CONFERENCE SCHEDUAL
Monday June 29 10.00 – 12.00
Film 1:
1. Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough - University of Sydney
Digressions During Sex Talk: Advertising and Cinematic Form in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
2. Wyatt Moss-Wellington - University of Sydney
What is the Suburban Ensemble Dramedy?
3. Russell Manning – Monash University
Wes Anderston does not exist
TV 1:
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Jo Coglan – Southern Cross University
A discourse analysis of American Decay in ‘New Television’
Patrick Fuery- Chapman University
Between Daryl and Rick: (Lacanian) Anxiety, Missing Objects, and The Walking Dead
Tim Groves
Victoria University of Wellington
‘It Feels Good because God Has Power’: The Serial Killer Mastermind and His Disciples
Religion 1:
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Bruno Marshall Shirley
Victoria University of Wellington
The Presence of Religion in Popular Music: An Analysis of “Glory”
Holly Randell-Moon
University of Otago
Is Prince William a god or celebrity? Whiteness, sovereignty and the British monarchy
Ann Hardy/Carolyn Michelle/ Charles H. Davis (Ryerson) University of Waikato
Still a Spiritual Journey? Changing Audience Reactions to The Hobbit film trilogy
Visual Arts 1:
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Catherine Bagnall, Marcus Moore
Massey University
Toward the Butterfly Machines
Stefan Popescu University of Sydney
Transgression, Performance Art and Family Values in the Video Art of Huck Botko
12.00 – 1.00 Lunch
Monday 1.00 – 3.00 pm
FILM 2
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Helen Goritsas
Academy of Information Technology, Sydney
Dialogical Meeting: An Encounter Theory of Cinema ‘Would we know the day any better if there were no night?’ Andre Bazin
Tim Groves/Sarah Dillon
Victoria University of Wellington
Serial Killers, Style and Post-Classical Narration
Daniel Binns
RMIT University
Spectres of the Frame: A Treatise on the Digital Image
TV 2
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Melissa Gould
Auckland University of Technology
Christian Cultural Markers and Television Commercials: An investigation into the appropriation of Christian Cultural Markers
in Non-Christian Advertisements on New Zealand Screens
Steven Gil
University of Queensland
Mad Science from Beyond the Stars: New Perspectives and Images of Science through the Figure of the Alien Scientist
Nick Holm
Massey University
Brezhnev as Background: The Americans and Marxism in the 21st century
Gothic/Horror 1
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Sarah Baker
Auckland University of Technology
True Detective: The migration of the King in Yellow to the Gothic television series
Carmel Cedro, Lorna Piatti Farnell
Auckland University of Technology
You can be special’: Technology, Trans-humanism, and Gothic Evolutions in Popular Television
Timothy Jones
Victoria University of Wellington
Every Day is Halloween: Goth and the Gothic
Design 1
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David Sinfield
Auckland University of Technology
Typographical ghosts: A contemplation in real time, on mystery and recovery
Nigel Jamieson
Auckland University of Technology
A Survey of Augmented Reality in Australia and New Zealand
Sky Marsen
University of Southern California
Experiencing the Digital: Representations of Human-Computer interaction in Marketing Texts
3:00 – 3:30 Afternoon Tea
Monday 3.30 – 5.30
FILM 3
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Josh Wheatley
University of Sydney
Of Toys and Trash: The Crisis of Waste in Pixar's Toy Story Films
Damian McDonald Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Firearms as a Motif in Popular Culture
Olivia Hopkins
University of Sydney
‘How Do I Know What’s Real?’: Southern Religion and Alternate Worldviews in The Reaping (2007)
FAN STUDIES 1
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Mark Stewart
University of Auckland
Appropriate’ Fandom – the Television Industry’s Efforts to Model Fan Behaviours
Bryce Galloway
Massey University
One Girly-Man's NZ Zine History
Angela Warren
University of Tasmania
Chuck, Blair And The Porter: Negotiating The Rules Of Play After The Gossip Girl And Sleep No More Crossover
Bertha Chin
Swinburne University of Technology
“Orlando Jones needs to GTFO of our fandom”: Supernatural conventions and gate-keeping
TV 3
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Rosser Johnson Auckland University of Technology
Revisiting Scannell’s for-anyone-as-someone structure: the commodified listener / viewer as “someone special?”
