2:00 PM

Charles Eidsvik,
University of Georgia
“The Blindnesses of the Beholder: Digital Technology in the Age of Compositing”

Bohdan Nebesio,
Brock University
“What is Poetic about Poetic Cinema”

Thomas Schick,
“Konrad Wolf” Postdam-Babelsberg
“Inconsistent Characters and the Experience of Artefact Emotions: Some Deliberations on Viewer Reactions to Feature Films”

3:00 PM

Jason Gendler,
UCLA
“Johnnie To: Master of the Implicit”

Lennard Hojbjerg,
University of Copenhagen
“Style and Subjectivity”

4:00 PM

László Tarnay
University of Pécs, Hungary
“Forms of Visual Meaning and the Visual/Verbal Interface”

Lalita Pandit,
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
“Emotion and Color in Film: A Comparative Analysis of Gabbeh, Mirch Masala and Meenaxi”

Pete Porter,
Eastern Washington University
“Cognitive Frameworks for Animal Films”

9:00 AM

Sermin Ildsar, Istanbul University & 
Stephen Schwann, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany
“Perceiving the Editing Features By First-Time Adult Viewers”

Lisa Broad
New York University
“Once More the Looking Glass: Revisiting Transparency”

10:00 AM

Barry Hughes
Arizona State University
“Perceived Continuity Across Cuts: An Experimental Investigation into the Two-Frame Rule”

11:00 AM

Johannes Riis
University of Copenhagen
“Agency Hyper Detection and Bunuël’s Paradoxical Characters”

Eric Crosby
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Dialogue Cutting Point and its Vicissitudes”

2:00 PM

Ben Singer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“On the Question of Cinematic Laterality”

Paisley Livingston
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
“On Fictional Content”

3:00 PM

Tim Smith
University of Edinburgh
“Film Cognition Through the Eyes of the Audience

Trevor Ponech
McGill University
“Cinematic Individuals and Reality”

4:00 PM

Murray Smith
University of Kent
“Saccades and Synchronization”

Henry Bacon
University of Helsinki
“Medleys of Real, Fictional, and Other Imaginary People”

9:00 AM

András Bálint Kovács
ELTE University, Budapest
“Causal Clues in Narratives”

Thomas Wartenberg
Mount Holyoke College
“On the Possibility of Cinematic Philosophy”

10:00 AM

Patrick Keating
Trinity University
“Plot Points, Macro-Questions, and Emotional Curves: Three Ways to Think About Screenplay Structure”

Henriette Heidbrink
University of Siegen
“What if? One, Two, Three, Four Futures: Coincidence & Determination in Ludic Movies and Narrative Games ”

11:00 AM

Nitzan Ben Shaul
Tel Aviv University
“Hyper-narrative Interactive Cinema: Split Attention Problems and Solutions”

Malcolm Turvey
Sarah Lawrence College
"Media Essentialism Defended"

2:00 PM

Author Meets Critics Session on Noël Carroll’s The Philosophy of Motion Pictures

Carl Plantinga, Chair
Participants: Amy Coplan, Jonathan Frome, Lester Hunt, Noël Carroll

3:00 PM

Carroll Panel Continued

4:00 PM

Patrick Colm Hogan
University of Connecticut
“Human Vision, Cultural Imagination, and Style in Bimal Roy’s Sujata”

Andreas L. Gregersen
University of Copenhagen
“The Attractions of Agency: Animating the Inanimate”

9:00 AM

Torben Grodal
University of Copenhagen
“Sublime Rituals of Submission in Film Melodrama”

10:00 AM

Stephen Prince
Virginia Tech
“Digital Perception: Changing Camera Perspective in the Era of Electronic Cinema”

Margrethe Bruun Vaage
University of Oslo, Norway
“What Kind of Fiction Film Elicits What Kind of Empathy?”

11:00 AM

Stephan Schwann & Markus Huff
Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany
“Comprehending Scenes and Events Across Film Cuts”

Michael Z. Newman
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Technologies of Attention”

2:00 PM

Jason Mittell
Middlebury College
“Previously On: Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory”

Sheena Rogers, James Madison University &
Jesse Pappas, University of Virginia
“The Pleasure Paradox of Cinematic Horror: An Experience Sampling Study”

3:00 PM

Daniel Barratt
University of Copenhagen
“Suspending Disbelief: A Multilevel Approach to Film and Emotion”

Birger Langkjaer
University of Copenhagen
“Is Film Music an Emotional Enhancer?”

4:00 PM

Casper Tybjerg
University of Copenhagen
“Pissing into the Well: Film Propaganda and Cognitive Theory”

Jeff Smith
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Notes Toward a Cluster Account of Film Music”