★ York University
Elke Grenzer ★ Culture of Cities Center ★ “Hysteron
Proteron: Schadt and Ruttmann’s Berlin: Die Sinfonie
der Grosstadt (2002, 1927)”
Christina Krenzle ★ York University ★ “Kids in the
Kiez: Hip Hop and the Reimagining of Urban Space in
Neukolln Unlimited”
Susan Ingram ★ York University ★ “Comrade Couture:
Fashion‑East’as Working through Their Past”
Katrina Sark ★ McGill University ★ “Nostalgia for
Babylon: Recent Berlin Documentary Films in Light of
Rapid Gentrification”
Sponsor: Documentary Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Oksana Chefranova ★ New York University ★ “The
Eloquent Surface: Iconography, Materiality, and
Performativity of the Screen in Evgenii Bauer’s Silent
Urban Melodrama”
Maria Corrigan ★ University of California,
Santa.Barbara ★ “City of Overcoats: The Eccentric
and the Grotesque in Early Leningrad Cinema”
Angelica Lawson ★ University of Minnesota , Twin Cities z
“Indigenous Activism and New Media: Urban
Communities, Shared Production”
Reem Hilu ★ Northwestern University ★ “Embodying
the Avatar: Transformative Play in Urban Games”
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Caucus/SIG Special Event
Public Media 2.0
A Conversation on the Future of Urban Documentary and Social Change
Jamie Henthorn ★ Old Dominion University z
“Rewriting Neighborhoods: Zombies, Run! and
Suburban Space”
E18 The Action Genre, Urban Space,
and Technologies of Vision
Chair: Lorrie Palmer ★ Indiana University
Catherine Zimmer ★ Pace University z
“Geosurveillance in Political Action‑Thrillers:
Targeting and the Global Subject”
Russell Meeuf ★ University of Idaho ★ “Thai Action
Spectacle: Vulnerable Bodies and Visual Technologies
in Chocolate (2008)”
Matthias Stork ★ University of California, Los.Angeles z
“Tech‑Wars: Mapping the Aesthetics of
Post‑Cinematic City Space in Action Films and Video
Games”
Lorrie Palmer ★ Indiana University ★ “Cranking it up
in the City: Hypermediation in Digital Action Cinema”
Sponsor: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
F24 Spaces of Childhood 2
Live Action Films
Chair: Pamela Wojcik ★ University of Notre Dame
John Bruns ★ College of Charleston z
“De‑Arrangements: Space and the Spielberg
Screen‑Child”
Kai‑man Chang ★ Tulane University ★ “New Portraits
of Sadness: Child Poverty and Abandonment in
Taiwan Cinema”
Steve Elworth ★ Independent Scholar ★ “Suzy,
Sammy, Hank, Benjamin, and Francoise: Music and
the Portrayal of the Space of Childhood and Gender in
Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom”
Pamela Wojcik ★ University of Notre Dame ★ “Shirley
Temple as Streetwalker: Urban Space and Childhood
in Depression Era Films”
G6 Filming Local Sites
and Global Cities
Investigating the Politics and
Aesthetics of the Location Shoot
Chair: Noelle Griffis ★ Indiana University
Dennis Lo ★ University of California, Los.Angeles z
“Taipei is My Home: Location (Pre)production as
Critical Ethnography in Taipei’s City Films”
Noelle Griffis ★ Indiana University ★ “Set in ‘the
Ghetto’: Hollywood Filmmaking in New York’s
African‑American Neighborhoods in the Late 1960s”
Linda Hutcheson ★ University of Stirling ★ “The
Tug of the Real: Glasgow, Advance Party, and the
Challenges of Location Shooting”
Malini Guha ★ Carleton University ★ “Global Kolkata
as Location in Contemporary Bengali Cinema”
Sponsors: Oscar Micheaux Sociey Scholarly Interest Group
and Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
H24 W o r k s h o p
From Chicago to L.A.
