Thursday, April 25
1:00 pm -2:45 pm
2:45-3:00 pm Break

1.
Gendered Games


Location


Chair, Lauren Rabinovitz (University of Iowa)


Elizabeth Ellsworth (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
On Tickling and Being Bored: Interaction Design and New Media Pedagogy for Girls


Martti Lahti (University of Iowa)
Video Games, Space, and Gender


Ellen Strain (University of Southern California)
MYST-y Weather: PostApocalyptic, PostFeminist Contexts


Victoria Duckett  (UCLA)
Digitized Dreamtime


2.
Remembering TV


Location


Chair, Elayne Rapping (Adelphi University)


Taylor Harrison (University of Iowa)
"How Will I Know My Love?": Annette Funicello and the Screening of Transgression


Glenda Balas (University of Iowa)
Public TV's Masterpiece Theatre: The Exquisite Pleasures of a Text That Remembers


Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?: The Sentimental Value Of Lassie


Jonah Disend (New York University)
Syndication Syndrome: Queer Nostalgic Tendencies


3.
Video Art


Location


Chair, Nietzchka Keene (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


Harmony Wu (University of Southern California)
Negotiating Place on Latin TV Programming in the US: Performing and Pathologizing Culture on the  "Cristina" Talk Show


Federico Windhausen (New York University)
Joan Jonas' Puzzling Objects


Kenneth Rogers (New York University)
Kubota/Duchamp: (Video, the Bride Striped Bare)


Eric Freedman (Duke University)
From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abyme


4.
Trailer Park Melodrama


Location


Co-Chairs, Susan David Bernstein  and Phebe Chao


Susan David Bernstein (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 
"Tropism toward the Toilet": Basic Values and the Class-ifying of TV Talk Shows


Phebe Chao (Babson College)
Terribly Ordinary Lives: The Case of Class and Virtual Fiction


Jane M. Shattuc (Emerson College)
The Perversion Debate: The Republican Right Versus Commercial Television On Talk Shows


Paula Gardner (University of Massachusetts)
 Terror In The Shadows: Resistance And Hegemony In Made-For-TV Movies



Thursday, April 25
3:00 pm -4:45 pm
4:45-5:00 pm Break

5.
Queer Representations, Queer Readings


Location


Chair, Lynn Spigel (University of Southern California )


Karin Quimby (University of Southern California)
The Children's Hour: Queer Family Television


Christie Milliken  (University of Southern California)
Queer(y)ing Populist Pedagogy in The Good Sex Guide


Matthew Tinkcom (Georgetown University)
Absolutely Fabulous and the Role of Gay Fandom


Jane Banks (Indiana University)
Decades of Queerness: The Performance and Production of Sexuality on Barney Miller and Roseanne


6.
Masculinity and Family Through "Jimmie's Eyes"


Location


Bettina Fabos (University of Northern Iowa)


Terri Sarris (University of Michigan)


Jimmie Reeves (Texas Tech University)


7.
Questions of Methodology


Location


Chair, Name (Affiliation)


Beverly Skeggs


8.
Nets and Internets


Location


Chair, Kathie Ferraro (Information Technologies Consultant, Pittsburgh)


KarenVered (University of Southern California)
Selling New Tech with Old:  TV as Cyberground


Warren Sack (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Subjectivity and Digital, Networked Media


Hulsbus, Monica (University of Southern California)
Chaos and Control: Theorizing the Internet


Curtin, Michael (Indiana University)
Marketing Difference in the Neo-Network Era



Thursday, April 25
5:00 pm -6:45 pm

9.
Television Friends, Family, Nation


Location


Chair, Chantal Nadeau (Concordia University)


Bethany Ogden (University of Glasgow)
Rab C. Nesbitt and the "Scottish Situation": The Difficulty of Identify Politics and the Situation Comedy Form


Patricia Mellencamp (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
On Sisters and Friends, Real and Imaginary Television and Generation


