The 'Stars & Screen' Film & Media History Conference Shines at Rowan University! Thanks to everyone who came out to our wonderful event. Here's a nice article about our Stars & Screen Conference in Rowan
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Stars & Screen Conference Shines at Rowan University
The 'Stars & Screen' Film & Media History Conference Shines at Rowan University! Thanks to everyone who came out to our wonderful event. Here's a nice article about our Stars & Screen Conference in Rowan
University news:
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Thank You For a Wonderful Conference! ‘Stars & Screen,’ our Behind the Scenes story...
We would like to express our profound
thanks to everyone who came out and worked so hard to make our ‘Stars &
Screen’ Film & Media History Conference really terrific.
Much gratitude for your wonderful presentations, films and enthusiastic
reception to our symposium. Thank you for making it so special. We really appreciate all your fine
efforts. The Stars &
Screen conference was a great success! Many thanks for the outstanding responses
we received from those attending our conference. Much appreciated. We are gratified
that the many scholars, faculty, students, alumni, and parents who attended
were delighted with all the wonderful presentations at our Stars & Screen
conference.
Thank
you to everyone who generously donated their time and support to make the
‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference possible. Special
thanks, gratitude and much appreciation to the Rowan University
College of Communication and Creative Arts and the CCCA Deans office for generously supporting the Stars &
Screen Conference with a
CCCA STORI Grant to fund and enable this interdisciplinary event. Thank
you!
Rowan University will be hiring two Media Studies professors; please apply at the jobs.rowan.edu website. Here are a few highlights and photos of our event:
Rowan University will be hiring two Media Studies professors; please apply at the jobs.rowan.edu website. Here are a few highlights and photos of our event:
‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference | September 27-29, 2018 – Schedule
‘Stars and Screen’
Film and Media History Conference
September 27-29, 2018
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ
Conference CFP + Hotel Info
Film and Media History Conference
September 27-29, 2018
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ
Conference CFP + Hotel Info
Thursday, September 27, 3:30 pm – 6:15 pm
Keynote Speakers – Bozorth Auditorium
Keynote Speakers – Bozorth Auditorium
Thomas Schatz, University of Texas at Austin
“Film History, Industry, Genres”
“Film History, Industry, Genres”
Charles Maland, University of Tennessee
“Chaplin, the Tramp, and the Dynamics of an Evolving Star Image”
“Chaplin, the Tramp, and the Dynamics of an Evolving Star Image”
Matthew Bernstein, Emory University
“Columbia Pictures”
“Columbia Pictures”
Brian Neve, University
of Bath
“Stars, Gangsters, and Hot Air: Key Largo (1948) and Post-war Hollywood Politics”
“Stars, Gangsters, and Hot Air: Key Largo (1948) and Post-war Hollywood Politics”
Cynthia Baron, Bowling Green State University
“Stars and Performance”
“Stars and Performance”
Thursday, September 27, 6:30 pm
Stars & Screen Reception – Rowan Planetarium, Science Hall Atrium
Stars & Screen Reception – Rowan Planetarium, Science Hall Atrium
Thursday, September 27, 7 pm – Planetarium
Show – Rowan
Planetarium
Stars On Screen: Star Gazing – Amy Barraclough, Rowan University, Planetarium Director
Stars On Screen: Star Gazing – Amy Barraclough, Rowan University, Planetarium Director
Thursday, September 27,
7:30 pm – Interdisciplinary Session – Rowan
Planetarium
Stars & Screen: Moving Images of Science – Chair, John Gizis
Stars & Screen: Moving Images of Science – Chair, John Gizis
John
Gizis, University of Delaware
Emily Rice, American Museum of Natural History/College
of Staten Island
Casey Walker, University of Texas at Austin/StarDate
Jamie Holder, University of Delaware
Amy Barraclough, Rowan University, Planetarium Director
Stan Owocki, University of Delaware
Jamie Holder, University of Delaware
Amy Barraclough, Rowan University, Planetarium Director
Stan Owocki, University of Delaware
