Border Crossings Panels

Sat 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Keynote
"'Movie-Land' and the Cosmopolitan Imagination," Jennifer Bean (Associate Professor & Director of Cinema Studies, University of Washington), author of The Play in the Machine: Gender, Genre, and the Cinema of Modernity (forthcoming Duke UP)

Sat 9:15 am - 11:00 am
Borders in Wartime

"Visual Prose of Counterinsurgency: Reading The Relief of Lucknow (1912)," Priya Jaikumar (University of Southern California)

“Borders in Eastern European Early Cinema Theory and History,” Sheila Skaff (University of Texas-El Paso)

“Cold War Kino: Rationalization, Diplomacy, and Distraction in Fritz Lang’s Spies,” Paul Dobryden (University of California-Berkeley)

Sat 11:15 am - 1:00 pm
Going Places: Colonial Modernity and the Transnational Horizon

“Travelin’ Large: Hale’s Tours and Scenes of the World, 1906-1915 in an International Context,” Lauren Rabinovitz (University of Iowa)

“Film Pedagogy and the Indian Railway Films,” Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh)

“Virtual Voyages: Cinema and the Dream-Life of Modernity in Colonial India,” Manishita Dass (University of Michigan)

“Ire and Desire: 1920s Japanese Film Journalism on Hollywood, Transnational Stardom, and Colonial Modernity," Michael Baskett (University of Kansas)

Sat 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Nitrate dreams: Film Material and its Afterlife

“An Afterlife for Junk Prints: Serials and other ‘Classics’ in late 1920s Tehran,” Kaveh Askari (Western Washington University)

"Besos/Kisses: Towards a History of the Intertitle, 'National' Audiences, and 'Silent' Cinema" Laura Isabel Serna (Rice University)

“National Styles and Circulations of Film Coloring during the Single-Reel Era,” Josh Yumibe (Oakland University)

“Bright Lights, Big City: Lightning, Technological Modernity, and Ozu’s Interwar Films,” Daisuke Miyao (University of Oregon)

Sun 9:00 am - 10:45 am
Letters of Transit: Film as Racial and Cultural Envoy

“John Henry goes to Carnegie Hall: Negotiations of the North/South Border in the Publicity Films of Black Agricultural and Industrial Colleges, 1910-1915,” Allyson Nadia Field (Harvard University)

“Swedish/American Whiteface: Transnational Hybridity in Victor Sjösrtöm’s He Who gets Slapped,” Arne Lunde (University of California-Los Angeles)

“Crisscrossing Stare in Border-crossing Reception of Silent Cinema: Chinese Protest and Promotion in the not-so Silent Era,” Yiman Wang (University of California-Santa Cruz)

Sun 11:00 am - 12:45 pm
Sex and Gender Crossings

“Exit Flapper, Enter Woman: Lois Weber on American and European Screen Types,” Shelley Stamp (University of California-Santa Cruz)

"Queer Crossings: Garbo and Stiller go to Hollywood," Laura Horak (University of California-Berkeley)

“Being Douglas Fairbanks in Gallant Hearts (1931),” Anupama Kapse (University of California-Berkeley)

“The International Language of the Erotic: Cosmopolitanism and Early Erotic Films,” Leigh Goldstein (The University of Texas at Austin)