Free Public Events for the Console-ing Passions 2008 Conference
April 24-26, 2008, download the public events program here.

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Videotheque Program

These works will be featured, looping in UCEN Mission Room, throughout all
sessions Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. See descriptions at the end of the
program.

* N.U.D.E. (3 mins, dir. Carolina Larrain, NYU)

* ET/Then You will not have Love (2 mins, dir. Gloria Shin, USC)

* True Blue (Julie/Kirsten) (4 mins, dir. Hye Jean Chung, Tina Grapenthin,
Jeff Scheible, and Sheritalyn Solis, UC Santa Barbara)

* Moth to Light (10 mins, dir. Elizabeth Strickler, Georgia State University)

* Turning a Corner (59 mins, dir. Salome Chasnoff, Beyondmedia)

There will be a special 3-D screening on Saturday in the UCEN Multicultural Center Theater at 12 noon:

Charming Augustine (40 mins, dir. Zoe Beloff, Queen's College, CUNY)

Thursday, April 24

8:30 – 10:30am REGISTRATION – Corwin Pavilion

10:00am – 5:00pm PUBLISHERS EXHIBIT – Corwin Pavilion

10:30am – 12:00pm SESSION 1

1. Hee Hee Hee: TV Comedy – Lobero Room
Chair: Laura Christian, UC Santa Cruz

Laura Christian, UC Santa Cruz, “Showbiz and the Limits of Self-Reflexivity: Tina Fey’s 30 Rock”

Joanne Morreale, Northeastern Univ., “The Comeback and the Plight of the Female Comic”

Amy Shore, SUNY Oswego, “‘That’s What She Said’: Mapping Urban Economies through Gender and Sexuality in The Office”

Racquel Gates, Northwestern Univ., “Whitley/Dwayne/Kinu: Crossracial Performance and Racial Triangulation in A Different World”

2. Empowering Media for Girls and Women – State Street Room
Chair: France Winddance Twine, UC Santa Barbara

Lynn Comella, Univ. of Nevada-Las Vegas, “Porn with a Mission: Good Vibrations’ Sex Positive Productions”

Susan Driver, York Univ., “Feminist Porn Generation: Visualizing Intelligent and Sexually Desiring Girls”

Kirsten Pike, Northwestern Univ., “Girls in Revolt!: Feminist Liberation Discourses in ABC After School Specials, 1972-1977”

Brenda Weber, Indiana University, “Representing for the Sisters: Politics and Protest through Lipo and Lipstick”

3. News, Gender, and Social Issues – Flying A Studio Room
Chair: Mick Broderick, Murdoch University

Ian Reilly, Univ. of Guelph, “Invisible Women?: Mapping the Female in Fake News”

Kimberly Meltzer, Lehigh University, “Personifying the ‘Shared Wiewer Fantasy’: Gender and the Selection and Promotion of U.S. Network Television News Anchors, 1950 – 2007”

Jennifer Clark, USC, “1970s TV News and the Spectacle of Gender: The Rise and Fall of the Female ‘Newsman’”

Chris Dzialo, UC Santa Barbara, “Abortion is Quite Boring, Apparently: Reproductive Choice, Narrative Demands, and Women’s Bodies on U.S. Television”

4. Pornography from Gonzo to Hardcore – Harbor Room Chair: Celine Parreñas Shimizu, UC Santa Barbara

Leigh Goldstein, UT-Austin, “Scrunchies, Braces, and Throat Fucking: Performances of Girlhood in Gonzo Porn”

Aimee-Marie Dorsten, Wilson College, “Vietnam’s Political Economy: the VNCP Goes ‘Hard Core’ for Entrepreneurial Pornography”

Naima Lowe, Independent scholar/artist, “Pushing Porno’s Buttons: Spectator Pleasures in Hard-Core Narrative Pornography”

Ingrid Ryberg, Stockholm University, “Pornography and Embodied Identity Politics”

5. Lifestyle Media – Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Jane Feuer, University of Pittsburgh

Madeleine Shufeldt Esch, Univ. of Colorado, “Renovating the Audience: Shifting Gendered Address in Home Improvement Lifestyle Television”

Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood, Goldsmith’s Univ. of London, “‘It’s Just Sad: Affect, Judgment, and the Emotional Labor of Reality TV Viewing”

Ariel Schudson, Independent scholar, “The New Lydia: From Sideshow Queen to Living Room Screen”

12:00 – 1:30pm LUNCH (on your own)

