Media School faculty, students participate in SCMS conference
Media School scholars focusing on film studies presented their work at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference March 25-29 in Montreal.
Professor Barbara Klinger is president of SCMS and presided over the conference, which drew more than 1,000 film, media and communications scholars to discuss topics both broad (“Celebrity,” “Selling Across Media,” “Animation and Politics”) and specific (“Reconsidering U.S. News Film,” “Geopolitics of Global Film Circulation,” “World Wrestling Entertainment”).
In addition to workshops and presentations, SCMS hosted meetings for its dozens of special interest groups.
Dedicated to the scholarly study of the moving image, the SCMS represents 3,000 scholars from more than 500 institutions in 38 nations.
Here’s a list of Media School presenters and workshop chairs. The complete conference booklet is online.
Professor Gregory Waller, chair of Researching the History of Non-theatrical Film Distribution and author of “Surveying the Non-theatrical Field, 1925–1950.”
Associate professor Akinwumi Adesokan, “Nollywood and Its Publics.”
Associate professor Stephanie DeBoer, “Screen Media Architectures and Digital Development at the Edges of the PRC City.”
Associate professor Joan Hawkins, chair of Burning Down the House: Downtown Film and Television session and author of “The TV Show That’s Sometimes a Party.”
Assistant professor Ryan Powell, chair of Queer Art Porn session and author of “Queer Aurality in Seventies Gay Art Porn.”
Associate professor Brenda Weber, “Grandmother-in-Chief Hillary Clinton and the Living History of Political Celebrity and Aging” (with co-author Georges Claude Guilbert, Francois Rabelais University) and chair of Because Fashion Matters: Studying the Intersections of Fashion, Film and Media workshop.
Assistant professor Elizabeth Ellcessor, What Can Disability Studies Do for Media Studies? workshop participant and chair of Studying Media Through Disability.
Assistant professor Joshua Malitsky, chair of Sports Media and the Construction of Sporting Cultures and author of “Knowing Sports: The Logic of the Contemporary Sports Documentary.”
Visiting assistant professor Barbel Gobel-Stolz, chair of Global Television in Demand Audiences, Access and Availability Across Borders, and author of “Shifting Tastes and On-demand Access: The Business of U.S. TV Program Sales in Germany.”
Adjunct lecturer Tim Bell, “White Jazz: Music and Fantasies of English Modernity in The Avengers (1961–69).”
Doctoral student Jesse Balzer, chair of Way Over the Top.
Doctoral student Cory Barker, chair of Terms of Use: Changing Discourses of Value in Digital Media Industries, and author of “Great Shows, Thanks to You: Amazon Studio’s Pilot Season and Discourses of Participation.”
Doctoral student Megan Brown, “Marketing Practice and Discourse of Transmedia Science Fiction’s ‘Golden Age’ (1950–1958).”
Doctoral student Joshua Coonrod, “Haunted Screens and Empty Seats: An Ethnographic Approach to the Failing Rural Film Festival.”
Doctoral student Amanda Fleming, “Hannibal: A Horror Show For Women! Tracking Fannibals’ Activities across the Internet.”
Doctoral student James Gilmore, chair of Rethinking Authorship in the Digital Age and author of “Coding ‘David Fincher’: The Author Function in Algorithmic Culture.”
Doctoral student Noelle Griffis, “Bringing the Film Industry back to New York: The Promotion of the First Mayor’s Office of Film, 1966–67.”
Doctoral student Mark Hain, “‘Why Is Thomas Such a Dick?’ Anachronistic Period Dramas and the Gays You Love to Hate.”
Doctoral student Blake Hallinan, “‘My Context Is My Query’: Algorithmic Flow as Emergent Entertainment Paradigm.”
Doctoral student Katherine Johnson, chair of New Methods/Changing Industries and author of “Edith Head: An Off-screen Star.”
Doctoral student Jennifer Lynn Jones, participant in Graduate Student Teaching Politics and Practical Advice workshop and author of “Signal Size: Gender, Ethnicity, and Diet Episodes in the Radio-TV Transition.”
Doctoral student Andrea Kelly, chair of Excavating Exhibition: Mining the Sites and Methods of Media History.
Doctoral student Saul Kutnicki, “Unconstraining the Documentary: Agency and the Contorted Body in Titicut Follies.”
Doctoral student Julie Lavelle, “Just a Girl? Negotiating Gender in Universal’s Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery.”
Doctoral student James Paasche, “‘We Tried to Bring a Touch of Home to the Combat Zone’: Women, Amateur Film and the Vietnam War.”
Doctoral student Landon Palmer, chair of Historicizing Music and Transmedia and author of “All Together Now: The Beatles, United Artists and Transmedia Conglomeration.”
Doctoral student Margaret Rossman, “Exhibiting Emotion: The Fan Performance of Allegiance in the Tween Midnight Screening.”
Doctoral student Alexander Swanson, “The Lost Passengers of World War Z: Absent Bodies, Zombified Planes and Post-9/11 Anxiety as Tired Hollywood Spectacle.”
Doctoral student Andy Uhrich, participant in New Directions for the SCMS, Media Archives Committee workshop and author of “Private Film Collecting as Non-theatrical Film Circulation in the 1910s through the 1940s.”
Doctoral student Joshua Vasquez, “Histories of an Afterlife: Cultural Memory and Traces of Cinema Exhibition History in Four Former Illinois Movie Houses.”
Doctoral student Matthew Von Vogt, “Cinema in the First-person Plural: Luc Moullet and the Gender Politics of the French New Wave.”
Doctoral student Zeynep Yasar, “In the Wake of Winter Sleep: Transnational Reimaginings of Turkish Cinema.”
Doctoral student Eric Zobel, “Improved Interfaces: Documenting the Wooster Group.”