Third Annual POPCAANZ Conference
Langham Hotel,
One Southgate Avenue, Southbank,
Melbourne, Victoria 3006, Australia
Tel: (61) (3) 8696 8888
Fax: (61) (3) 9690 5889
melbourne.langhamhotels.com.au
27th June – 29th June 2012
PopCAANZ EXECUTIVE
President:
Toni Johnson-Woods: president@popcaanz.com
Vice-President Australia:
Derham Groves:
vicepresident@popcaanz.com
Vice-President New Zealand:
Paul Mountfort:
vicepresidentnz@popcaanz.com
Vice President International:
Joseph Hancock II:
vpinternational@popcaanz.com
Executive Director:
Vicki Karaminas:
executivedirector@popcaanz.com
Secretary:
Rebecca Beirne:
secretary@popcaanz.com
Conference Manager:
Rebecca Beirne
secretary@popcaanz.com
Conference Program Coordinator:
Suzanne Osmond:
program@popcaanz.com
Conference Coordinator Logistics and Operations, Melbourne 2012:
Ed Montano:
music@popcaanz.com
AREA CHAIRS
Animation:
Deborah Szapiro:
animation@popcaanz.com
Anime & Manga:
Craig Norris:
anime@popcaanz.com
Architecture:
Derham Groves:
architecture@popcaanz.com
Biography & Life Writing:
Giselle Bastin:
biography@popcaanz.com
Business & Popular Culture: Sarah Kelly:
Creative Writing
Karen Simpson-Nikakis
Popular Design:
Prudence Black:
writing@popcaanz.com
design@popcaanz.com
Disabilities & Popular Culture: Donna McDonald:
disabilities@popcaanz.com
Fashion:
Vicki Karaminas:
fashion@popcaanz.com
Popular Fiction:
Rachel Franks:
fiction@popcaanz.com
Film:
Bruce Isaacs:
film@popcaanz.com
Food:
Toni Risson:
food@popcaanz.com
Gender & Queer:
Anita Brady:
gender@popcaanz.com
Girlhood:
Juliette Peers:
girlhood@popcaanz.com
Graphic Novels & Comics:
Paul Mountfort:
comics@popcaanz.com
History:
Hsu-Ming Teo:
history@popcaanz.com
Popular Music:
Ed Montano:
music@popcaanz.com
Radio & Audio Media:
Martin Hadlow:
radio@popcaanz.com
Popular Religion:
Sean Durbin:
religion@popcaanz.com
Popular Science:
Bill Lott:
science@popcaanz.com
Sound, Voices and the Everyday: Norie Neumark: voices@popcaanz.com
Sports:
Carol Wical:
sports@popcaanz.com
Toys & Games:
Jason Bainbridge:
toys@popcaamz.com
TV:
Rebecca Beirne:
tv@popcaanz.com
Visual Arts:
Adam Geczy:
visualarts@popcaanz.com
The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
Programme
WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE – CLARENDON A
8.00 – 9.00
REGISTRATION - Pre Function Area - Level 1
9.00 – 10.30
FILM I - National and Transnational Images
Chair: Bruce Isaacs
1. Ari Mattes - From Nam to Afghanistan: Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables and the Sanitization of Action
Cinema in post-9/11 America.
