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2015 IAMHIST Conference
Media and History Revisited
Except as indicated, all sessions will be held in the Indiana University Memorial Union.
Wednesday, 17 June
4:30-6:00 pm IAMHIST Council Meeting (Council members only)/ Ballantine Hall, Room TBD
6:00-8:00 pm / Registration & Opening Reception / Frangipani Room
Sponsored by Taylor & Francis, publisher of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
Thursday, 18 June
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast Frangipani Room
9:00-10:30 am Keynote Session Frangipani Room
Robert Rosenstone (California Institute of Technology): What’s a Nice Historian Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
10:30-11:00 am / Coffee Break Frangipani Room
11:00 am-12:30 pm Parallel Sessions
Nostalgia, Heritage, and the Crisis of Form in the Indian Cinema Centenary Oak Room – Chair: Anupama Kapse
Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh): The Nostalgia Industry and Indian Cinema Centenaries
Meheli Sen (Rutgers University): Mode Retro? Bombay Talkies and the Nostalgia for “Indian” Cinema
Anupama Kapse (Queens College, CUNY): Producing Celluloid History
Historicizing the Aesthetics of Emergent and Convergent Media Maple Room – Chair: Cynthia Meyers
Josh Shepperd (Catholic University): Sense Appeal and Selective Stimulation at the Princeton Radio Research Project, 1937-40
Amanda Keeler (Marquette University): Dragnet‘s Storytelling Strategies from Radio to Television
Kyle Barnett (Bellarmine University): Celebrity Personas and Phonographic Modes of Address
Andrew Bottomley (University of Wisconsin, Madison): From Radio Waves to Data Streams: Early Internet Radio Aesthetics
Film Cultures under Dictatorship Walnut Room – Chair: Roel Vande Winkel
José Miguel Palacios (New York University): Chilean Exile Cinema: Geopolitics, Pathways of Circulation, and Internationalist Solidarity
Germán Silveira (Catholic University of Uruguay): Cinema and Cultural Resistance: Interpreting Films During the Uruguayan Dictatorship (1973-84)
Fernando Ramos Arenas (University of Leipzig): Cinephilia in East Germany and Spain during the 1950s and 60s
Key Figures in Media Politics, 1915-1964 Persimmon Room – Chair: Thomas Hajkoski
Guy Hodgson (John Moores University): Nurse, Martyr, Propaganda Tool: the Reporting and Glorification of Edith Cavell in British Newspapers, 1915-20
Tanya Goldman (New York University): Circulating Solidarity: Thomas Brandon, Leftist Film, and Nontheatrical Distribution, 1930-42
Virginia Madsen (Macquarie University): Documentary Traditions in BBC Radio and the “Feature” Culture of a Radio Pioneer, D.G. Bridson
Cooper Graham & Ron van Dopperen: Sir Roger Casement on Screen
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch
Many choices available within 5 minutes walk of the IMU. See restaurant guide for details.
Graduate Student Lunch Buffet at Taste of India (316 East Fourth St.) offered by IAMHIST – Group should assemble at the desk of the IMU Hotel on Level L at 12.15
2:00-3:30 pm Parallel Sessions
The Evolution and Cultural Contexts of Early Film Theorists Oak Room – Chair: Christelle le Faucheur
Rudiger Steinmetz (University of Leipzig): Hugo Munsterberg in the Press: a Tragic Relationship
David Culbert (Louisiana State University): The Fatherland, Sylvester Viereck’s Pro-German Weekly and His Most Valued Contributor, Hugo Munsterberg
Rudiger Steinmetz and Fernando Ramos (University of Leipzig): From Film Experience to Theory and Back: What Films Influenced Early Film Theorists and Film Critics, and in What Ways (1910-1916)?
