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The 5C Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference is designed to build community among students studying film and media on each of the five campuses, to give our most engaged students an opportunity to hone their presentation skills and to allow them to share insights from their work with a wider audience. Participants will each give a 15-minute presentation as part of a panel with 2-3 fellow students working on related themes (the organizers will assemble these panels). Each panel will include time for questions and discussion.

This event is sponsored by the Five College Film Council, the Mount Holyoke College Film Studies Program, the Smith College Film Studies Program and the Amherst College Film and Media Studies Program.

Schedule:
12:30 p.m. Opening remarks from Jen Malkowski and Pooja Rangan, conference co-organizers.

12:45 - 2 p.m. Panel 1: Industry Influences
• Camille Faucheux, “Myth and Melodrama at the End of the World: Remediating Annihilation in Thor: Ragnarok and God of War”
• Makena Rasmussen, “The Next Top Model Global Empire”
• Ali Meneghetti, “Technology and Characterization in Animated Films”

2:15 - 3:45 p.m. Panel 2: Identities in Stasis and in Flux
• Shan Jiang, “Transformations of Female Depictions in Chinese Animation”
• Julia Sagaser, “Listening Against Aural Taxidermy in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Reassemblage”
• Maeve McNamara, “‘You Can Tell Mom She Was Right’: Intergenerational Coming of Knowledge in Pariah”
• Dutch Clark, “Ripped and Gouged: Grotesque Transphobia, Victimhood and Ridicule in Ricky Gervais’ Humanity”

3:45 p.m. Break: Light refreshments including coffee and tea

4:15 - 5:30 p.m. Panel 3: Media Analysis through Media
• Elliott Farquhar, “Be More: The Liminality of Genderqueer Identity in Contemporary Media” (Video Essay)
• Kameron Millner, “‘Tie Me Up for the Culture’: Violence against Women in Celebrated Spanish Cinema” (Video Essay)
• Haley Shaw, “Reversing the Dynamic of a Terms of Service Agreement via a Choose Your Own Adventure Game”

5:40 - 6:30 p.m. Panel 4: The Futures of Authorship
• Kat Quinn, “Feminine Performance, Masculine Spaces: Gendered Displacement in the Films of Maya Deren and Celia Rowlson-Hall”
• Tara Coughlin, “The Overall Deal: How Mr. Robot Reflects the Expanding Creative Role of the Showrunner”

6:30 p.m. Catered dinner for all panelists and faculty organizers

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Contact Info

Heather Grimes
(413) 542-5870
Please call the college operator at 413-542-2000 or e-mail info@amherst.edu if you require contact info @amherst.edu