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2008 Conference

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Sunday Detail Schedule

7:00-8:00

Mayflower 1, Area Chair Breakfast. Open only to Area Chairs.

7:00-9:30

Continental Ballroom, Continental Breakfast. Free admission to conference registrants, but you must wear your badge.

7:45-11:30

Hotel Lobby, Registration

8:30-12:00

Rockwood, Book Exhibits

8:00-9:30

3101. Julep. Ethnography and Popular Culture: Cultural Locations and Dislocations. Area: Ethnography

?eyond the Leased Landscape: Gentrification, Displacement, and Popular Culture, Ruth Bergman, University of Maryland
?unning Around Hitting People: Rugby and the Reproduction of Nostalgic Masculinity, Rachel Luria, University of South Carolina
?ransitioning in the Wake of Change: An Ethnography of a Small Organization, Falon Kartch, Northern Illinois University
?oroccan Hip-Hop and American Cultural Imperialism: The Complicated and Contradictory Relationships Between American Hip-Hop, Moroccan Culture, and Islam, Omar Myers, University of Maryland
Chair: Asim Ali, University of Maryland

3102. Mayflower 1. Executive Council Meeting.

Executive Council Members:

Gretchen Bisplinghoff
Paul Booth
Gary Burns
Brian Ekdale
Jane L. Florine
MaryAnn Janosik
Heather McIntosh
Angela M. Nelson
Brendan Riley
Lori Abels Scharenbroich
Timothy E. Scheurer
Kathleen Turner
Chair: Gretchen Bisplinghoff

3103. Mayflower 2

3104. Mayflower 3. War and Media. Area: War

?he Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Vietnam War Narratives in Vietnamese American Films, Yuki Obayashi, San Francisco State University
?olitical Sovereignty/Militarized Subjectivity: Or, The War Photograph in an Age of Digital Manipulation, Jana Evans Braziel, University of Cincinnati
?ombat in the Matrix, David Watson, Central Carolina Community College
?ow Western Media Maintain their Credibility after One Hundred Years of War Reporting, Claudia Heske, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Claudia Heske

3105. Salon A. Ideology on Television. Area: Television and Radio

?he Office and Nominating the Ideology of Mass Corporatization As Progress, Scott Walus, University of Missouri
?omen, Flak, and Being There: Fans Identifications of and with Male Friendship in the HBO Series Entourage, Corey B. Davis, University of Missouri
?ovin On Up: A Value Analysis of The Riches, Jeffrey Delbert, University of Missouri
?elebration or Trivialization?: Dirty Jobs and the Separation of Laborers from Labor, Mark Glantz, University of Missouri
Chair: Mark Glantz

3106. Salon E. Queer Identities and Relationships. Area: Queer Studies

?olly Bolt: An All-American Queer Defying Hometown Normativity in Rita Mae Brown? Rubyfruit Jungle, Meg Holland, Rider University
?he Shadows of Life: Stepping into the Light of the Rainbow, Carroll Clayton Savant, University of Texas-Dallas
?So if I am a Girl I Should Be Like This? Trans Audiences and the Mass Media, Andre Cavalcante, University of Michigan
Chair: Andre Cavalcante

3107. Salon F

3108. Salon G. The Marvel Universe and the New Relevancy. Area: Comics

?aptain America, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and the Vietnam Era, Shawn Gillen, Beloit College
?tevie? Got a Gun: Captain America and His Problematic Use of Lethal Force, Phillip L. Cunningham, Bowling Green State University
?ommodification of the Other: New X-Men and X-Force, Ora McWilliams, Bowling Green State University
?inding a Place for a Muslimah Heroine in the Post-9/11 Marvel Universe: Liminality, the American Monomyth, and the New X-Men? Dust, Julie A. Davis, College of Charleston, ; Robert Westerfelhaus, College of Charleston,
Chair: Paul Kohl, Loras College

3109. Salon H.

3110. Salon I. Gender and Identity in British Film and Television: Look Back in Anger, Nighty Night. Area: British Popular Culture

?ounded Masculinity: Postcolonial Gender Redefinitions in Look Back In Anger, Samuel M. Jay, University of North Texas
?aying Nighty Night to British Soap Operas, Melinda Lewis, Bowling Green State University
Chair: David Schimpf, Marian University