1:30 – 3:00pm SESSION 2

1. Teaching, Technology, and Intimacy – Lobero Room
Chair: Janet Walker, UC Santa Barbara

Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder, Wake Forest Univ. and Marist College, “Teachers on Television: The First Fifty Years”

Mobina Hashmi, Brooklyn College, “Learning to be a Normal Girl: The Technology of Gender on My Life as a Teenage Robot”

Susanna Paasonen, Univ. of Helsinki, “The Beast Within: Animals as Intimate Others in Online Pornography”

2. Queer Pleasures and Violations in Fiction and Non-Fiction TV – Harbor Room
Chair: Julia Himberg, USC

Deborah E. R. Hanan, USC, “Harvesting Transgressive, Normative, and Bourgeois Pleasures in Showtime’s The L-Word”

Marusya Bociurkiw, Ryerson Univ., “Sexy, Racy: Discourses of Race and Passing on The L Word”

Eve Ng, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst, “Violation Narratives of Queer Female Characters”

Julia Himberg, USC, “Performing Cultural Citizenship”

3. Prime Time and “Quality” TV – Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College

Natasha Ali, San Diego State Univ., “Why Brothers and Sisters is More than Just Another Primetime Drama”

Linda Beail, Point Loma Nazarene Univ., “Sex and the Suburbs: Women’s Prime-Time Television Dramas and Third Wave Feminism”

Drew Beard, Univ. of Oregon, “Living Dangerously: Revisiting the Female Antagonist of the Prime Time Soap Opera”

Justin Rawlins, Indiana University Bloomington, “Gilmore-isms, Cultural Capital, and a Different Kind of ‘Quality’ TV”

4. Intimate Ethical Mediations – Flying A Studio Room
Chair: David Crane, UC Santa Cruz

David Crane, UC Santa Cruz, “Proper Closeness?: Intimations of Communications”

Aniko Imre, USC, “National Intimacy: Social Networking Sites and Post- Socialist Public Culture”

Theresa M. Senft, University of East London, “Familiar Strangers, Strange Familiarities, or Intimacy and Ethics: On the Web and off It”

5. Mediating the Family – State Street Room
Chair: Soumitree Gupta, Syracuse Univ.

Carrie Anne Platt, USC, “Family Values 2.0: The Pedagogical Function of New Media in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate”

Lisa Schmidt, UT-Austin, “The Family that Slays Together Stays Together: The Horrific Melodrama of Television’s Supernatural”

Cary Jones, Northwestern University, “California Lifestyles of the Rich and Normal: An American Family”

Soumitree Gupta, Syracuse Univ., “Representing the Family: Home, Nation, and Identity in Sandhya Suri’s I for India”

Break 3:00 – 3:15pm

3:15 – 4:45pm SESSION 3

1. Gender and Marketing in the Post-Network Era – Harbor Room
Chair: Denise Mann, UCLA

Amanda Klein, East Carolina Univ., “Postmodern Marketing: Generation Y and the Multi-Platform Viewing Experience of MTV’s The Hills”

Elizabeth Affuso, USC, “‘Don’t Just Watch It, Live It’: Technology, Corporate Partnerships and The Hills”

Kristen Warner, UT-Austin, “Gold Grills are the New Diamond Rings: Flavor of Love as the Anti- Bachelor, Anti-Network Show”

Denise Mann, UCLA, “Push-Pull Media and Pushing Daisies: The Gender Politics of Post-Network TV”

2. Spiritual, Charitable, Diplomatic, and Heroic TV – Flying A Studio Room
Chair: Heather Osborne-Thompson, Cal State Fullerton

Jen Seifert, Univ. of South Australia, “‘Poetry with your Coffee?’: Seeking the Spiritual Narrative in the Gilmore Girls”

Heather Osborne-Thompson, Cal State Fullerton, “Wombs for Rent in India: Oprah, ‘Soft’ Journalism, and Cultural Diplomacy”

Maria San Filippo, UCLA, “Cockswinging and Ballbusting: Rescue Me and the Resurrection of American Heteromasculinity”

3. “The Only Differences Between the Two Genders are Cosmetic”: Gaming and Gender – Lobero Room
Chair: Carol Stabile, UW-Milwaukee

Sarah Mick, UW-Milwaukee, “Women in Charge: Female Guild Leaders in World of Warcraft”

Sean Quast, UW-Milwaukee, “Twinks: Cross-dress for Success?”