The Shock of the New: American and Soviet Responses to the Provocations of Cinema Maple Room – Chair: Guy Hodgson
Stephen Vaughn (University of Wisconsin, Madison): New Media and Present-Mindedness, 1900-1950
Clayton Koppes (Oberlin College): The Shock of the New: Transnational Perspectives on Early Cinema Censorship
Marko Dumancic (University of Western Kentucky): The Cold War’s Cinematic Front: the Soviet New Wave as a Shock to the Party Establishment
Kathryn Brownell (Purdue University): Commentator
Film Exhibition and Reception I Walnut Room – Chair: Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Michael Shull (George Washington University): Hollywood’s Class Wars, 1930-1941
Matt Connolly (University of Wisconsin, Madison): “It’s His Last Tango. Just as Important, It’s Our Last Tango Too”: Reflection and Remembrance in the LGBT Critical Reception of Querelle
Garth Jowett (University of Houston): Toward a History of Movies: a Personal Odyssey
The BBC Revisited Persimmon Room
Chair: Terry Hamblin
Richard Wallis (University of Bournemouth): “Opponents of Godliness”: The Declining Influence of Organized Religion in the UK and the Arrival of Channel 4
Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp): Too Rough for Radio: the Censorship of Samuel Beckett’s Drama on the BBC Third Programme
Thomas Hajkowski (Misericordia University): BBC Broadcasting to South America during the Second World War
Lottie Hoare (University of Cambridge): Mischief and Mavericks: John Newsom’s Hidden Influence on BBC Coverage of Secondary Education
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break / Frangipani Room
4:00-5:30 pm Parallel Sessions
Filmmakers in Postwar Hollywood: Social Realism, Film Noir, and the Blacklist Oak Room – Chair: Sheri Chinen Biesen
Peter Lev (Towson University): Darryl Zanuck, Social Cinema, and the Blacklist
Brian Neve (University of Bath): “Political” Cinema and the Hollywood Blacklist: Cy Endfield, 1948-1951
Sheri Chinen Biesen (Rowan University): Postwar Hollywood Cultural Critique in Fred Zinneman’s Act of Violence
Will Scheibel (Indiana University): What Makes Humphrey Bogart a Rebel: In a Lonely Place in the Reputation of Nicholas Ray
Media and Nostalgia: Remixes, Vintage and Commodification Maple Room
Chair: Michael Dwyer
Manuel Menke (Augsburg University): Helpful, Not Harmful: Media Nostalgia as a Way of Coping with Media Change
Katharina Niemeyer (University of Paris II, CARISM): Vintage, Media, and Nostalgia
Emmanuelle Fantin (CELSA, Paris 4): Is Advertising Itself Inherently Nostalgic? Self-Reflexive Use of the Past in Modern French Advertising
Women and Media Walnut Room
– Chair: Neepa Majumdar
Maha Al-Saati (Dammam University): Censorship in Saudi Women’s Self-Representation on Video
Jeannine Baker (Macquarie University): Australian Commercial Radio and the Female Audience
Senem Cevik (Ankara University): Turkish Female Protagonists As Role Models for Muslim Women: Implications and Challenges for the Middle East’
Andrée Lafontaine (University of Montreal): MGM’s Early Transmedia Practices
Media and the Cold War Persimmon Room – Chair: Kathryn Brownell
Terry Hamblin (State University of New York, Delhi): Cold War Radio: the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and US Broadcast Propaganda in Europe, 1946-60
Cynthia Meyers (College of Mount Saint Vincent): The Struggle Over Blacklisting on Kraft Television Theatre: J. Walter Thompson, Kraft, and Anticommunist Activists, 1951-55
5:30-7:30 pm / Dinner
Many choices available downtown within 5 minutes walk of the IMU. See restaurant guide for details.