3111. Salon M. Fashion, Consumption and Identity Construction. Area: Fashion

?nderstanding Feminist Backlash through a Fashionable Framework: A Content Analysis of Vogue, Brooke Rutherford, University of Ottowa
?elmut Lang: The Construction of Retail Identity through Fashion and Architecture, Maria Sacchetti, University of the Arts, London
?nything But Love: Elizabeth Hawes and the Feminist Mystique, Cynthia Amn?s, Cincinnati Art Museum
Chair:

9:45-11:15

3201. Julep.

3202. Mayflower 1.

3203. Mayflower 2. Varieties in Adaptation Studies. Area: Adaptations

?orrible Signs: Ringu, The Ring, and the Globalization of Horror, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
?ndecent Performance: Adaptations of Mae West in Court and on Screen, Erica Stein, University of Iowa
?artoons into Literature: Walt Disney and the Big Little Books, Susan Ohmer, University of Notre Dame
?epaving the Yellow Brick Road: The Adaptability of The Wizard of Oz, Katie Zapoluch, Southern Illinois University
Chair: Robert T. Self, Northern Illinois University

3204. Mayflower 3. Reconsidering History Through Indian Narrative. Area: Indian Popular Culture

?he Wandering Jew in India: Identity, Displacement and Memory in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay, Funda Bas*ak Baskan, Middle East Technical University
?arrative in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Elizabeth Richardson, Central Washington University
?he Violence of a Vanishing History: A Reading of Amu, Kaustav Mukherjee, Michigan State University
Chair: Sarah Erickson, Northern Illinois University

3205. Salon A. Cultural Issues of Fandom. Area: Fan Studies

? Case Study of the Fan Letters of Ryan White: The Stigma of Disclosure, C. Todd Cummings
?Hey! TWoP's not for the masses? A Discourse Analysis of One Fan Community in Transition, Michelle McCudden, University of Kansas
Chair: Michelle McCudden

3206. Salon E. Film Theories and Texts. Area: Film

?he Journey of Michael Corleone: An Analysis of The Godfather Part I, Edmund Brown, Central Michigan University
?epresenting and Imagining Boston in The Departed and The Boondock Saints, Heather McIntosh, Northern Illinois University
?lurring the Boundaries: Uncanny Aesthetics in Border Incident and Touch of Evil, Will Scheibel, Indiana University-Bloomington
Chair: Will Scheibel

3207. Salon F

3208. Salon G. Beyond the Borders: Comics Relations to the ?eal World. Area: Comics

?r. Seuss Goes to War Against Racism: An Enthymematic Analysis of Political Cartoons, Carlos Morrison, Alabama State University
?ditorial Cartoons: More Than Just Black & White, Jeremy V. Adolphson, Northern Illinois University
?lassical Myths in Newspaper Cartoon Strips, Martha J. Payne, Ball State University and Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
?he Superman-Seinfeld Chronicles, Charles Coletta, Bowling Green State University
Chair: Charles Coletta

3209. Salon H

3210. Salon I. Inter-Cultural Awareness. Area: Race and Ethnicity

?he Masquerade of Stardom: The Commodification of Rita Hayworth, Cara Marisa Deleon, California State University, Chico
Just Like Us: Asian American Assimilation in Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Se Young Kim, Ohio University
"Fined for Fashion: Content Analysis on Anti-Sagging Ordinances," Susan Gaffney, Governors State University
The 50th Anniversary of the Little Rock Nine: Stories, Memories and Reflection, Hazel Rozema, University of Illinois at Springfield
Chair: Hazel Rozema

3211. Salon M. Participation in Virtual Worlds. Area: Virtual Environments

YouTube Carnival Images: In Defense of the Festive Truth and of the Right to Laughter, Theresa Evans, Ball State University
Performing the Gaze: How Playing Lara Croft Affects How We View Lara Croft, Matthew Arnold, University of South Florida
Ethnography in a Virtual World: Investigating the Culture of Second Life, Pam Wicks, Northern Illinois University
Chair: Pam Wicks

11:30-1:00

3301. Julep. American Film Authorship. Area: Authorship & Auteurism

?he Audience Sauvage: Spectatorship as Bestiality in Hitchcock's The Birds, Leslie Abramson, Lake Forest College
? Futility of Motion: Wes Anderson Fails to Move Beyond Performing Whiteness, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Bowling Green State University
?ofia Coppola and Feminist Drift, Jane Fader, Wayne State University
Chair: Will Scheibel, Indiana University-Bloomington

3302. Mayflower 1.

3303. Mayflower 2. Publishing Opportunities in Popular Culture and American Culture Studies

Advice about publishing from an Editor at McFarland & Company (David Alff) and from the Editors of the Journal of Popular Culture (Gary Hoppenstand), the Journal of Popular Film & Television (Michael T. Marsden), and Popular Music and Society (Gary Burns).

