Annual Conference of the European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF)
European Cinema:
Experiment, Mainstream and Praxis
Participants
Prof. Michael Cowan
McGill University (CA)
“Absolute Advertising: Walter Ruttmann and the Weimar Advertising Film”
michael.cowan@mcgill.ca
Prof. David Chirico
Department of English
Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY
davidrchirico@gmail.com
Prof. John Davidson
Director of Film Studies, Ohio State University
Davidson.92@osu.edu
Prof. Shekhar Deshpande
Department of Communications, Arcadia University (USA)
“Anthology of Identity: Emerging Imaginary in European Cinema”
deshpans@arcadia.edu
Seyhan Derin
Filmmaker, TV writer and director, Berlin, Germany (Ben Annemin Kiziyim - Ich bin Tochter meiner Mutter, 1996 & Yildizlar Arasinda--Zwischen den Sternen, 2002 nominated for Max-Ophül-Preis;)
“Film Funding in the Contemporary EU environment”
seyhan-derin@t-online.de
Sülbiye Verena Guenar
Filmmaker, Editor, Scriptwriter, Producer, Berlin, Germany (“Saniyes Lust”—2004 ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel; “Rot und Blau,” 2002; TV Thriller, “Das Licht und der Schlüssel,” etc. Awards: Silberner Bär for best casting ensemble, 2002; Premio Linda Multicinema Firenze; Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis; Deutscher Civis Fernsehpreis für Unterhaltung, 2004)
suelbiyeverena.guenar@freenet.de
Prof. Jonathan Ervine
Department of French, Bangor University (UK)
“Adopted and enforced homelands in the films of Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche”
j.ervine@bangor.ac.uk
Prof. Owen Evans
Department of Media and Communication Studies, Swansea University (UK)
“Making/Breaking New Waves: German Cinema in the New Millenium“
owen@ecrf.org.uk
Prof. Janina Falkowska
Department of Film Studies, University of Western Ontario, London (CA)
“The Myth of the Father Figure, National Identiy and Nostalgia in the Films of Aleksandr Sokurov, Michael Haneke, and Andrzej Wajda”
falkow@uwo.ca
Prof. Allyson Fiddler
Dept of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University (UK)
“Projecting Politics: Austrian Protest Films”
a.fiddler@lancaster.ac.uk
Prof. Ariana Gerstein
Department of Cinema, Binghamton University (USA)
thirtymilesfromanywhere@yahoo.com
Prof. Vincent Grenier
Filmmaker, Cinema Department, Binghamton University, NY (USA)
“Experimental/Art House Film Culture”
vgrenier@binghamton.edu
Suelbiye Guena
Filmmaker, Berlin (Germany)
"Film and Identity"
suelbiyeverena.guenar@freenet.de
Prof. Lenuta Guikin
Dept of German, State University of New York, Oswego (USA)
"Nelly Kaplan or what Surrealism could have been?"
giukin@yahoo.com
Prof. Sabine Hake
Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (USA)
“Art/Exploitation: Film and Fascism in Italian Films of the 1970s”
hake@mail.utexas.edu
Prof. Graeme Harper
Director, Research Coleg y Clfyddydaua’r Dyniaethau, Bangor University (UK)
“Why Europe? Foundations, Creativity and the Filmic Germanus”
graeme.harper@bangor.ac.uk
Prof. Carmen Herrero
Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
“Edgy art cinema: generic negotiations in Spanish cinema (the rural thriller)”
C.Herrero@mmu.ac.uk
Jochen Hick
Filmmaker, Hamburg, Germany (Der gute Amerikaner, 2009; East/West—Sex & Politics, 2008; Deutschland—Ein Herbstmärchen, 2007), editor-in chief and head of program acquisitions for TIMM TV.
mail@galeria-alaska.de
Kristin Hole
Doctoral Candidate, State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA)
“Madness and Masculinity in the Films of Werner Herzog, 1972-1986”
kristinhole@gmail.com
Daniel Huizinga
Binghamton University (USA)
dhuizin1@binghamton.edu
Anne Jahn
Ph.D. student, Department of German, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
“Challenging Binaries of German National Identity in Seyhan Derin and Suelbiye Guenar’s Films”
dp3007@yahoo.com
Prof. Joyce Jesionowski
Cinema Department, Binghamton University
"Speaking 'Bach': Strategies of alienation and intimacy in Straub-Huillet's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach"
jesionow@binghamton.edu
Prof. Donald J. Loewen
Department of German & Russian Studies, Binghamton University (USA)
“Whose Rubel is it Anyway? Vexing Questions for Today’s Russian Filmmakers”
djloewen@binghamton.edu
Prof. David Kleinberg
Department of German & Russian Studies, Binghamton University (USA)
david@kleinberg.net
Prof. Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey
Department of German & Russian Studies, Binghamton University (USA)
“Editing the Cult of the Cold: M. Montieux's Les rivieres pourpres (2000)”
majer.osickey@gmail.com
Prof. Kathleen McKenna
Department of History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences,
and Department of Criminal Justice
Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY (USA)
MCKENNA_K@sunybroome.edu
Prof. Barbara Mennel
Department of German and Film, University of Florida, Gainesville (USA)
”Migrating into the New Europe: Minority Cinema as European Heritage Cinema“
bmennel@hotmail.com
Maryline Monthieux
Film editor, Paris (FR) (nominated for best editing of Bon Voyage, 2003, and Les Rivieres pourpes—Crimson Rivers, 2000). Current Project: Joan Sfar’s Serge Gainsbourg, an Heroic life
marylinemonthieux@hotmail.com
Prof. Rosmarie Morewedge
Department of German & Russian Studies, Binghamton University (USA)
morewedg@binghamton.edu
Prof. Nancy Nenno
Department of German and Slavic Studies, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
“Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas’s Niemandsland (1931)”
NennoN@cofc.edu
Prof. Brad Prager
Department of German and Russian Studies, University of Missouri—Columbia,
“Herzog and His Apes”
PragerB@missouri.edu
Prof. Dennis Rothermel
Department of Philosophy, California State University (Chico, USA)
“Faux Futurisms and Fey Science in Lars von Trier’s Epidemic (1987) and Werner Herzog’s The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)”
DRothermel@csuchico.edu
Prof. Hélène Sicard-Cowan
International Studies, McGill University (CA)
Claudia Pummer
Ph.D. Candidate Film Studies, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa (USA)
“Borderlines: Straub-Huillet, French Film Culture, and the Young German Film”
claudia-pummer@uiowa.edu
Prof. Isabelle Vanderschelden
Department of French Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
“The ‘beautiful people’ of Christophe Honoré: New Wave legacy and new Directions in French Art House cinema”
I.Vanderschelden@mmu.ac.uk
Prof. Brian Wall
Cinema Department, Binghamton University (USA)
“'Expressionism is a gamble': Modernity, Aesthetics and Play in Fritz Lang's Dr.Mabuse, der Spieler”
bwall@binghamton.edu
Prof. Harald Zils
Dept. of German and Russian Studies, Binghamton University (USA)
hzils@binghamton.edu
Prof. Patricia R. Zimmermann
Codirector, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
Roy H. Park School of Communications, Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Ithaca College (USA)
patty@ithaca.edu