Day Three

Console-ing Passions 2024

Bloomington, Indiana
June 20 – 22, 2024

Session G, 9:00 – 10:30 am

All panels will be held at the IU Media School
Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue

Panel G26: Industry and Influence
Julie D’Acci Room (Franklin Hall, Room 312)
Chair: Alicia Kozma (Indiana University)

• Alicia Kozma (Indiana University), “Organizing Futures: Mapping the Fight for Reality TV Unions”
• Chad E. Harris (East Tennessee State University), “Awards Chatter and ‘Run[ning] Ahead of the Phenomenon'”
• Martina Baldwin (California State University Fullerton), “Instagram Fan Accounts: Resistance on Behalf of The Real Housewives”
• Justin Rawlins (University of Tulsa), “Lessons through the Walls: Reconstituting Rose McClendon and the Revision of Method Acting’s Many Histories”

Panel G27: Animal-Human
Lauren Rabinowitz Room (Franklin Hall, Room 310)
Chair: Brandy Monk-Payton (Fordham University)

• Chelsea Brtis (University of North Carolina-Charlotte), “A Case Study of Animal-Human Relationships in Video Games”
• Kelly Wolf (University of South Carolina-Columbia), ‘It’s Not a Career, It’s a Lifestyle’: An Ethnographic Analysis of Gender Dynamics in ‘Animal Training’ and Multispecies Performance”
• Brandy Monk-Payton (Fordham University), “Dogs, Domesticity, and Digital Culture: Exploring Black Pet Ownership Online”

Panel G28: The Politics of Authorship and Re/Mediation
Lynn Spigel Room (Franklin Hall, Room 114)
Chair: Lauren Savit (Wellesley College)

• Alora Paulsen Mulvey (University of Calgary) “Scotch, Vodka, and TikTok: ‘Paying Our Child Support’ through Platform Engagement”
• Lauren Savit (Wellesley College), “Authorship, Authenticity, and Re/Mediation: Monica Lewinsky as Producer of American Crime Story”
• Charlotte Howell (Boston University), “Pushing the Limits of Girl-Power Synergy in the ABC and ESPN Broadcasts of the 2003 Women’s World Cup” 

All panels will be held at the IU Media School
Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue

Panel H29: Media and/as Politics
Julie D’Acci Room (Franklin Hall, Room 312)
Chair: Amanda Ann Klein (East Carolina University)

• Benjamin Davis (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Rhetoric of TERFs: Response Videos, Intellectualism and Seriousness”
• Rachel Winter (Rollins College), “Harry Potter and the Failed Boycott of Hogwarts Legacy”
• Nicola McCafferty (Northwestern University), “‘There’s Meat on Me’: Poppy’s Performance of the Nonhuman” 
• Alyxandra Vesey (University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa), “Time to Document: Voicing Authorship on Björk: Sonic Symbolism”

Panel H30: Mediated Crime
Mary Beth Haralovich Room (Franklin Hall, Room 212)
Chair: Misha Kavka (University of Amsterdam)

• Areyana Proctor (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Criminalized Representations of the Black Body and How They Impact Mass Incarceration”
• Alison Wielgus (University of Wisconsin-Superior), “Return to the Scene of the Crime: Radicalizing the Female Detective”
• Christina Lane (University of Miami), “Podcast Outsiders in True Crime: Feminist Possibilities in Gender and Genre”

Panel H31: Feminist Testimony
Lynn Spigel Room (Franklin Hall, Room 114)
Chair:Jessalynn Keller (University of Calgary)

• Jessalynn Keller (University of Calgary), “From Blogs to Barbie: Historicizing Mediated Feminisms”
• Laura Schumacher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Be the Solution: The Celebrity Girl Activist and the Productive Affects of Shaming, Silence, and Anger”
• Amber Hardiman (University of Michigan), “The Problem of Evidence and the Post-#MeToo Television Documentary Mode: An Analysis of Hulu’s Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein (2019) and HBO’s Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes (2021)”
• Tatyana Terzopoulos (Toronto Metropolitan University), “Centering Girls’ Stories and Supporting Girl Storytellers through Video Production Extracurricular Education”

Panel H32: Genre and Industry
Jane Feuer Room (Franklin Hall, Room 210)
Chair: Julia Himberg (Arizona State University)

• Molly Schneider (Columbia College Chicago), “‘Big, Cheesy Melodrama’: Female-Driven Stories and Changing Conceptions of the Miniseries”
• Julia Himberg (Arizona State University), “Queering Hallmark: A Case Study in LGBTQ+ Media Production”
• Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame), “Lessons in Production and Patriarchy at Beyond Our Control”

Panel H33: Television Comedy: Navigating Quality, Tradition, and Ideology
Lauren Rabinowitz Room (Franklin Hall, Room 310)
Chairs: Yael Levy (Tel Aviv University)

• Andrew J. Owens (University of Iowa), “Camping Comedy: Bewitched and the Occult”
• Jacqueline Johnson (University of Southern California), “‘I Can Wait’: Stasis, Narrative Delay, and the Television Romantic Comedy”
• Yael Levy (Tel Aviv University) with Alfred L. Martin, Jr. (University of Miami), “Ideological Duality: Deconstructing Quality and Tradition in Reboot”

Gayle Karch Center for Public Arts and Humanities
Maxwell Hall, 750 E. Kirkwood Avenue
By registration only. Registration for this lunch is now closed.