Jeffrey Sconce (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
All in the Family: Television and the Manson "Girls"


Martin Allor (Concordia University)
Sexed Screens: Genericity and Transculturation in Quebec Television


10.
Serials on Television


Location


Chair, Sandy Flitterman Lewis (Rutgers University)


Laura Podalsky (Bowling Green State University)
Telenovelas on Spanish-Language Television in the U.S.: Questions of Gender and Transnationalization


Christine Scodari, Susan Holt, and Ronald Antonin (Florida Atlantic University)
Arresting Resistance: Soap Opera Closure and Ideological Reification in the Case of a Long-term Older Woman/Younger Man Romance


Elayne Rapping (Adelphi University)
Daytime Utopias, If You Lived in Pine Valley, You'd Be Home


Sujata Moorti (Old Dominion University)
Chaste Hindu or Sexy Western Woman: Recasting Indian Femininity Through Television Serials


11.
Women's Fandom


Location


Chair, Chad Dell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


Cynthia W. Walker (Rutgers University)
Describing Fans: The Dedicated Audience


Susan J. Clerc, American Culture Studies (Bowling Green State University)
Estrogen Brigades And Virtual Slumber Parties: Women Fans On-Line


Laura Stempel Mumford (Independent Scholar, Madison, WI)
AOL My Children: Meta-Discourse In The Cyber-Soap Community


Chad Dell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Strength In Numbers: The Site Of Female Fan Communities


12.
Queer Spectatorship and the Visualization of Music


Location


Chair,  Shari Zeck (Illinois State University)


Barbara A. Moum (The Ohio State University)
Visualizing Lesbian Desire:  Spectatorship and Music Video


Nels P. Highberg (The Ohio State University)
The Dance Floor, Gay Men, and My So-called Life


H. Willis (University of Southern California)
Bait and Switch: Lesbian Music Videos



Friday, April 26
9:00 am -10:45 am
10:45-11:00 am Break

13.
Masculinity, Here and There, Then and Now


Location


Chair, Name (Affiliation)


Allegra Gibbons-Shapiro (UCLA)
Nice Jewish Boys: The Politics of Seinfeld


Stacy Takacs (Indiana University)
 "JAG's" Hero for the Nineties: Everything Old Is New Again


Seri Luangphinith (University of Oregon)
 Anime to Otoko no Koto: Animation and Masculinity, Japanese Style


Michael Kackman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Riding the Fences of the Home on the Range: 1950s TV Westerns and the Crisis of Masculinity


14.
Women's Bodies and Desires


Location


Chair, Patricia Mellencamp (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)


Mary R. Desjardins (University of Texas at Austin)
Joan Sees Stars: TV Does the Body


Anne McLeer (George Washington University)
How Sanitary Wear Advertising Is Used As A Tool Of Oppression Of Women


Nina Martin (Northwestern University)
Surveillance, Spectatorship and Soft-core: "You Like to Watch, Don't You?"


Karen Backstein (College of Staten Island)
Soft Love: The Romantic Vision of Sex on the Showtime Network


15.
Ethnography and Reception Studies


Location


Chair, Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Heather Hendershot (Vassar College)
Beam Me Up, Lord!  Fundamentalism and Popular Genres


Ellen Seiter  (University of California, San Diego) and
Karen Riggs (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Barney's Better than Jesus: TV in the Evangelical Preschool


Janet Staiger (University of Texas at Austin)
 What Good Old Days? The Meanings of 'Nostalgia' in the Reception of 'Happy Days' and 'Laverne & Shirley'


Sheila A. McBride (University of Pittsburgh)
What Are We Talking About?  News Talk in Local Discursive Communities


16.
Backlash: Tabloids, Affirmative Action, Technology


Location


Chair, Phebe Chao (Babson College)


Kevin Glynn (University of Canterbury-New Zealand)
Popularity and the Politics of Cultural Backlash: The Case of Tabloid Television


Bob Nideffer and Laura Grindstaff (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Affirmative Action Under Attack --Why Now?


