2006 Framework Conference -- November 3-4, Oklahoma State University
 
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES:
 
   D.N. Rodowick, Harvard University
        "An Elegy for Theory""
 
   Amy Villarejo, Cornell University,
          "Nineteenth Century Televison, or Philosophy on TV"
 

2006 Framework Conference Panels (in order of appearance)
 
THEORY AND HISTORICISM -- Chair: Hugh Manon
 
   Colin Burnett, University of Wisconsin, Madison
        "Zizek's Charge: The Wisconsin Project and the Problem of Historicism"
   Todd McGowan, University of Vermont
        "The Bad Conscience of Theory"
   Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University
        "From A to Anti: Rescuing Freud from the Buzzkill of History"
 
SUBJECTS AND SUBJECTIVITIES -- Chair: Drake Stutesman
 
   Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico      
        "Outcomes Analysis of Competitive Philosophical Approaches to
        Cinematic Subjectivity"
   Demetria Shabazz, Oklahoma State University
        "Getting it right, not too black, not too light: Spectatorship, the Male Gaze
        and the 'Problem People'"
   Ioana Uricaru, University of Southern California
        "Things to do with Theory"
 
LANGUAGE AND THE IMAGE -- Chair: Brian Price
 
   Tessa Dwyer, University of Melbourne
        "Theory Translated: A Cinema of Error"
   John David Rhodes, University of Sussex
        "From Description to Prescription: The Ekphrastic Imperative in Film Theory"
   Meghan Sutherland, Northwestern University
        "Figurative Language, Theory and Spectacle"
 
FRAMING HISTORY -- Chair: Shane Gilley
 
   Luisela Alvaray, University of New Mexico
        "The Theory and Politics of Writing History With Images"
   Anthony Enns, University of Iowa
        "Reading Nostalgia in Recent German Film"
   John Parris Springer, University of Central Oklahoma
        "Traditional Film Historiography and the 'New Film History': The Case
        of D.W. Griffith"
 
THEORY AND INTERNATIONAL CINEMA-- Chair: Robert Mayer
 
   Evans Chan, Northwestern University
        "The Chinese Action Image and Postmodernity"
   Angelo Restivo, Georgia State University
        "The 'Vabanque-spiel''of Cinema: Reading Deleuze with Benjamin"
   Stacy Kim Schmitt, Georgia State University
        "Post-Francoism, Postmodernism and the Death Drive: An Alternative Way
        of Configuring Spanish Cinema"
 
ILLUSION AND IMMEDIACY -- Chair: Brian Price
 
   Hugh Manon, Oklahoma State University
        "The Shine of Absences: Cuteness Culture and the Female Fetish"
   Nathalie op de Beeck, Illinois State University
        "Visceral Theory"
   Richard Rushton, Lancaster University
        "The Illusions of Film Theory"
 
CANONS -- Chair: John David Rhodes
 
   John Caughie, University of Glasgow
        "Authors and Auteurs: 'not in the days of miracles'"
   Philippe Gauthier, Université de Montréal
        "Writing a History of Alternation in the Cinema:A Theoretical Problem?"
 
CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE -- Chair: Meghan Sutherland
 
   Richard C. Cante, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
        "Traversing Textuality: Derrida, Zizek and New Forms of Moving-Image
        Critical Engagement"
   Michael Graziano, Northwestern University
        "Jabberwocky-Talkie, or The Manxome Technics of Global Capital"
   Joseph Kerr, Georgia State University
        "Badiou's Truth Event and Film Studies"
 
THEORY AND AESTHETICS -- Chair: Scott Krzych
 
   Simon Dixon, Montana State University
        "Difficult Pictures: Writing the Theory Film"
   Rosalind Galt, University of Iowa
        "Pretty, or the Problem of Aesthetics in Film Theory"
   Brian Price, Oklahoma State University
        "The Trail of the Figure"
 
HISTORY, THEORY, AND ETHICS -- Chair: Jason Landrum
 
   Scott Durham, Northwestern University
        "Virtuality, Memory and Historicity: The Politics of the Time-Image After Deleuze"
   Scott Krzych, Oklahoma State University
        "The Apocalypse Must Not Count, or the Fundamentals of Evental Prevention"
   Agustin Zarzosa, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
        "The Melodramatic Mode: History and Theory"

THEORETICAL INTERVENTIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE -- Chair: Stacy Takacs
 
   Robert Cavanagh, Northwestern University
        "Television and Memory-Image"
   Margo Miller, Northwestern University
        "Judy, Liza, Barbara, Bette, these are names I shan't forget: Queer Cultural
         Memory and the Politics of 'Zaps' on Post-network Television"
   Robin Woods, Ripon College
        "Game, Set, Match: Theory in the Worlds of Digital Gaming"
 

The 2006 Framework Conference has been made possible through
    the generous support of :
        The Oklahoma State University English Department
        The Oklahoma State University Screen Studies Program
        The Kirkpatrick Foundation
        The Fae Rawdon Norris Endowment for the Humanities

Framework, The Journal of Cinema and Media, is published bi-annually by
   Wayne State Univerity Press: www.frameworkonline.com