Conference Program
All events take place at the Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall St., New Haven, CT
Thursday, January 28
4:00-5:30
- Silent Cinema Exhibition
- Chair: Janett Buell
- Discussant: Charles Musser
- Rosalind Leveridge, University of Exeter
- Guests in Other People’s Houses: Exhibition Practices in Five Coastal Resorts in the South West of England, 1896-1909
- Michael Slowik, University of Iowa
- Film Exhibition in Vaudeville: What We Learn From Keith-Albee Managers’ Reports
- Nora Gortcheva, Yale University
- Exhibiting the City – Wilhelmine Early Cinema(s)
6:30
Introductory address by John MacKay, Chair of the Film Studies program, and Organizing Committee
7:00
Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008)
Friday, January 29
9:30 – 11:00
- Places of Cinema
- Chair: Zelda Roland
- Discussant: Dudley Andrew
- Brendan Kredell, Northwestern University
- Constructing a New Urban Exhibition Circuit: Black Cinema After the Baldwin Theatre
- Ryan Cook, Yale University
- Slumming for Cinema: The Decline of the Repertory Theater (Meigaza) and Contemporary Japanese Cinephilia
- Joana Pimenta, New University of Lisbon
- Private Screens in Public Places
11:15-1:00
- Crafting Exhibition
- Chair: Grant Wiedenfeld
- Discussant: Ron Gregg
- Gavin Williams, Harvard University
- Opening Night at the Roxy: Sound Ideologies Between Opera House and Picture Palace in 1927
- Eli Horwatt, York University, Toronto
- “Blue Velvet, Live!”: Shadow Casting and the Politics of Becoming the Movie
- Gregory Zinman, New York University
- Always Only Once: Recovering a History of Ephemeral Cinema
- Michael Cramer, Yale University
- Old Media and New Diegesis in Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind
2:00-3:30
Keynote address: Rick Altman, University of Iowa
3:45-5:15
- Transferring/Re-framing Cinema
- Chair: Patrick Reagan
- Discussant: J.D. Connor
- Luke Stadel, University of Iowa
- Made in India: Television, Documentary, and the Everyday
- Tim Seiber, University of California, Irvine
- The Body Seen Appropriately: Terri Schiavo and Christian Visual Culture
- Nika Khanjani, Concordia University
- Cell Phone Videos and Revolution: A Look at Iran’s Post Election Fallout
5:30-7:15
Roundtable discussion with Rick Altman
7:15