Jacqueline Levitin (Simon Fraser University)
Reproduction: Backlash and Fighting Back


Sabeena Gadihoke (Syracuse University/Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)
Women's Relationship with Technology in the Media: Some Reflections



Friday, April 26
11:00 am -12:45 pm
12:45 pm-2:00 Lunch

17.
World Wide Web Workshop


Location


Facilitator, Kathie Ferraro (Information Technologies Consultant, Pittsburgh)


BonnieTravers (University of Arizona)
Welcome to My Parlor: Capturing Media Arts on-line via WWW


18.
Construction of Femininity and Domesticity


Location


Chair, Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona)


Tim Anderson (Northwestern University)
A "Sassy" Attitude and a "Promiscuous Tone": A Case Study in Affective Arenas and Progressive Politics


Yu-Fen Ko (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Nostalgia and Femininity: A Taiwanese Case


Allison McCracken (University of Iowa)
Study of a Mad Housewife: Working Class Comedy and the Case of Gracie Allen


Spicer, Gregory (University of Pittsburgh)
What Kind of "Home Improvement" is This Anyway?: Domestic Labor, Gender Expectations and the Functionally Heterosexual in Our Home


19.
International Viewing


Location


Chair, Awam Amkpa (Mt. Holyoke)


Roseann M.Mandziuk (Southwest Texas State University)
Claiming a Space for Women's Talk: "Ya Cama" ("I, Myself") Negotiates the Russian Television Landscape


Lisa Flores (Arizona State University)
Oppositional Readings as a Source of Power: Chicana Feminist Responses to Mainstream Mass Media


Katie Mills (University Of Southern California)
Watching Beverly Hills 90210 in West Africa


Gene Bukhman (University of Arizona)
The Work of Reproduction in the Age of Mechanical Art: Dakar, Senegal, 1995


20.
MTV: "The Real World"


Location


Chair, Name (Affiliation)


Andrew Miller (University of Iowa)
The "Real World" and the Gay Man of Color


Ellen Riordan (University of Oregon)
An un-Real World: How Race and Ethnicity Function in MTV's Reality-Based Programmming


Shantanu DuttaAhmed (University of Southern California)
Heartbreak Hotel: Containment and Conflation in MTV's "The Real World, San Francisco"


Robert Cagle (???)
Living and Dying in the Real World or  "What do you get when you cross MTV with PBS?"



Friday, April 26
2:00pm-4:00 pm
PLENARY
Location
4:00 pm 4:15 Break

4:15 pm-6:00 pm

21.
Global TV


Location


Chair, Name (Affiliation)


Shanti Kumar (Indiana University)
"Nikki Tonight," Gandhi Today: Nationalism, gender, identity, difference in the age of g/local networks


Sheri Chinen Biesen (University of Texas at Austin)
Global Narrative and Exile Culture in Hawaii 5-0


Sudeep Dasgupta (University of Pittsburgh)
Global Television, National Culture and the Ideology of "Development"


Cynthia B. Meyers (University of Texas at Austin)
The Problem of Cultural Difference for Global Marketers: The Case of CAA's Coca Cola Television Commercials


22.
1950s TV (1)


Location


Chair, Roger Sorkin (University of Massachusetts and Dartmouth University)


Dorinda Hartmann (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Open Mind: Making Queers Safe For 50's TV


Tasha Oren  (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Looking Back on a Near-Perfect Future


Keir Keightley (Concordia University)
"The Asp in the Grass": TV, Hi-Fi, and Gender, 1948-59


Sue Murray (University of Texas at Austin)
Queen for a Day: 1950s Domestic Game Shows, Coupling, and Female Subjectivity


23.
Prime Suspects and Women Detectives


Location


Chair, Jane Feuer (University of Pittsburgh)


Margaret Montgomerie (University of Derby)
Lynda La Plante's She's Out


Amy Villarejo (University of Pittsburgh)
Mystery Lovers/Detecting Dykes: The Law in Popular Culture


Jonathan Schwartz (University of Southern California)
Jessica & Jane: Detecting Difference


24.
Videos


Location


Chair, Mimi Orner (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


Gina Siesing (University of Texas at Austin)
(Why) Are We Such Bad Writers?


