SSAAANZ Conference Schedule – Final Version
A PDF copy of the abstracts can be accessed here.
Wednesday, November 23
8.30 – 9.00
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Registration
Alan MacDiarmid Foyer |
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9.00 – 9.15
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Welcome
AM Foyer |
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9.15 – 10.45
Session 1 |
Creative Agency and Industrial Contexts
AM 102 Chair: Russell Campbell |
Accents, Identities, Screens
AM 104
Chair: Alan Wright
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Workshop on Video Essays
AM105 |
Russell Campbell, “Montagu at Gaumont-British”
Christina Milligan, “What Is a Creative Producer? Or
Is that an Oxymoron?”
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Jean Anderson and Carolina Miranda, “Going West,
Going South …”
Tessa Dwyer, “Changing Accents: Nation, Place and Top of the Lake”
Alan Wright, “The Idea of Dubbing: An Uncanny
History of New Zealand Film”
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Catherine Fowler
Sean Redmond
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10.45 – 11.15
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Morning Tea
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11.15 – 12.45
Session 2 |
Memory
AM 102 Chair: Fincina Hopgood |
Gender and Screen Production
AM 104 Chair: Claire Henry |
Technology and Cinema’s Past/Future
AM 105 Chair: Thierry Jutel |
George Kouvaros, “‘A Week after We Landed in America
(Bklyn) We Borrowed Money and Bought Our First Bolex’: Cinema and Migration
in Jonas Mekas’ Lost Lost Lost and Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania”
Megan Carrighy, “Coniston: Screen Memories, Past, Present
and Future”
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Jessica Ford, “Beyond Difficult White Men on
(Quality) Television: Towards a Feminist ‘Indie’ American Television”
Maile Daugherty, “The Filmmaking Process’
Contribution to Gender Inequality, and Higher Education’s Role Future-Proofing
the Industry’s Gender Diversity Issues”
Polly Stupples, “Stretching the ‘Celluloid Ceiling’:
Emerging Research on Women Film-Makers in the Pacific”
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Alfio Leotta, “Total Cinema: Rene Barjavel and the
Future of Film”
Yong Liu, “From ‘Dimensional Effects’ to
Stereoscopic Hyperrealism: The Transformation of Digital 3D Cinematic
Aesthetics”
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12.45 – 1.45
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Lunch
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1.45 – 3.15
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Keynote Speech: Big Data Goes to the Movies
Deb Verhoeven
KK 301 Chair: Deborah Jones
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3.15 – 3.45
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Afternoon
Tea
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3.45 – 5.15
Session
3
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Australian Film Histories
AM 102 Chair: Deane Williams |
Horror
AM 104 Chair: Mark Ryan
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New Perspectives on Sound and Music
AM 105 Chair: Geoff Stahl |
Adrian Danks, “‘Something Short of Fascinating’:
Re-examining Fred Zinneman’s The
Sundowners”
Con Verevis, “Kangaroo: The Australian Story”
James Douglas, “Roads Not Taken: Kennedy Miller
Mitchell and Parallel Histories of Australian National Cinema
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Stuart Richards, “Co-Produced Scares: Kimble Rendall
and Outwardly Australian Horror”
Adam Daniel, “What Hides behind the Stream:
Post-Cinematic Hauntings of the Digital Realm”
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Eloise Ross, “Beyond the Waves: Sound beyond the
Screen”
Anne Barnes, “Listening to the Cinematic Soundscape”
Phoebe Macrossan, “Nostalgia, Utopia and
Authenticity in the The Beatles Musical Across
the Universe”
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6.00 – 7.00
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Drinks
Reception at Ngā Taonga New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St
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Thursday, November 24
8.30 – 9.00
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Registration
Alan MacDiarmid Foyer |
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9.00 – 10.30
Session 4
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Family and
Relationships on New Zealand Screens
AM 102
Chair: Alfio Leotta
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Transformations
in Policy and Funding
AM 101 Chair: Deborah Jones |
Paratexts and
Utilitarian Filmmaking
AM 104 Chair: Minette Hillyer |
Pop Culture
Intersections
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Brian
McDonnell, “Lee Tamahori’s Mahana
(2016): A Melodramatic Maori Story-scape of the Mid-20th Century”
Caroline
Grose, “Troubling Innocence: The Adult-Child in the Films of Taika Waititi”
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Lauren
Carroll Harris, “Festivals as Distribution Circuits: Investigating the
Post-Festival Distribution of Australian Cinema”
Deborah Jones
and Argelia Munoz, “Film Industry Policies in New Zealand During the National
Government, 2009-2013”
Rebecca
Laycock, “The Audience’s Worth: Crowdfunding as a Source of Film Finance”
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Thierry
Jutel, “Performing Authenticity in Peter Jackson’s King Kong Production Diaries”
Rosina Hickman,
“Home Movies: Boring or Amazing?”