Thursday, September 27, 8 pm – Rowan Planetarium
Stars On Screen: Space, the Final Frontier
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Stars On Screen: Space, the Final Frontier
David Bianculli, Rowan University
“Star Trek Through the Ages: A Video Voyage of Shows and Spoofs”
“Star Trek Through the Ages: A Video Voyage of Shows and Spoofs”
Friday,
September 28, 9 am – 10:15 am
Panel
1A: Creating and Subverting Classic Hollywood
Star Personas – Bozorth 112
Chair, Katrina
Margolis
Seth
Majnoon,
The New School
“Hungry for Dracula: Bela Lugosi Versus the American Film Market”
“Hungry for Dracula: Bela Lugosi Versus the American Film Market”
Chad Newsom, Savannah College of Art and Design
“‘You’ll Never Be Jennifer Jones Again’: Jennifer Jones and Melodramatic Stardom”
Katrina Margolis, University of Texas at Austin
“Heartthrob to Louse: Reception and Adaptation of Performance in Sweet Smell of Success”
“Heartthrob to Louse: Reception and Adaptation of Performance in Sweet Smell of Success”
Panel
1B: Star Images of Blackness – Bozorth 107
Chair,
Michael Reinhard Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson
Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson, City University of New York
Queensborough, and Janice Kelly,
Molloy College
“The Shifting Landscape of Black Masculinity in Film From Jim Crow to Childish Gambino”
“The Shifting Landscape of Black Masculinity in Film From Jim Crow to Childish Gambino”
“Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Female Pop”
Panel
1C: Comedy and Romance Stars From Early Cinema to Television –
Bozorth 108
Chair,
Walter Metz
“Serialized Love in Early Cinema”
Garry Berman, Independent Scholar
“How New Mass Media Affected Comedy, From Silent Films to Television”
“How New Mass Media Affected Comedy, From Silent Films to Television”
Walter Metz, Southern
Illinois University Carbondale
“Inherit the Rom-Com: The Representation of the Supreme Court in First Monday in October”
“Inherit the Rom-Com: The Representation of the Supreme Court in First Monday in October”
Friday, September 28, 10:30 am – 11:45 am
Panel
2A: Wartime to Postwar Hollywood Stars, Casting
and Screen Techniques – Bozorth 112
Chair,
Sheri Chinen Biesen
Peter Lev, Towson University
“Casablanca and Casting”
“Casablanca and Casting”
Sheri Chinen Biesen, Rowan
University
“Women ‘Stars’ of Film Noir: On-Screen and Behind-the-Scenes in 1940s Hollywood”
“Women ‘Stars’ of Film Noir: On-Screen and Behind-the-Scenes in 1940s Hollywood”
Joshua Gleich, University of Arizona
“Editing and Location Shooting: The Incongruities of Continuity Editing in Post World War II Hollywood”
“Editing and Location Shooting: The Incongruities of Continuity Editing in Post World War II Hollywood”
Panel 2B: Constructions of Star Ethnicity
and National Identity –
Bozorth 107
Chair,Amanda McMenamin Megan Hermida Lu
Chair,
Matthew Douthitt, Rowan
University
“Fu Machu: Asian Evil and Body Horror”
“Fu Machu: Asian Evil and Body Horror”
Megan Hermida Lu, Boston
University
“The American Butterfly On Screen”
“The American Butterfly On Screen”
“The Star Symbolizing a Nation: Alfredo Castro in the Synecdochic Series of Chilean Cineaste Pablo Larraín”
Panel
2C: Creating Stars in the Digital Era – Bozorth 108
Chair,
Andrea Comiskey
Andrea Comiskey, Franklin & Marshall College, and
Luke Rosica, Independent
Scholar
“Focalization, Frequency, and Seriality in the App and Miniseries Versions of Mosaic”
“Focalization, Frequency, and Seriality in the App and Miniseries Versions of Mosaic”
Joshua Bastian Cole and Katherine
Thorsteinson,
Cornell University
“A Star Falls Down to Earth: The Alien and The Ordinary in Under the Skin”
“A Star Falls Down to Earth: The Alien and The Ordinary in Under the Skin”
Michael Morgan, New York City College of Technology
(CUNY)
“Artisanal Filmmaking and Performed Authorship Within Digital Cinema: The Intimate Presence of Lars Von Trier”
“Artisanal Filmmaking and Performed Authorship Within Digital Cinema: The Intimate Presence of Lars Von Trier”
Lunch Break - Friday,
September 28, 11:45 am – 12:15 pm
Friday, September 28, 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Panel 3A: Starring Roles, Small-Parts,
and Promotional Images: War and Postwar Visibilities of Hollywood Performers – Bozorth 112 – Co-Chairs,
Will Scheibel and
Shelley Stamp
