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B for BAD Cinema - Program

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Conference Opening - Tuesday
Day 1 - Wednesday
Day 2 - Thursday
Conference Party - Thursday
Day 3 - Friday

Opening event - Tuesday April 14

6.00 to 7.30pm

Conference Opening
ACMI, Federation Square

Day 1: Wednesday April 15

8.15–8.45am	Registration
8.45–9.05am	Welcome

Plenary Session 1

9.00–10.15am	Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University) The Villain We Love: Notes on the Dramaturgy of Screen Evil	Venue: Campus cinema Chair: Therese Davis
10.15–10.30am	Morning Tea

Parallel Session 1

	1. Room SG01 B-auteurs	2. Room SG02 Boredom	3. Room SG03 Video	4. Room SG04 Splatter	5. Campus Cinema Gender
10.45–11.15am	Anthony Springford (AUT) On director, Guillermo del Toro	Minette Hillyer (Victoria University, Wellington) B for Boring	Shirlita Africa Espinosa (Sydney) Filipino pito-pito Films and Digital Piracy: The Beginning of an End	Phoebe Fletcher (Auckland) “Fucking Americans”: Postmodern nationalisms in the contemporary splatter film	Anika Ervin-Ward (Melbourne) Doing it for the kids: rebels and prom queens in the Cold War moral hygiene film
11.15–11.45pm	Andrew Denton (AUT) On director, Carlos Reygadas	Sharon Jane Mee (New South Wales) The buzzing fly: the tell-tale heart of film (broaching the banal) in NekRomantik (1987)	Ramon Lobato (Melbourne) The Straight-to-Video Imaginary	Craig Frost (Monash) When Bad Cinema Goes Bad	Adrian Lee, Yuen Beng (Melbourne) Remp-It: An examination of the Malaysian Mat Rempit as representations of masculinity, desire and rebellion
11.45–12.15pm	Jan Bryant (AUT) On director, Takashi Miike	Richard Misek (Bristol) Boredom, Boringness, and Badness	Gregory Wee Lik Hoo (Swinburne, Sarawak Campus) The Iban VCD Movies: Bad but Necessary	Naomi Merritt (Melbourne) ‘A vile little piece of sick crap’: Bataillean Transgressions and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre	Joanna McIntyre (Queensland) ‘How Bad Can It Be?’: The Problematic Politics of Temporary Transvestite Film
Chair:	A. Craven	A. West	A. Kannas	P. Spirou	J. Mills
12.15–1.00pm	Lunch

Parallel Session 2

	1. Room SG01 ‘Ozploitation’	2. Room SG02 Television	3. Room SG03 Reception	4. Room SG04 Imaging	5. Campus Cinema Captialism
1.00–1.30pm	Fincina Hopgood (Melbourne) ‘Ozploitation’: Revisiting/Revising Australian film history	Tania Lewis (La Trobe) ‘White bread for the masses’: Bad aesthetics and bad lifestyle TV	Lisa Bode (Queensland) Tainted love: “creepy adult women” and the reception of Twilight	John Conomos (Sydney College of the Arts) Mr Kong, Bad Cinema and The Surrealists	Manish Priyadarshi (Indian Inst. of Public Administration) Modernism and Why Bad Cinema Should Be Called Bad
1.30–2.00pm	Deborah Thomas (Queensland) Tarantino’s Two-Thumbs up: ‘Ozploitation’ and the Reframing of the Aussie Genre film	Radha O’Meara (Melbourne) B for Bad Guys: The Disposable Villains of Television Crime Series	Tristan Fidler (UWA) Defending Paracinema: Joe Bob Briggs, I Spit On Your Grave, And The Critic's Commentary	Adrian Danks (RMIT) Being in Two Places at the Same Time: The Forgotten Geography of Back Projection	Brendan Murphy (Central Queensland) B Grade 2.0: Gondry, “Sweding” and B movie tropes in emerging social media culture
2.00–2.30pm	Ros Walker (VCA, UniMelb) A Place for ‘Ozploitation’	Tom Steward (Warwick, UK) B for Bruckheimer: The authorial value of “Jerry Bruckheimer Television”		Maija Howe (New South Wales) The Photographic ‘Hangover:’ Reframing Photographicity in the Mid-Century Home Movie	Mark Steven (Sydney) Their Time has Come: Bad Cinema Nerds as Late-Capitalist Paradigm
Chair:	R. Smith	J. Vassilieva	R. Lobato	T. Groves	S. Sellars
2.30–3.00pm	Afternoon Tea

