2004 Conference:  Narration, Imagination, and 
Emotion in Moving Image Media

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8:00                  Conference Registration/Information Table
8:30-9:00            Welcome & Introduction, Oak Room
9:00-10:30
1A. Genre and Emotion  Oak Room
     "Menippean Movies: A Cognitive Perspective," Peter Porter, Grand Valley
          State University
     "Melodrama as a Shortcut to Stress Tranquilizing," Mette Kramer, University
          of Copenhagen
     "A Taxonomy of Pathos," Ben Singer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
     Chair: Wayne Munson, Fitchburg State University

1B. Realism Revisited Elm Room
     "The Relationship of Reality and Fantasy in the Films of Ray Harryhausen,"
          Benjamin Meade, Avila University
     "The Illusion of Reality: Vietnam Memories and World War II Films," Dotty
          Hamilton, Avila University
     "Things I am Not Imagining When Seeing a Film: Revisiting the Illusionist
          Framework," Johannes Riis, University of Copenhagen
     Chair: Malcolm Turvey, Sarah Lawrence College

2A.  Character Engagement I  Oak Room
     "Tracing the Routes to Empathy: Association, Appraisal, or Simulation?"
          Daniel Barratt, University of Kent, Canturbury
     "Contagious Emotion," Amy Coplan, California State University, Fullerton
     "Kinds and Patterns of Closeness to Characters," Jens Eder, University of
          Hamburg
     Chair: Dan Flory, Montana State University

2B.  Film Theory and Perception    Elm Room
     "Editing Attention: the Perceptual Foundations of Continuity Editing," Tim
         Smith, University of Edinburgh
     "Effects of Film Velocity and Figure Locomotion on Genre Categorization and
          Affective Viewer Impressions," Valentijn Visch, Free University
          (Amsterdam)
     "'I don't jump off high buildings but why do I jump when I go to the movies?":
          Film as a Physical Machine," Lisa Fehsenfeld, Grand Valley State University
     "IMAX and the Return of Verticality to the Image: Why it Matters," Brian
          O'Leary, Pennsylvania State University, Erie
     Chair: Benjamin Meade, Avila University

3.  Film-Elicited Emotion Oak Room
     "Disgust at the Movies," Carl Plantinga, Calvin College
     "The Kuleshov Effect Revisited: Perception of Causality Induces Emotions,"
          Alen Hajnal, University of Connecticut
     "How 'Real' is Movie Violence?  Film Style and Viewer Responses from the
          Production Code Administration to The Passion of the Christ," Stephen
      Prince, Virginia Tech
     Chair: Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston

4.  On Film Theory  Oak Room
     "Against Nature: Modernism and Evolutionary Explanation," Murray Smith,
          University of Kent, Canterbury
     "A Door onto Other Worlds: Emotion, Humanism, and the Films of the Past," 
          Casper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen
     "General Theory in Film Studies and the Flow Model Revisited," Torben
          Grodal, University of Copenhagen
     Chair: László Tarnay, University of Pécs

5A.   Sound, Rhythm & Motion  Oak Room
     "Motion in Computer Displays," Nokon Heo, University of Central Arkansas
     "Emotions and Rhythms in Film: A Methodological Inquiry," Bohdan Nebesio,
          University of Alberta
     "On the Specificity of Sound and its Relation to the Moving Image," László
          Tarnay, University of Pécs
     Chair: Charles Eidsvik, University of Georgia

5B.   Form and the Spectator  Elm Room
     "Story/Screen/Spectator: The Construction of Space in Orson Welles' Touch
          of Evil," James Fiumara, University of Pennsylvania
     "Do You Remember Sammy Jankis? Film Narration and Spectator Memory,"
           Stefano Ghislotti, University of Bergamo
     "Emotions, Memory, and Memento," Karen Renner, University of Connecticut
     Chair: William Evans, University of Alabama

6A.  Narrative and Characterization    Elm Room
     "Situations in the Narrative Process," András Kovács, Institute of Art and
          Communication, ELTE (Budapest)
     "Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives: On the Storytelling Principles of
          Early Hollywood Filmmakers," Patrick Keating, University of
          Wisconsin-Madison
     "Characterization as Social Cognition in Welcome to the Dollhouse," Michael
          Newman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
     Chair: Jinhee Choi, Carleton University/University of Wisconsin-Madison

6B. Film Theory II   Oak Room
     "So Real You Can Feel It: Perception Beyond the Ecological Theory," Chris
          Robinson, University of Kansas
     "Problems with the Simulation Theory of the Imagination," Malcolm Turvey,
          Sarah Lawrence College
     "Synthesizing Approaches in Film Theory," Henry Bacon, University of Helsinki
     "Film  as Argument," Tom Wartenberg, Mt. Holyoke College
     Chair: Torben Grodal, University of Copenhagen

