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: 1. 2. 1. 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: 1. 2. 3. 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: 1. 2. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 4. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 ii Tuesday June 30 9.00 – 11.00 Film 4 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 4. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 iii Tuesday 11.30 – 1.30 Visual Arts 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 4. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 iv Wednesday July 1 9.00 – 11.00 Film 5 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 v Design 3 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 4. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 1. 2. 3. 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 vi 7