Plenary Session 2

3.00–4.15pm	Adrian Martin (Monash University) Title: My Bad (Part One) – The Risible, or: On With the Adventure!	Venue: Campus cinema Chair: Julia Vassilieva
4.15–4.30pm	Break

Parallel Session 3

	1. Room SG01 Zombies	2. Room SG02 Realism	3. Room SG03 Indonesian	4. Room SG04 Euro-trash	5. Campus Cinema Hollywood
4.30–5.00pm	Allan Cameron (AFTRS) Zombie Media: Resolution, Reproduction and the Digital Dead	Tim O'Farrell (La Trobe) Shockumentary: Addio Zio Tom, The Killing of America and the Geneaology of Mondo	David Hanan (Monash) The B Movies of Betawi Singer Benyamin S	Alexia Kannas (Monash) ‘All goodness is in jeopardy’: Fire Walk With Me and the indecent burial of Laura Palmer	Matthew Campora (Queensland) Incomprehensible Hollywood: Multiform Narrative in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain
5.00–5.30pm	John Edmond (Queensland) Zombie Fans, Zombie Walks, and Everyday Life	Walter Wells (California State University) I Was a Very Strange Child: Michael Moore and the Aesthetics of Pseudo-Documentary	Ekky Imanjaya (critic) The Other Side of Indonesia: New Order’s Indonesian Exploitation Cinema as Cult films	Tamao Nakahara (University of California, Berkeley) Family plots: The Bad Boys of Italian Sex Comedy Incest Narratives	Glen Donnar (RMIT) “Why is this happening to us?”: Understanding and responding to 'the threat' of Godzilla and Cloverfield
5.30–6.00pm	Lindsay Hallam (Curtin University of Technology) Inside, Outside and The Beyond: The Sadean Transgressive Body in Zombie Films of L. Fulci	Victoria Duckett (Melbourne) A Bad Beginning: Early Film and the Liberty Style		Mashrur Shahid Hossain (Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka) Baise*toi, monstre: violent women in B-films and politics of power-pleasure	Jane Mills (Charles Sturt University) Hollywood’s ‘bad other’
Chair:	C. Verevis	B. Smaill	D. Daley	C. Perkins	A. Danks

Conference Meeting

Meeting for Proposed National Association of Film Studies.

6.15–7.30pm

Venue:
Building 11, Room S704. All Welcome.

Day 2: Thursday April 16

8.45–9.00am

Registration

Plenary Session 3

9.00–10.15am	Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern University) Explosive Boredom	Venue: Campus cinema Chair: Claire Perkins
10.15–10.30am	Morning Tea

Parallel Session 4

	1. Room SG01 Pedagogy	2. Room SG02 Australian	3. Room SG03 Perversion	4. Room SG04 Eighties	5. Campus Cinema Politics
10.45–11.15am	Jodi Brooks (New South Wales) Teaching Bad Objects in Film Studies, pt 1	Alison Craven (James Cook University) Decorously Dubbed: Period, Region and Voice in The Irishman	Zoe Leah Gross (Melbourne) Trash Filmmaking and Scatological Spectatorship: Configuring the Scatological Gaze	Tim Groves (Victoria University, Wellington) Bad Affects, A/sociality and St Elmo’s Fire	Richard Smith (Sydney) Actions and Their Vicissitudes
11.15–11.45pm	Therese Davis (Monash) Teaching Bad Objects in Film Studies, pt 2	Stephen Gaunson (RMIT) The Glenrowan Affair	Hester Joyce (La Trobe) and Scott Wilson(Unitec) Bad or Just Lost: Contemporary Cinema’s Turn to the Perverse	Matt Sini (Queensland) “I Eat Green Berets For Breakfast”: Schwarzenegger, Cheesy Lines & 80s Action Film	Susan Smith (American University of Sharjah, UAE) The White Masai: Exploring Cinematic myths of racial hyper-sexuality found in ‘Romance Tourism’…
11.45–12.15pm	Belinda Smaill (Monash) Teaching Bad Objects in Film Studies, pt 3	Diana Susan Sandars (Melbourne) Australian Musicals: Excessively Bad	Rachel Torbett (Monash) Desiring Circles, Being Cracked: Werner Herzog and a romantic exigency	Suzanne Woodward (Auckland) “Moral Turpentine” - The Recuperation of Hairspray	Alan Wright (Canterbury) Vigilante Fury: The Art and Politics of Ritchie Venus
Chair:	D. Williams	F. Hopgood	D. Baker	K. Stevens	D. Sagehorn
12.15–1.00pm	Lunch

