Judith Butler at Occupy Wall Street.
Today, I am chairing a panel called “Classical and New Hollywood” (between 9:00am and 10:45am), replacing my colleague Bárbara Vallera:
Philippa Gates (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada), “(Film) History is Written by the Victors: Revising Classical Assumptions about Gender, Genre, and His Girl Friday (1940)”
Sarah Greifenstein (Free University of Berlin, Germany), “‘And They Lived Happily Ever After!... Or Did They?’: The Temporal Dynamics of the Genre of Screwball Comedy”
Philip Drake (University of Stirling, Scotland, UK), “Memory, Reputation and Authorship: Revisiting Forgotten Film‐makers of the New Hollywood”
In the afternoon, I shall preside over a session entitled “Political Views on Screen” (between 3:45pm and 5:30pm):
Ruzanna Amiraghyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia), “Online Media and the Political Processes in Armenia”
Walid el Houri (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), “Streets, Screens and People in the Arab Uprising”
Homay King (Bryn Mawr College, PA, USA), “Antiphon: Notes on the People’s Microphone”