Gary Burns, Northern Illinois University
Michael T. Marsden, St. Norbert College
Chair: Gary Burns

3304. Mayflower 3. Photography, Film, and African Cultural Practices. Area: African-American Popular Culture

?egotiation as a Potential Framework for Understanding the Conflictive Perspectives Associated with Female Genital Mutilation, Angelina Heron, Nova Southeastern University
?isual Arguments as Racist Rhetoric in Warner Bros. Picture's Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, Carlos Morrison, Alabama State University
?. P. Ball's Carte-de-Visite Portraits during the Civil War, Theresa Leininger-Miller, University of Cincinnati
Chair: Theresa Leininger-Miller

3305. Salon A. Authenticity and Words: Cultural Representations in Word Poetry and Pop/Rock. Area: Music and Theatre

?ords Got Me the Wound and Will Get Me Well, Laura Winton, University of Minnesota
?uthenticity at the Edge of the World: Great Big Sea and Newfoundland Traditional Music, Eric Weeks, Bowling Green State University
?he Impact of the News Media? Portrayal of Black Metal Music in Norway: A Historical Analysis, Jason A. Kester, Central Michigan University
Chair: Shawn David Young, Michigan State University

3306. Salon E. Gender and Politics. Area: Mystery, Thriller, and Crime Fiction

?roper Detectives and Private Sleuths: The Mystifying Rationale of Psychic Detection, Eden Leone, Bowling Green State University
?ather Knows Better: A Failed Patriarch in Arthur Conan Doyle? ?he Man with the Twisted Lip,? Blake R. Westerlund, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
?onstrous Regiment of Women: Reexamining the Feminist Reexamining the Feminist Label of Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night, Monica Lott, University of Akron
?upin and the Prefect Wax Politic: The States Rights Debate in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Tom Polk, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Chair: Kathryn Edney, Michigan State University

3307. Salon F

3308. Salon G. The Web as Social Catalyst. Area: Web 2.0

?f the Consumer, By the Consumer, For the Consumer: Limitations of Viewer-Created Democracy on Current TV, Kristina Gordon, University of Iowa
?rom Facebook to StudiVZ: Similarities and Differences in the Development of Social Network Sites between the United States and German-Speaking Countries, Julia Maria Hermann & Ulla Patricia Autenrieth, University of Basel/Switzerland
?dventures in 'Fiberspace': A Survey of Quilters and Quilting Online, Amanda Grace Sikarskie, Michigan State University
?.O.B.s (Fresh off the Boat), Pakis, Lurkers, and the Perfect Partner: ?South Asian Matrimonials On-Line, Naveen Joshi, York University
Chair: Naveen Joshi

3309. Salon H

3310. Salon I. Art and Visual Culture. Area: Visual Culture

? Rhetorical View of Andy Warhol and the Mechanization of Fine Art, Tyler Buckley, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
?iving on the Level: How the Postwar Ranch House Reshaped America, Colin Root, Boston University
?gnes Martin? ?erfection, ?oy, and ?appiness Reconsidered: The Pale Minimalist Grid as Cathartic and Meditative Ritual, Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
?red Harvey? Santa Fe ?ndian Detours? Art, Travel and the Cultural Landscape of the Southwest, Joy Sperling, Denison University
Chair: Joy Sperling

3311. Salon M. Expanding and Redefining Parasocial Research: Popular Culture and Viewer Relationships with Television and Television Characters. Area: Relationships and Popular Culture

?ommitment to a TV character? A Proposal for the Application of the Investment Model to Parasocial Relationships, Kari Wilson, Purdue University
?But Laurelai and Luke Belong Together! Relationships, Social Control, and Gilmore Girls, Jimmie Manning, Northern Kentucky University
?he New Normal: A Grounded Ethnographic Study in Television News Media, Hurricane Katrina, and Representation Satisfaction, Sara Mahle, Media Bridges Cincinnati
?t? All Greek to Me: A Discourse Analysis of Symbolic Boasting and ABC Family? Greek, Jessica Dirr, Northern Kentucky University
Chair: Jessica Dirr

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