14th SAS Annual Conference
Glendale, California
Thursday, September 26 - Sunday, September 29, 2002
Conference Schedule
Thursday, September 26
2:00p - 5:00p Registration, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale5:30p - 7:00p Welcome Reception -- Cartoon Network Studios, Burbank
Pre-registration required.Friday, September 27 - Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale
8:00a - Registration8:45a - Welcome Address
9:00a - 10:45a Disney I
Chair: Pierre Floquet, ENSEIRB
• Sharon Wu, CalArts, The Impact of Digital Animation Productions on the Feature Animation Industry
• Doug Nichols, Pixar, The History of Computer Animation at Walt Disney Feature Animation
• Susan Ohmer, University of Notre Dame, Peter Pan: Fantasy, Gender and Industrial Production11:00a - 12:45p Boundaries I -- Childhood, Culture, Identity
Chair: Tom Knott, Warner Bros. Animation
• Wendy Jackson Hall, Independent, Seattle, Animated Kids: An Analysis of Comprehension of Animation Logic in Children
• Keith Bradbury, Griffith University Queensland College of Art, Animation in the Australian Television Industry: Australian Children's Animation (1956 - Present)
• Mariano Prunes, Yale University, Having it Both Ways: Making Children Films an Adult Matter Through Subjective Point of View in Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro
• Laura Wheeler, University of California, Irvine, The Animated Collapse: Childhood in Pre- and Post-Soviet Russian Animation12:45p - 2:00p Lunch
2:00p - 3:45p Boundaries II - Gender, Culture, Identity
Chair: Joanna Bouldin, University of California, Irvine
• Hilary Neroni , University of Vermont, Was Betty Boop a Feminist?: Changing Gender Roles and Other Subtexts in House Cleaning Blues (1937)
• Kukhee Choo, University of Texas, Austin, The Reemergence of Conservative Womanhood in Fruits Basket: Backlash or Reaffirmation?
• Marian Quigley, Monash University, Delineated, Digitised, Down-Under? Australian Women Animators4:00p - 5:45p - Anime
• William Farge, S.J., Loyola University, New Orleans (Moderator), The Development of Anime in Japan and the Place of Childhood in the Culture of Anime
• Alexis Franks, Loyola University, New Orleans, Defining Gender in Childhood in Manga and Other Japanese Cartoons
• Bradley Guillory, Loyola University, New Orleans, Gender Shock and Macross: Do You Remember the Repressed?
• Mary McCay, Loyola University, New Orleans, Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa: Becoming an Adult Through Remembering Childhood, Anime's Integration of the Child and the Adult6:00p Reception by Glendale Arts and Culture Commission - Doctor's House, Brand Park, Glendale
Saturday, September. 28 - Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale
8:00m - Registration9:00a - 10:45a Technology
Chair: Harvey Deneroff, Animation Consultants International
• Tom Klein, Loyola Marymount University, Where's My Pencil? Confessions of a Digital 2D Animator
• Karin Wehn, University of Leipzig/University of Fine Arts, Berlin, Animation on the WWW
• Bob Rehak, Indiana University/Bloomington , Theorizing the Digital Actor: Notes Toward an Aesthetics of Synthespianism
• Alison McMahan, Vasser College, Will the Real Animation Please Stand Up: The Transition from Stop-Motion and Animatronics to CGI in Hollywood Films11:00a - 12:45p Boundaries III - The Body, Freakery, Carnival
Chair: Irene Kotlarz, Los Angeles
• Joanna Bouldin, University of California, Irvine, Laying Down the Law On Virtual Porn
• Michael Frierson, University of North Carolina/Greensboro, Celebrity Deathmatch: Liminality and the Carnivalesque
• Mark Langer, Carlton University, Rotoscoping and Freakery12:45p - 2:00p Lunch
2:00p - 3:45p Disney II
Chair: Roger Palmer
• Daniel Brod, University of Texas, Austin, Whose Rite? Disney and Stravinsky's Struggle for Ownership of The Rite of Spring
• Gene Walz, University of Manitoba, Thinking Cute: Neoteny and the Evolving Image of Disney Children and Animals
• Kristin Hanson, Louisiana State University, Learning to be a Proper Bitch: The Ideology of the Symbolic Order in Lady and the Tramp
• M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College, The Brothers Grimm and Disney's Snow White4:00p - 5:45p Boundaries IV - Nation, Culture, Identity
Chair: Ton Crone, Netherlands Institute for Animation Film
• Harvey Deneroff, Animation Consultants International, Famous's House of Animation: An Independent Indian Studio
• Takao Hagiwara, Case Western Reserve University, Anime East and West: Hayao Miyazaki's Mononoke hime (Princess Mononoke)
• John Lent, Temple University, Juan Padrón and Cuban Animation6:30p - 9:00p Keynote Address/Reception: DreamWorks Animation, Glendale.
Keynote Speaker: Donald Crafton, University of Notre Dame, Performance in and of Animation. (Made possible with a grant from DreamWorks.)Sunday, September 29 - Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale
9:00a - 10:45a Theory and Criticism I
Chair: Mark Langer, Carlton University
• Eric Patrick, Austin Community College/Art Institute Online, Structural Strategies and Conceptual Design in Non-fiction Animation
• James Tobias, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, For Love of Music: Visions of a Philosophy of Music
• Dan McLaughlin, UCLA, A New Direction In Basic Film Movement for Animation
• Alan Cholodenko, University of Sydney, The Nutty Universe of Animation11:00a - 12:45p Theory and Criticism II
Chair: To be announced
• Samuel J. Umland, University of Nebraska, Kearney, The "Dream Grottoes" of the Brothers Quay
• Jonathan Frome, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Critical Reception of Animation Until 1940
• Richard J. Leskosky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The New Old Testament: the Rhetoric of Prince of Egypt
• Janeann Dill, European Graduate School & University of Hamburg, The Art of the Single-Frame: A Journey in Art History and Animation Theory12:45p - 2:00p Lunch/SAS Membership Meeting
Conference Registration Fees US$ Euro SAS Members 100 100 SAS student members 75 75 Non-members 75 75 Student Non-members 100 100 See registration form for further details, including membership fees.
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