Parallel Session 5

	1. Room SG01 Russian	2. Room SG02 Horror	3. Room SG03 Revisions	4. Room SG04 Hyper-bad theory	5. Campus Cinema Bursting the Frame
1.00–1.30pm	Greg Dolgopolov (New South Wales) Bad Attempts at Badness: New Russian Horror Films	Lisa Gye (Swinburne) How can you be found when no-one knows you’re missing	Megan Carrigy (New South Wales) Couldn’t the Original Movie Do? Gus Van Sant’s Obsolete New Remake	John Scannell (Macquarie) Why "Bad" Cinema is Often Rather "Good"	Tessa Dwyer (Melbourne) B-Grade Subtitles & Error Theory
1.30–2.00pm	Anna Mostovaia (Monash) Russian early cinema through the prism of words	Catherine Simpson (Macquarie) Ozploitation and Gaia’s Revenge	Dave Sagehorn (Northwester) Bad Cover Version: The Imitative Amateur and Be Kind Rewind	Tyson Namow (La Trobe) With Kracauer Watching Slasher Movies	Mike Jones (Int. Film School Sydney) Gaming, cinema aesthetics and the audacity of immaturity
2.00–2.30pm	Julia Vassilieva (Monash) Bad resonance and eternal wonder of Eisenstein’s ¡Que viva México!		Kirsten Stevens (Monash) Snakes on a Plane: How Cyberspace Created a Monster	Alan Cholodenko (Sydney) B for BAuDrillard (Hyper)cinema	Danni Zuvela Witness the Shitness: Australian Avant-Garde Film and Kitsch
Chair:	D. Hanan	C. Frost	S. Mitchell	L. Cooper	J. Brooks
2.30–3.00pm	Afternoon Tea

Plenary Session 4

3.00–4.15pm	Angela Ndalianis (University of Melbourne) Corpse Contagion and Aesthetics of Disgust	Venue: Campus cinema Chair: Deane Williams
4.15–4.30pm	Break

Parallel Session 6

	1. Room SG01 Music	2. Room SG02 Japanese	3. Room SG03 Women	4. Room SG04 Visionary Bad	5. Campus Cinema Exploitation
4.30–5.00pm	John Chrisstoffels (Canterbury) “Never mind the Bolex!”: Making low budget Music Videos in New Zealand in the early 1980s	Brady Hammond (Victoria University, Wellington) Haunted Girls, Bad Girls, and Mothra: Charting Feminism in Post-War Japanese B Movies	Nina Cartier (Northwestern) Beyond Baaad Bitches: Blaxploitation, Women, and the Ethnographic Trace	Ted Colless (Melbourne) Bad Infinity	Sun Jung (Victoria) B for Bad Boys: Cheerful Trashy Fantasy of High-Teen Mak-Jang Drama, Boys over Flowers
5.00–5.30pm	Maura Edmond (Melbourne) Some Notes on the Logic of Vulgarity and Spectacle in Music Videos	Michael Honig (Monash) “It was only then that I realized the film was a comedy”: Takashi Miike and Style	Antonio Marcio da Silva (Birkbeck) Brazilian Women prison films: a gendered reading	Simon Sellars (Monash) “Flesh dissolved in acid of light”: the B-movie as second sight	Scott Knight & Alison Taylor (Bond University) Sexploitation Paracinema & DVD: The Case of Retro-Seduction Cinema
5.30–6.00pm	Runa Fanany (Monash) It’s Alive! Innovation and Creativity in a “B” Movie Score	Eric K.W. Yu (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) Feel my Pain and Perish: The Aesthetics and Moral Challenges of the Grudge Cycle	Rikke Schubart (Southern Denmark) From Final Girl to Horror Heroine: The Emergence of the Super Bitch in Low-Budget Horror	Jane Stadler (Queensland) Visceral Cinema: Phenomenology and Affect in Kinaesthetic Martial Arts Movies	Beth Toren (West Virginia) Jäger Shots: Quentin Tarantino Exploits B-Movies in Death Proof
Chair:	A. Wright	J. Bryant	B. Smaill	D. McRae	G. Dolgopolov