Mara Williams, UW-Milwaukee, “Mr. Horde Universe: Beauty, Superficiality, and Femininity in WoW’s Male Blood Elves”

Nina B. Huntemann, Suffolk Univ., “Desperate Widows: An Exploration of the Avid Gamer’s ‘Other Half’”

4. Racializing Media Matters – Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Imani Cheers, Howard Univ.

Linda Steiner, Univ. of Maryland, “’Nappy-Headed Hos:’ Was this Sexist as well as Racist?”

Imani Cheers, Howard Univ., “‘Who You Calling a Bitch?’: Black Women’s Complicity and Production of Mass Media Hip Hop Misogyny”

Jon Nelson Wagner, Cal Arts/USC and Tracy Biga MacLean, Claremont Colleges, “Noir Fatal: Blackness as Authenticity”

Elizabeth Ault, Univ. of Minnesota, “Nightmares of Neoliberalism: Performing Racialized Failure on Hell Date”

5. Online Political Culture and Mediated Elections – State Street Room
Chair: Megan Boler, Univ. of Toronto

David Gurney, Northwestern Univ., “‘I’m Voting for the One Who Will Love Me Best’: Virality, Sexual Desire, and Humor in Internet Political Response”

Ethan Tussey, UC Santa Barbara, “Digital Dirty Work: Political Attack Ads on the Internet”

Ingrid Hoofd, National University of Singapore, “Between Nostalgia and Techno-Salvation: ‘Left-Wing' European Feminism and the Implosion of Alterity in the Media”

Olga Smirnova and Elena Vartanova, Moscow, Russia, “Gender Tolerance
of Mass Media during Election Campaigns”

4:45 – 5:00pm Break

Plenary Session 5:00 – 6:30pm – Corwin Pavilion

Viral Media and the Politics of Media for Social Change
Chair: Anna Everett, UC Santa Barbara

Anna Everett, UC Santa Barbara, “The YouTube Effect: Obama Girl, Race, Gender, and the Persistence of the Miscegenation Taboo”

Jane Shattuc, Emerson College, “The Image of Hillary and the ‘Vagina Litmus Test’”

Rita Raley, UC Santa Barbara, “From Velvet Strike to the Virtual IBM Strike: Disruption and Disturbance in Synthetic Worlds”

Megan Boler, Univ. of Toronto, “Ironic Citizenship and Digital Dissent: Reconceptualizing Counterpublics and Resistance”

Friday, April 25

8:00am – 5:00pm PUBLISHERS EXHIBIT – Corwin Pavilion

8:00 – 8:30am Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 10:00am SESSION 1

1. My Space, Social Networking, and Gender in IT – Flying A Studio Room
Chair: Michele White, Tulane Univ.

Michele White, Tulane Univ., “Forms and Norms: Gender, Sexuality, and Security in Internet Social Networking Settings”

Laurel Westrup, UCLA, “Making MySpace Our Space: The Potentials of New Media for Feminist Pedagogy”

Rhiannon Bury, Athabasca University, “Being a Girl, Being a Geek: Female Web 2.0 Professionals Negotiate Identity”

Sarah Rasmusson, College of New Jersey, “To Watch a Predator: MySpace and Registered Users’ Responses to the Old Sex Panics of New Media”

2. Televisual (In)visibilities: Sexuality, Gender, and Race – Lobero Room
Chair: Joe Wlodarz, Univ. of Western Ontario

Melanie E.S. Kohnen, Brown University, “Whiteness as Screen: Race, Sexuality, and the “Explosion of Gay Visibility”

Alexis Lothian, USC, “Televisual Transformation and its Discontents: Slash Fan Fiction: ‘Queer Female Space’ and Race”

Louisa Stein, San Diego State University, “Sons and Brothers: Sexuality and Race in Supernatural Fan Videos”

Joe Wlodarz, Univ. of Western Ontario, “Tell Me If You Can: Masculinity and Queer (In)Visibility in American Network Television of the 1970s”

3. Feminist Responses to Slash – Harbor Room
Chair: Suzanne Scott, USC

Conseula Francis and Alison Piepmeier, College of Charleston, “Slash, Academia, and What Happens When Straight Women Start Flirting with Each Other”

Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ., "'A Room of Our Own:' How F/F Slash Queers Female Space"

Anna Feigenbaum, McGill Univ. , “If Adorno Could Hear Us Now: (Re)writing the Romance/ Porn Divide in ‘Boy Band’ Slash Fiction”

4. How New Media Reconfigures Public and Educational Space – State Street Room
Chair: Julia Lesage, Jump Cut

Chuck Tryon, Fayetteville State University, “Elections 2.0: Political Participation, Virtual Citizenship, and Web Videos”

Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College, “Learning from YouTube”

Julia Lesage, Jumpcut, “Audio Podcasting Now”

5. Studies of Battlestar Galactica - Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Heather Hendershot, Queens College, CUNY

Heather Hendershot, Queens College, CUNY, “‘You Have Your Pound of Flesh’: Religion, Battlestar Galactica, and Television’s Sacred/Secular Fetuses”

Carol Stabile, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “‘Bringing Home the Cat’: Gender, Violence, and Militarism in Battlestar Galactica”

Allison McCracken, DePaul University, “‘Say Goodnight Mrs. Ron’: Ronald D. Moore and the Gender Politics of the Battlestar Galactica Podcast”

10:00 – 10:30am Morning Break

10:30am – 12:00pm SESSION 2

1. New Scenes: TV, Art and Community Access – Harbor Room
Chair: Joan Hawkins, Univ. of Indiana

Joan Hawkins, Univ. of Indiana, “Hearts of Glass: Women, Community Access TV, and the Downtown Art Scene”

Margot Bouman, The New School, “Andy’s TV”

Kristyn Gorton, Univ. of York (UK) “Screening Hysteria and other Mental Images: Zoe Beloff’s Experimental Media”

Caetlin Benson-Allott, Cornell Univ., “New Mediology: Aesthetics and Ethnography in Video-Sharing Research”

2. “Most Wired” in a Globalized Arena: Asian Americans, Asia, and New Media – Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Greta Niu, Univ. of Rochester

Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, “‘I Bet Half of these People are Koreans’: Fan-Produced World of Warcraft Machinima and the Domestication of Asian Labor in Multiplayer Online Games”

Greta Niu, Univ. of Rochester, “‘Most Wired’ and Wire Work: Model Minorities, Chinese Cinema, Console Games”

Abigail Derecho, Northwestern Univ., “Performing Transnational Anti- Fandom: Filipinos Protesting American Idol, The Daily Show, and Desperate Housewives Online”

LeiLani Nishime, Sonoma State Univ., “Asian Lovebots and Cyborg War Brides: Race, Miscegenation, and Battlestar Galactica”

3. The Big Queer Comedy Panel – Flying A Studio Room
Chair: Lucas Hilderbrand, UC Irvine

Margo Miller, Northwestern University, “Is There a Queer Closet?: Quality Sitcom Straight Men and the Question of Self-Identification”

Lucas Hilderbrand, UC Irvine, “Queens and Queeny: Ugly Betty’s Dual Demos and Modes”

Candace Moore, UCLA, “Bunny-eared TV: Making Things Perfectly Sketch”

Hye Jin Lee, Univ. of Iowa, “Thank you for Being (More Than) A Friend: A Queer Reading of The Golden Girls”

4. Legitimating Television – Lobero Room
Chair: Elana Levine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Derek Kompare, Southern Methodist University, “What is a Showrunner?: Considering Post-Network Television Authorship”

Michael Kackman, University of Texas at Austin, “Quality Television, Lost and Found: Gender and Cultural Value in Formalist Television Studies”

Michael Z. Newman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Upscaling Television Aesthetics and the Cinematic Analogy”

Elana Levine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “From Domestic Appliance to High-Tech Gadget: Media Convergence and the Masculinization of Television Technology”

5. Workshop: Gendered Fan Labor in New Media and Old – State Street Room
Chair: Bob Rehak, Swarthmore College

Julie Levin Russo, Brown University, “Labors of Love: Who Charts The L Word?”

Sam Ford, MIT, “Outside the Target Demographic: Surplus Audiences in Wrestling and Soaps”

Suzanne Scott, USC, “From Filk to Wrock: Performance, Professionalism, and Power in Harry Potter Wizard Rock”

Bob Rehak, Swarthmore College, “Boys, Blueprints, and Boundaries: Star Trek’s Hardware Fandom”

Louisa Stein, San Diego State Univ., “Videogames, Fan Creativity, and Gendered Authorship: Complicating Dichotomies”

For more information about papers on this panel see: http://fandebate.livejournal.com

12:00 – 1:15pm LUNCH (on your own)

1:15 – 2:45pm SESSION 3

1. Blogospheres and Gendered Relations – State Street Room
Chair: Anne Scott Sorensen, Univ. of Southern Denmark

Melissa Click, Univ. of Missouri, “The Blogosphere and Feminist Media Studies – a Necessary Fit?”