Research Paradigms for Cinematic Cities
Chair: Mark Shiel ★ King’s College London
Co ‑Chair: Brendan Kredell ★ University of Calgary
Workshop Pa rticipants
Richard Lloyd ★ Vanderbilt University
Judy Hoffman ★ University of Chicago
Jon Lewis ★ Oregon State University
Stanley Corkin ★ University of Cincinnati
Josh Glick ★ Yale University
Sponsor: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Leigh Duck ★ University of Mississippi ★ “The Archival
Image and the Black Urban ‘We’: From 12 Million
Black Voices to Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of
Black New Orleans”
Cara Caddoo ★ City University of New York, Graduate
Center ★ “The Church, the Hall, and the School: Film
Exhibition and Black Institutional Life during the Great
Urbanization, 1897–1910”
L5 Mapping Transitions
The History and Geography of Urban
Change in Cinema after WWII
Chair: Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University
Jon Lewis ★ Oregon State University ★ “Mapping the
Hollywood Transition, 1947–1962”
Martha Shearer ★ King’s College London ★ “‘Don’t You
Realize a Big City Like this Changes All the Time?’:
The Hollywood Musical and the Rise of Cold War
New York”
Mark Shiel ★ King’s College London ★ “Some
Unnatural Stillness: Los Angeles and Hollywood in
Transition in The Christian Licorice Store (1971) and
Play It As It Lays (1972)”
Sabine Haenni ★ Cornell University ★ “Urban
Transition in an Age of Globalization: The French and
American Crime Film Waves of the 1970s”
Sponsor: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
M6 “Hot‑Jazz in Stone”
The Urban Landscapes and
Soundscapes of Film Noir
Chair: Richard Ness ★ Western Illinois University
Michael Dwyer ★ Arcadia University ★ “It Takes the
Village: The Neighborhood outside Hitchcock’s Rear
Window”
Jans Wager ★ Utah Valley University ★ “From Paris
to Ishpeming: Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and the
Landscape of Noir”
Richard Ness ★ Western Illinois University ★ “Killer
Riffs: Music as Cultural Identifier in Contemporary
Neo‑Noir”
Michele Schreiber ★ Emory University ★ “David
Fincher1s San Francisco as Neo‑Noirscape”
Sponsor: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
N13 Spectatorship and
American Film History
Chair: E. Ann Kaplan ★ Stony Brook University
Marsha Gordon Orgeron ★ North Carolina State
University ★ “Going to the Show: 1930s Moviegoing
in Cleveland, Ohio”
Amanda Fleming ★ Indiana University ★ “In Search of
the Urban Child Spectator: ‘Children and Movies’ and
the Myth of the ‘Children’s Film’”
N15 Cityscape as Character
Remapping the Metropolis
within Globalism
Chair: Reena Dube ★ Indiana University of
Pennsylvania
Stanley Corkin ★ University of Cincinnati ★ “Corner
Boys and Stoop Boys: Education, Knowledge, and the
Neoliberal City in Season Four of The Wire”
Temenuga Trifonova ★ York University ★ “The
Franchise City Film”
Joseph Bender ★ Harvard University ★ “Insurgent
History in the Paris Suburbs: 93 la belle rebelle and
Rue des cites”
Reena Dube ★ Indiana University of Pennsylvania z
“Disembedded Gaze of Embedded Stories: The Global
Cityscape in Mumbai Dairies and Kahaani”
Sponsor: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
P21 W o r k s h o p
Non‑Theatrical Representations
of Urban Spaces
Chair: Martin Johnson ★ University of North
Carolina‑Chapel Hill
Workshop Pa rticipants
Cara Caddoo ★ Graduate Center, CUNY
Allyson Field ★ University of California, Los.Angeles
Doug Cunningham ★ Westminster College
Marsha Gordon Orgeron ★ North Carolina State
University
Joshua Gleich ★ University of Texas at Austin
Sponsors: Nontheatrical Film & Media
Scholarly Interest Group and Urban Studies
Scholarly Interest Group
24 At Home in the
Post‑industrial City?
