PROGRAM

Thursday, 12:15 PM – 2:00 PM
The Body In/Of Feminist Television Criticism
Chair: Karen Boyle (University of Glasgow)

• Karen Boyle (University of Glasgow), “Beyond Shopping and Slaying: Defining Feminist Television Criticism”
• Elke Weissmann (University of Glasgow), “The Victims of Crime in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”
• Karen Lury (University of Glasgow), “‘For Crying Out Loud’: The Child in Tears”

Desire, Memory, and Television
Chair:  Allen Larson (Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington)

• Cristy Turner (University of California, Davis), “Theorizing Guilty Pleasures:  The Disavowed Joys of Television”
• Jonathan Cohn (UCLA),”The Effect of Bumbling Bags of Ball Bearings on Utopian Desire in Domestic Science Fiction”
• Amy Shore (SUNY-Oswego), “It’s not History, It’s HBO:  Iron-Jawed Angels and the Revisioned History of Suffrage for the Postfeminist Audience”
• Sharon Sharp (UCLA), “Engendering Nostalgia:  Television, Gender, and the Politics of Remembering"

Neo-liberalism and Reality TV
Chair: Laurie Ouellette (City University of New York, Queens College)

• John McMurria (DePaul University), “Good Samaritan TV:  Neo-liberalism and the Making of a Reality TV Genre”
• Brenda Weber (Indiana University), “Makeover Nation:  Producing the Neo-Liberal Citizen on Reality TV”
• Mark Poster (University of California, Irvine), “Swan’s Way: Care for the Self in the Hyperreal”
• Laurie Ouellette (City University of New York, Queens College), “Technologies of Convergence, Technologies of the Self”

• Ben Aslinger (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Digital Queers:  Logo’s Constructions of Community”
• Hollis Griffin (Northwestern University), “ ‘Help!  My TiVo Thinks I’m Gay!’  Gendered Anxiety and Television’s Authorial Technologies”
• Michele White (Tulane University), “ebay Boys will be Lesbians:  Queering Male Buyers of ‘Lesbian Interest’ Vintage Photography Listings”
• Nicholas Grider (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Queering the Android:  Gender Play in the Films and Videos of Chris Cunningham”

• Gretchen Soderlund (University of Illinois, Chicago), “From Sentimentalism to Skepticism:  The Decline of the White Slavery Panic”
• Carrie A. Rentschler (McGill University), “‘Portraits of Life’ and the Grammar of Victims’ Rights”
• Elizabeth Springate (McGill University), “Networks of Resistance”
• Respondent:  Jennifer Wood (Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington)

Thursday, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Race, Ethnicity and 1950s TV
Chair:  Rachel Buff (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

• Caren Deming (University of Arizona), “How Does the Jewess Stand?  Displacing Molly Goldberg’s Broad  Beam
• Spencer Downing (University of Central Florida), “Moms vs. Kids:  Audiences, Gender, and the Story of Ding Dong School, 1952-1956
• Sarah Nilsen (University of Vermont), “All-American Girl?  Annette Funicello and Ethnicity in the Mickey Mouse Club”

Technologies of and on Television
Chair:  Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona)

• Megan Mullen (University of Wisconsin, Parkside), “Meadville Master Antenna:  The Non-Prototype for Local Cable Programming”
• Martin Roberts (The New School), “24:  Macrotelevision and Mobile Media”
• Selmin Kara (Wayne State University), “The Tele-Visual Body Dismembered”

Cold Warriors on TV
Chair:  Michael Kackman (University of Texas at Austin)

• Andaluna Borcila (Michigan State University), “Watching the Fall of Communism: Romanian Bodies on U.S. Television”
• Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University), “‘Speak English, man.  I’m assimilated.’:  Race, Gender, and Strategy in Terror TV”
• David Uskovich (University of Texas at Austin), “Narrative Strategies in the Representation of the Reagan Funeral”

• Heidi Brush (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) and Jack Z. Bratich (Rutgers University), “Tacti[c]le Media and Craft-work:  DIY, Fabriculture, and Autonomism”
• Jackie Cook (University of South Australia), “Cleaning up Big Time: Everyday Culture, Domestic Authority and Tele-valorisation”
• Melody Hoffman (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Sex with Her Hands:  Female-produced Internet Pornography and DIY Culture”