All panels will be held at the IU Media School
Franklin Hall, 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue

Panel I34: The Queer Afterlives of 1980’s Media
Jane Feuer Room (Franklin Hall, Room 210)
Chair: Ben Kruger-Robbins (Weber State University)

• Bridge Kies (Oakland University), ‘Girlie Men’: Gender Play and Drag in 1980’s Sketch Comedy”
• Ben Kruger-Robbins (Weber State University), “‘Where Has Alex Keaton Gone?’: The Queer Case of Gay Erase in Family Ties”
• Kristen Galvin (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs), “The Queer Loves, Lives, Deaths, and Horror Nostalgia of Chucky”

Panel I35: #MeToo Storytelling
Mary Beth Haralovich Room (Franklin Hall, Room 212)
Chair: Krystal Cleary

• Susan Kerns (Columbia College Chicago), “‘Nobody has to get hurt. Just people f**ing on film’: Historicizing Intimacy Coordination in Cable Television Production”
• Polina Zelmanova (University of Warwick), “Between Pleasure and Risk: Negotiating Representations of Sex in Film and TV After #MeToo”
• Anna Bautista (University of Hong Kong), “‘Roar’: Streaming and Forging Epistemic Perceptions of Gender and Power”
• Annie Park (Indiana University), “‘There is nothing more romantic than a disturbed woman’: Madness and Suicide in Promising Young Woman”

Panel I36: Monstrosity Across Genre
Lynn Spigel Room (Franklin Hall, Room 114)
Chair: Billy Tringali (Indiana University Indianapolis)

• Billy Tringali (Indiana University Indianapolis) and Maria Alberto (Indiana University Indianapolis), “‘Iconic Grandma Boss Bitch’: Fannish Creation as Reclamation of D&D’s Hag”
• Brandon Blackburn (University of California-Irvine), “‘No Will to Break’: Monstrous Neutrality in Hollow Knight”
• Laurel Carlson (University of Iowa), “Monstrous Revenge: Midsommar as Feminist Horror”
• Demagio Mansell (University of Central Florida), “Black Fandom’s Critique of Romanticizing Jeffrey Dahmer in Netflix’s Dahmer-Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”

Panel I37: Teens in Crisis
Julie D’Acci Room (Franklin Hall, Room 312)
Chair: Megan Connor (Indiana University)

• Stephanie Perez (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), ‘Inspirada en hechos condenables’: Guatemalan Teen Girls and Illusions of Safety in Hogar Seguro (2020)”
• Nick Sansone (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “She’s Out of Control: Examining Gender Presentation and Teenage Violence in Thirteen”
• Cara Dickason (Goucher College), “(Watching) Sex in Public: Euphoria, Mobile Television Viewership, and Sex Scene Discourse”
• Arnau Roig-Mora (Universtate Pompeu Fabra), “What Are Spanish Teens Being Told? An Analysis of Sexual and Reproductive Health Messages on Social Media” 

Session I38: Gone but Not Forgotten
Lauren Rabinowitz Room (Franklin Hall, Room 310)
Chair: Kirsten Pike (Northwestern University-Qatar)

• Kirsten Pike (Northwestern University-Qatar), “‘What’s That You Say? Buddy Wasn’t Gay’: Kristy McNichol and Family’s Queer Pleasures”
• Zoran Samardzija (Columbia College Chicago), “Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) and Its Critique of Restorative Nostalgia”
• Christopher Sieving (University of Georgia), “The Bois de Boulogne on 138th Street and Riverside Drive: Cosby-Carsey-Werner’s The Lena Horne Show”
• Amanda Keeler (Marquette University), “The Stories Have Substance: Social Issues on The Rockford Files”

4:00 – 6:00 pm: Private screening of Neptune Frost
Co-directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman | Rwanda, USA | 2021
IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th Street

We are happy to feature Neptune Frost for this special CP screening, as it constitutes one of the signal texts for Moya Bailey’s closing keynote.

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6:30 – 8:00 pm: Day Three Keynote by Moya Bailey
“Afrofeminist Futures at the End of the Anthropocene”
IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th Street

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