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Speaker Biographies Keynote
speaker: Mikita Brottman Conference Director: Tamao Nakahara Tamao
Nakahara is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California at Berkeley.
She is also co-director of "There's No Place
Like Home": (Trans)nationalism, Diaspora, and Film; A Symposium
with Hamid Naficy. Her research interests include Pee-Wee Herman,
product placement, Italian Diva films, and she is completing her dissertation,
"Busty Babes and Boiled Babies: Exploitation in Post-War Italian
Cinema." Her forthcoming publications include "Barred Nuns:
Italian Nunsploitation Films" in AlterImages: Journal of the
Cult and Popular Images. Eds. X. Mendik and E. Mathis (Wallflower
Press / Columbia UP), "Horrific Habits: Italian Nun Horror" in Exploiting
Fear: The Art and Appeal of Horror on Film. Ed. Simon Wilkinson
(Manchester UP), and "Habits and Habitats: Costume and Staging
in Italian Nunsploitation" in Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience
of Contemporary Horror Cinema. Eds. Ian Conrich and Julian Petley
(Verso). She is also currently editing Born to Be Bad: Production,
Exhibition, and Reception of Trash Cinema with J. Karlsen. Other
Conference Speakers and Guests include: Savas Arslan Arslan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art Department at Ohio State University in Columbus. His publications and presentations in English and in Turkish include "A Response to Kevin Robins and Asu Aksoy article on Turkish Cinema in Cinema and Nation," Turkish Cinema Conference, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey (2001), "Superman Returns: Ludus and Film," Turkish Cinema Conference, Bilgi University, Istanbul (2000), "Changing Identities and Shifting Religious Codes in Metin Erksan's Seytan," Annual Conference of Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, San Diego, (1999), and "The Discourse of Art Cinema in Criticizing Popular Turkish Films" Kare (1997). Jacques
Boyreau Boyreau is author
of the recent book on trash movie posters, Trash:
The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (Chronicle Books,
2002). He is also Director of the Werepad,
San Francisco, the site of performances, films, and other events.
(http://www.werepad.com/) Richard Burt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Prof. Burt teaches in the Department of English at Amherst. He is the author of Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture (1998; rev. ed. 1999) and Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship (1993). He is the editor, most recently, of Shakespeare After Mass Media (2002) and Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD (2003). Burt is currently writing two books, Ever Afterlives: Renaissance Remakes on Film and Video and Rechanneling Shakespeare Across Media: Post-Diasporic Citations and Spin-offs from Bollywood to Hollywood. More on Prof. Burt at http://www.umass.edu/english/eng/facProfiles/Burt.html Shuli Chen (University of Washington, Seattle) Chen is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature and is working on a dissertation on Chinese,Taiwanese, and Hong Kong cinemas. After Born Bad 2, Chen will be presenting on the Taiwanese film Yi Yi by director Edward Yang at the "Screen" Studies Conference at Glasgow in July 2003. Gius Gargiulo (University of Paris X Nanterre) Prof. Gargiulo is Professor of Italian at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He holds academic degrees from Italy and France, and he completed his doctoral studies at the Sorbonne et Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Ecole Superieure d’Hautes Etudes and Paris X- Nanterre University. He has taught a variety of courses and seminars on such diverse topics as "History of Italian Theater," "Images of Erotism in French and in Italian Cinema and Literature," "Gestalt of Italian Culture," "Italian Cinema," "History of the Italian Language," "Semiotic studies and philosophy of language," and "Italian Advertising." Gargiulo's publications include Cultura di Massa e cultura poplare nel fotoromanzo rosa (1976) and "Il Vampiro seduttore" in Vampiri e Don Giovanni. Ed. A. Neiger (1998). More on Prof. Gargiulo at http://penelope.u-paris10.fr/perso/gargiulo/ Donald Hedrick (Kansas State University) Prof. Hedrick is Professor of English at Kansas State University and is the Founding Director of the Program in Cultural Studies. His diverse research interests include movie trailers and movie advertising, theorizing entertainment value in the early modern period, Shakespeare and gender, masculinity studies, and horror and violence in film and literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, critical and cultural theory, and speech act theory and language philosophy. His publications include Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital, ed. with Bryan Reynolds (2000) and "Framing O.J.: Trash Tragedy, Tabloid Canonicity, and Analog vs. Digital Racism," in Mediations (1996). Prof. Hedrick has also written reviews for movie trailers for many years. Kevin J. Heffernan (Southern
Methodist University) Winner of the Sundance Film Festival 1998 Filmmakers'
Trophy for Documentary for the feature-length documentary on John Waters
and Divine, Divine Trash, Prof. Heffernan also teaches and writes
on film. He has presented much of his work on cult films including "Zontar,
of Course! Cult Cinema and Canonicity," "Film Genre and Hong
Kong 1997: The Gangster Cinema of John Woo," and
"'I'm Gonna Ride You til You Can't Stand Up!' Homophobia and Hegemonic Masculinity in The Sands of Iwo
Jima." Candace Joy Lewis and Doron
Galili Ernest Mathijs
(University
of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK) Prof. Mathijs is lecturer in Film Studies
at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and is currently writing a
book on the international reception of David Cronenberg, and editing
Alternative European Cinema (Wallflower Press). Recent publications
include "The 'wonderfully scary monster' and the international reception
of horror: Ridley Scott's Hannibal (2001)", in Kinoeye
(http://www.kinoeye.org/02/19/mathijs19.html),
"Reel to Real: Film History in Pynchon's Vineland" in Literature/
Film Quarterly, and forthcoming "The Making of a Cult Reputation:
Frames of Reference in Shivers Criticism" in Defining Cult
Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste. Eds. M. Jancovich
et al. (Manchester UP), "Man bites Dog and the Critical Reception of
Belgian Horror (in) Cinema" in Horror International. Eds. S.J.