Chair: Erica Stein ★ University of Arizona
Amy Corbin ★ Muhlenberg College ★ “Encounters and
Embeddedness: The Urban Cinema of Ramin Bahrani”
Brendan Kredell ★ University of Calgary ★ “‘First
World Problems’: Retrenchment and Revanchism in
the American Urban Cinema”
Erica Stein ★ University of Arizona ★ “Gangster
Vacation: Heterotopia, Tourism, and Violence In
Bruges”
Hye Jean Chung ★ Massachusetts Institute of
Technology ★ “Dismembered Bodies and Disjointed
Spaces in The Yellow Sea”
Sponsor: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Jedd Hakimi ★ University of Pittsburgh ★ “Visualizing
Urban Dystopia: The Legacy of Architectural
Modernism in Film and Video Games”
Q4 Film Festivals and Space
Cinema, City, Nation
Chair: Lindiwe Dovey ★ University of London
Gabriele Mueller ★ York University ★ “Redefining
the Autorenfilm?: The German Film Festival
Ludwigshafen—a National Auteur Film Festival in the
Age of Transnational and Industrial Filmmaking”
Murat Akser ★ Kadir Has University ★ “The Battle of
the Festival Cities: Political Economy of Turkish Film
Festivals”
Lesley‑Ann Dickson ★ University of Glasgow z
“Transformed and Embodied Spaces: A Qualitative
Look at Cross‑venue Experience during Glasgow Film
Festival”
Lindiwe Dovey ★ University of London ★ “From Town
to Township and Back: The Durban International Film
Festival”
Sponsor: Film & Media Festivals Scholarly Interest Group
Munib Rezaie ★ Georgia State University ★ “The New
Chinese Mainstream: Dayyan Eng and Ning Hao’s
Appeal for Young Urban Moviegoers in the People’s
Republic of China”
Laura Gutierrez ★ University of Arizona ★ “Living in
Cities of the Dead: Natalia Almada’s Documentaries”
Juan Pinon ★ New York University ★ “Forging a Hybrid
Televisual Latinidad: The Rise of the Network Cities
Media Production System”
Shannon Mattern ★ The New School ★ “Echoes and
Entanglements: A Sonic Archaeology of the City”
H18 Ordering Space in Cinema
Perspective from Art
History to Architecture
Chair: Yuriko Furuhata ★ McGill University
Mary Ann Doane ★ University of California, Berkeley z
“Tightrope or Center?: Theorizing Perspective in Art
History and Film Studies”
Yuriko Furuhata ★ McGill University ★ “From Space to
Environment: A Historical Convergence of Expanded
Cinema, Architecture, and the Security Industry”
Tess Takahashi ★ York University ★ “Mobile
Perspective in dOCUMENTA 13: Gallery, City,
Network”
Respondent: Marc Steinberg ★ Concordia University
Sponsor: CinemArts: Film & Art History
Scholarly Interest Group
Kristen Alfaro ★ Concordia University ★ “Experimental
Distribution and the Experimental Film Spaces of
1960s New York City”
Lauren DeCarvalho ★ Pennsylvania State University z
“Sex (and Survival) and the City: HBO’s Girls as
Post‑feminist/Post‑recession Text”
Randolph Jordan ★ Simon Fraser University z
“Hearing the Cinematic City: Location Film Sound and
Soundscape Research in Acoustic Ecology”
Philip Hallman ★ University of Michigan ★ “Mapping
the Motor City’s Cinemas”
Nate Brennan ★ New York University ★ “The Local
Film Sector: Audiences, Exhibitors and Critics in New
York City, One Week in July, 1934”
Laura Isabel Serna ★ University of Southern
California ★ “Social Science and the Racialization
of Mexican Youth Film Viewing in Los Angeles in the
1920s and 30s”
Lisa Rabin ★ George Mason University z
“Working‑Class Teenagers and the Social Content
Film: The Human Relations Film Series at Benjamin
Franklin High School, East Harlem, New York City,
1936–1955”
Kevin Sanson ★ University of California,
Santa.Barbara ★ “It’s a Different Kind of Place:
Global‑Local Production Cultures in an Entrepreneurial
City”
Annie Sullivan ★ Northwestern University z
“Detritus‑Detroit: The Politics of Cinematic Ruin
Gazing in the Motor(less)
Aarti Wani ★ Symbiosis COLLEGE ★ “The City and Its
Song: Love and Modernity in the Cinema of the
1950s”
R24 Cinematic City
Chair: Jehanne‑Marie Gavarini ★ University of
Massachusetts, Lowell