7.  Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations  Oak Room
     Chair: Joseph Anderson, University of Central Arkansas
     "Concepts in an Ecological Theory of Moving Images," Joseph Anderson,
          University of Central Arkansas
     "Acoustic Specification of Object Properties," Jeffrey Wagman, Illinois State
          University
     "Through Alice's Glass: The Creation and Perception of Other Worlds in
          Movies, Pictures, and Virtual Reality,"  Sheena Rogers, James Madison
          University

Break: 3:30-3:40  Fireside Room

     "Reality Programming: Evolutionary Models of Film and Television
          Viewership," William Evans, University of Alabama
     "Documentary's Peculiar Appeals," Dirk Eitzen, Franklin and Marshall
          University

8.   Plenary Session: Oak Room
     "Narrative Universals, Nationalism, and Sacrificial Terror: From Nosferatu to
          Nazism"  Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut
     Chair: David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

9A.  Adaptations/Remakes/Reworkings  Elm Room
     "Movie Dissonance: Gus Van Sant˙s Psycho and the Spectator," Francesca
          Liguoro, Instituto Universitario "Suor Orsola Benincasa"
     "'The Book Was Better": The Cognitive and Artistic Relations of Novels and
          their Cinematic Offspring," Eileen John, University of Lousville
     "Ancient Dramaturgy and Modern Filmography: Kalidasa to Bimal Roy," Lalita
          Pandit, University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse
     Chair: András Kovács, ELTE (Hungary)

9B. Video Games and New Technologies Oak Room
     "Domestic Video Technology and the Transformation of the Experience of the
          Moving Image," Jim Bizzocchi, Simon Fraser University
     "Video Games and Emotion," Bernard Perron, University of Montreal
     "Emotion in the First Person Shooter," Jonathan Frome, University of
          Wisconsin-Madison
     Chair: Stephen Prince, Virginia Tech

10A .  Alternative Forms  Oak Room
     "Emotion and Avant-Garde Film," Jennifer Chung, University of
          Wisconsin-Madison
     "Cinematic Immediacy: Historical and Theoretical Perspective on an Evolving
          Aesthetic Term," Joe Kickasola, Baylor University
     "The Emotional Design of Music Videos: Approaches to Audiovisual
          Metaphors," Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle
     Chair: Johannes Riis, University of Copenhagen

10B.  Character Engagement II  Elm Room
     "Race and Sympathy in Recent Noir-Influenced Films," Dan Flory, Montana
          State University
     "The Value of Empathy in Film," Katherine Thomson, Oberlin College
     "Voice and Gesture as Indicators and Producers of Emotion in Fiction Films,"
          Charles Eidsvik, University of Georgia
     Chair: Amy Coplan, California State University at Fullerton

11.  Author Meets Critics: Noël Carroll's Engaging the Moving Image  
     Oak Room
     "Naturalizing Hollywood? Against the Naturalistic Account of Filmic
          Communication."  Jinhee Choi, Carleton University/University of
          Wisconsin-Madison
     "Carroll's Proposal for Film Evaluation," Cynthia Freeland, University of
          Houston
     "My Dinner with Noel; or, Can We Forget the Medium?", Murray Smith,
          University of Kent, Canterbury
     Respondent, Noël Carroll, Temple University
     Chair: Thomas Wartenberg, Mt. Holyoke College

12.   Plenary Session  Oak Room
     "Serendipity Stories and Network Narratives"
     David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
     Chair: Carl Plantinga, Calvin College

7:00   Closing Banquet
     Duba's Restaurant,  420 East Beltline, N.E. Attendance is limited to those who
     have prepaid.  List available at the Conference Information Desk.
     Directions: Take the East Beltline north five miles.  Turn right just after Michigan
     Ave. and before the highway overpass.  Duba˙s is off to the right, about 100
     meters from the road.

    Schedule for shuttles to Duba's
     Prince:  6:45 p.m., Comfort Inn: 6:40 p.m., Residence Inn: 6:45 p.m.
     Shuttles will return to the motels as needed, on the half-hour.

Film Studies: An International Review was founded in 1999, and has just been adopted by Manchester University Press (distributed by Palgrave in the US). Beginning in 2004 the journal will be published on a biannual cycle. The journal was founded, in the words of the editorial of the first issue, as an "attempt to rejuvenate engagement with cinema as a field of critical, conceptual and historical study," in the hope "that something may return of the passion and commitment, the sense of discovery, which first inspired film studies." Past issues have included essays by Laura Mulvey, Charles Musser, Yuri Tsivian, and Peter Wollen, as well as dossier material on Hollis Frampton, Michael Powell, Raul Ruiz, and Aleksandr Sokurov. The journal editors are Ian Christie (Birkbeck, London), Michael Grant and Murray Smith (both University of Kent). For the special CCSMI issue, Daniel Barratt (University of Kent) will be acting as guest issue editor. Enquires should in the first instance be directed to him, at dhb2@kent.ac.uk.  Submissions (six copies plus disk) should be sent, by October 1st, to The Editor, Film Studies: An International Review, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, UK.

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