Zoom-In is a thesis showcase presented by the MA Film and Media Studies Class of 2023. The sixth annual Zoom-In takes place at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. This year, the event included individual presentations, discussion panels, Q+As, and supplemental screenings. The program continued to investigate classical problems of our field (documentary, theory, exhibition), as well as issues arising from today’s emerging new media. Genevieve Yue, Associate Professor of Culture and Media at The New School serves as Keynote Speaker. Also featuring Daniella Shreir, editor Another Gaze, and a screening of Carnal Knowledge (1971).
Schedule
Friday, February 3
4–4:30 PM Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ron Gregg, Film and Media Studies
4:35–4:55 PM Individual Presentation 1, followed by Q&A
Timothy Amatulli, “A Rare Breed: ‘Inugami Eiga’ as an Unrecognized Subgenre of Japanese Horror Cinema”
5:00–5:35 PM Discussion Panel 1, followed by Q&A:
Bed Me Deadly, Intimately, Repeatedly by the Water
Sinéad Anae, “Intimacy, Affect, and Natural Queerness through Aquatic Imagery in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight (2016) and Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together (1997)”
Viola Sun, “Bed Me Deadly: On Narrative-Breaking Love Scenes”
Moderator: Chujing Zhao
5:35–5:50 PM BREAK
5:55–6:15 PM Individual Presentation 2, followed by Q&A
Kaylee DeFreitas, “The Face of Terror to Facing Terror: Redefining the Final Girl for the Modern Age”
6:15–6:30 PM Day 1 Closing Remarks, Bjorn Long
6:30 PM Film Screening, Carnal Knowledge (dir. Mike Nichols, 1971)
Introduced by Viola Sun
Film runtime: 1 hour, 38 mins
Saturday, February 4
12 PM Opening remarks, Nico Baumbach, Film and Media Studies
12:15 PM Keynote Lecture, followed by Q&A
Genevieve Yue, Eugene Lang College Of Liberal Arts, The New School
2:15–2:40 PM Individual Presentation 4, followed by Q&A
Aciah Abdulsater, “Revisiting Counter-Colonial Archives: A Comparative Study of Treatments to Occupational Voids”
2:45–3:05 PM Individual Presentation 5, followed by Q&A
Yi-An Liao, “On the Periphery: Navigating and Interpreting the Ambivalence in Taiwanese documentary
3:10–3:30 PM Individual Presentation 6, followed by Q&A
Edwin Zhou, “How Digital Art Reshapes the Problems of Perception”
3:30–3:50 PM BREAK
3:55–4:30 PM Discussion Panel 2, followed by Q&A:
You are so gay: queer possibilities and perceptions in media
Joy Bao, “(Friend)Shipping as a Way of Life: The Border-Crossing Tongren Culture in China”
Fiona Hou
Moderator: Chujing Zhao
4:35–4:55 PM Individual Presentation 7, followed by Q&A
Mollie Murtagh, “We Are Not Mere Dreamers: An Exploration Of Rhythmic Montage And Feminist Avant-Garde Histories”
5:00–5:20 PM Individual Presentation 8, followed by Q&A
Kate Sutton, “The Music Video Album”
5:20 PM Day 2 Closing Remarks, Kaylee DeFreitas
Sunday, February 5
12 PM Day 3 Welcomes
12:10–12:35 PM Individual Presentation 9, followed by Q&A (via Zoom)
Yiru Wang, “Color-Coding in Turning Red: Reinventing “Chineseness” in Hollywood and Streaming Media Culture
12:40–1 PM Individual Presentation 10
Molly Follette, “Corrosive Châteaux: The Heterotopic Spaces of Jean Rollin’s Cinema”
1–1:40 PM Discussion Panel 3, followed by Q&A
Bjorn Long, “Frame and Games: How Rules and Expectations Shape Player Experiences in Video Games”
Jackson Lee, “Start New World: Perceptual Technics of the Metastable in Cinema and Video Games”
Moderator: Jason LaRiviere
1:40–1:55 PM BREAK
2–3 PM Discussion with Daniella Shreir, Another Gaze
Moderator: Mollie Murtagh
Coffee and mingling break
3:35–3:55 PM Individual Presentation 11, followed by Q&A
Chujing Zhao, “Cruising to the "Maybeness": Queer Cartography”
4–4:20 PM Individual Presentation 12, followed by Q&A
Tara Ebrahimian
4:20 PM Closing Remarks
Reception offsite to follow