Will Scheibel, Syracuse University
“Gene Tierney Before Laura: Female Stardom and Hollywood’s Homefront During World War II”
“Gene Tierney Before Laura: Female Stardom and Hollywood’s Homefront During World War II”
Charlene Regester, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Criminalizing Whiteness Through the Appropriation of Blackness: Sam McDaniel as a Signifier of Blackness in Double Indemnity (1944)”
“Criminalizing Whiteness Through the Appropriation of Blackness: Sam McDaniel as a Signifier of Blackness in Double Indemnity (1944)”
Shelley Stamp, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Noir’s Tough Guys and their Female Fans”
“Noir’s Tough Guys and their Female Fans”
Panel 3B: Casting and Constructions of
Stardom – Bozorth 107
Chair, Casey Walker
Chair, Casey Walker
Seda Öz, University
of Delaware
“Spatial Identities: Urban City as the Modern Anti-Hero in Public Enemy and Scarface”
“Spatial Identities: Urban City as the Modern Anti-Hero in Public Enemy and Scarface”
Linn Lönroth, Stockholm University
“‘Picture Stealers’ - The Reception of Hollywood Character Actors, ca. 1920-1950”
“‘Picture Stealers’ - The Reception of Hollywood Character Actors, ca. 1920-1950”
Casey Walker, University of Texas at Austin
“Hollywood’s Trouble with Casting Double”
“Hollywood’s Trouble with Casting Double”
Panel 3C: Women Filmmakers Behind the Scenes and On Screen – Bozorth
108
Chair, Kimberly Selinske
Chair, Kimberly Selinske
Kimberly Selinske, Colorado State University
“Behind the Screen: The Women of Walt Disney Productions (1923-1964)”
“Behind the Screen: The Women of Walt Disney Productions (1923-1964)”
“Interior and Exterior Reflections of Self-Identity in Vivre se vie and Cléo de 5 à 7”
Friday, September 28, 1:45 pm – 3 pm
Panel 4A: Performing Sound, Music, Vocals
and Stardom – Bozorth 112
Chair, Kyle Barnett
Chair, Kyle Barnett
Kyle Barnett, Bellarmine University
“Screen Stars at 78rpm: Fandom, Media and Material Culture, 1910-1930”
“Screen Stars at 78rpm: Fandom, Media and Material Culture, 1910-1930”
Landon Palmer, University of Tampa
“Who’s That Girl: Madonna at the Beginning and the End of Hollywood Screen Stardom”
“Who’s That Girl: Madonna at the Beginning and the End of Hollywood Screen Stardom”
Colleen Montgomery, Rowan
University
“Stars and the Animated Screen”
“Stars and the Animated Screen”
Panel 4B: Creating and Envisioning Stars
From DeMille to Nancy Drew – Bozorth 107
Chair, David Blanke
Chair, David Blanke
David Blanke, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
“From Stock Company to Stardom: Women and Women’s Portrayals in Cecil B. DeMille’s Western Melodramas, 1914-1947”
“From Stock Company to Stardom: Women and Women’s Portrayals in Cecil B. DeMille’s Western Melodramas, 1914-1947”
Dorian Bowen, Living Computers: Museum + Labs
“Elegant Visionary: The Multimedia Legacy of Robert Montgomery”
“Elegant Visionary: The Multimedia Legacy of Robert Montgomery”
Matthias Smith, Columbus State University
“The Mystery of the Red Tape: A Study of Nancy Drew in Film and Television”
“The Mystery of the Red Tape: A Study of Nancy Drew in Film and Television”
Panel 4C: ‘Star’ Auteur Techniques From
Welles to Hitchcock –
Bozorth 108
Chair, Brennan Thomas
Chair, Brennan Thomas
Reena Dube, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“(Dis)Locating Maternal Anxieties: Women in Orson Welles’ noir films Lady from Shanghai (1948) and Touch of Evil (1958)”
“(Dis)Locating Maternal Anxieties: Women in Orson Welles’ noir films Lady from Shanghai (1948) and Touch of Evil (1958)”
Bruce Merrill, Independent Scholar
“Welles’ Alteration of the Climax of Citizen Kane”
“Welles’ Alteration of the Climax of Citizen Kane”
Brennan Thomas, Saint Francis University
“‘Undertook Rope as a Stunt’: Revisiting the Aesthetic and Voyeuristic Appeals of Hitchcock’s First Technicolor Film”
“‘Undertook Rope as a Stunt’: Revisiting the Aesthetic and Voyeuristic Appeals of Hitchcock’s First Technicolor Film”
Friday, September 28, 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Panel 5A: Transnational Auteurs, Brands and Archival
History – Bozorth 112
Chair, Joseph Bierman
Chair, Joseph Bierman
Joseph Bierman, Rowan
University
“The Dangers of Losing One’s Accent: Irish Filmmaker Jim Sheridan’s recent films In America”
