MEETING AND EVENTS:
The SIG meeting at the Toronto conference has been scheduled for Thursday, March 15 at noon, in the Simcoe room, 2nd floor (Session G). The agenda is included below.
Thursday evening at 8:30 pm, our SIG is a co-sponsor of a special screening event at the University of Toronto. The program will screen two archival prints, Another Day (1934) and Secrets of the Night (1924), the latter a recently discovered Universal Pictures film. The subsequent reception will be a good chance to socialize with other SIG members. Directions and other details are in the conference program.
ELECTIONS
We will have an election at our SIG meeting for both a co-chair (3 year term) and a graduate representative (2 year term). If any member interested in one of positions, please email the current co-chairs (Emily Carman and Chris Cagle) by Tuesday (March 13). While the positions entail some (modest) amount of work, they’re also a rewarding way to be involved with SCMS. For those self-nominating and unable to attend the meeting in person, please provide a brief statement of interest in the position (background, goals, etc.).
MEETING AGENDA
So far, the agenda includes the following:
– Remarks from Caetlin Benson-Allott, Cinema Journal editor
– Election of Co-Chair and Graduate Representative
– 2019 Conference Event
– Alliances
– Social Media Content
– Mid-year event and SIG activity
– Possible workshop/roundtable at 2019 SIG meeting
– Mentorship
– News
Members should feel free to suggest any other agenda items.
CALL FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PARTICIPATION
We have a group Twitter account, and we encourage members to tweet on Classical Hollywood scholarship and other news at the conference. Anyone interested in conference tweeting from the @ClsscHollywood handle on behalf of the SIG can email her or his Twitter handle to Dawn Fratini, and she will add it to the account.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
If you have a book or book essay that has come out within the last year (since last SCMS), please email Chris Cagle by Tuesday. We will circulate a list of Classical-Hollywood related publications for reference at the conference.
SPONSORED PANELS
As a SIG we are able to sponsor a limited number of panels, though unfortunately we are not able to sponsor all of the great work being presented at the conference. Below are the sponsored panels, as well as other panels and papers related to (sound-era) classical Hollywood studies. Please forgive any oversights! The @ClsscHollywood Twitter account will also provide reminders for each day’s panels.
Sponsored Panels
D20 Acoustic Variations: Rethinking Sound in Media
H21 Always More to See: New Takes on Classical Hollywood
I19 Cinematic and Written Reflections on Hollywood
J5 Hollywood Film Style and Its Influences: 1930s
M5 Fragmented Archives and Industries: Research Challenges in Postwar Hollywood Historiography
S2 The Academy is Born: Examining the Formative Years of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
T20 Hidden Labor in the Spotlight: Hollywood Production Below the Line
Other Panels on Classical Hollywood
A11 The Art and Craft of Media Labor
C16 The Final Act: Curating and Exhibiting the End of the Star Life
G15 More than Costumes: A Survey On the Multifaceted Work of Hollywood Costume Designers
K22 Women, Creative Agency, and Sound Era Cinema: Questions of Method and History
N18 Intersectionality in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Individual Papers on Classical Hollywood:
C21 Paul Haacke, Pratt Institute, “Hitchcock’s Vertigo of Verticality”
D15 Kelly Kirshtner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “The ‘Trouble’ with Clara Bow: Electric Forces at Odds on Hollywood’s Early Sound Stages”
E11 Joshua Glick, Hendrix College, “Dreaming on the Edge: Coney Island, Classical Hollywood, and the Persistence of Nostalgia”
E12 Megan Minarich, Vanderbilt University, “Abortion, Audience, and Awareness: The Failed Censorship and Box Office Success of Leave Her to Heaven (1945)”
E12 Heather Addison, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “When the “Big Bankroll Boy” Took on Hollywood: Howard Hughes and the Strange Case of Queer People”
F25 Kristen Hatch, University of California, Irvine, “On the Impossibility of Black Girlhood: Childhood, Race, and Gender in Studio-era Hollywood”
G12 Mariana Ivanova, Miami University, “Film City Babelsberg: From Multi-language Productions to Hollywood Blockbusters, 1912-2017”
H22 Gareth Hedges, Independent Scholar, “Emmett Till and the ‘Crisis in the Deep South’ for Hollywood Cinema of the 1950s and Early 1960s”
I19 Michael Potterton, University of California, Los Angeles, “Visualizing Democracy: Policy, Narrative, and Mise-en-scène of Hollywood Films in Post-War Korea, 1945-1948”
I9 Kaelie Thompson, University of Michigan, “’Scottish Interest was Lacking’: The Films of Scotland Committee Battles Brigadoon (1954) and Hollywood’s Image of Scots”
M11 Ellen Scott, University of California, Los Angeles, “Shadow Uprisings: Slavery and the Radical Imaginary before New Hollywood”
N12 Hye Seung Chung, Colorado State University, “Censorship as Cultural Resistance: The Chinese Government’s ‘Uplift’ of National Images in 1930s Hollywood”
Q9 Isabella Goulart, Universidade de São Paulo, “Spanish-language Hollywood Films in Brazil: Representations of Gender and Family”
S19 James Tweedie, University of Washington, “The Art Director as Architect, or the Construction of Classical Hollywood”
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