Ways of Watching: Tenth Annual Summer Symposium, July 24-25, 2009
Northeast Historic Film, Bucksport, Maine USA
For two days this summer on the coast of Maine in the 1916 Alamo
Theatre, scholars, filmmakers, archivists, students, and members of
the public will gather to learn and discuss how and where art,
educational, and amateur films have been shown. More than 90
presenters have shared their knowledge since the symposium was
established in 2000. Our traditions include lively conversation,
evening screenings, and a lobster dinner. The Northeast Historic Film
annual symposium welcomes the following authors, archivists,
teachers, and researchers who will bring forward the immensely varied
practices of exhibition and viewing of non-commercial film. Please
register by July 1. Program details, registration, and lodging
information at http://oldfilm.org/symp_2009 or contact
(jessica /at/ oldfilm.org), 207 469-0924.
From Introspection to Convivial Participation: Departures from Black
Box Topology in Contemporary Video Art Display
Cristina Albu, Ph.D. student, Department of History of Art and
Architecture,
University of Pittsburgh
Western Ways Gone South: George Herbert as Failed Showman
Jennifer L. Jenkins, Ph.D., Division Head, Film and Television Studies,
School of Media Arts, University of Arizona
This Splendid Temple: Watching Films in the Wanamaker Department Stores
Caitlin McGrath, University of Chicago
Purposeful Pleasures: Social Awareness and Amateur Film Practic e in
Britain, ca. 1927-1977
Heather Norris Nicholson, Ph.D., Department of History and Economic
History, Manchester Metropolitan University, England
Watching Medical Films
Kirsten Ostherr, Associate Professor of English, Rice University
Spectatorship in the Classroom
Jennifer Peterson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Film Studies Program,
University of Colorado
What You See is What You Get: Watching Swedish Private Film Collections
from the 1960s and the 1970s
Cecilia Mörner, Ph.D., School of Humanities and Media, Dalarna
University,
Falun, Sweden
Through Trondheim in a Time Machine: Local Film History as Part of
Contemporary Audiovisual Practices
Bjørn Sørenssen, Ph.D., Department of Art and Media Studies,
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
?Round the World and Back Again: An Examination of the Production and
Exhibition of Adelaide Pearson Travel Films
Kimberly Tarr, NYU Moving Image Archives and Preservation Program
Our Cameras, Our Lives: Lesbian Home Movies, ca. 1935 1999
Sharon Thompson, author, Going All the Way: Teenage Girls? Tales of
Sex, Romance,
and Pregnancy, Hill & Wang/Farrar Straus Giroux
Watching on Cell Phones, Online and on Television
Bilge Yesil, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, CUNY-College of Staten Island
ORGANIZERS
Snowden Becker
School of Information
University of Texas, Austin
Janna Jones
School of Communication
Cinema and Visual Culture Program
Northern Arizona University
Mark Neumann
School of Communication
Northern Arizona University
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Northeast Historic Film, www.oldfilm.org
REGISTRATION FORM AT
http://oldfilm.org/files/file/2009SymposiumRegistration.pdf
Janna Jones
Director, Cinema and Visual Culture Studies
Associate Professor, School of Communication
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona
