MCS at SCMS Atlanta

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies recently held its annual conference in Atlanta from March 30-April 3, 2016, and all of our full-time faculty from the Media and Cinema Studies Program were there presenting papers. Here is an overview of what they presented:

                  

Luisela Alvaray presented a paper entitled "Visible Lives: Transgenderism in Latin American Film"

Paul Booth presented a paper entitled "SuperWhoLock and Transfandom" and participated in a workshop called "Teaching Fandom: Creative Strategies"

Blair Davis presented a paper entitled "From the Streets to the Swamp: Luke Cage, Man-Thing and the 1970s Class Issues of Marvel Comics" and chaired a workshop called "Comics and Methodology (or, Which Method Would Win in a Fight - Superman and Semiotics or the Hulk and Historiography?"

Michael DeAngelis presented a paper entitled "Therapy, Cinema, and the Sexual Block"

Kelly Kessler presented a paper entitled "Who’s the Diva Here?: Male Authorship, Female Performance, and Small Screen Musicals of the Sixties"

Kelli Marshall presented a paper entitled "Annie Hall, All Grown Up: Diane Keaton, Self-referentiality, and Coming of Age in Something’s Gotta Give"

For more information on SCMS see: http://www.cmstudies.org/