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Keynote speaker:
Mikita
Brottman
Maryland
Institute College of Art
Author
of Offensive Films: Toward an
Anthropology of Cinema Vomitif (Greenwood,
1997), Meat is Murder! : An Illustrated Guide to Cannibal Culture
(Creation, 2001), and editor of Car Crash Culture (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002)
Conference
and Film Festival Schedule:
Conference at The Geballe Room,
220 Stephens Hall, on
the UC Berkeley Campus
Films at the Pacific Film Archive (2575
Bancroft Ave. On campus facing Bancroft at Bowditch St.)
Friday, May 9, 2003
Films
at The Pacific Film Archive
7:30 pm I
Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Jacques Tourneur
Introduced
by Mikita Brottman
9:30 pm Intimate
Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972)
Yuen Chor
Introduced
by Patrick Macias
Saturday, May 10, 2003
The
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am Opening Remarks
Tamao Nakahara (University of California
at Berkeley)
9:30-11:00 am
Panel I: Horror Films
Shuli Chen (University of Washington, Seattle)
"The Art of Jiangshi Film: Hong Kong Vampire Movies"
Adilifu
Nama (California
State University, Northridge)
"Colored Mutants, Scary Negroes and Black Boogeymen?: Deconstructing
and Subverting Race in Horror Cinema"
Richard
Burt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Shockspeare: Unkind Cuts, Scare(y) Quotes, and Uncanny Media
Specters in Horror Film and Television"
11:00 am-1:00
pm Panel II: Social Anxieties and Race
Ian Hunter
(De Montfort University, UK)
"Deep Inside Queen Kong:
Anatomy of an Extremely Bad Film"
Manuel
Yang (University of Toledo) "Godzilla,
Ultraman, Oe Kenzaburo, and the Post-Apocalyptic Nuclear Imaginary
of the Postwar Japanese Monster Movies"
Amy
Abugo Ongiri (University
of California, Riverside)
"Jethro, Mama, Sassie Sue and the Midnight
Plowboy: Hillbillies, 'Common Sense,' and Blaxploitation Film"
Savas
Arslan (Ohio State
University)
"Turkish Trash: Popular Film in Turkey, 1960-1980"
1:00-1:30 pm Lunch Reception
1:30-3:00
pm Panel III: Auteurs
and Aesthetics
Steven
Jay Schneider (New York University and Harvard University)
"A Tasteless Art: John Waters and the Pursuit of 'Pure' Gross-Out"
David
Sterritt (Long Island
University and Columbia University)
"Noé Stands Alone: Sex, Death, and
Destiny in Irreversible"
Anna
Powell (Manchester
Metropolitan University, UK)
"Devil's Advocate: Satanic Evangelism in the Films of Kenneth
Anger"
3:00-5:00
pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mikita
Brottman (Maryland
Institute College of Art)
"Why I Hate Gwyneth
Paltrow:
The Failure of Contemporary Cinema, from Hollywood to the Avant-Garde"
Talk will be preceded by clips and followed
by Q&A
Films at the Pacific Film Archive
7:30 pm Raw Force (1982) Edward D. Murphy
9:20 pm The Pigkeeper's Daughter
(1972) Bethel G. Buckalew
Introduced by Amy Abugo Ongiri.
Sunday,
May 11, 2003
Conference
at 220 Stephens Hall
9:00 am Coffee and Pastries
9:30-11:00 am
Panel IV: Euro-Trash
Ernest Mathijs (University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
UK)
"'Nobody is innocent': S.
as Trash, Art or Cultural Representation"
Jennifer
Fay (Michigan
State University)
"Coming of Age in Postwar Germany, Or, the Schoolgirl Reports and Guilty Pleasures of History"
Gius
Gargiulo (University
of Paris X-Nanterre, France)
"Boccaccio on the Beach: Trashy Italian
Beach Movies from the Sixties and Seventies"
11:00
am-1:00 pm Panel V: Trash Film
Industries
Tamao Nakahara
(University of California, Berkeley)
"Make it Quick!: Historicizing Italian Trash"
Kevin
J. Heffernan (Southern
Methodist University)
"Michael Powell's Peeping
Tom: A Film Maudit Reconsidered"
Donald
Hedrick (Kansas
State University)
"The Unbearable Shallowness of Trailers: Niche Marketing Shallow Hal"
1:00-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-3:30 pm
Trash Collection and Culture
Exploitation Posters: Jacques Boyreau
(Author of Trash:
The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters, and Director
of the Werepad, San Francisco)
Archivist's Panel: Candace
Joy Lewis and Doron Galili (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Trash Picking: Preserving The
Sin of Nora Moran and Rocky
Horror"
Trash TV: Shirley
Tatum (True crime
television writer, Court TV and Discovery Channel)
"Writing the Detectives: Transforming True Crime into Popular
Culture"
Car Crash Culture: Mikita
Brottman
and David
Sterritt.
Respondent: Annalee Newitz
3:30 pm: Closing Remarks
Films at the Pacific Film Archive
5:00 pm Dr. Goldfoot
and the Bikini Machine (1965) Norman
Taurog
Introduced by Tamao Nakahara
The conference is free and open to the public. For movie tickets,
call the PFA box office at 510-642-5249.
For more information and special access needs,
please call 510-541-1895
in advance. "Born to Be Bad" is organized
by the Graduate Film Working Group (a Townsend Center Working Group
and an ASUC-sponsored Student Group). The event was made possible
with the generous contributions by the Graduate Assembly, The Townsend
Center, the Chancellor's Student Activities Fund, the Film Studies
Program, the Consortium for the Arts, and
the Italian Studies Dept., and with the cooperation from Steve Seid
and the Pacific Film Archive.
Contact
Information:
Tamao
Nakahara
Department
of Italian Studies
6303
Dwinelle, #2620
University
of California, Berkeley
Berkeley,
CA 94720-2620
phone:
510-541-1895
email:
TAMAO@socrates.berkeley.edu
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