8:00 pm – Screening at IU Cinema with Filmmaker Connie Field
Have You Heard From Johannesburg? (2010) – Episode 6: “The Bottom Line” (86 minutes) – IU Cinema (1213 East 7th St)
Friday, 19 June
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast/ Frangipani Room
9:00-10:30 am Plenary Session/ Frangipani Room
Rachael Stoeltje (Indiana University): How Digitization Has Altered the Traditional Film Archive
Laurie Antolovic (Indiana University): The Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI) at IU
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break Frangipani Room
11:00 am-12:30 pm Parallel Sessions
Tours of Indiana University’s Moving Image Archive and MDPI Facility ALF / IU Innovation Center
Hosted by Rachael Stoeltje, Director of the Moving Image Archive/ Hosted by Laurie Antolovic, Director of the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative
Capacity is 20 visitors. Shuttle van will leave from entrance of IMU Hotel at 11 am
Genre, Adaptation, and Ideology Oak Room – Chair: Thomas Prasch
Andrew Salvati (Rutgers University): Presenting the Past on the Small Screen: History Television and American Popular Culture, 1949-1995
Thomas Prasch (Washburn University): 2 x 12: Comparing Adaptations of Solomon Northrup’s 12 Years a Slave
Researching American Cinematographers in the Great War, 1914-1918 Maple Room – Chair: Leen Engelen
James Castellan: Using Online Surrogate Sources to Document Wilbur Durborough’s Lost Film’s Attributes and Records
Cooper Graham: Uses of the Internet in Tracing the Mysterious Donald C. Thompson
Ron van Dopperen: Albert K. Dawson: Reconstructing the Life & Work of a World War I Film Correspondent
Nostalgic Media and Mediatized Nostalgia Walnut Room – Chair: Katharina Niemeyer
Morena La Barba (University of Geneva): Migrant Nostalgia: from the Future to the Past
Muhammad Asghar (Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design): Pictures of Love and Piety in Domestic Spaces – the Case of Pakistan
Ryan Lizardi (SUNY Polytechnic Institute): The Ultimate NES Remix of the Past: Nintendo’s Exploitation and Commodification of Fan Nostalgia
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch
Many choices available within 5 minutes walk of the IMU. See restaurant guide for details.
2:00-3:30 pm
Plenary Roundtable with Filmmaker Connie Field – The Challenges of Writing History with Film
Participants: Connie Field (Clarity Films)
Nick Cull (University of Southern California)
James Chapman (University of Leicester)
Brett Bowles (Indiana University)
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break/ Frangipani Room
4:00-5:30 pm Parallel Sessions
Representations of Leadership and Empowerment in Film and Media Oak Room – Chair: Christina Hodel
Mbaye Sèye (University of Bayreuth): Women’s Empowerment in the Senegalese Films Madame Brouette and Karmen Gei
Jessica Johnston (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee): What Every Woman Should Know: Sex Ed on YouTube and the Power of the Female Voice
Christina Hodel (University of Kansas): Characterizing Presidential Power: the Portrayal of a Female President in 24: Redemption and 24
Robert Hensley-King (Ghent University): Leadership and Authority and the New Hollywood Antihero
Film Exhibition & Reception II Maple Room – Chair: Andrée Lafontaine
Elizabeth Peterson (University of Oregon): Small-Town Movie Theaters in Oregon, 1905-1919
Laura Asbury (Indiana University): Histories of an Afterlife: Cultural Memory and Traces of Cinema Exhibition History in Four Former Illinois Movie Houses
Thunnis van Oort (University of Antwerp): Movie-Going at the Docks: A Comparative Analysis of the Cinema Cultures of Antwerp (Flanders) and Rotterdam (Netherlands), 1910-1990
Archives in Media History I Walnut Room – Chair: Terry Hamblin
Alban Webb (University of Sussex): BBC Oral History and the Digital Public Space
Jesper Verhoef (University of Utrecht): Techniques to Analyze Digitized Newspapers: a Case Study
Eric Hoyt (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Project Arclight, or How to Data Mine the Media History Digital Library’s 1.5 Million Pages
The Impact of the Great War on Local Cinema Cultures Maple Room – Chair: Leen Engelen
Leslie Midkiff-DeBauche (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point): Movies in the Midwest at the End of WWI
Leen Engelen (LUCA / KU Leuven): Between Euphoria, Opportunism, and Resentment: Cinema Culture in (No-Longer-)Occupied Belgium
Paul Lesch (University of Luxembourg): Cinema Culture in Wartime Luxemburg
5:30-7:30 pm Dinner
Many choices available within 5 minutes walk of the IMU. See restaurant guide for details.