Barbour Yael (Ontario College of Art)
Fresh Blood


Michael Ward (George Mason University)
Ramifications Of Subjective Documentary Film Style On Oppositional Or Guerrilla Media Projects

Saturday, April 27
9:00 am-10:45 am
10:45 am-11:00 Break

25.
On Location: Television and the Production of Space


Location


Co-Chairs, Tara McPherson and Anna McCarthy


Tara McPherson (University of Southern California)
Virtual Bosnia: Place, War and Nation on TV and the Internet


Anna McCarthy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Aerial Photography: The Public's Eye in TV Crisis Coverage 


Sean Griffin  (University of Southern California)
Friend or Foe?: Davy Crockett and the Spaces of Children's Culture


26.
Documentary and the Public Sphere


Location


Chair, Dee Dee Halleck (University of California, San Diego)


Richard Edwards (University of Southern California)
On the Margins of the New Frontier


Bruce Williams (The William Paterson College of New Jersey)
Female Beneath the Line: Authorship and Voice in the Human Rights Documentary


Joan Hawkins (Indiana University)
 "Red Nightmare": Propaganda and the Crisis in American Masculinity


Olaf Hoerschelmann (Indiana University)
Interactive Control Communication Technology and Alternative Public Spheres


27.
Queer Talk


Location


Chair, Elizabeth Ellsworth (University of Wiscconsin-Madison)


Becca Cragin (Emory University)
Lesbians and Talk Show TV


Elizabeth Montgomery (Northwestern University)
Straight Guys in Drag: Playing with Gender and Sexuality on The Jerry Springer Show


Lori Levy (Emory University)
"Tales": PBS, Gay Representation, and Backlash


Kirsten Lentz (Brown University)
The Heterosexual Dis-ease: "Coming Out" as an Audience on Daytime Talkshows


28.
Women and Children First


Location


Chair, Marsha Kinder (University of Southern California)


Joel Scilley (University of Pittsburgh)
Smells Like Mean Spirit: Media, Political Crises, and the Uses of "Children" in Contemporary US Politics


Ramona Curry and Angharad N. Valdivia (University of Illinois)
Xuxa:  Passion, Gender, and Latin American Children's TV


Havens, Tim (Indiana University)
"The Tick": Beyond Good and Evil


Christine Garlough (University of Minnesota)
Backlash and Burning Embers: The Dialogical Constructions of South Asian Women and Sati



Saturday, April 27
11:00 am-12:45 pm
12:45 pm-2:00 pm Lunch

29.
TV Movies, Women, Lifetime


Location


Chair, Kate Kane (DePaul University)


Joy V. Fuqua (University of Pittsburgh)
 Mama Dramas: Motherhood, Melodrama, and Made-for-TV AIDS Movies


Danae Clark (University of Pittsburgh)
Media Orphans: Property and Desire in Transracial Adoption


Jackie Byers (Wayne State University) and 
Eileen R. Meehan (University of Arizona)
Consuming Feminism: Niche Marketing, Margaret Sanger, and Lifetime


Kathleen Green (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Recharged Batteries:  Power, Burnout, and Feminism in The Oprah Winfrey Show  and Almost Golden:  The Jessica Savitch Story


30.
Research and the Critique of Research


Location


Chair, Name (Affiliation)


Sousan Arafeh (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Did I Sign a Contract?:  Law, Policy, and Media Theory/Research in Cultural Studies


