College of Staten Island (CUNY) Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference, Trans-(media)

May 22, 2013
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College of Staten Island (CUNY) Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference

Trans-(media)

Thursday, June 6th

9:30 – 10:00: Registration

 

10:00 – 11:40: Opening Remarks and First Session: Trans-Forming Feminine Characterization in Narrative Media

 

  • Sony Kamal “See but Don’t Talk: Ironical Double Standards of Women in Bangladeshi Films”
  • Mahmudur Rahman “Four Representative Female Characters in Mainstream Bangladeshi Stag Films”
  • Ximena Aliaguilla “Serial Dramas, ‘The New Golden Age of Television,’ and Universal Heroine Identification: A Case Study of Showtime’s Homeland”
  • Moderator: Prof. Bilge Yesil

 

11:45 – 1:00: Keynote and Q and A: Dr. Karen Tongson, USC “Empty Orchestra”

 

1:00 – 2:00: Lunch

 

2:00 – 3:20­: Morphing Escapism in a Transmedia Age

 

  • Nettie Brock “The Stage as Liminal Space: An Exploration of Glee and Smash”
  • Katia Perea “Television Girl Cartoons: A Playful Transgression on Normative Coding”
  • Michael Fischetti “Merchandising: Where All The Money Comes From”
  • Moderator: Prof. Tara Mateik

 

3:30 – 4:50­: Social and Political Control in Transmediated Texts

 

  • Laura Hadden “All Together Now: Documentary Storytelling & Data Journalism”
  • Ruijao Dong “From  Theatre  to  Life:   The  Rationality  and  Irrationality  in  Social  Directors”
  • Nichole Latimer “Marketed Corpses: The Urban Politics of Rural Hate Crime Documentaries”
  • Moderator: Prof. Christopher Anderson

 

4:50 – 5:10: Coffee Break

 

5:10 – 6:30: Music, Media and Transmedia Influence

 

  • Spencer DeBenedictis “Torn and Frayed: Jagger/Richards, Robert Frank and Rollin Binzer at the The Crossroads of Transmedia in The Rolling Stones’ America”
  • Frank Bridges “The Dream of the 1890s Is Alive in Sheet Music: How Beck’s Song Reader Release Replicates a New Dilemma in Transmedia”
  • Josef Luciano “Louder than Bombs: Sound as a Means of Silent Control”
  • Moderator: Prof. Valerie Tevere

 

6:40: Dinner

 

Friday, June 7th

 

9:30 – 10:50: Pedagogical and Social Consequences in International Media

 

  • Chelsea Pierce “Dramas of Nationhood: An Analysis of Egyptian Media’s Production and Reception”
  • Richard Minaya “A Trans-mediated Education: the Pedagogical use of Film, Television, and Radio in Cuba”
  • Alexandra Halligey “Trans-airwaves: the role of radio in contemporary Southern African storytelling”
  • Moderator: Prof. Jillian Baez

 

10:50 – 11:10: Coffee Break

 

11:10 – 12:30: The Extension of Filmic Genres Through a Transmedia Lens

 

  • Nadia Kader “Black Dynamite as Pastiche”
  • Laura Mee “Transformation, Transmutation, Translation: The Problem of The Thing”
  • Sarah Kelley “Licence to Trans-Genre: An Analysis of the Ways in Which Licence To Kill (1989) Adopts Narrative Properties of the Western Genre.”
  • Moderator: Prof. Racquel Gates

 

12:30 – 1:30: Lunch

 

1:40 – 3:00: The Role of Transmedia in Social Communities

  • Kazi Priyanka Silmi “Transmedia storytelling in communication for social change: the case of Hollaback and Half the sky movement”
  • Jason Chen Qian “Driving Your Characters MAD”
  • Laura Christiansen “‘What’s Wrong With My Computer?’: Shit Girls Say and Transmedia”
  • Moderator: Prof. Michael Mandiberg

 

3:00 – 3:20: Coffee Break

 

3:20 – 4:40: Trans-National Exchanges of National Identity in Media

 

  • Tara Coleman “A Lyricism of Loss: Mediating Displaced Identities in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love”
  • Marc Newman “The National Allegory: Post-WWII Japanese Art and its Western Retelling”
  • Martha Diaz “Colombian Television: Changing Markets and the Emergence of the Trans National (Tele) Novela”
  • Moderator: Prof. Sherry Millner

 

4:45 to 6:40: George Lekovic screening Here or There and Q & A

6:45: Dinner

Deadline Extended to February 15! CFP: Graduate Trans-(media) Conference

February 5, 2013
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Trans-(media) 

A graduate research conference June 6-7, 2013

The Cinema and Media Graduate Student Association of the Department of Media Culture at The College of Staten Island (CUNY) invites proposals to its inaugural Graduate Student Conference. The conference will consist of two days of panels on June 6th and 7th, with a keynote address on Thursday, June 6th.

