2007 World Picture Conference
Dates:26-27 Oct 2007
Locations:Oklahoma State University
Friday, 26 October, 2007
(Neutrality)
Brian Price (Chair)
Scott Durham
Northwestern University
“The ‘Will to Happiness’ in Postmodern Film: the Utopian Image Between Ethics and Politics”
Hugh Manon
Oklahoma State University
“The Ethics of Endurance in Cult Cinema”
Elena Oxman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Roland Barthes’s Neutral Cinema”
(Event)
Scott Krzych (Chair)
Jason Landrum
Southeastern Louisiana University
“What Would Jack Bauer Do?: The Ethics of Torture in 24”
Richard Pope
European Graduate School, Saas-Fee/York University
“Hostage to Fantasy: The Media and Its Audiences Pre- and Post-‘9/11’ and the ‘Problem People'”
(Bodies)
John David Rhodes (Chair)
Jane Elliott
University of York
“Sympathetic Magic: The Lord of the Rings, Biopolitics and Desire”
Abraham Geil
Duke University
“Is There an Ethics of Embodiment?”
Meghan Sutherland
Oklahoma State University
“The Spectacular and the Superficial”
(Disgust)
Michael Lawrence (Chair)
Martin Wallen
Oklahoma State University
“The Sinful Style of German Romantic Aesthetics”
Eugenie Brinkema,
Brown University
“Laura Dern’s Vomit, or Kant and Derrida in Oz”
Aaron Taylor
University of Lethbridge
“Dirty Pretty Things: Knowing and Judging in the Films of Stanley Kubrick”
(Technology)
Rich Cante (Chair)
Caetlin Benson-Allott
Cornell University
“‘I Castrated My Movie’: New Media, Censorship and and Y tu mamá también”
Grant David Bollmer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Psychotechnographism, or Media and Their Relation to the Unconscious”
Angelo Restivo
Georgia State University
“Giorgio Agamben’s Cellphone”
Raysh Weiss
University of Minnesota
“Death By Unnatural Causes: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Proletariat Radio”
(Auteurs)
Hugh Manon (Chair)
Paul Flaig
Cornell University
“Multitudinous Media: Altman, Negri, and the Comedy of Fortune”
Patrick Keating
Trinity University
“Nestor Almendros and the Ethics of Light”
Hilary Neroni
University of Vermont
“Theorizing the Female Auteur”
(Comfort)
Robert Mayer (Chair)
Linda Austin
Oklahoma State University
“Aesthetic Judgments, Picturesque Reversions: Nineteenth-century Prototypes”
John David Rhodes
University of Sussex
“Ethical Dwelling in 1945”
Genre
Jason Landrum (Chair)
Todd McGowan
University of Vermont
“No Time: The Ethics of Atemporal Narrative”
Larrie Dudenhoeffer
Kennesaw State University
“Casting Out the De(m)ontic”
Agustin Zarzoza
SUNY Purchase
“The Heiress and the Stoic Imagination”
(Justice)
Meghan Sutherland (Chair)
Robert Cavanagh
Northwestern University
“Media, Irony, and Justice”
Scott Krzych
Oklahoma State University
“The Politics of Disbelief”
Michael Lawrence
Middlesex University
“The Death of the Author and ‘Responsibility as a Survivor’:
The Ethics of Mourning in Atom Egoyan”
Brian Price
Oklahoma State University
“120 Days of R. Kelly”
(Keynote)
Joan Copjec
SUNY Buffalo
Lee Edelman
Tufts University