Derek Long, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign “The Dangers of Losing One’s Accent: Irish Filmmaker Jim Sheridan’s recent films In America”
“The Star Series: Negotiating Stars as Brands in Early Hollywood Distribution”
Luci A Marzola, Chapman University/Media History Digital Library
“‘Every Issue a Collector’s Item’: Hollywood Studio Magazine and the Valley of Nostalgia”
“‘Every Issue a Collector’s Item’: Hollywood Studio Magazine and the Valley of Nostalgia”
Panel 5B: International Cinema – Bozorth 107
Chair, Naghmeh Rezaie
Chair, Naghmeh Rezaie
Tania Ahmadi, Columbia University
“International Cinema: Shahla Riahi, Iran’s First Female Director”
“International Cinema: Shahla Riahi, Iran’s First Female Director”
Naghmeh Rezaie, University of Delaware
“From Herzog to Hamoun: An Evolutionary Cross-Cultural Journey”
“From Herzog to Hamoun: An Evolutionary Cross-Cultural Journey”
Panel
5C: Musical Stars and Auteurs –
Bozorth 108
Chair, Dennis Bingham
Chair, Dennis Bingham
Peter M. Catapano, New York City College of Technology
“Nostalgia for Entertainment: Singin’ in the Rain and Film History”
Dennis Bingham, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
“Stars and Auteurs in the Hollywood Renaissance: The Case of Bob Fosse”
“Nostalgia for Entertainment: Singin’ in the Rain and Film History”
Dennis Bingham, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
“Stars and Auteurs in the Hollywood Renaissance: The Case of Bob Fosse”
Joseph Giunta, Independent Scholar
“A Musical at the Margins: La La Land and Damien Chazelle’s Postmodern Stars”
“A Musical at the Margins: La La Land and Damien Chazelle’s Postmodern Stars”
Friday, September 28, 4:45 pm – 6 pm
Panel 6A: Stardom in Transitional Moments
in Hollywood – Bozorth 112
Chair, Emily Carman
Chair, Emily Carman
Kristen Hatch, University of California, Irvine
“‘A Waltz Girl in a Jazz Age’: Janet Gaynor and the Transition to Sound”
“‘A Waltz Girl in a Jazz Age’: Janet Gaynor and the Transition to Sound”
Keri Walsh, Fordham University
“Shelley Winters, 1955-1965: Feminist Method Actor as Star?”
“Shelley Winters, 1955-1965: Feminist Method Actor as Star?”
Emily Carman, Chapman University
“The Misfits: A Requiem for Classical Hollywood”
“The Misfits: A Requiem for Classical Hollywood”
Panel 6B: Women Stars and Female Labor From the Silent Era and Beyond
– Bozorth 107
Chair, Denise Mok
Chair, Denise Mok
Denise Mok, University of Toronto
“Marion Davies’s Stardoms: Showgirl to Screwball Star”
“Marion Davies’s Stardoms: Showgirl to Screwball Star”
Zach Jansen, National University
“From Lois Weber to the 21st Century: 100 Years of the New Woman, the Feminine Mystique, and Third-Wave Feminism”
“From Lois Weber to the 21st Century: 100 Years of the New Woman, the Feminine Mystique, and Third-Wave Feminism”
Panel 6C: Challenging
Assumptions About Stardom in the 21st Century – Bozorth 108
Chair, Daniel Smith-Rowsey
Chair, Daniel Smith-Rowsey
Daniel Smith-Rowsey, St. Mary’s College
“Unpacking the Casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man”
“Unpacking the Casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man”
Amy Cook, Stony Brook University
“Building Character and Counter Casting”
“Building Character and Counter Casting”
Edward O’Neill, Independent Scholar
“Is Stardom Still Classical? Stardom and Notoriety in the Age of Pornography and the Reality TV President”
“Is Stardom Still Classical? Stardom and Notoriety in the Age of Pornography and the Reality TV President”
Dinner Break – Friday, September 28, 6 pm – 6:30 pm
Friday, September 28, 6:30 pm
Film Screening: L’échappée
(2016) and Quest (2017) –
Bozorth Auditorium
Moderator, Joseph Bierman hosts Q&A Discussion with Rowan University Filmmakers:
Moderator, Joseph Bierman hosts Q&A Discussion with Rowan University Filmmakers:
Jonathan Olshefski, Director, Quest
Jonathan Mason, Director, L’échappée
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Saturday, September 29, 9 am – 10:15 am
Panel 7A: Film and Television History and the Hollywood Blacklist – Bozorth
112
Chair, Brian Neve
Chair, Brian Neve
Judith E. Smith, University of Massachusetts Boston
“What Happened to Lydia Bailey (1952): White Adventure, the Haitian Revolution and the Hollywood Blacklist”