Elizabeth, Ellcessor, UW-Madison, “Intimate Threats: The Silencing Effect in Blog Comments”

Somayeh Shafiei, Allame Tabatabaee University, Tehran, Iran, “Iranian Women in Blogosphere; New Horizon”

Anne Scott Sorensen, Univ. of Southern Denmark, “The Life(b)log and the Gendered Selftext”

2. Gender in the World of Transnational Television – Flying A Studio Room
Chair: Jackie Cook, University of South Australia

Bianca Lippert, University of Mainz, Germany, “The Ugly Duckling Reloaded and Feminized: A Localized Telenovela Format on a Global Scale”

Jackie Cook and Wilson Main, University of South Australia, “‘Who Killed the Cup-Cake Queen?’ Transcultural Dilemmas in the Scripting and Design of Animated TV Features for Small Girls”

Elke Weissmann, University of Reading, UK, “Presenting a Gendered Television History: Channel 4 (UK) and Drama Repeats”

John McConchie and Karen Orr Vered, Flinders University, "Watching SuperNanny in Australia: Globalisation and Discourses of Family, Nation, and Class"

3 Breaking into the White House: Femininity and the Presidency
Chair: Eileen Boris, UCSB

Dava L. Simpson, George Mason University, “The Feminine Presidency: A Political Possibility of Pure Science Fiction?”

Michael Bolton, USC, “Capital Steps: Thoughts on Femininity and Power in the White House”

Emanuelle Wessels, Univ. of Minnesota, “Feminism in the Gendered Panopticon: Commander in Chief, Surveillance, and the Discursive Limits of Poststructuralist Feminism”

4. Work It: Labor, Gender, and Making TV – Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Vicki Mayer, Tulane Univ.

Miranda Banks, USC, “Reappraising the Gender Gap in Television Production Labor”

Vicki Mayer, Tulane Univ., “The Affective Sell and Buy: Reality Casting Calls”

Maria E. Muñoz Chacón, UCLA, “Latina/o on Latina/o: Mobilizing Race and Gender On and Off the Television Screen”

Erin Hill, UCLA, “The Girl Friday and How She Grew: A History of Assistants to Media Makers”

2:45 – 3:00pm Break

3:00 – 4:30pm SESSION 4

1. Turn it Up! Music and TV – Flying A Studio Room
Chair: Hollis Griffin, Northwestern Univ.

Hollis Griffin, Northwestern Univ., “Media Convergence (Hasn’t) Killed the Video Star, or Why the Music Video is Still Important for Feminist Media Studies in the Digital Age”

Erica Bochanty, UCLA, “The Sounds of Cold Case: Television Music and the Politics of Placement”

William Whittington, USC, “Buffyoke: Fan Performance and the Tele- Musical

2. TV, Temporality and Historiography – Lobero Room
Chair: Mark Williams, Dartmouth College

Sharon Sharp, CSU-Dominguez Hills, “Televisual Time Travels: Industrial Nostalgia and the Migration of Television”

Mari Pajala, University of Turku, Finland, “Feminism, Cultural Memory, and Archival Television”

Elizabeth Townsend Gard, Tulane Univ. and Caren Deming, Univ. of Arizona, “Finding Television’s Usable Past: Copyright Law and the Case of Gertrude Berg”

Mark Williams, Dartmouth College, “Re-Wiring Media History: Inter-Medial Borders”

3. Magic, Memory and the Feminine – State Street Room
Chair: Amelie Hastie, UC Santa Cruz

Amelie Hastie, UC Santa Cruz, “TV on the Brain”

Diane Negra, Univ. of East Anglia, “Unforgettable You: The Female Amnesiac in Recent Film and Television”

Moya Luckett, NYU, “Big Love and The Girls Next Door: Exploring Structures of the Feminine Text”

Alex Bevan, Northwestern Univ., “Desperate Housewives: New Media, Historical Memory, and the Constitution of Female Identity and Feminism”

4. Imaginings of Feminism on TV – Harbor Room
Chair: Suzanne Leonard, Simmons College

Suzanne Leonard, Simmons College, “Separate Spheres, Gun-Toting Women, and Mad Men: Television’s Recent Reimaginings of the Gender Wars”

Caryn Murphy, UW-Madison, “Models, Dolls, and Gossiping Girls: The CW and Young Women’s ‘Aspirational’ Programming”

Brenda McDermott, Univ. of Calgary, “Karate Chopping Feminism: Miss Piggy, Feminism and The Muppet Show”

5. Workshop: Sex Work in Industry and Academe – Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Constance Penley, UC Santa Barbara