Rhona Jackson (University of Derby)
Creating A Space In The Men's Room: Researching Issues Of Meaning/The Place Of The Researcher


James Castonguay (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Feminism, Philosophy, Radical Criticism: Deleuze and GuatTV


Patricia Priest (University of Georgia)
Having Their Say: Rape Survivors Critique Press Coverage Of Their Cases


31.
Brokering Latino Representation in Mainstream Television


Location


Chair, Ana M. Lopez


Ana M. Lopez (Tulane University)
Brown-eyed Children


Chon A. Noriega (UCLA)
Latino Power Brokers: Deregulated Bodies and Advocacy


L. S. Kim (UCLA)
Invisible and Undocumented" The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate


Saturday, April 27
2:00 pm-3:45 pm
3:45 pm-4:00 pm Break

32.
International TV


Location


Chair, Jo Ellen Fair (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


Peter Sarram (Northwestern University)
Ultimo Tango a Zagarolo...Again: Liberalization of the Airwaves and Popular (Local) Italian Television


Vibeke Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)
Showbiz or EO? Danish and American Anchorwomen


Marie-Luise Angerer (??)
Women In Media Industries In Austria


Vicki Mayer (University of California, San Diego)
Viva Video ao Vivo: Representation and Reception of Popular Video Messages in Brazil


33.
News and Sports


Location


Chair, Name (Affiliation)


Mary Beth Callie (University of Arizona)
The Need for Less News: The Government and Morning News, 1970-76


Josh Golin (University of Iowa)
Texts, Readers, Dribbling Formations Television And The 1995 Men's And Women's Final Fours


Ginger Clark (Texas Christian University)
Raising the Stakes: Women's Sports and the Institution of TV


34.
1960s  TV


Location


Chair, Michael Curtin (Indiana University)


Moya Luckett (University of Houston)
Synthetic or Medicalized Bodies? My Living Doll and the Entrapment of the Feminine


Steven Classen  (California State University, San Bernardino)
Turn On Channel Three, There's a Black person on TV: Black Mississippians remember sixties television


Allen Larson (University of Pittsburgh)
The Love Machine: Jacqueline Susann, Television, and the "War Of theWords"


Greg Smith (Carlow College/University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Streisand Shops the Museum Store: Consuming Women's Imagery



Saturday, April 27
4:00 pm-5:45 pm

35.
Construction of Black Women and Black Men on TV


Location


Chair, Gloria Abernathy-Lear (University of Illinois-Chicago)


Dianne Brooks (University of Massachusetts)
"They Dig Her Message": Opera, Television and the Black Diva


Constance Morris-Shortlidge (University of New Mexico)
Reconfigurations of Race on TV: The Thomas/Simpson Images


Dwight Brooks and Walter Jacobs (Indiana University)
Interpositional Black Men Speak: Fighting Discursive B(l)acklash


Wang, Jennifer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Losing Weight, Losing Friends": The Re-Visioning of Oprah Winfrey


36.
TV History/History on TV


Location


Chair, Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


Jason Jacobs (University of Warwick)
Critic On The Hearth: Grace Wyndham Goldie


Maggie Morgan (Southampton Institute)
Skirting Through Feminist History


Deepa Kumar (University of Pittsburgh) and 
Pamela Tracy (Ohio State University)
(Miss)representation of a struggle: Swimsuits, Suffrage and Capitalist Democracy


Mark Williams (Dartmouth College)
The Quagmire of KARO:  A Little Station That Wasn't


37.
Strong Women, Transgressive Stars


Location


Chair, Lynne Joyrich (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)


Amy Seham (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Improv-Comedy On Late Night: How Madonna Broke The Rules


Matthew Murray (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Mae West and the Contestation over Limits in Radio


Susan McLeland (University of Texas at Austin)
Striking Out with the National Anthem: Class, Gender, National Identity, and Roseanne


Ros Jennings (University of Warwick)
Marginal Positions: Audiences, Television And The Politics Of Identity And Representation