Gender, Sports, and Violence, Part 1
Chair:   Heather Hendershot (City University of New York, Queen’s College)

• Thomas C. Johnson (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) and Emanuelle Wessels (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), “Heroes, Freaks, and Divas:  The Performance of Hegemonic Masculinity in World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night Raw”
• Ariel Schudson (UCLA), “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun:  Professional Wrestling and the Female Spectator”
• Jason Kosovski (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Men Behaving Badly:  Male Violence on Reality Television”

• Steve Classen (California State University, Los Angeles)
• Joy Fuqua (Tulane University)
• Kumkum Sangari (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
• Mark Williams (Dartmouth College)

• Thomas C. Johnson (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), “The Embodiment of a Real Man:  Monday Night Football’s Take on Manhood”
• Michelle Ilene Passo (Southern Methodist University), “Negotiating Games:  Women, Sports, and Television”
• Sarah Projansky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Sporting Girls”

• Jason Loviglio (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), “Public and Private Sound Effects: The Cultural Work of NPR”
• Jessica L. Ghilani (University of Pittsburgh), “Sloganeering as Though Your Life Depended on it:  U.S. Military Recruitment Advertising During All-Volunteer Military War Efforts”
• Sarah Rasmusson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Media-ting Mean Girls:  What ‘Mean Girls’ Media Mean to Young Women”

• Becca Cragin (Bowling Green State University), “Roseanne:  Queering the Family/Sitcom”
• Mary Dalton (Wake Forest University) and Laura R. Linder (Marist College), “Cybill:  When the Personal Becomes Political and the Result is Irresistible”
• Heather Osborne-Thompson (UCLA), “Bad Behavior:  Oxygen Media and Women’s Humor”

• Erica Bochanty (UCLA), “Nip/Tuck’s Surgical Sounds:  Television, Popular Music, and the Politics of Placement”
• Alexis Carreiro (University of Texas at Austin), “Flow, Sweeps, and Synergy”
• Suzanne Leonard (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Why is Wisteria Lane Reading Flaubert?  Emma Bovary as Icon”

Television:  Narrative and Form
Chair:  Ron Becker (Miami University)

• James R. Thompson (Duke University), “Deadwood Whores:  Prostituting Narrative Strategy for the HBO Audience”
• Michael Kackman (University of Texas at Austin), “Making the White House a Home:  Commander in Chief, Family Melodrama, and TV Authorship”
• Michael Newman (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Season/Arc:  Form and Function in Prime Time Serials”

• Sarah Edge (University of Ulster), “Post-feminism and the Peace Process: An Analysis of Government TV Public Service Advertising in Northern Ireland”
• Máire Messenger Davies  (University of Ulster), “Women in the Television Industry: Interviews with Paramount Television Workers”
• Gail Baylis (University of Ulster), “Photographs: Old/ New Media”
• Helen Thornham (University of Ulster), “Bodies at Play: Negotiated Performances and Gameplay”

• Carol Stabile (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) “Diamonds, Blood, and Money: Teaching Media Criticism”
• Aimee-Marie Dorsten (University of Pittsburgh),“Role-Playing Debates and Media Stereotyping: An Alternative Vehicle to Drive Discussion”
• Allen Larson (Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington), “Teaching TV Guide: A Framework for Understanding Media Consolidation”
• Zachary Furness (University of Pittsburgh) and Jessica L. Ghilani (University of Pittsburgh), “Teaching Alternative Media: The Theory and Practice of Challenging Corporate Capitalism in the Classroom”

Identity/Politics
Chair:  Alison Rostenkowski (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

• Marc Tasman (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Who is Stealing My Signs? and Burning Bush
• Parmesh Shahani (Massachusetts Institution of Technology), BeLonging
• Roger Beebe (University of Florida), One Nation Under Tommy

Aesthetics & Economies of Internet Alternaporn
Chair: Rachel E. Dubrofsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

• Amy Hasinoff (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Temporary Whores: Erotic Victimization by Patriarcho-capitalism”
• Jessica Wurster (McGill University), “‘Alternative’ Porn and the Aesthetics of the Pin Up”
• Shoshana Magnet, (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) “Rethinking Feminist Sexualities Online: A Study of www.suicidegirls.com”
• Anna Feigenbaum (McGill University), “Toward a Pornography without Organs? Bodies and Economies of Desire in Internet Alternaporn”
• Respondent: Rachel E. Dubrofsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

• Amanda Lotz (University of Michigan), “Must See TV: NBC’s Dominant Decades”
• Christopher Anderson (Indiana University), “Creating the Twenty-First Century Television Network: NBC in the Age of Media Conglomerates”
• Kevin Sandler (University of Arizona), “Life Without Friends: NBC's Programming Strategies in an Age of Media Clutter, Media Conglomeration, and TiVo”
• Respondent:  Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

• Julie Frechette (Worcester State College), “Lipstick, Shopping, Dieting and Sex?  Challenging Corporate Co-optation of ‘Girl Power’ Online”
• Kathleen LeBesco (Marymount Manhattan College) “‘Buy Me’ Feminism:  Girls, Reality TV, Class, and Empowerment”
• Susan Ericsson (Northwestern University), “HBO’s Provocative Programming:  A Look at White Female Teens in Middle School Confessions”

• Kelly Cole (Middlebury College), “‘The shadow that is companion to this whiteness’:  Buffy and White Girl Power”
• Kristen Warner (University of Texas at Austin), “I am the Hellmouth Cu Cu Cachoo:  Joss Whedon’s Branding as a Technique of the Self in Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
• Heather Hendershot (City University of New York, Queen’s College), “The Final Girl and Feminist Media Studies”

• Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame), “Donna Reed Succeeds, Betty Hutton Hits Bottom:  Divergent Denouements on the Path from Film to TV”
• Alison R. Hoffman (UCLA), “Doing the Hullabaloo:  Rhythms of Youth, Dance, Television and (Bodily) Trauma in 1965 America”
• Mary E. Pagano (Northwestern University), “Mobility and the ‘Single Girl’:  Femininity and Feminism in Movin’ with Nancy, 1967”

Feminist Media Studies in an International Frame
Chair: Tim Havens (University of Iowa)

• Mehdi Semati (Eastern Illinois University), “Feminism, Media, and Social Critique in Iran”
• Katarzyna Chmielewska (Indiana University), “Sex, Lies, and Cellular Phones:  Negotiating Feminism in Polish Mediascape”
• Aimee-Marie Dorsten (University of Pittsburgh), “Vietnam’s ‘Wired’ Women, An Endangered Species”

• Allen Larson (Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington), “No Obvious Gay Sensibility:  Nip/Tuck and the Cultural Politics of Queer TV”
• Wendy Peters (University of Toronto/ Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), “Queer as Folk (U.S.):  Viewers Read for Gender, Race, and Class”

• Jiwon Ahn (Keene State College), “Clap for Isaac:  The Gay Style Guru and Female Viewer-Consumer”
• Laura Portwood-Stacer (University of Southern California), “Queering the Trans Transformation:  Reality Television, TransGeneration, and Liberal Narratives of Self”
• Max Dawson (Northwestern University), “Outsourcing TV:  Masculinity, Technology, and the New Productive Leisure”

• Catherine Preston (University of Kansas), “Women’s Responses to the Sexualization of Death in Recent Television Series”
• Pat Gill (University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign), “Death Becomes Her; or A Woman’s Place is in the Morgue”
• Diane Negra (University of East Anglia), “Trauma Time:  Reading Family, Community, and Criminality in Close to Home”

• Melanie Kohen (Brown University), “Queer Code: Re-envisioning the Erotics of Online Social Networks”
• Kristina Busse (University of South Alabama), “Will the Real Ending Please Stand Up? Experimental Multimedia Narratives and Fan Fiction”
• Louisa Stein (New York University), “Say it with Sims: Fan Creativity and New Media”

• Stephanie DeBoer  (University of Southern California), “Mediating Memories of Displacement in a Transnational Arena: Technology, Presence and Japan/P.R.C. TV Co-productions”
• Gabriella Lukacs (University of Pittsburgh),“Transnational Media Piracy and the ‘Perfect Marketplace’: eBay Distributors of Japanese Television Serials in the United States”
• Jung Sun Park (California State University, Dominguez Hills), “Korean Waves: Transnational Flows of Korean Popular Culture in East/Southeast Asia and their Implications”