Mireille Miller-Young, UC Santa Barbara

Celine Parreñas Shimizu, UC Santa Barbara

Tristan Taormino, author, columnist, editor, sex educator, adult film producer

Sinnamon Love, Afrogeek web mistress, performer, producer, agent, writer, porn diva

4:30 – 5:00pm Break

5:00 – 6:30pm SESSION 5

1. Rethinking Reception Studies – Harbor Room
Chair: Karen Buzzard, Missouri State Univ.

Karen Buzzard, Missouri State Univ., “The Digital Transformation of the TV Audience”

Eleanor Morrison, USC, “LGB Viewers Respond to a T(rans) Character in Daytime Television”

Frances Bonner, Univ. of Queensland, “Watching Boys Being Boys: The Strange Appeal to Women of Top Gear”

2. (Cyber)Spaces of Resistance: Female Identity, Sexuality, and Virtual Performativity – Flying A Studio Room
Chair: Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana

Adriane Brown, Ohio State Univ., “Grrls, Bois, Studs, and Sex Kittens: (Re)Articulations of Femininity in Teenage Girls’ Autobiographical Representations on Myspace.com”

Lindsay Bernhagen, Ohio State Univ., “Singing Cyborgs: The Politics of Musical, Visual, and Virtual Personae in Tori Amos’s American Doll Posse Project”

Melanie Beaudette, Ohio State Univ., “‘Have I Crossed the Line?’ t.A.T.u. and American Sexual Boundaries in Young Female Pop Music Performance”

3. Queer Boys on the Side: Desire, Media, and Female Fandom in the Twenty- First Century – Lobero Room
Chair: Allison McCracken, DePaul University

Lyndsay Brown, Univ. of Florida, “Slashing Celebrities, Slashing Theory: How Real Person Slash and Vids Lead to Deleuze/Lacan”

Catherine Tosenberger, Univ. of Florida, “The Epic Love Story of Sam and Dean: Supernatural, Queer Readings, and the Romance of Incestuous Fanfiction”

Andrea Wood, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Choose your own Queer Erotic Adventure: Boys’ Love Dating-Sims and the Politics of Play in Sexually Interactive PC Games”

4. Media and Militarization in the Post 911 Era – Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Mary Beth Haralovich, Univ. of Arizona

Mary Beth Haralovich, Univ. of Arizona, “They Also Serve: TV’s Military Wives”

Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia Univ., “Suicide-Bomb of the Emoticon: Or, How to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love (the) War”

John Bridge, UCLA, “Debunking History: 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Documentaries”

5. Global Migrations and TV – State Street Room
Chair: Juan Monroy, NYU

Priya Virmani, University of Bristol, “Cultural Implications of Televisual Globalisation: The Case of the Women of the British Indian Diaspora”

Eva Lewkowicz, Univ. of New South Wales, “Passionate Consolations; Romance narratives in HBO’s Sex and the City and Argos/TV Azteca’s Mirada de Mujer”

Juan Monroy, NYU, “Translating Telenovelas”

Margaret Salazar, USC, “Panda Politics: Framing Nation, Family and the Perfect Immigrant”

6. UC Santa Barbara Alumni Panel on Entertainment Industry Careers
(in conjunction with the class Film and Media Studies 54: “Hollywood -
Anatomy of an Industry”) - Girvetz Hall 1004
Moderators: Sage Parker-Lang, Actor/Lecturer and Perry Lang,
Actor/Writer/Director
Steve Elzer, Senior Vice President, Media Relations, Columbia TriStar
Motion Picture Group
Georgia Packard, President, Camera Operator’s Union
Jamie Painter Young, National Editor-in-Chief, Back Stage
Mark Panik, Editor, CBS Promotions
Jeremy Platt, Talent Manager

6:30 – 8:30pm Conference Reception - Corwin Pavilion Courtyard

8:00am – 12:00pm PUBLISHERS EXHIBIT – Corwin Pavilion

8:00 – 8:30am Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 10:00am SESSION 1

1. When Maude met Will & Grace to discuss Grey’s Anatomy: Socially Ir/Relevant TV Programming? – Harbor Room
Chair: Jason Narlock, King’s College London-University of London

Kimberly Springer, King’s College London-University of London, “Maude’s All Up in the Gay Caballero: Gay and Lesbian Rights in Norman Lear Sitcoms”

Jason Narlock, King’s College London-University of London, “‘You'll Never Have to Act More Gay Than That’: Broadcasting Homonormativity in late 1990s America”

Meredith Raimondo, Oberlin College, “Unacceptable: Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity in the Isaiah Washington Controversy”

