ENG 3115: Film Theory & Criticism
Undergraduate Academic Mini-Conference
(a.k.a., Final Presentations)
Schedule of Presentations: Monday April 23, 2012 in ROLFS # 115
Group 1: “‘I wanted to see you, to see if I'd want to see you’: Love & Art Meet at the Movies”
| 11:50 | Danielle Dobies | “A Single Cinephiliac (Wo)Man” | Breathless |
| 11:55 | Thomas Macowski | “Cinephilia & CFK” | Citizen Kane |
| 12:00 | Phil Kunzig | “A Cinephiliac Approach to The Departed” | The Departed |
| 12:05 | Doug Yablun | “The Best of Both Worlds: David Fincher & The Social Network” | The Social Network |
| 12:10 | Andy Oram | “Film, Culture, Billy Elliot” | Billy Elliot |
| 12:15 | Radha Allard | “The Coen Brothers & Auteur Theory” | The Coen Brothers |
| 12:20 | Patrick Hart | “Adaptation, Originality, and an Exception to the Auteur Theory” | Adaptation |
| 12:25 | Question/Answer Session | ||
Group 2: “‘For the First Time in My Life I Can’t See My Future’: Romance & Doom at the Movies”
| 4:10 | Aliza Breznick | “Film: The DeLorean of Reality & Its Many Partners” | Melancholia |
| 4:15 | Hailun Zhu | “Marxist Elements in Melancholia” | Melancholia |
| 4:20 | Kiran Sonty | “Romance in Paris: Her Name is Cinephilia” | Midnight in Paris |
| 4:25 | Keishla Rivera-Estrada | “God in the Details” | A Single Man |
| 4:30 | Lacey Booth | “A Different Kind of Auteur” | A Single Man |
| 4:35 | Chance Crevler | “Cinephiliac Interpretation Gives New Meaning to Tom Ford’s A Single Man” | A Single Man |
| 4:40 | Logan Stallings | “Black & White: An Essay on A Single Man” | A Single Man |
| 4:45 | Sherrinette Wong | “Did You See That?” | A Single Man |
| 4:50 | Question/Answer Session | ||
Group 3 à “‘It's like a puzzle. When you put it together, something's going to happen’: Finding Purpose in Hugo”
| 5:05 | Brett Passa | “Combining Past with Present: Historicism & Martin Scorsese’s Hugo” | Hugo |
| 5:10 | Summer Ceraolo-O’Donnell | “Communication & Technology in Films” | Hugo |
| 5:15 | Jesse Moss | “Marxism in Hugo & Metropolis: Is the American Dream Really Possible?” | Hugo/ Metropolis |
| 5:20 | Zac Hudson | “A Formalist Approach to Hugo” | Hugo |
| 5:25 | Joe Morgan | “What is film?: How Cinephilia in Hugo Defines It” | Hugo |
| 5:30 | Nicole Deck | “Hugo: The World as a Machine” | Hugo |
| 5:35 | Luis Velasco | “Smokescreens & Magic: A Return to the Cinema of Attractions” | Hugo |
| 5:40 | Craig Cummings | “‘The Decay of Cinema’ Revitalizes Cinephiliac Criticism” | Hugo |
| 5:45 | Jonathan White | “Cinephilia: Finding the Real” | Hugo |
| 5:50 | Question/Answer Session | ||
Group 4 à “Give them enough reason to doubt it’: A Closer Look at Christopher Nolan’s Magical Cinema”
| 6:25 | C.J. Wittus | “Hans Zimmer’s Musical Twist in Time” | Inception |
| 6:30 | Jared Guidroz | “Inception: Cinema as a Dream” | Inception |
| 6:35 | Ben Elliott | “Memory in Memento” | Memento |
| 6:40 | Philip Allcott | “How to Hide in Plain Sight” | The Prestige |
| 6:45 | Sean Warfman | “Art” | The Prestige |
| 6:50 | Daniella Majia | “Under the Spell of the Magic Wand: Female Representations in The Prestige, in Cinema, & in Early Theatre Spectacle” | The Prestige |
| 6:55 | Lindsey Jones | “Are You Watching Closely?” | The Prestige |
| 7:00 | Question/Answer Session | ||
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