CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

10:20 |

Opening Remarks

 

10:30-11:50 | Panel I: Tragedy, Innocence and the Gothic: Melodramatic Genre and Tropes

 

Moderator: Hanh Bui

Matt Schratz, “Peripeteia in Harlem: Structural Melodramas in The Street”

Brendan Trombly, "Innocence as Virtue?: On the Promise and Peril of Melodramatic Representation in Herzog's Stroszekand Zemeckis's Forrest Gump"

Malcolm Thaine Bare, “Scenes Made in the Casements: 1790s Melodrama and The Mysteries of Udolpho”

 

11:50-1:10 | Panel II: Staging Melodrama: Theater, Film, Television

 

Moderator: Megan Finch

Kurt Cavendar, "Documentary Melodrama: Event, Crisis Structure, and Cinéma vérité after Katrina"

Jenny Sternling, “Melodramatic Tails: 19th C. Dog Dramas’ Enduring Influence on the Popular Imagination”

Andrew Sanggyu Lee, "Producing Televisual Reflexivity: The Case of Korean Television Drama Series"

 

1:10-2:10 | Lunch

 

2:10-3:30 | Faculty Panel

 

Moderator: Jeanna Kadlec

Faith Smith, TBA

Ulka Anjaria, "Melodrama, Desire and New Political Subjectivities"

 

3:30-4:30 | Panel III: Structures of Feeling in Melodrama: Family and Masculinity

 

Moderator: Jennifer Thomas

David Pass, “Unqueering Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain: Masculinity, Melodrama, and the Familial Paradox”

Sonia Lupher, “Grown Men Weeping: Susanne Bier’s Male Melodramas"

 

4:30-5:30 | Keynote address: Lucy Fischer, “La Vie en Noir: Melodrama and the Biopic"

Introduction by: Kyle Stevens

 

 

Please note that each panel will last one hour followed by 20 minutes for questions and answers.

 

All panels will take place in the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Mandel Reading Room, 303

 

The keynote address will be given in the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G03