2. Screening Dance: Television, Subjectivity, and Embodiment – Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Anna Beatrice Scott, UC Riverside

Dana Heller, Old Dominion University, “‘Calling Out Around the World’: The Global Appeal of Reality Dance Formats”

Denise N. Davis, Independent scholar, “More Than Ballroom: Dancing with the Stars and the Reality of Representation”

Anna Beatrice Scott, UC Riverside, “‘Screenifying' Choreography: The New Parameters of Social Interaction as Envisioned by Bill T. Jones’ Blind Date”

3. TV and the Nation-State – Flying A Studio Room
Chair: Neda Atanasoski, SUNY Stony Brook

Mazdak Tamjidi, Allameh University, Iran, “Truth and Television: Truth in Iranian State TV Serials”

Muhammad Shahid Waseem, Islamabad, Pakistan, “Feminism Trends in Electronic Media: Questions of Enlightened Moderation vs. Orthodoxy – Case Study Pakistan”

Alejandra Walzer, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, “Gender Violence: The Public Construction of the Conflict in the Spanish Media”

Miranda Brady, Univ. of Minnesota, “The Well-Tempered Spy: Family, Nation, and the Female Secret Agent in Alias”

4. Teen TV and Girls’ Blogs – State Street Room
Chair: Jacqueline Vickery, UT-Austin

Michele Schreiber, UW-Milwaukee, “‘Not a girl…not yet a woman:’ Sex and Romance on Teen Television”

Shawna Feldmar, USC, “Un-Common Comedy for Tweens: Convention and Transgression in Disney’s Hannah Montana”

Cindy Conaway, Empire State College, “Where Have All the Teen Girls Gone?: The Disappearance of the Teen Girl on Network Television”

Jacqueline Vickery, UT-Austin, “Strangers in a Virtual World: Negotiating Identity on Girls’ Blogs”

5. Under the Knife: Plastic Surgery on TV – Lobero Room
Chair: Carole-Anne Tyler, UC Riverside

Carole-Anne Tyler, UC Riverside, “The ‘Subject’ of Plastic Surgery Television”

David Bering-Porter, Brown Univ., “Mimicry and the Televisual Real: Plastic Surgery and/in Reality Television”

Jonathan Cohn, UCLA, “The Perfection of Disfigurement: The Spectator’s Body in the Era of Video”

Anne Jerslev, Univ. of Copenhagen, “Cosmetic Surgery and Mediatized Body Theatre: The Designable Body as Public Events”

10:00 – 10:30am Break

10:30am – 12:00pm SESSION 2

1. Vlogs, Mobile Phones, and Wi Fi – Harbor Room
Chair: Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern Univ.

Pinar (Uyaroglu) Yildiz, Univ. of Bremen, “Private Goes Public: Recontextualizing Mobile Phone Images of Honor Crimes”

Judith A. Nicholson, Concordia Univ., “Calling Dick Tracy!: Screening Time, Crime and Cellphone Use in American Popular Culture”

Chuck Kleinhans, Northwestern Univ., “Webisodic Mock Vlogs: HoShows as Commercial Entertainment New Media”

Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Penn State Univ., “Welfare Moms in WiFi Zones: Will a WiFi Zone in Cincinnati Cast ‘Vanessa’ Further Outside the Net?

2. Transnational Media Practices, Post-Socialist Identities – Flying A Studios Room
Chair: Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University

Andaluna Borcila, Michigan State Univ., “Accessing the Trauma of Communism: Romanian Orphans on U.S. Television News”

Neda Atanasoski, SUNY Stony Brook, “Roma Rights on the World Wide Web”

Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio Univ., “Postsocialist Hybrids”

3. Girls Get Busy: Media Production and Contemporary Female Youth – State Street Room
Chair: Mary Kearney, UT-Austin

Kathleen Sweeney, independent media artist and author, “Beyond iCelebrities: Girls’ Social Networking, Social Activism, and Mediamaking in the Facebook Era”

Tamara Sheperd, Concordia Univ., “Teenage Girls’ Identity Production on Pro-Anorexia Blogs”

Leslie Regan Shade, Concordia Univ, “‘It Just Sucks You In’: Young Women’s Use of Facebook”

Mary Kearney, UT-Austin, “Pink Technology: Media-making Gear for Girls”

4. Celebrity Studies – Lobero Room
Chair: Moya Luckett, NYU

Louise Smith, Univ. of East Anglia, “Britney Spears: A Narrative of Failed Femininity”