8:00 pm – Screening at IU Cinema with Filmmaker Connie Field
Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine (2014, 93 minutes) – IU Cinema (1213 East 7th St)
Saturday, 20 June
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast/Frangipani Room
9:00-10:30 am Plenary Session/ Frangipani Room
Gary R. Edgerton (Butler University): Why The Sopranos Matters: The Ascendancy of
U.S. Scripted Programming in the 21st Century
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break/Frangipani Room
11:00 am-1:00 pm Tour of Film and Television Print Archives at Lilly Library
There will be two visits, from 11 am – 12 pm and 12 pm – 1 pm. Each tour can accommodate up to 35 visitors. Participants should plan lunch around whichever tour they choose.
2:00-3:30 pm Parallel Sessions
Media, Memory, and Nationalism Persimmon Room – Chair: Manuel Menke
Mehmet Furat (Istanbul University) : Are Ottoman Archives Rediscovered? Ottoman Style in Turkish Media
Ekaterina Kalinina (Södertörn University & Swedish National Defense University): Post-Soviet Media Nostalgia in Shaping Modern Russian National Identity
Media, Public Policy, and Advertising Oak Room – Chair: Brian Neve
Paul Monticone (University of Texas, Austin): Managerial Cultures of Advertising and Public Relations in the MPPDA, 1939-45
Chelsea McCracken (University of Wisconsin, Madison): The Next Frontier in Film Promotion: Hollywood’s Internet Use in the mid-1990s
Meghan Grosse (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): US Approaches to Internet Governance and the International Response
Robert Crawford (University of Technology, Sydney): Learning to Be Global: Staff Training and Multinational Advertising Agencies in the Asia-Pacific Region
New Media Technologies and Forms in Context Walnut Room – Chair: Julien Mailland
Beth Tsai (State University of New York, Stony Brook): Reframing the Historical Transnational: a Look at Early European Avant-Garde Films, 1910-1930
Olga Blackledge (University of Pittsburgh): Animation as a Medium and Discourse: the Cases of German and Soviet Cel Animation in the 1930s
Julien Mailland (Indiana University): Minitel: A Revisited History of Online Innovation
Fascist Film Culture in the 1930s Persimmon Room – Chair: Brett Bowles
Roel Vande Winkel (LUCA-KU Leuven): Screenwriting for National-Socialist Production Companies: a Rare Eyewitness Account
Christelle Le Faucheur (University of Texas, Austin): Between Ideology and Pragmatism: the German Film Academy, 1938-1940
Kirby Pringle (Loyola University, Chicago): Building the Roman Hollywood: Vittorio Mussolini and the Creation of a National Cinema, 1937-1942
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break /Frangipani Room
4:00-5:30 pm Parallel Sessions
New Approaches to Media History Oak Room – Chair: Asta Zelenkauskaite
Michihiro Okamoto (Tokyo University): Visual and Digital History in the Age of Globalization
Lars Weckbecker (Zayed University): Documentary of Monumentary Film? Early Griersonian Documentary Reconsidered
Asta Zelenkauskaite (Drexel University): Tracing Audiences Engagement: Historical Perspectives on Technologies and Practices
American Music & Film Maple Room – Chair: Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Michael Dwyer (Arcadia University): Nostalgia and Oldies Songs in 1980s American Film
Kathryn Fuller-Seeley (University of Texas, Austin): Jack Benny’s Tentative Turn Toward Television
Archives in Media History II Walnut Room – Chair: Lauren Bratslavsky
Lauren Bratslavsky (Illinois State University): How Television Entered Academic Archives in the Golden Age of Collection Popular Culture
Sara Chapman (Media Burn, Chicago): How Digital Archives of Camera Original Footage Facilitate New Ways of Studying the 20th/21st Centuries
Mark Williams (Dartmouth University): The Media Ecology Project and Its International Outreach
James Bond Revisited Persimmon Room – Chair: David Culbert Llewella Burton (University of East Anglia): Bond Undressed: Fashioning a Lifestyle in the James Bond Films
James Chapman (University of Leicester): The Forgotten James Bond: the CBS production of Casino Royale (1954)
6:00-7:00 pm IAMHIST General Assembly Meeting Frangipani Room