2. Yang Liu - Chinese Commercial Mainstream Films in Middle Class Myth
3. Kylee Hartman-Warren- Fashionable Fascism: Cinematic Images of the Nazi Before and After 9/11.
11.00 – 12.30 TELEVISION 1 – TV Worlds
Chair: Rebecca Bierne
1. Matthew Campora - Are Films Bad or is HBO Style Just Better?
2, Rosser Johnson – Cosmopolitanism Underdone? A Critical Understanding of Commercialism within “food
television”
3. Elizabeth Kinder: Don’t Blink: The Uncanny Space in Television
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
1.30 – 3.00
FILM 2 – Transformations: Form, Genre, Aesthetic
Chair: Bruce Isaacs
1. Adrian Schober - Why can’t they make kids’ flicks anymore? Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and
the Family Film
2. Anne Daugherty - Cabin in the Woods: Parting the Trees Exposes the Forest
3. Andrew Chrystall – Inglourious Basterds vs. Hugo and The Artist: Self-Reflexive Smack-Down
3.30 – 5.00
TELEVISION 2 – Television and Society
Chair: Rebecca Bierne
1. Emma Price - Her call: Female Sports Commentators in Australia
2. Roslyn Weaver - Popular Culture and Professional Identity: What Nursing, Medical and Forensic Science
Students think about their Profession on Television
3. Steven Gil - Deploying Knowledge as Power: Contrasts of Religious and Scientific Epistemologies in
Stargate: SG-1
5.30 -7.30 COCKTAIL PARTY & BOOK/JOURNAL LAUNCH – Aria Bar & Lounge, Langham Hotel
8.00 TV/Film Dinner – Sherlock Holmes Inn - 415 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE – CLARENDON B
8.00 – 9.00
REGISTRATION - Pre Function Area - Level 1
9.00 – 10.30
FOOD I – Cake
Chair: Toni Risson
1. Carmel Cedro - Dolly Varden: Sweet Inspiration
2 .Toni Risson - Showing, blowing and making a wish: iced decoration on children’s birthday cakes
3. Alison Vincent - The Lamington: Advancing Australian Fare
11.00 – 12.30 FOOD 2 – Women and Food
Chair: Toni Risson
1. Donna Brien - Maria Kozslik Donovan: An influential food writing career
2. Jill Adams – Mrs Dione Lucas Down Under
3. Felicity Ameron - Veuve Penfold: The Woman Behind the Wines
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
1.30 – 3.00
FOOD 3 – Food and Identity
Chair: Toni Risson
1. Lindsay Neill - But wait there’s more: why the White Lady is Kiwiana
2. Lloyd Carpenter - Some Nostalgia with Your Wine, Ladies and Gentlemen?: Remembering the Central
Otago Gold Rush on Wine Labels
3.30 – 5.00
SOUND
Chair: Norie Neumark
1. Kate Ames - Doing Being 'friends': An Analysis of Host and Caller Interaction on Chat-based Radio
Programming
2. Rebecca Coyle - Scare Sounds: Sonic Effect and Affect in ‘Digi-Cam’ Movies
3. Bridget Herlihy – Alone, Together: Headphones as an Aesthetic Prosthetic
5.30 -7.30 COCKTAIL PARTY & BOOK/JOURNAL LAUNCH – Aria Bar & Lounge, Langham Hotel
8.00 TV/Film Dinner – Sherlock Holmes Inn - 415 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE – CLARENDON C
8.00 – 9.00
REGISTRATION - Pre Function Area - Level 1
9.00 – 10.30
of Cultures?