• Vered Pnueli (Brunel University), “From Desperate Housewives to Hip College Girls  Studying the Female Sims Avatars”
• Shira Chess (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), “Coming Out to Play:  Heteroideologies and the Video Game Narrative”
• P. Konrad Budziszewski (Indiana University), “ ‘Hot Coffee,’ Moral Backlash, and the Battle for America’s Youth:  Unpacking the Controversy over Grand Theft Auto:  San Andreas”

Friday, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Conference Reception
Helen Zelazo Center
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Friday, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Women/Moving/Media
Screening of video art and documentary
Helen Zelazo Center
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Saturday, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Race and Resistance
Chair: Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Devorah Heitner (Northwestern University), “Television as Community Development:  The Case of Inside Bedford Stuyvesant”
• Racquel J. Gates (Northwestern University), "Van Gogh in the Ghetto: Art, Masculinity, and Domesticity in Good Times”
• TaKeshia Brooks (University of Michigan), “Jill Scott is Not a Nurse:  She Only Plays One in a Music Video”

Screening the Body
Chair:  Annie Melchior (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

• Shoshana Magnet (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Butch/Femme Bathrooms
• Ann Andalaro (Morehead State University), Dude Look Like a Lady:  Coming Out in Eastern Kentucky
• Ellen Riordan (University of St. Thomas), Embodied Gender:  Women in Hockey

• Alice E. Marwick (New York University), “There’s a Beautiful Girl Under All of This:  Performing Hegemonic Femininity in Reality Television”
• Katariina Kyrölä (University of Turku), “Any Body Can Change:  Viewing Reality TV Diet Shows”
• Karen Backstein (Independent Scholar), “I Can’t Dance—Please Ask Me!:  Gender, Ethnicity, Race, and Having a Ball with Dancing with the Stars”

• Elizabeth Cardwell (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Days in Iraq: Patriotism and an American Soap Opera”
• Susan Santha Kerns (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee),“‘Paul and Emily Should Both be Run out of Town!!!’ Fan E-mail and As the World Turns”
• Elana Levine (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Soaps On the Web:  U.S Broadcast Networks and Online Soap Opera Promotion”

• Amy Barber (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “From George W. to Genderqueer Fagbois:  An Exploration of Identity Construction on Friendster”
• Maureen Fitzpatrick (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Queer Heteronormativity on the Internet”
• Rhiannon Bury (University of Waterloo), “The Big ‘O’ and Grinding the Corn:  Navigating Lesbian Storylines on a Six Feet Under Message Board”

• Jill Dione (University of Pittsburgh), “Academia Seeps Out;  Suburbia Creeps In:  Utopia and Containment in Apartment for Peggy”
• Heather Fisher (University of Pittsburgh), “Brains not Brawn: Charles Van Doren and American Masculinity in 1950s Prime-Time Television Quiz Shows”
• Christine J. Feldman (University of Pittsburgh), “Mop-top Masculinity:  The Satire, Subtext, and Sensibility of the ‘Beatles haircut’”
• Respondent:  Jane Feuer (University of Pittsburgh)

• Erin Hill (UCLA), “Women’s Work: Femininity in Film and Television Casting”
• Denise Gass and Vicki Mayer (Tulane University), “Necessary Femininity: Reality Television Casting”
• Miranda Banks (Pepperdine University/Otis Art Institute of Design), “Bodies of Work: Stunt Doubles and the Rituals of Erasure”
• John T. Caldwell (UCLA) “Cautionary Tales and Coming of Age Narratives in the Production Culture”

Latina/o Playthings?  Dolls, Figurines, and Icons in Contemporary Media and Popular Culture
Chair:  Richard T. Rodriguez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

• Jillan M. Báez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),“‘I’m Marisol…An American Girl’: The Politics of Representation in Girl Popular Culture”
• Johanna Galarte (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Bucha Icons:  Playing with Chabela Vargas in BuchAztlán”
• Maritza Quiñones-Rivera (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Memín Pinguín: The Irony of an Icon”
• Angharad N. Valdivia (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),  “Whose Body am I Playing With?  Girl Culture and Hybrid Dolls"
• Respondent: Richard T. Rodriguez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

