SCMS 2010

I was just commenting last week on Jason's post that soon we'll be talking about SCMS 2010. If you check the site under Conference Submission Forms - where you originally submitted your proposal - there should be a status update to the right of your proposal info.

Hope everybody did OK, though I know it was a tough year. I hope as many old and new Mabuse faces as possible will be present.

I thought everybody could "edit" and add their panel below. I would love to see what everybody is doing for 2010.

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Hollywood History / Jewish History: The Past and Future of a Popular Jewish Identity

Chair: Scott Balcerzak (Northern Illinois University)

1. Vincent Brook (University of Southern California), "The Four Jazz Singers: Mapping the Jewish Assimilation Narrative"

2. Steven Carr (Indiana University/Purdue University), "Movies, Jews, and Profits to Lose: Hollywood and the European Market Before World War II"

3. Scott Balcerzak (Northern Illinois University), "‘Whitefacing’ the Nebbish: Eddie Cantor’s Assimilation and Influence"

4. Michael Rennett (Moorpark College), "An Eye for an Eye?: Post-Holocaust Issues of Revenge and Forgiveness in Spielberg’s Films"

Respondent: Lester Friedman (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
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1940s Cinema: Affective Form and World Historical Change

Chair, Chris Cagle (Temple University)

Rosalind Galt (University of Sussex), “The Geopolitics of Decoration: Powell and Pressburger, Orientalism and 'Stuff'”

Jennifer Fay (Michigan State University), “Film Aesthetics and Democratic Feeling”

Karl Schoonover (Michigan State University), “Before Our Eyes: Cinema as Humanism”

Chris Cagle (Temple University), “Reappraising Melodrama: Nostalgia, Historical Trauma, and the 1940s Sentimental Drama”

Respondent: Corey Creekmur (University of Iowa)
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Comics and Film: The Aesthetics of Adaptation

Chair, Drew Morton (University of California-Los Angeles)

[NOTE: Titles of papers may have changed and an extra person may have been added since this was originally a Tokyo '09 Panel.]

Bob Rehak (Swarthmore College): Watchmen's Frames of Reference

Chris Hagenah (University of California-Santa Barbara): Deleuze and the System of Comics

Drew Morton (UCLA): Winsor McCay and the Adaptation of Space
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Title: Popular Film Criticism in Media Culture

Chair: Will Scheibel (Indiana University - Bloomington)

James Kendrick (Baylor University), "Internet Criticism 15 Years Later"

Rachel Thibault (University of Massachusetts - Amherst), "What We Talk About When We Talk About Movie Love: Gendered Cinephilia in the Digital Age"

Will Scheibel (Indiana University - Bloomington), "The Mexican New Wave: Directors, Reviewers, and the Flow of Cultural Reputation"

Lorrie Palmer (Indiana University - Bloomington), "Past-Future Imperfect: Will Smith and the Dialogue of Race"
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Title : THE CONTEMPORARY MEDIA INDUSTRIES: CASE STUDIES OF MEDIA IN TRANSITION

Chair : Kimberly Owczarski (University of Arizona)

Chuck Tryon (Fayetteville State University), "Redbox or Red Envelope, or What Happens When the Infinite Aisle Swings through the Grocery Store"

Courtney Brannon Donoghue (University of Texas), "Global Cataclysms and Connectivity: Sony and the Contemporary Tentpole Picture"

Alisa Perren (Georgia State University), "A Brand New Identity: The Revival of the Made-for-TV Movie"

Kimberly Owczarski (University of Arizona), "Simple Surrender or Smart Strategy? NBC’s Decision to Air THE JAY LENO SHOW"
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Title : 'Brer Rabbit with a Switchblade': 35 Years with (and without) Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin

Chair : Jason Sperb (Indiana University)

Michael Gillespie (Ohio University), "The Racial Grotesque and Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin (1975)"
Jason Sperb (Indiana University), "A Period of Acute Racial Sensitivity: Coonskin, Disney’s Song of the South and White Flights of Fancy"
Jason LaRiviere (Columbia University), "A Didactic Tragedy: On the place of Coonskin in Hip Hop Culture"
Respondent: Roopali Mukherjee (City University of New York, Queens College)
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The New Woman in 20th Century Crime Films
Chair: Sarah Delahousse (Wayne State University)

Sarah Delahousse, "American Detectives, French Criminals: An Examination of Crime, Modernity and the New Woman in AN HOUR BEFORE DAWN (1913), THE HAZARDS OF HELEN (1914-17), LES VAMPIRES (1915) and JUDEX (1917)"

Kathleen Murray (University of Pittsburgh), "Doing the Legwork: The Investigating Woman in TRAFFIC IN SOULS (1913), THE MYSTERY OF THE DOUBLE CROSS (1917), and THE PENALTY (1920)"

Anne Morey (Texas A&M University), "The New Woman as Criminal: Films and Novels by Alice Duer Miller and Adela Rogers St. Johns"
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Title: "On Motion Capture: Technologies and Theories of Digital Kinesthesia in the Moving Image"

Chair: Jenna Ng (Umeå University)

Emanuel Jannasch (Dalhousie University), "Gollum vs the Academy: The Captivity and Death of Motion, or The Animated and the Dead: The Fate of Motion in Captivity"

Pasi Väliaho (Goldsmiths, University of London),“Motion Capture, Cinematic Image and Kinesthetic Consciousness”

Trond Lundemo (Stockholm University), "Motion Capture and Video Compression: Pattern Recognition Techniques in the Digital Moving Image"

Jenna Ng (Umeå University), "Crossing Space-Time-Action: Motion Capture and the Ontology of Performance in HAPPY FEET"

An Idea to Reinvigorate Mabuse...

Since we're coming to the end of the decade (I know, not officially, but for what everyone refers to as the Aughts), and every critic and their mother seems to be coming up with a "Top 10 of the Decade" list, why don't we create something similar but with a little twist to it? A series called "Things We Loved About the Aughts," if you will. Basically you can pick some part of pop culture from the Aughts that you may think was under-appreciated and you can make a scholarly argument as to why that film or album or whatever should be looked back upon and appreciated or how it may have influenced the rest of the decade. It shouldn't take too long to write a piece, since it's invariably about something you enjoy, and it would certainly help re-energize things here. Plus, I think you can submit as many posts as you want instead of just limiting it to one.

Would anybody else be interested in participating in this?