Conference Party

8.00 to 11:00pm

Conference Party
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Day 3: Friday April 17

8.45–9.00am

Registration

Plenary Session 5

9.00–10.15am	Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia) Discontinuity and Lack of Progress: Time in Bad Cinema	Venue: Campus cinema Chair: Alexia Kannas
10.15–10.30am	Morning Tea

Parallel Session 7

	1. Room SG01 Dirt(y) TV	2. Room SG02 Films no-one likes	3. Room SG03 More horror	4. Room SG04 Eroto-cinema
10.45–11.15am	Amy West (Auckland) How Clean is Your TV?: Reality Television and the Power of Dirt	Charles Tutton (Monash) Incredulous and Dumb: The Manchild and his computer in fantasy cinema	Jason Bainbridge (Swinburne) When Big Budgets Go Bad: Fraternizing with Flash Gordon and Going down The Black Hole…	Rolando Caputo (La Trobe) Erotomania or The Girl in the Still, Part 1
11.15–11.45pm	Scott Wilson (Unitec) Blowing Chunks, Punishing Spunks, Humiliating Hunks: Abjection as Discipline and Entertainment	Elliot Cooper (Canberra) I like Hotdogs! M. Night Shyamalan's sublime dialogic senility in The Happening	Dominic Lennard (Tasmania) “Somehow the Identities, they get all Mixed Up”: Fatherhood, Science and Semen in Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive (1974)	Dean Brandum (RMIT) Erotomania or The Girl in the Still, Part 2
11.45–12.15pm	Misha Kavka (Auckland) Wrestling with the Particular: Another Day at the Muddy Office in Survivor	Darren Tofts (Swinburne) In my time of dying: the premature death of a film classic	Can Yalcinkaya (Macquarie) Exorcising the Western Influence: Turkish Horror Cinema
Chair:	T. Lewis	J. Curnow	D. Thomas	A. Danks
12.15–1.00pm	Lunch

Parallel Session 8

	1. Room SG01 Stars	2. Room SG02 Australia II	3. Room SG03 Bad Boys	4. Room SG04 Value
1.00–1.30pm	David Baker (Griffith) Sam Katzman produces Elvis Presley. Some lessons from the exploitation cinema	Donna McRae (Monash) Family Demons: The Ghost as Domestic Inheritance	James Curnow (Monash) Something Weird: How Herschell Gordon Lewis Made Crap and Influenced People	Phil Betts (Macquarie) The Gentrification of Bad Cinema
1.30–2.00pm	Penny Spirou (Macquarie) El Cantante: Bad Aesthetic Leading to Poor Cultural Value in the Audio-Visual Representation of Hector Lavoe	Monique Rooney (Australian National University) Melodramatic Crossings in Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977)	Karen Mauri (Victoria University, Melbourne) B for Bro’ Town: “Im goin 2 da pub i may be some time”	Leonie Cooper (Melbourne) The [Astronaut]: The Bad Work of a Contaminated Tool
2.00–2.30pm	Deane Williams (Monash) Bad Boys: Figures of Loss and Displacement in the films of Sean Penn	Mark David Ryan (Queensland University of Technology) Bad cinema, good business: the boom in Australian horror film production	Mario Rodriguez (Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania) Horror-Ritual: Horror Movie Villains as Re-Presentational Sacrifice	Constantine Verevis (Monash) BADaptation
Chair:	R. Schubart	D. Sandars	R. O'Meara	C. Perkins
2.30–3.00pm	Afternoon Tea

Plenary Session 6

3.00–4.15pm

Jamie Sexton
(Aberystwyth University)

Cult Film: From Bad to Good and Back to ‘Bad’ Again?

Venue: Campus cinema
Chair: Constantine Verevis

Close of Conference

4.15–4.30pm

Close: A Bad Ending

Venue: Campus cinema