• Chiara Ferrari (UCLA), “The Sopranos in Italy or ‘Why Should We Care?  We Have the Real Mafia Here!’”
• Sharon Shahaf (University of Texas at Austin), “Prime Time Zionism:  An Integrated Approach to the Study of the First Israeli Sitcom”
• Tim Havens (University of Iowa), “Black Faces Abroad:  The International Circulation of African American Televison”
• Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Broadcasting Systems, Quality, and Cultural Categorization:  Toward a Transnational Comprehension of Cult Television”

•  Jack Bratich (Rutgers University), “Reality Programming: Fairy Tales for Control Societies”
• Marsha Cassidy (University of Illinois, Chicago), “The Television Makeover, 1950s-Style:  Glamour Girl, Misery, and Postwar Femininity”
• Elizabeth Gailey (University of Tennesee, Chattanooga),“‘The ‘Real Me,’ Only Better’: Rituals of Surveillance, Sacrifice, and Transformation in Cosmetic Surgery Reality Television”
• Gareth Palmer (University of Salford), “Extreme Makeover:  Home Edition – An American Fairytale”

Saturday, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Sex and Sensibility:  Interrogating Televisual Representations of the Single American Woman
Chair:  Bambi Haggins (University of Michigan)

• Bambi Haggins (University of Michigan) and Catherine Squires (University of Michigan), “What A Girl Wants: Reading Pleasures and Internalizing Ideologies in Sex in the City and Girlfriends”
• Emily Chivers Yochim (University of Michigan),“SWF Seeks SWM: White Masculinity in Sex and the City”
• Sarah B. Crymble (University of Michigan), “‘Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?’: Sex and the City and Gender Identity-Conflict
  

• Jessica Prody (University of Minnesota), “Gendering Discourse:  Performances of Masculinities in Law & Order SVU”
• Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona), “The Smug Face of the Law:  Gendered Representation of Constitutional Rights in TV Legal Drama"
• Margaret Montgomerie (De Montfort University), “Disabled Detection?  Compensatory Discourse in Contemporary Crime Fictions”

• Lynn Comella (Indiana University), “‘You look like a man in a dress’:  Lesbian Visibility and Gender Nonconformity on America’s Next Top Model”
• Jennifer Moorman (UCLA), “‘Shades of Grey’:  Articulations of Bisexuality in The L Word”
• R. Gabriel Dor (Northwestern University), “Hot Sex, Cool Suits:  Fashioning the ‘Power Dyke’ in Showtime’s The L Word”

• Deborah Kaplan (Independent Scholar), “Porn for Women: The Distinctions between Slash Fiction and Genre Romances”
• Shannon White (University of Michigan), “Discipline at the Borders: Genre as Self-Regulation in Fan Fiction”
• Abigail Derecho (Northwestern University), “The War on Smut: External and Internal Censorship of NC-17/Mature Fan Fiction”

• Wendy Chun (Brown University), “Order From Order”
• Megan Sapnar (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “The Web Can Speak, Hurray! Virtual Ventriloquism and the Online Marketing of Racial and Gendered Identities”
• Lisa Nakamura (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Taste Cultures in the Digital Nursery: Classed Aesthetics in Parenting Websites”

• Natasha Patterson (Simon Fraser University), “‘Sisterhood Sins’:  Confronting Victimization in America’s Next Top Model”
• Beth Pentney (Simon Fraser University), “‘I’m Doing it for Me’:  From Victim to Vixen on Reality TV’s The Swan”
• Camilla Sears (Simon Fraser University), “‘Bad Girls on TV’:  Considering Misrepresentation of Female Victimization on COPS”

• Gary Needham (Nottingham Trent University), “Da Kath and Kim Code: Queer Strategies in the Australian TV Comedy of Jane Turner, Gina Riley and Magda Szubanski”
• Michele Aaron (University of Birmingham), “New Queer Cable? The L Word, the Small Screen and the Bigger Picture”
• Glyn Davis (University of Bristol), “‘I’m Telling You Now’: Queerness and Sound in Six Feet Under”

Feminism, Post-feminism, and Television Criticism
Chair:  Diane Negra (University of East Anglia)

• Erin Hareng (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “‘You’re Hired!  You’re Fired!’ Winners, Losers, and Viewer’s Online Reactions to The Apprentice”
• Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool), “Independent Women:  Writing and Producing Drama in the UK in the ‘90s”
• Melissa Williams (University of Minnesota), “From ‘Mascot’ to ‘Messed Up’:  Roseanne Barr and the Class Politics of 1990s Feminism”