Steph Fuller ★ University of East Anglia ★ “‘The Most
Notorious Sucker‑Trap in the Western Hemisphere!’:
Deconstructing the Legend of Tijuana in The Tijuana
Story (1957)”
Alexandra Parker ★ University of the Witwatersrand z
“In/visible Space: Examining the Everyday (Real) and
Represented (in Film) Spaces of Johannesburg”
Jehanne‑Marie Gavarini ★ University of
Massachusetts, Lowell ★ “Refuge or Prison?:
Representation of the Cite in Adellatif Kechiche’s
L’Esquive”
Racquel Gonzales ★ University of California, Irvine z
“Between Film Noir and a Digital Space: Exploring
Narrative Architecture in L.A. Noire”
Shakti Jaising ★ Drew University z
“Camera‑mediated Flaneurie: Mumbai Diaries and the
Woman in the City”
L19 The Cinema as Geography
New Considerations for a Theory
of Moving Image Exhibition
Chair: Jennifer Wild ★ University of Chicago
Co ‑Chair: Eivind Rossaak ★ National Library of Norway
Dimitrios Latsis ★ University of Iowa ★ “Film
Diplomacy: Natural Landscape, the New Deal, and
Artistic Self‑Image of the US Abroad”
Eivind Rossaak ★ National Library of Norway z
“Exhibiting New Media”
Jon Inge Faldalen ★ University of Oslo z
“Imagenesis: Toward a Geography of Shadows and
Reflections on Fixed and Fluid Surfaces”
Jennifer Wild ★ University of Chicago z
“A Psychogeography of the Avant‑Garde: Paris and
Cinema in Four Places”
2014 Seattle
A20 WORKSHOP Film, Media, and the Right to the City
ROOM: Aspen ★ Second Floor
CHAIR: Erica Stein ★ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
WO R K S H O P PA R T I C I PA N T S
Mark Shiel ★ KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
Lawrence Webb ★ UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG
Laura Podalsky ★ OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Mona Damluji ★ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Jeffrey Hou ★ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
C2 Palimpsestic Cities
ROOM: Diamond B ★ First Floor, Lobby Level
CHAIR: Yomi Braester ★ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Hatim El Hibri ★ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ★ “The Before/ After Shot: Solidére’s Corporate Films and the Work of Images in Postwar Beirut”
Cortland Rankin ★ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ★ “Unstable Structures: Repurposing Urban Ruination in Postwar New York Cinema”
Andrew Opitz ★ HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ★ “Hawaiian Dreams: Representations of Hawai’i in HGTV’s Real Estate Porn”
Yomi Braester ★ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ★ “Palimpsest, Scroll, Screen: Cinematic Visualizations of Gentrified Beijing”
C15 Urban Traffic
Film, Motion, and the World City
ROOM: Seneca ★ Union Street Tower, Fourth Floor
CHAIR: Stanley Corkin ★ UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Kirk Boyle ★ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE ★ “David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis and the Metaphorical Resonance of Traffic in the Great Recession”
Jana Braziel ★ UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI ★ “Urban Traffic in Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2006)”
Stanley Corkin ★ UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI ★ “Social Mobility and Place in the ‘New’ Boston”
Celestino Deleyto ★ UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA ★ “Traffic in the Border City: Los Angeles in Crossing Over (2009)”
RESPONDENT: Mark Shiel ★ KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
F18 Documentary Sound and the Global City
ROOM: Juniper ★ Second Floor
CHAIR: Jennifer Fleeger ★ URSINUS COLLEGE
Rita Safariants ★ VASSAR COLLEGE ★ “The Gig Is in the Boiler Room: Filming Leningrad’s Rock-n-roll Counterculture”
Josh Glick ★ YALE UNIVERSITY ★ “The Renegade in the Network: Joe Saltzman, CBS, and Soundtrack Innovations”
Ashish Chadha ★ UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND ★ “Sound in the City: Experimental Documentaries of Films Division in India”