WRITING - Panel Session - Research Ethics in the Field of Writing: A Conflict
Chair: Karen Simpson Nikakis
1. Lyndon Walker - Ethics Advisor Perspective
2. Dr Carolyn Beasley - Journalism and Writing Perspective
3. Dr Martin Andrew - One law for us and another for them?: The ethics of autoethnography in the academy
and the real world
11.00 – 12.30 FICTION 1 – Suburbs, Storms and Political Intrigue
Chair: Rachel Franks
1. Belinda Burns - Made in Suburbia: a search for 'new' transformative narratives within the suburban
landscape
2. Karen Simpson Nikakis - Twisting the Truth: the power of vortices in narratives
3. Jillene Bydder - How Spy Thrillers with Russian Characters Illustrate Political History
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
1.30 – 3.00
FICTION 2 - Truth in Fiction
Chair: Rachel Franks
1. Katherine Howell - Feeling the Corpse: The work of the female doctor investigator in crime fiction.
2. Giselle Bastin - Truman Capote: In Cold Blood: From Literary Biography to Popular Biopic
3. Errol Jones - The Power of Fictional Truth
3.30 – 5.00
FICTION 3 - Pages from American & Australian Fiction
Chair: Leigh McLennon
1. Scott Macleod - Something’s afoot: Conspiracy, paranoia, and the amateur detective in Thomas Pynchon’s
The Crying of Lot 49
2. Alistair Rolls - Smoking in Arcadia or Barry Maitland's Embodied Folly: Re-Opening the Case of The
Malcontenta
3. Lucy Sussex - Tupenny, Hapenny Colonial Trumpery: Australian Writers Abroad
5.30 -7.30 COCKTAIL PARTY & BOOK/JOURNAL LAUNCH – Aria Bar & Lounge, Langham Hotel
8.00 TV/Film Dinner – Sherlock Holmes Inn - 415 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
THURSDAY 28th JUNE – CLARENDON A
8.00 – 9.00
All Area Chair Breakfast Meeting - CLARENDON A
9.00 – 10.30
FILM/TV 1 - Sex, Subject, Ideology
Chair: Bruce Isaacs
1. Sophian Davidson Gluyas - Dancing Federation Steps: A Lesbian Reading of Strictly Ballroom
2. Emilie Jervis - Experience, Transformation and Textuality in Black Swan
3. Kimberley McMahon-Coleman: Who's Your Daddy?: Representations of Masculinity and Coming of Age in
Television's "The Vampire Diaries
4. MareeMacmillan - The Ghostly meets the Surreal: Femme fatale becomes redeemer in Oscar Wilde’s 1887
story, The Canterville Ghost, and Albert Lewin’s 1951 surrealist film, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
11.00 – 12.30 FILM 3 - Alternative Cinema Practices
Chair: Bruce Isaacs
1. Angie Black & Hester Joyce - Alternative Artists of the Film Form
2. Kim Wilkins - The Sounds of Silence: Hyper-dialogue in the American Eccentrics
3. Pansy Duncan - Bored and Boringer: Avant-Garde and Trash in Gummo
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
12.45
Annual General Meeting – Clarendon A - ALL WELCOME
1.30 – 3.00 GENDER 1
Chair: John Bratzel
1. Scott Beattie - Bear Arts Naked: Creative Counterpublics and the Fat Body
2. Erin Harrington - Virgins, vaginas and ‘Teeth’
3.30 – 5.00
FILM 4 - Film Form: Theorising the Medium
Chair: Bruce Isaacs
1. Cody McCormack - The Beginning and the End of Identification
2. Bruce Isaacs - Exceptionally Close Analysis – Spectacular Realism in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.
3. John McMullan - perthbands.tv: A Study of Meaning in Online Moving Image Media
5.00 – 6.30
Executive Committee Meeting – Towers 2
THURSDAY 28th JUNE – CLARENDON B
9.00 – 10.30
FOOD 4 – Food in Fashion, Fiction & the Formative Years
Chair: Toni Risson
1. Lorna Piatti-Farnell - A Taste of Conflict: Food, History and Popular Trends in Katherine Mansfield’s Fiction
2. Tania Splawa-Neyman - Food and Fashion on the web: the cultivation of culture
3. Rowan Holt - The Perfect Mix
11.00 – 12.30 PERFORMANCE
Chair: Sue Osmond
1. Amanda Laugesen - Something more than a luxury: performers, audiences, and the meanings of
entertainment in war
2. Scott Welsh - Editing Processes and the Playwright's Narrative Voice
3. Brent Downes - In the red corner: Theatricality in Mixed Martial Arts in Brisbane
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
12.45
Annual General Meeting – Clarendon A - ALL WELCOME
1.30 – 3.00
FOOD 5 - Food and Health
Chair: Toni Risson
1. Michelle Phillipov - Mastering Obesity: Television and the Pleasures of Food
2. Charmaine O’Brien - Eating like an aristocrat: How Dining Etiquette Could Trim Your Waist and Rescue
Society from the Scourge of Individualism
3.30 – 5.00
GENDER 2
Chair: Toni Johnson Woods
1. Rachael Gunn - Becoming-b-boy
2. Matthew Bannister - The Kiwi is a Queer Bird: Settler identity and popular culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand
