CONWAY, Ark. (April 11, 2013) - ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø College will host its first ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø-Rhodes Film Studies Research Symposium on Saturday, April 13 in the Murphy Seminar Room.
Students from ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø and Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., will present
The event, sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the South, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø College, and Rhodes College, is organized by faculty representatives Dr. Rashna Richards (Rhodes) and Dr. Kristi McKim (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø).
Panel I: Interpreting and Integrating Film Theories 9:30 -11 a.m.
Moderator: Sammi Bryan (Rhodes)
- Rane Peerson (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø) "Broken Balloons, Conflicting Theorists, and New Modes of Cinematic Thought"
- Anna Lockhart (Rhodes) "Redefining Auteur Theory as the Creation of Sub-Genre"
- William Repass (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø) "The Battle of Algiers-Towards a Revolutionary Space"
- Hayley Farmer (Rhodes) "From Mourning to Melancholia: Cinephilia in the Age of New Media"
Panel II: Performing and Transgressing Identities: Gender, Race, and Class Reconsidered 11:15 a.m. -12:45 p.m.
Moderator: Lance St. Laurent (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø)
- Shelby Lund (Rhodes) "From Damsel to Hero: The Evolution of the Bond Girl"
- Jacob Long (Rhodes) "Masculinity and Transnational Spanish Stardom in Celda 211 (2009)"
- Julia Price (Rhodes) "America's Changing Race Relations Depicted in Transitional and Contemporary Film"
- Chelsea Ortego (Rhodes) "Classism and Reaganomics in the Brat Pack Films"
Panel III: Cultural Politics or Political Aesthetics 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Moderator: Emily Smith (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø)
- Reid Zarker (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø) "Economic Criticism as Manifested and Catalyzed by Psychoanalytic Myth within Citizen Kane"
- Maggie McGowan (Rhodes) "'Our Thoughts Are Ours, Their Ends None of Our Own': Corporate Anonymity vs. Authenticity in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet"
- Marcus Zhu (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø) "Understanding New Russian Cinema through Day Watch"
- Timothy Garton (Rhodes) "À Contrecoeur Caché: Artistic Form as Politics in Michael Haneke's Hidden"
Panel IV: Narrative Choices: Color, Close-Up, Closure 3:45 - 5 p.m.
Moderator: Hayley Farmer (Rhodes)
- Lara Johnson (Rhodes) "Creating a Fantasy: The Blending of Color in Film"
- Lance St. Laurent (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø) "Artificial Emotion: Kubrick, Spielberg, and the Face of an Automaton"
- Emily Smith (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø) "Momentum and Mortality: Learning to Lead in Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz"
For more information, contact Dr. McKim at mckim@hendrix.edu.
Founded in 1876, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the fifth consecutive year, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø was named one of the country's "Up and Coming" liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report. ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø is featured in the 2012 edition of the Princeton Review as one of the country's best 377 colleges, the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, Forbes magazine's annual list of America's Top 650 Colleges, and the 2013 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges. ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit .