Mediated Bodies: Re-Presenting Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality (and Criminality) in Performance Media

Saturday, 13 December

9:30 am—3:30 pm, KH 213

Students in Topics in Film and Media: Mediated Bodies (THEA 435) will be presenting papers on topics encompassing TV, film, and live performance. Subjects range from race, gender, and sexuality to the discourses of stuffed animals and criminalized bodies. Lunch and discussion opportunities will be available.

Featuring:

9:30 am You Make Me Feel Like a Naturalized Woman: Denaturalizing Race and Gender

Audrey Bordes (chair), “Planet of the Apes, 1968 vs. 2001: Evolution in the Representation of the Structure of Racial Hegemony”

Kelly Burden, “Yousa Shufflin’ Jive Talkin’ Ghettofabulous Brotha: Roles of African American Men in Film 1900's-1990's”

Lisa Burkman, “Crime Films: Keeping Women in Their Place”

Zena Chilcoat, "Branding Blackness: Hip Hop Music Videos as Infomercials Selling Blackness"

Maggie Low, “Through the Woods or Over the Cliff: Busting Out of the Genre”

10:45 am Instructive Bodies/Indestructible Ideas

Hannah Piper Burns (chair), “Deeper Into the Rabbit Hole: The New Film-Based Video Game Narratives and the Shifting Subjectivity of Dominant Cinema”

Jackee Borowski, “Re-making the Heroine: Power and Privilege in Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

Laura Brockmeyer, “Who's Laughing Now? Women in Comedy from the 20th Century to Today”

Allison Clapp, “‘B’ is for ‘Boy’ and ‘G’ is for ‘Girl’:  Learning Gender Roles from the Muppets of Sesame Street”

Cheryl Quimba, “She Was a Teenage Tigress:  Reading Teen Pulp Covers as Sexually Discursive Texts”

12:00 pm Lunch Break

12:30 pm Bodies of Desire: Pornography and Fantasy

Liz Bergstrom (chair), “Identification and the Anti-Aesthetic in Suburban Dykes”

Valerie Dowdle, “Fantastic Bodies and Banal Behavior: Girls and Boys at Predetermined Play in The Brotherhood of the Wolf”

Kyle Penick, “The Transvestite Fantasy, Every Man's Ideal Woman: Gender Construction in M. Butterfly”

Katie Richards-Peelle, “Borderline Pornography Disorder: A Study of Sexual Content in Printed Advertisements”

1:30 pm Production and Reception of Marked Bodies

Susan Weddell (chair), “Underneath that Vacant Stare: The Implications of Heroin Chic”

Rikka Etheridge, “Representations of Gay Men on Television”

Jessie Gray, “A Taste for Camp in John Waters’s Polyester”

Annelise Montone, "Not New, Just 'Improved': Television Commercials and Feminism Lite"

2:30 pm Whose Criminalized Body is It, Anyway?

Christine Penny (chair), “You Have the Right to Remain Silenced -- Representations of the Criminal Body”

Megan Gabriel, “Selling Black Nationalism to White Audiences in MTV's Tupac: Ressurrection”

Eddie Pike, “Strung Out: Drug Use and Disembodied Narration in A Clockwork Orange and Trainspotting”

Jessica Searle, “‘I'm Sorry, I Don't Know Why Your Asshole's Bleeding’: Using Humor to Naturalize Campus Date Rape on Film”

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