3. Claire Maree - Abusively queer—subtitles and queer-speak in Japanese cinema
5.00 – 6.30
Executive Committee Meeting – Towers 2
THURSDAY 28th JUNE – CLARENDON C
9.00 – 10.30
ROMANTIC LOVE 1 – Love and History
Chair: Hsu-Ming Teo
1. Hsu-Ming Teo – The popular culture of romantic love – a historiographical overview
2. Melissa Bellanta – The Sentimental Bloke: Australian Romance in the Anzac Years
3. Catriona Elder - Romance, Drama and History on Australian Television
11.00 – 12.30 ROMANTIC LOVE 3 – Love Stories
Chair: Hsu-Ming Teo
1. Mark Nicholls - Thank God He Me Lizzie and the Trauma of the Everyday Love Story
2. Lucy Butler - Something Borrowed, Something Blue": disarticulating the popular mythology of romantic love
in postmodern Bluebeard tale
3. Lauren O'Mahony - Searching for a Feminist Representation of Romantic Love in Australian ‘Chick Lit’
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
12.45
Annual General Meeting – Clarendon A - ALL WELCOME
1.30 – 3.00
FICTION 4 - Recognising Romance and Twelve Years of Murder
Chair: Scott MacLeod
1. Leigh McLennon - A vampire, by any other name: defining the urban fantasy, or paranormal romance, genre
2. Vassiliki Veros - What the Librarian Did: The Romance Reader and the public library ebook subscription
3. Rachel Franks - Reimagining Ellery Queen: from New York, New York to Cabot Cove, Maine
3.30 – 5.00
TOYS & GAMING
Chair: Jason Bainbridge
1. Jason Bainbridge - He-Man and the Masters of Merchandise: A case study in the changing status of toys in
popular culture
2. Martin van de Weyer - Japanese RPGs and the search for a ‘Furusato’ Identity
3. Morgan Oliver - Playful Labour: Minecraft and the Economy of Play
5.00 – 6.30
Executive Committee Meeting – Towers 2
THURSDAY 28th JUNE – TOWERS 2
9.00 – 10.30
ANIMATION 1
Chair: Deborah Szapiro
1. Deborah Szapiro – Indigenous Animation: Present and Future Tense
2. Rebecca Coyle – The Jetsons: Retro-Futurism on the Small Screen
3. Leyla Acaroglu - The Secret Life of Things: making sustainability science education fun through animation
11.00 – 12.30 POPULAR MUSIC 1
Chair: Ed Montano
1. Ronnie Smart - Discourse Functions and Stylistic Characteristics of Codeswitching in the work of Wang Li
Hong 2005-2010
2. Sebastian Díaz-Gasca - Videogame soundtracks: towards a model for consumption analysis
3. Sophia Maalsen - Sven Libaek and Misty Canyon
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
12.45
Annual General Meeting – Clarendon A - ALL WELCOME
1.30 – 3.00
POPULAR MUSIC 2
Chair: Ed Montano
1. Garth Sheridan - Syncretic Practise and Kuduro Musical Cultures
2. Ed Montano - Insider, Outsider, Clubber or Researcher? All of the Above
3.30 – 5.00
ANIMATION 2
Chair: Deborah Szapiro
1. Hannes Rall – Animation for ‘Dance of the Shadows’ – a hommage to Lotte Reiniger
2. Damian Gascoigne – Muso Soup: Hybrid Aesthetics for 3D Animation
3. Birgitta Hosea - Sleight of the Hand Made
5.00 – 6.30
Executive Committee Meeting – Towers 2
FRIDAY 29th JUNE – CLARENDON A
8.00 – 9.00
Area Meetings - as advised by Area Chairs
9.00 – 10.30
DESIGN 1 – Design and the Global Economy
Chair: Derham Groves
1. Lisa Scharoun - Big Boxes Down Under: The social implications of the rise of Big Box retailers in Australia
2. Derham Groves - The Ubiquitous Brick: Australia, India and Iran.
3. Susie Khamis - Brand IKEA: ‘Swedish design’ in the global cultural economy
11.00 – 12.30 FILM 5 - Truth and Representation: Technology, Culture, Society
Chair: Bruce Isaacs
1. Andrew Jones - It’s Not [Just] Cricket: The Art and Politics of the Popular – Cultural Imperialism, ‘Sly Civility’
& Postcolonial Incorporation
2. Holly Manaseri - Meaning Making: Dis/Ability in the Digital Age
3. Antonia Strakosch - Glorious Basterds: A Case for Popularising the Holocaust in Film and Fiction
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
1.30 – 3.00
GIRLHOOD
Chair: Juliette Peers
1. Juliette Peers - Rose Percy: Shopping for the State
2. Anita Callaway - Where The Boys Aren’t: The Girly World Of Popsy And Friends