About the Conference Theme:

Transmedia storytelling, as an object of analysis, has become increasingly relevant due to the increasing use of cross-platform storytelling. While originally defined as looking at the spread of narrative across a variety of media outlets (television, print, graphic novels, video games, internet venues, etc), trans-(media) as we envision it can encompass much more. In addition to exploring the traditional definition of transmedia, we wish to explore it more in the sense of media crossing boundaries. In this way, media can cross boundaries of genre, physical and geographical boundaries, and what one may term the boundaries of gender. Our theme of trans-(media) then includes the following: trans-(national), trans-(itional), trans-(gender), trans-(gressive), trans-(formative), and trans-(ient).

Some points of entry could be:

How do media companies choose to distribute and produce their stories globally and locally, and how do they decide which story parts get disseminated across which access points?

How do diverse media users translate (and transcribe) narratives and transition between consumption and production?

How have new media technologies fundamentally changed our methods of story construction and modes of reception?

Because of the unique nature of transmedia as an integrated media experience, it easily lends itself to interdisciplinary study, and one could argue that the tradition of transmedia, or at least storytelling in video games, could have been born out of the tradition of epistolary literature. Proposals from those working in cinema, media, communications, and literature are all expected, and we would be happy to welcome an even more interdisciplinary approach. We welcome proposals from graduate scholars at all levels, and those who have completed their program in the past two years.

Interested participants should submit a CV and an abstract of 250-500 words for a fifteen-minute paper electronically as attachments to CSICinemaMediaGSA AT gmail DOT com by Friday, February 15th, 2013.

Notification will be via e-mail on March 15, 2013.

The conference will provide meals and snacks. A nominal registration fee of $50 is required by April 15, 2013.

Tweet Us: @CinMedGSACSI (https://twitter.com/CinMedGSACSI)

CFP: Inaugural Graduate Student Conference on Trans-(media), Abstracts due 30 Jan

December 13, 2012
Graduate, Graduate Conference
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Trans-(media) 

A graduate research conference June 6-7, 2013

The Cinema and Media Graduate Student Association of the Department of Media Culture at The College of Staten Island (CUNY) invites proposals to its inaugural Graduate Student Conference. The conference will consist of two days of panels on June 6th and 7th, with a keynote address on Thursday, June 6th.

About the Conference Theme:

Transmedia storytelling, as an object of analysis, has become increasingly relevant due to the increasing use of cross-platform storytelling. While originally defined as looking at the spread of narrative across a variety of media outlets (television, print, graphic novels, video games, internet venues, etc), trans-(media) as we envision it can encompass much more. In addition to exploring the traditional definition of transmedia, we wish to explore it more in the sense of media crossing boundaries. In this way, media can cross boundaries of genre, physical and geographical boundaries, and what one may term the boundaries of gender. Our theme of trans-(media) then includes the following: trans-(national), trans-(itional), trans-(gender), trans-(gressive), trans-(formative), and trans-(ient).

Some points of entry could be:

How do media companies choose to distribute and produce their stories globally and locally, and how do they decide which story parts get disseminated across which access points?

How do diverse media users translate (and transcribe) narratives and transition between consumption and production?

How have new media technologies fundamentally changed our methods of story construction and modes of reception?

Because of the unique nature of transmedia as an integrated media experience, it easily lends itself to interdisciplinary study, and one could argue that the tradition of transmedia, or at least storytelling in video games, could have been born out of the tradition of epistolary literature. Proposals from those working in cinema, media, communications, and literature are all expected, and we would be happy to welcome an even more interdisciplinary approach. We welcome proposals from graduate scholars at all levels, and those who have completed their program in the past two years.

Interested participants should submit a CV and an abstract of 250-500 words for a fifteen-minute paper electronically as attachments to CSICinemaMediaGSA AT gmail DOT com by Wednesday, January 30, 2013.

Notification will be via e-mail on March 15, 2013.

The conference will provide meals and snacks. A nominal registration fee of $50 is required by April 15, 2013.

Tweet Us: @CinMedGSACSI (https://twitter.com/CinMedGSACSI)