Sunday, April 28
9:00 am-10:45 am
10:45 am-11:00 Break

38.
1950s TV (2)


Location


Chair,  Mary Ellen Brown (University of Missouri)


Kristen Hatch (UCLA)
Constructing the '50s Housewife


L. Clare Bratten (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Nothing could be finah:  Constructing Dinah Shore


Madelyn Ritrosky-Winslow (Indiana University)
Hollywood Actresses Negotiate 50s TV: Designing a Series Around a Female Star


Charlene Regester (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Marginalized Subversives: African American Actors As "The Other"


39.
Television And The Radical Other, 1965-1975


Location


Co-Chair, Pamela Wilson and Aniko Bodroghkozy


Pamela Wilson (Carlow College/University of Wisconsin-Madison)
AIMing at the Viewing Public: Television and Native American Radicals, 1972-75


Jane Rhodes (Indiana University)
Visualizing the Panthers: Race, Gender, and the News


Aniko Bodroghkozy (Toronto, Canada)Televising the Movement: Sixties Youth Readings of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Mod Squad


Jane Gerhard (Brown University)
Politicizing Pleasures: Feminism and the Sexual Revolution


40.
Contemporary Popular Culture


Location


Chair, Dianne Brooks (University of Massachusetts)


Cynthia J. Fuchs (George Mason University)
"Do I stress you out?": MTV and Angry White Females


Melanie Nash (University of Iowa)
 Contesting the Text: Beavis and Butt-head Reframed


Young, Elizabeth (Mount Holyoke College)
 Rhett, White, and Black:  GONE WITH THE WIND in Contemporary    Popular Culture


41.
Documentary Production Issues


Location


Chair, L. B.  Clark (Affiliation)


Teresa Hidalgo-de-la Riva (University of Southern California)
Chicana Video


Nicole Marie Keating
Television Documentaries and Historical Constructionism: Notes from the Production Office



Sunday, April 28
11:00 am-12:45 pm

42.
1950s TV (3)


Location


Chair, Name (Affiliation)


Barbara Wilinsky (Northwestern University)
"First and Finest": British Films on US Television in the 1940s


Chryssa Beaumont (Northwestern University)
Designs for Dreaming: Girls, Gadgets, and the Culture of Consumption in Post-War America


Lisa Parks (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Cracking Open the Set:  The Television Repairman in Industry and at Home


Janet Thumim (University of Bristol)
Women At Work: Popular Television Drama In Britain In The Late 1950s


43.
90s Television


Location


Chair, Mary Desjardins (University of Texas at Austin)


Amanda Howell (University of Rochester)
 "Trust No One (Over Thirty)": Paranoia, the Paranormal, and The (Generation) X-Files


Sarah Projansky (University of California, Davis)
Shifting Bodies, Changing Texts, and the Trouble with Representing Teenage Womanhood


44.
Killing Bikinis: Backlash, "Riot Grryls," Alternative Rock


Location


Chair, Laura Stempel Mumford (Independent Scholar, Madison, WI)


Leslie Heywood (SUNY-Binghamton)
Babes in Boyland:  Packaging Courtney and Alanis


Jennifer Drake (SUNY-Binghamton)
Rocking Backlash: Ani DiFranco's "Not a Pretty Girl" and Contemporary Feminist Activism


Jeff Niesel (University of Califormia, San Diego)
Keep On Rockin' in a Man's World: Masculinity and Paternalism in Alternative Rock


45.
Women, Politics, Media


Location


Chair, Name (Affiliation)


James Wehmeyer (Fort Lewis College)
Hillary, Harry and Huairou: Network News and Woman Problem


Mary Ellen Brown (University of Missouri)
Hillary Rodham Clinton through Television News



Videotheque

Planet in My Pocket


Beverly Seckinger (University of Arizona)






Video Installation


Ella Gant (Hamilton College)







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