Deborah Jermyn, Roehampton Univ., “‘I’m not really a fashionista. I swear!...I’m a mum and function comes first’: Sarah Jessica Parker and the Negotiation of Celebrity Motherhood”

Katherine Lehman, Univ. of Miami, “Riveted to Rosie: O’Donnell’s Queer Politics and Controversial Antics on ABC’s The View”

Alice Leppert and Julie Wilson, Univ. of Minnesota, “Living The Hills Life: Lauren Conrad as Soap Heroine, Reality Star, and Brand”

5. Working on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Corwin Pavilion
Chair: Toni Graphia, Co-Executive Producer/Writer
John Enbom, Supervising Producer/Writer
Ashley Miller, Co-Producer/Writer
Ian Goldberg, Staff Writer
Denise The, Staff Writer

12:00 – 2:00pm Lunch

12:00 – 12:45pm 3-D SCREENING: Charming Augustine (40 mins., dir. Zoe Beloff, Queen's College, CUNY) – MultiCultural Center Theater (MCC)

2:00 – 4:00pm PLENARY SESSION: THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY – Corwin Pavilion
Moderator: Constance Penley, Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media

Dana Walden, Chair, Twentieth Century Fox Television
Toni Graphia, TV Writer/Producer, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The
Sarah Connor Chronicles
Anne Flett-Giordano, TV Writer/Producer, Desperate Housewives, Frasier
Toby Miller, Prof. of Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside

4:30 – 7:00pm CONFERENCE BEACH PARTY – Goleta State Beach

8:00 – 10:00pm Console-ing Passions Executive Board Meeting – Mar Monte Hotel

Screenings

Charming Augustine
Stereoscopic, 16mm, black-and-white, sound film Charming Augustine (2005) introduces the
viewer to one of Charcot’s most famous patients in the Salpêtrière. The film is eclectic in its
reference points, drawing from Freud’s Studies in Hysteria, Charcot’s Photographic Iconography
of the Salpêtrière, D. W. Griffith’s filmic style, and the melodramatic form. It presents a story of
Augustine in three parts: the first offers historical and cultural context, the second links Charcot’s
obsession with photo-documenting the illness to the birth of cinema, and the final offers a feminist
reading of Augustine’s eventual escape from the Salpêtrière dressed as a man. The film
emphasizes the link between the performativity of hysteria and cinema. The use of 3-D highlights
the way in which the doctors tried to catalogue and document each mental pose in their
attempt to understand the illness. It also draws the viewer into the world of the hysteric.

Videotheque

N.U.D.E.
N.U.D.E. is an on-camera edited 16mm short experimental piece that critically exposes the visual
"appropriation" of women in modern and contemporary painting via a filmic “re”-presentation of
poses from well known female nude paintings. The piece poses the representation of the female
body as a site of contention and contestation, raising issues of how the female body has
"comfortably" been made "available" through art.

ET/Then You will not have Love
ET/ Then You will not have Love tries to work through and complicate the extra-filmic image of
movie star Elizabeth Taylor as the wanton seductress of 1960s America. Through the re-purposing
of black and white photographs from the Taylor archive and a hypnotic audio loop from the
notorious Joseph L. Mankiewicz film Cleopatra (1963), the film seeks to further query Taylor's
demonized image of excessive, aberrant femininity, her various bodily adventures, her
consummate performativity, and her genius as a film artist.

True Blue (Julie/Kirsten)
Is it possible that Julie and Kirsten from FOX's hit drama THE O.C. have a lesbian romance? This
video, using and putting a spin on the form of the slash fan video, asks that question—and
perhaps a few others—about sexuality, representation, television, and the work of culture
jamming.

Moth to Light
Caught between the domesticated world of her mother and a dark and luring force in the
garden, Muriel contemplates what to do with the baby her mother dotes on and whose origins
are unknown. This black and white film lingers in a dark atmosphere of a Southern gothic world,
where one questions who is in control in this intensely feminine environment.

Turning a Corner
Turning a Corner documents a media workshop facilitated by Beyondmedia with Prostitution
Alternatives Round Table (PART), a project of Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, to give voice to
people in the sex trades and expose the harsh realities of street prostitution. From the streets of
Chicago to the legislative halls in Springfield, Illinois, the film traces how the filmmakers truly turn
corners in their complex lives.

 The University Center (UCen)

Conference panels, workshops, screenings and other related events will take place on the UCSB campus.  The conference venue is the University Center (aka UCen) adjacent to the area’s picturesque lagoon. 

Bus transportation between the UCen and the Hotel Mar Monte downtown will be provided for registered conference participants