Noelle Griffis ★ INDIANA UNIVERSITY ★ “Telling It Like It Is: The Camera as Voice in AFI Supported Minority Youth Films of the 1960s”
SPONSORS: Documentary Studies, Sound Studies, and Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Groups
F19 Other Spaces
Experimental Film, Sexuality, and Urban Geographies
ROOM: Madrona ★ Second Floor
CHAIR: Amy Herzog ★ QUEENS COLLEGE, CUNY
Ara Osterweil ★ MCGILL UNIVERSITY ★ “City of Desire, City of Anger: Mapping Fireworks”
Juan Suarez ★ UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA ★ “Queer Space and Cultural Memory in Barbara Hammer”
Amy Herzog ★ QUEENS COLLEGE, CUNY ★ “Architectures of Exchange: Feminism, Public Space, and Expanded Cinema”
RESPONDENT: Elena Gorfinkel ★ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE
SPONSORS: Experimental Film & Media and Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Groups
G7 Real Estate as Crime
ROOM: Medina ★ Third Floor
CHAIR: Mario Trono ★ MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY
Jon Lewis ★ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY ★ “The Dahlia and Transition-era Hollywood: An Epigram on Transient Lives”
Mario Trono ★ MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY ★ “The Cinematic Space of Corporate Personhood”
Linda Liu ★ UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON ★ “Haunted without History: McMansions in the Paranormal Activity Franchise”
Erica Stein ★ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ★ “The Car Wash’s Dirty Secret: The Dual Space of the Criminal Front”
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Annie Sullivan ★ NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ★ “From Motown to Mediatown: Detroit 1–8–7 and the Politics of Urban Media Production”
Shanti Kumar ★ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ★ “Cinema, Immaterial Labor, and the Production of Mass Creativity in Urban India”
N13 The Big Sleepless in Seattle
Media Representations of Pacific Northwest Serial Killers
ROOM: Jefferson B ★ Union Street Tower, Fourth Floor
CHAIR: James Deutsch ★ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Thomas Doherty ★ BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ★ “Ted Bundy and the Rise of the Cinematic Sociopath”
James Deutsch ★ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ★ “Suburban Normalcy in Puget Sound: The Case of The Stepfather”
Adrienne Domasin ★ INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR ★ “Seattle’s Own: Hunting the Green River Killer in His Backyard”
RESPONDENT: Nancy Bartley ★ The Seattle Times
N15 Production Space and Manufactured Place in the Hollywood Studio System
ROOM: Seneca ★ Union Street Tower, Fourth Floor
CHAIR: Joshua Gleich ★ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Julie Turnock ★ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN ★ “Uninhibited, Thorough, and Wild Thinking: Reconsidering the Studio Era through Special Effects”
Joshua Gleich ★ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ★ “Fiscal Realism: Economies and Technologies of Location Shooting vs. Sound Stage Production in Postwar Hollywood”
Clifford Galiher ★ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ★ “Bringing Baby to the Screen: A Case Study of Visual Effects in a Screwball Comedy”
Christina Petersen ★ ECKERD COLLEGE ★ “‘And for a While I Could Not Enter, for the Way Was Barred to Me’: Gothic Space, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship in the Studio-era Classical Hollywood Narrative”
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
N22 The Experimental City
Urban Media and Social Movements in the Long 1960s
ROOM: Everett ★ Third Floor
CHAIR: Susan Lord ★ QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY
Joshua Malitsky ★ INDIANA UNIVERSITY ★ “Sara Gomez’s Encyclopedia Films and the Cuban Nonfiction Cinema Network, 1961–1963”
Susan Lord ★ QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY ★ “Transits of Experimental Ethnographies: Havana in the 1960s”
