UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
MORNING ACTIVITIES
9:00-9:30: Registration, Troy Smith Lecture Hall
9:30-10:30: OKFVSA business meeting in Troy Smith Lecture Hall
10:30-10:45: Morning Break
10:45-11:45: Keynote Address—Bruce Kawin (University of Colorado). Topic: “Film Studies: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”
12:00-1:00: Lunch (provided in the Business Administration Building conference room)
AFTERNOON PANEL SESSIONS
Session One: 1:00-2:45
Panel A, Room 112
Moderator: James Dolph
Jonathan Wooley (OSU): “Godzilla P.I.: An Exploration of the Noir Undertones of Godzilla Movies"
Jennifer Lamirand (OSU): “Baby Steps: Distraught Men and the Shirley Temple Fetish”
Christle Mullens (UCO): “Interpreting Photographs of Trauma”
Ryan Fletcher (UCO): “A New York Romance”
Panel B, Room 108
Moderator: Dr. Linda Steele
Jennie Poe (UCO): “Top Gun: A Semiotic Deconstruction of Homoerotic Representation"
Michele L. McArthur (UCO): “I see dead people...and you will too:” An Examination of Mise-en-Scène in The Sixth Sense”
Sarah Rolin (OU): “From Cauldron to Contamination: The Evolution of Zombie Films”
William Samuel Craig (OU): "The Gangs of New York”
Panel C, Room 205
Moderator: Dr. Kole Kleeman
Nathan Koob (OSU): “Mark My Words: The Rise of the Postmodern Con Artist Film”
Kimberly Tolson (OSU): “Can You Hear Me Now?: De-acousmatization of Intercom Voices”
James Cooper (OU): “On Hannibal”
Tanya Marie Miller (OU): “Wendy’s Neverland”
Session Two: 3:00-4:45
Panel D, Room 108
Moderator: Dr. Mary Brodnax
Christopher Adams (OSU): “The Way of the Bogart: The Role of the Samurai in Film Noir”
Sarah Munson (TCC): “The Contemporary Western as a Postmodern Morality Play"
Amber Sirmans (UCO): “Tao Is: Emerging Asian Philosophy in American Beauty and Fight Club"
Grant Wilson (OSU): “Dark Comedy Done Right: The Direct Application of Postmodern Play in the Trailers of Alfred Hitchcock”
Panel C, Room 205
Moderator: Dr. Kevin Hayes
Gi-Gwan Hing (OSU): “Dr. Mabuse’s Formulas for Film Noir: Mind Control and Femme Fatale”
Geoffrey Yetter (OU): “Das Kabinet du Monsieur Hulot: German Expressionist Influences on the World of Jacques Tati”
Colin Fleishacker (OSU): “Something’s Wrong with the Equipment: Godard’s Self-Reflexivity”
5:00: CONFERENCE ENDS
Please
feel free to contact conference organizer Dr. John Springer with any
questions: jpspringer@ucok.edu