Deane
Williams, “The Cinema within: Transnational and National Concerns of
‘Utilitarian Filmmaking’ in Australia 1945-1980”
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Peter
Pugsley, “Dai Nipponjin and the
Phenomena of the Masked Hero”
Dani
Pickering, “Demogor-What? Strategies of Complexity, Intertextuality, and
Audience Engagement in Netflix’s Stranger
Things”
Tim Groves,
“Murderous Imitation? The Influence of Se7en
on Credit Sequences”
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10.30 – 11.00
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Morning Tea
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11.00 – 12.45
Session 5
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The Living
Dead
AM 102
Chair: Allan Cameron
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Screening
Borders and Cultural Identities
AM 104 Chair: Brian McDonnell |
Embodiment,
Violence, Art Cinema
AM 105 Chair: Miriam Ross |
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Allan Cameron,
“Vampire Optics”
Kevin Fisher,
“The Double, The Future Perfect, and the Already (Un)Dead in Lake Mungo”
Jenny
Stuemer, “Damnatio ad Bestias: Performing (Living) Death”
Lawrence May, “Building the Apocalypse”
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Brooke
McArthur, “Programming Windows and Bridges: The Vision of Australia Network
and Its Impact on Screen Cultures in the Asia-Pacific Region”
Rachael
Anderson, “Framing the Border: Airport Governmentalities and the New Zealand
Citizen”
Susan Nemec,
“Migrant Audiences Watching Maori Television”
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Janice
Loreck, “Alienation and Emancipation: Reframing Art Cinema’s Transgressive
Women”
Michel Rubin,
“The Affective Force of the Scream in La
Vie Nouvelle”
Claire Henry,
“Carving out an Australian Sensory Cinema”
Sarah Dillon,
“The Future is Female: Her, Ex-Machina
and Gynoidian Skins”
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12.45 – 1.30
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Lunch
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1.30 – 3.00
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Plenary Session: Televisual Transformations
Trisha Dunleavy, “Sea Change in American TV: Post-Network Television,
Non-Broadcast TV Drama, and the ‘Complex Serial’”
Eva Novrup Redvall, “Sea change in Danish Television
Drama Production and Circulation”
HULT 220 Chair: Deb
Verhoeven
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3.00 – 3.30
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Afternoon
Tea
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3.30 – 5.00
Session
6
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New Screen Platforms
AM 102 Chair: Toija Cinque |
Rethinking Colonial Histories
AM 104 Chair: Adrian Danks |
Mobilizing Queer Identities
AM 105 Chair: Stuart Richards |
Kirsten Stevens, “Film Festivals
in the Age of Social Media: Exploring ‘Liveness’ through the Digitally
Connected Audience”
Toija Cinque, “Television Futures:
A Screen for All Things”
Alexa Scarlata, “Netflix and Kill: The Production
Opportunities and Limitations of ‘Television without Borders’”
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Andrew Couzens, “The
Transformation of the Outlaw in Australian Cinema”
Rebecca Weeks, “Historians of the
Screen: The Case of Deadwood”
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Susan Potter, “Closet Couple: Bill
Cunningham and Andy Warhol”
Whitney Monaghan, “Queering
Australia in Web and TV Series: Starting
From … Now!”
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7.00
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Conference Dinner
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Friday, November 25
9.15 – 9.30
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Registration
Alan MacDiarmid Foyer |
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9.30 – 10.30
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SSAAANZ AGM
AM 102 |
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10.30 – 11.00
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Morning Tea
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11.00 – 12.30
Session 7 |
Female
Psychological Landscapes
AM 102 Chair: Susan Potter |
Rethinking Representations
of Race
AM 104 Chair: Christian Long |
Using Data
AM 105 Chair: Alexa Scarlata |
Fincina
Hopgood, “Of Mothers and Madwomen: Mining the Emotional Terrain of Toni
Collette’s Anti-Star Persona”
Diana
Sanders, “No Straight Lines: Childhood and the Outsider in Mary and Max and The Dressmaker”
Patricia
Di Risio, “Kate Winslet: Confronting Emotional Demons on Screen in Australia
and New Zealand”
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Christian
Long, “In Search of the Castaways’
Maori Encounter”
Fairooz
Samy, “‘It's My
Responsibility to Force Them to Know What to Do with Me’: Halle Berry and
Assimilationist Discourse”
Stella
Ramage, “Skins: Sexuality, Clothing, Adornment, and Race in Frank Hurley’s The Jungle Woman”
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Ian
Huffer, “Digital Diversity? Online Film Consumption in Aotearoa New Zealand”
Vejune
Zemaityte, Deb Verhoeven, Bronwyn Coate, “Testing the 10% Rule: Are American
Films One-Tenth as Popular in Australia as They Are in the US?”
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12.30 – 1.45
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Lunch (including
postgraduate student professional development workshop, AM 102)
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1.45 – 3.15
Session 8 |
Cultural
Identity and Governmentality
AM 102 Chair: Megan Carrigy |
Teaching
Screen Content
AM 104 Chair: Geoff Lealand |
Re-contextualizing
Screen Landscapes
AM 105 Chair: Allison Craven |
Simon
Sigley, “From Native Others to Neighbours: The National Film Unit, Islanders,
and Governance”
Alec
Morgan, “Empire of Illusion: Film Censorship, Eugenics and Aboriginal
Spectatorship in Australia’s Northern Territory 1928-1950”
Daniel
Eisenberg, “An Unfinished Front: The Department of Information Films of Frank
Hurley
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Mark
David Ryan and Kayleigh Murphy, “Pedagogical Issues of Australian Screen
Content in Tertiary Education”
Geoff
Lealand, “‘Why Keep Using American Films When Ours Are So Good?’ The Use of
Local Screen Content in New Zealand Schools”
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Adrian
Danks, “‘You’re a Very Bad Man, Walker’: The Ecological Cinema of John
Boorman”
Merri
Randell, “Constructing Nature: Trans-Tasman Resonances and Uncanny
Monstrosities”
Allison
Craven, “Our Lady of The Shallows:
A Heroine of the Terraform Tropics in Queensland’s Genre Cinema”
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3.15
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Closing
Remarks
AM Foyer |
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