“What Happened to Lydia Bailey (1952): White Adventure, the Haitian Revolution and the Hollywood Blacklist”
David Bushman, The Paley Center for Media
“Television and the Blacklist: Charles Russell, Unknown Soldier”
“Television and the Blacklist: Charles Russell, Unknown Soldier”
Paul Monticone, Rowan University
“Win with Willkie: The 1941 Propaganda Hearings and the Hays Office”
“Win with Willkie: The 1941 Propaganda Hearings and the Hays Office”
Panel 7B: Reimagining Women Stars, and Star Wars – Bozorth
108
Chair, Flavia Soubiran
Chair, Flavia Soubiran
Sonia Brand-Fisher, Columbia University
“Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce: What Mary Pickford and Reese Witherspoon Reveal about the Shifting Functions of the Female Film Star”
“Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce: What Mary Pickford and Reese Witherspoon Reveal about the Shifting Functions of the Female Film Star”
Flavia Soubiran, University of Montreal
“Falling Stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age: A Study on the Aging Star from the 50’s until today”
“Falling Stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age: A Study on the Aging Star from the 50’s until today”
Blue Profitt, Bowling Green State University
“In Luke More Than Luke: Incestuous Narcissism and Congenital Morality in the Star Wars Saga”
“In Luke More Than Luke: Incestuous Narcissism and Congenital Morality in the Star Wars Saga”
Saturday, September 29, 10:30 am – 11:45 am
Panel 8A: Neo-Noir Aesthetics and Technology – Bozorth 112
Chair, John Powers
Chair, John Powers
John Powers, Washington University in St. Louis
“A Lab of One’s Own: Experimental Filmmakers in the Commercial Film Laboratory, 1960-80”
“A Lab of One’s Own: Experimental Filmmakers in the Commercial Film Laboratory, 1960-80”
Daniel Carrigy, Macquarie University
“Manifest Desire: Pseudo-Stars and the Fifties Frontier in L.A. Confidential”
Alex Geffard and Drew Kopp, Rowan University
“‘You see, I have this condition’: Memento’s Leonard Shelby as Archetypal Binge Watcher”
“Manifest Desire: Pseudo-Stars and the Fifties Frontier in L.A. Confidential”
Alex Geffard and Drew Kopp, Rowan University
“‘You see, I have this condition’: Memento’s Leonard Shelby as Archetypal Binge Watcher”
Panel
8B: Filmmakers and Filmmaking Perspectives –
Bozorth 108
Chair, Diana Nicolae
Chair, Diana Nicolae
Diana Nicolae, Rowan University
“One Mother’s Fire: The Gail Minger Story/Red Darkness before Dawn
use of recreations and creative B-roll in the documentary process”
“One Mother’s Fire: The Gail Minger Story/Red Darkness before Dawn
use of recreations and creative B-roll in the documentary process”
Maaman Rezaeetazangi, Rowan University
“Making Family of Too Many”
“Making Family of Too Many”
Keir Politz, Rowan University
“Making Entropia”
“Making Entropia”
Thank
you to everyone who generously donated their time and support to make the
‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference possible. Special
thanks, gratitude and much appreciation to the Rowan University
College of Communication and Creative Arts and the CCCA Deans office for generously supporting the Stars &
Screen Conference with a
CCCA STORI Grant to fund and enable this interdisciplinary event. Thank
you!
Organizer and Conference Chair:
Sheri Chinen Biesen, Rowan
University
Program
Committee:
Sheri
Chinen Biesen (chair), Rowan
University
Steven Carr, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
John Gizis, University of Delaware
Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Organizing
Committee:
Sheri
Chinen Biesen (chair), Rowan University
Joseph
Bierman, Rowan
University
Keith
Brand, Rowan University
John Gizis, University of Delaware
Colleen
Montgomery,
Rowan University
Advisory
Board:
Sheri
Chinen Biesen (chair), Rowan University
Cynthia
Baron, Bowling Green State University
Matthew
Bernstein, Emory University
Joseph
Bierman, Rowan
University
Steven Carr, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Nicholas
Cull, University of Southern California
John Gizis, University of Delaware
Charles
Maland, University of Tennessee
Walter
Metz, Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Colleen
Montgomery,
Rowan University
Brian
Neve, University of Bath
Thomas Schatz,
University of Texas at Austin
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