3. Tina Vares & Sue Jackson - Preteen girls read ‘tween’ and ‘teen’ magazines: Negotiating gendered, sexual
and aged subjectivities
3.30 – 5.00
DESIGN 2 – Design and Consumption
Chair: Derham Groves
1. Leigh Paterson – Manvertising: a Critival Appraisal of Communication Design in the Masculinisation of
Consumables
2. Jane Shadbolt - Haven’t I met you somewhere before? Exploring the visual anodyne in microstock
photography
3. Soumitri Varadarajan - Ambierod, Affluent tastes and the Designer: Emerging navigations in Vehicle design
culture in India
5.00 – 7.00
FAREWELL DRINKS – Aria Bar & Lounge, Langham Hotel
FRIDAY 29th JUNE – CLARENDON B
8.00 – 9.00
Area Meetings – as advised by Area Chairs
9.00 – 10.30
Fashion 1
Chair: Vicki Karaminas
1. Anne Farren - Slipping between Art and Fashion
2. Sophia Errey - Bags I Be It: Shopping Bags in Consumer Culture and Art
3. Diana Marks - Representations of popular culture in Kuna molas
4. Georgia McCorkill - Occupying The Front Row : Fashion networks in practice
11.00 – 12.30 Fashion 2
Chair: Vicki Karaminas
1. Jennifer Craik - Challenges for Australian Fashion in a Globalised Fashion Culture
2. Peter Allen - The Fabricated Man
3. Liu Wing-sun - Fashion Brand Meaning(s) in Fluidity
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
1.30 – 3.00
Popular Culture & the Everyday
Chair: Vicki Karaminas
1. Cassandra Sharp - Will the ‘real’ justice please stand up? The transformation of public desire for justice
through stories
2. Barbara Doran - At‘Onement’ INCorporeal - a body's voice amidst an ethos of online calculability and
standardization
3.30 – 5.00
FASHION 3
Chair: Vicki Karaminas
1. Ann Pierson-Smith - D&G Go Home Now!’: A cautionary lesson in cultural sensitivities, local awareness and
customer relations for luxury brands in China
2. Sharon Peoples - The Politics of Appearances
3. Denise Rall - The Bride as Banquet: consummation, consumption and – the dress
5.00 – 7.00
FAREWELL DRINKS – Aria Bar & Lounge, Langham Hotel
FRIDAY 29th JUNE – CLARENDON C
8.00 – 9.00
Area Meetings – as advised by Area Chairs
9.00 – 10.30
COMICS, ANIME & MANGA 1
Chair: Paul Mountfort
1. Paul Mountfort - Oh heavens, I’ve barged in on a film company!”: Spielberg’s The Secret of the Unicorn as
Pixelated Spectacle
2. Leonie Brialey - Sincerity and Speech Balloons: the shape and weight of words in (autobiographical) comics
3. Elizabeth McFarlane - Authenticity in contemporary Australasian autobiographical comics
11.00 – 12.30 COMICS, ANIME & MANGA 2
Chair: Paul Mountfort
1. Keith Russell - Moe: An Affect of Manga and Anime
2. Jane Chapman - Rejected for Publication: Anzac Comic Art as Democratic Self-Expression
3. Yuri Shakouchi - Beatnik Superheroes: Application of the Beatnik Stereotypes to Superhero Comics in the
1990s and the 2000s
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH – Ballroom Pre Function Area
1.30 – 3.00
COMICS, ANIME & MANGA 3
Chair: Paul Mountfort
1. John E.Ingulsrud & Kate Allen - Caricatures of images: Analyzing stance-taking in manga character
discourse
2. Toru Matsuzaki - Onomatopoeic Expressions in Japanese Manga and their English Translation
3. Joshua Paul Dale - Original Cosplay
3.30 – 5.00
ROMANTIC LOVE 3 – Consuming Love
Chair: Hsu-Ming Teo
1. Matt Bailey - Love for Sale: Translating Valentine’s Day to Australia
2. Jill Adams & Donna Lee Brien - Food and Romance in Post-war Australia
3. Annita Boyd - The Private and Public Life of Nellie Stewart’s Bangle
5.00 – 7.00
FAREWELL DRINKS – Aria Bar & Lounge, Langham Hotel
EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
The exhibition entitled "Reconstructed InVESTments" from Denise N. Rall is on display during
POPCAANZ. View it the main entryway glass case, Building 513, School of Fashion and
Textiles, RMIT, Brunswick campus, 25 Dawson Street. Easy access from the CBD via tram.
Denise's exhibition displays her vests, with empty wine glasses and bottles strewn over excerpts from recent financial
pages, offering a tongue-and-cheek view to the current 'glass half empty? glass half-full?' debate in Australian politics.