Schneider & T. Williams (Wayne State UP), "It may be not such a bad
disease after all: AIDS References in the Critical Reception of Cronenberg"
in Cinema Journal, "Born/Raised to Be Bad: Daughters of Darkness
and the Reception of Trash Cinema" in Born to be Bad: Production,
Exhibition, and Reception of Trash Cinema. Eds. T. Nakahara
and J. Karlsen. More on Mathijs at Amy Abugo Ongiri (University
of California at Riverside) Prof. Ongiri's current research project
is a study of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 70s including
articulations of the Black Power ideology found in Black Arts poetry,
soul music, and Blaxploitation film. She has done extensive work on
blaxploitation films including "'You better watch this good shit!': Black Spectatorship, Black Masculinity and
Blaxploitation Films" and "He Won't Bleed Me!: The Project
of Masculinity in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasss Song!" Steven Jay Schneider (Harvard and New York University) Schneider is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at Harvard University, and in Cinema Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of Designing Fear: An Aesthetics of Cinematic Horror (Routledge); editor of The Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmares (Cambridge UP), New Hollywood Violence (Manchester UP), and Fear without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe (FAB Press); and co-editor of Understanding Film Genres (McGraw-Hill), Traditions in World Cinema (Edinburgh UP), and Horror International (Wayne State UP), all forthcoming 2003-05. Underground U.S.A.: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon (co-edited with Xavier Mendik) was published by Wallflower Press in 2002. More on Schneider at http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sschneid/ David Sterritt (Long Island University and Columbia University) Prof. Sterritt is Professor of Theater and Film at Long Island University and Co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation. His books include Screening the Beats: Essays on Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility (Southern Illinois UP), Terry Gilliam: Interviews, ed. with Lucille Rhodes (UP of Mississippi), Robert Altman: Interviews, ed., (UP of Mississippi), The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible (Cambridge UP, 1999), and The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Cambridge UP, 1993). His articles include "Fargo in Context: The Middle of Nowhere?" in The Coen Brothers' Fargo, ed. William Luhr (Cambridge UP), "Representing Atrocity: From the Holocaust to September 11," in Film After 9/11, ed. Wheeler Winston Dixon (Southern Illinois UP), "Hitchcock, Bakhtin, and the Carnivalization of Cinema," in Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual, eds. Sidney Gottlieb and Christopher Brookhouse (Wayne State UP, 2002), and "Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead," in Car Crash Culture, ed. Mikita Brottman (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001). Shirley Lynn Tatum (True crime television writer, Court
TV and Discovery Channel) Shirley
Lynn Tatum is Senior Scriptwriter for a California television production
company. Her most recent projects include the Court TV series I,
Detective, Discovery Health's series Serendipity: Great Medical
Mistakes and Accidental Discoveries, and the Discovery Civilization
series Ties That Bind. She has also written/contributed to many
Discovery Channel specials, including "Ghost Detectives," "Dungeons
of Alcatraz," and "Extreme Funerals." Prior to writing for television,
she was a regular writer for the popular true crime website, The Crime
Library (www.crimelibrary.com).
She received a B.A. in Art History from U.C. Santa Barbara, and a Masters
in English from Sonoma State University, and has presented her work
at the Sorbonne University. |
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