Kimberley McMahon-Coleman
University of Wollongong
Why Doc Martin hates being called Doc Martin: Autism Spectrum Disorder on TV
Rebecca Trelease Auckland University of Technology
The Bachelor and the ‘management of liveness’
5.30 – 8.00 pm Opening Reception
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Tuesday June 30 9.00 – 11.00
Film 4
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Mhairi McIntyre
Deakin University
The Goddess Unveiled: Female Power in Contemporary Cinema
Renee Middlemost University of Wollongong
Unexpected Allies?: S/exploitation, the Bechdel Test and the Films of Andy Sidaris
Duncan Anderson Victoria University of Wellington
Video Nasties in New Zealand in the 1980s
Music 1
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Bepan Bhana
Independent Scholar
Zigging While The Others Zag
Simon Order et al. Murdoch University, Perth
Remix: Lighting the Creative Fire
Martin Patrick
Massey University
Wild Gift: X’s Punk Poeticism
Gothic/Horror 2
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Margaret McAllister, Donna Lee Brien Central Queensland University
Looking back to see ahead: Reassessing The Snake Pit for its gothic codes and significance
Lorna Piatti-Farnell Auckland University of Technology
'I Warned You About the Mirrors': Ghostly Reflections and Cultural Hauntings in The Skeleton Key
Amy Taylor
La Trobe University
The Sonic Gothic: The Ominous Soundscape of Matthew Saville’s Noise (2007).
Naomi von Senff University of New England
Cannibalising Christmas – Injecting elements of horror in Joe Hill’s Christmas tale “Nos4a2” (Nosferatu).
Book Publishing Seminar
James Campbell (International Marketing Manager - Intellect)
Morning tea 11.00 – 11.30
Tuesday 11.30 – 1.30
Comics 1
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Kevin Chiat
University of Western Australia
The First Truth of Batman: The Dark Knight as an Example of Gothic Subjectivity and Relational Thinking
Ashlee Nelson
Victoria University of Wellington
Future Gonzo and Transmetropolitan: Spider Jerusalem as an Embodiment of Hunter S. Thompson
Paul Mountfort
Auckland University of Technology
Tintin as Spectacle
Fashion 1
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Wing-sun Liu (Li, Lam, Yuan, Lam)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Heritage, Fashion and Design
Diana Marks
Independent Scholar
Communicating with molas: activism in dress
Lee Jensen
Massey University
Skank
The popularity of animal notes in contemporary perfume
Popular Romance 1
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Lauren O’Mahony Murdoch University, Perth
In Search of Feminist Romance in Australian Chick Lit
Vassiliki Veros
University of Technology Sydney
Romance Fiction Need Not Apply: investigating book club selections by cultural institutions
Jodi McAlister
Macquarie University
This Modern Love: representations of romantic love in historical romance
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Tuesday 11.30 – 1.30
Visual Arts 2
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Sean Lowry
The University of Newcastle
Are we Still a Band? Negotiating the Antipodean Extremities of Intermedial Expansion and Medium specificity in Art, Music
and Popular Culture
Mimi Kelly
University of Sydney
Still Fraught, Still Relevant: Performing through Popular Culture
Simone Hine
University of Melbourne
Stillness/Motion/Performance
Georgia Banks
Victoria College of the Arts
The Wound is All: Reperformance and the Fetish
Lunch 1.30 – 2.30
Tuesday 2.30 – 4.30
Fashion 2
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Laini Burton
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Fashioning the flesh: Fashioning the flesh: Speculating on 3D printed organs
Sophia Errey
Independent Scholar
Working the Work and Talking the Talk: Project Runway
Vishna Collins
University of New South Wales Art & Design
Art and Fashion
Fashion 3
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Vicki Karaminas, Justine Taylor
Massey University, Wellington
Sailor Style. Representations of the Mariner in Contemporary Fashion
Denise N. Rall, Emerald King
Southern Cross University/Victoria University of Wellington
Looking at Schoolboys and their Uniforms before the end of the Japanese Empire
Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal
Massey University
Lolita in Cyberspace:
Performing Identity via Online Lolita Fashion Subculture Communities
Queer/Gender 1
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Melanie FerDon Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design
To Queer or Not To Queer
Rosemary Brewer Auckland University of Technology
“Try and hold the love of your husband and get your way at the same time”: changing representations of love and agency in
the agony aunt columns of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, 1950 and 1980
,Julie Cupples, Natasha Vine University of Edinburgh
Intersectional geopolitics, transgender advocacy and the new media environment
Michael Potts
University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Homosexuality as Degeneracy in Twenty-First Century Literature
Curating 1
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Peterson, Bilie Lythberg