Jennifer Boles ★ INDIANA UNIVERSITY ★ “Sergio García, the Grupo Liberación, and Super 8 film in Mexico City, 1968–1972”
RESPONDENT: Tamara Falicov ★ UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Q22 Cinematic Spaces in the Urban Global South
ROOM: Everett ★ Third Floor
CHAIR: Leigh Duck ★ UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
Paulina Suarez-Hesketh ★ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ★ “Dancing Pictures, Mobile Publics (Mexico City, 1930s–1950s)”
Irene Rozsa ★ CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ★ “Havana’s 1950s Film Culture: Redrawing Topographies, Updating Chronologies”
Mary Woods ★ CORNELL UNIVERSITY ★ “Rights to the City in the Reel Streets of Contemporary Urban India”
RESPONDENT: Sabine Haenni ★ CORNELL UNIVERSITY
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
T12 WORKSHOP From Libraries to Labs
Spaces of Media Access, Making, and Learning
ROOM: Columbia ★ Union Street Tower, Fourth Floor
CHAIR: Shannon Mattern ★ THE NEW SCHOOL
WO R K S H O P PA R T I C I PA N T S
Anne Balsamo ★ THE NEW SCHOOL
Paulina Mickiewicz ★ MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Jentery Sayers ★ UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
Patrik Svensson ★ UMEA UNIVERSITY
SPONSOR: Urban Studies Scholarly Interest Group
R9 Film, Civic Activism, and Education
ROOM: Ravenna B ★ Third Floor
CHAIR: Zeynep Yasar ★ INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Hongwei Chen ★ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ★ “Mapping the Educational Dominant: Cinema’s Use-values between Shanghai and Nanjing in the 1930s”
David Scott Diffrient ★ COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ★ “From Johannesburg to Nürnberg: Global Cities, ‘Inhuman’ Pasts, and Human-rights Film Festivals”
Zeynep Yasar ★ INDIANA UNIVERSITY ★ “Gezi Park as Open-air Theater: Film Exhibition, Spectatorship, and Civic Activism in Istanbul”
SPONSORS: Middle East Caucus and Media Literacy + Pedagogical Outreach Scholarly Interest Group
Stuart Davis ★ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ★ “Following the Trail of the Political Blockbuster: Analyzing the Impact Networks of City of God (2002) and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) in Rio de Janeiro”
Chuck Maland ★ UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE ★ “Creating the City in City Lights (1931): A Reconstruction via Chaplin Studio Records”
Myles McNutt ★ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON ★ “Best Supporting City in a Drama Series?: Mapping the Meanings of Albuquerque in Breaking Bad”
Patrick Ellis ★ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ★ “‘A Seventeenth-century Google Earth?’: Modeling the City from Panstereorama to Early Film”
Jedd Hakimi ★ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ★ “Playing Los Angeles Itself: Experiencing the Virtual Metropolis of the City Symphony Film and the Open-world Video Game”
F7 Architectures of Moving-image Display
ROOM: Medina ★ Third Floor
CHAIR: Alla Gadassik ★ NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Swagato Chakravorty ★ YALE UNIVERSITY ★ “An Architecture of Phantasms: Screen, Space, Play”
Brian Jacobson ★ UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS ★ “Of Black Boxes and White Cubes; or, Film Architecture in the Gallery”
Alla Gadassik ★ NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ★ “Perceptual Cells: Modified Vision in the Work of James Turrell”
Ian Robinson ★ MCGILL UNIVERSITY ★ “ Space and Spectatorship in Immersive-participatory Cinema”
SPONSORS: CinemArts: Film & Art History and Experimental Film & Media Scholarly Interest Groups
Joshua Yumibe ★ MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ★ “The Glass Architecture: On Scheerbart and Cinematic Space”
Eric Schaefer ★ EMERSON COLLEGE ★ “Pornography Is Geography: Porn, Place, and the Historiography of Early Theatrical Hardcore”