Whitecliff College of Arts and Design, U of Auckland
Taking it to the Street: Pacific Auto-curation in Public Spaces
Emma Jean Kelly Independent Scholar
Queering the Archive, Double Curatorship: representing 30 years of HIV/AIDS in Aotearoa New Zealand in the work of
Gareth Watkins and Paula Booker
Kath Foster
Independent Scholar
AN EXPLOSION OF SEEING: The Impact of Pop Culture on the Murals of John Foster
4.30 – 5.00 Afternoon Tea
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Wednesday July 1 9.00 – 11.00
Film 5
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Kim Wilkins
University of Sydney
(Re)constructing Berlin: Framing the City in Tom Twyker’s Berlin Films
Paul Sunderland University of Sydney
Immersion and Historical Space in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon
Bruce Isaacs
University of Sydney
A Transcultural Genre Aesthetic: Sergio Corbucci’s Django (1966) and il Grande Silenzio (The Great Silence, 1968)
Fiction 1
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Jillene Bydder
University of Waikato
Better than Biggles: Michael Annesley’s Lawrie Fenton Novels
Rachel Franks
State Library of NSW / University of Newcastle, Australia Fiction 1
‘A World of Fancy Fiction and Fact’: The Frank C. Johnson Archive at the State Library of NSW
Lauren O’Mahony Murdoch University, Melbourne
“More Than Sex, Shopping and Shoes” 1: Cosmopolitan Indigeneity and Cultural Politics in Anita Heiss’s Koori Chick Lit
Fashion 4
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Anne Pierson-Smith
City University, Hong Kong
Where there’s a Will?: an analysis of the use of fashion brand narratives to win hearts and minds in the high street
Tania Splawa-Neyman
RMIT University
The diary of a mender: Making and mending to make sense of ‘abundant consumables’
Denise N. Rall
Southern Cross University
Can we ‘repair’ repair - how, when and where?
11.00 – 11.30 Morning Tea
Wednesday July 1 11.30 – 1.30
Food 1
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Donna Lee Brien Central Queensland University
Recovering forgotten Australian food writers: Wivine de Stoop
Alison Vincent
Central Queensland University
Richard Beckett and Sam Orr write about food
Julie McIntyre
University of Newcastle
Chardy and Savvy: Cultural highs and gendered hangovers from the world white wine boom
Queer/Gender 2
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Rosanna Hunt
University of Tasmania
The 'indie' femininities of Frankie magazine
Phoebe Hart
Queensland University of Technology
Intersex Onscreen
Erin Harrington
University of Canterbury
Living deaths, wicked witches and ‘hagsploitation’: horror and / of the aging female body
DESIGN 2
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Francesca Zampollo
Auckland University of Technology
Food Design, Meanings, Stories, Memories, Emotions
Lynne Ciochetto Massey University, Wellington
Toilet Signs as Folk Art: A Cross-Cultural Visual Essay
Gjoko Muratovski Auckland University of Technology
Design Management Education: Educating Design Managers for Strategic Roles
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Design 3
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Gray Hodgkinson Massey University
‘Displaced’- Animated Movie
Donald Preston
Massey University
Island Love: How Our Islands’ Shape Shapes Our Identity
Corey Walden
Auckland University of Technology
Diary of a Murderhobo: The Mapping of Participant Divertissement within Dungeons & Dragons
Getting Published in the Australasian Journal Popular Culture
1.30 – 2.30 Lunch
Wednesday July 1 2.30 – 4.30
Queer/Gender 3
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Baden Offord
Curtin University, Western Australia
Kissing as an Everyday Human Right: Queer Interventions in Popular Culture
Logan Austin
Auckland University of Technology
New Zealand’s Gay Leather Culture: Influenced by, and Influencing, Pop Culture
Anita Brady
Victoria University of Wellington
Taking Time Between G-String Changes to Educate Ourselves: Sinéad O’Connor, Miley Cyrus and Celebrity Feminism
Athena Bellas
University of Melbourne
‘You Have No Idea What It’s Like to be a Girl in this World’: Reign, Power, and the Teen Queen
Food 2/Writing
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Geoff Stahl
Victoria University of Wellington
Making a Mockery of Meat: Translating Texture and Failings of the ‘Flesh’”
Helen Mitchell
Massey University
Written on the Body: Tattoo Narratives
Laura Goodin
Australian Institute of Music, Sydney and Melbourne
Genre Conventions: The Beginning of the End?"
Performance 1/Radio & Audio Media
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Simon Dwyer
Central Queensland University
The role of the ‘standard rig’ in the illumination of a production of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men (1954)
Peter Hoar
Auckland University of Technology
Asking the People What They Want: High-Brow vs. Low-Brow and the 1932 New Zealand Radio Survey
Matt Mollgaard
Auckland University of Technology
Pop, Power and Politics: Local Music Radio as a Public/Private Partnership
5.00 – 6.00 PopCAANZ AGM
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