POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION IN THE SOUTH
AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION IN THE SOUTH
October 2 – 4, 2003
Sea Turtle Inn
Atlantic Beach, Florida
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Robert L. McDonald President |
Rhonda Wilcox and Mary Alice Money Program Co-Chairs |
Program at a Glance | Thursday, October 2 | Friday, October 3 | Saturday, October 4
Geographical Index of Participants by State | Alphabetical Index of Presenters
Popular Culture and the PCAS | Executive Council | State Coordinators
The Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South wish to express our appreciation to the institutions which have so strongly supported our efforts this year.
James Madison University | Jefferson Community College, Southwest | Middle Tennessee State University |
University of Missouri-Rolla | Georgia Southern University | Gordon College, Georgia
Many thanks to Liz Cummins, Larry Vonalt, and Linda Rohrer Paige for their advice to the program chairs; and thanks always to Diane Calhoun-French.
POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES AND THE PCAS
WHAT ARE POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES?
Popular Culture Studies have come to consist of those scholarly inquiries which deal with the customs, artifacts, events, myths, language, and the like that are shared by a significant portion of a culture or sub-culture.
Some persons refer to such sharing as mass mediated. Whenever one watches TV, attends a football game, reads advertisements, selects a soap or tire or suit, makes a grocery list, takes the kids to Disney World or to a carnival, reads a detective novel, helps select a homecoming queen, or communicates with common gestures, he or she participates in popular culture. When scholars study such a culture, or sub-culture, they may focus on the people who share the attitudes, myths, languages, artifacts, or the like, or they may examine features of the culture, its history, or the phenomenon itself.
Scholars of the popular culture find such common - - some might even say trivial - -matters worth serous study, for they believe these matters reflect the values, convictions, and the patterns of thought and feeling generally dispersed through, and approved by, a significant portion of the culture in which they occur. Some scholars may also consider certain popular culture texts to be art, recognizing that Elizabethan drama and Victorian novels, for example, were once considered popular culture.
WHO ARE THESE SCHOLARS?
They come from a variety of disciplines, though they need not come from academia itself. Within the national and the PCAS regional membership are persons interested in literature, film, television, radio history, ethnic studies, American studies, computer sciences, and some of the natural sciences. They include a wide range of young and bright, older and accomplished - - many of national reputation - - as well as field professionals, such as architects, artists, and journalists. All share a common interest in the serious study of culture and in its popular aspects.
A BRIEF HISTORY
The national Popular Culture Association held its first national meeting in 1969 in East Lansing, Michigan. Two years before that, the first issues of the Journal of Popular Culture were published and a little later, the Popular Culture Association Newsletter and the Popular Culture Methods (for those teaching about popular culture) were founded. National meetings have been held in Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans, Toronto, and San Antonio. The rapid development of this association has been incredible, growing to national meetings with many hundreds of participants within a relatively few years. Now, regional associations, which are independent organizationally from the national association, have developed as well.
ABOUT THE PCAS
The PCAS, organized in 1971, is the largest, and, from the view of those who have visited several regional meetings, the most thriving of the regional associations. Members of the organization come primarily from eleven Southeastern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Its activities are financed by conference registration fees and sponsoring institutional support. Young and divers, this energetic organization has brought together scholars who share an interest in inquiring into all sorts of mass phenomena through a wide variety of disciplines and approaches. Its journal, Studies in Popular Culture, is now more than twenty years old, and recently added an issue devoted to American Studies topics. Studies in American Culture is now in its fourth year and has its own editor and editorial board. Scholars working with topics in popular culture or American culture are invited to submit papers for consideration to the appropriate editor.
The PCAS thus offers an opportunity for the coming together of scholars from colleges, universities, community colleges, and even from the general public, who have something worthwhile to say on matters involving mass society. It affords these individuals an occasion for direct response to the society which produced them.
The result of this coming together has been a rich and exciting event. We welcome you and invite you to partake of the richness, diversity, and friendship that this conference holds.
ABOUT THE ACAS
The ACAS is an organization for those interested in the interdisciplinary study of the total American culture. It should attract those interested in that field of study which goes under names such as American Studies, American Culture Studies, etc. Structurally, it mirrors the place of the American Culture Association within the Popular Culture Association and is represented on the Executive Committee of the PCAS. The ACAS does not stress popular or Southern culture, though it is hospitable to both. Instead, the ACAS focuses specifically on the United States, examining all from highbrow to lowbrow, from elite to popular.
POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION IN THE SOUTH
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 2002-2003
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PRESIDENT Rob McDonald Associate Dean Department of English and Fine Arts Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VA 24450 |
VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT ELECT Larry Vonalt Department of English University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409-0560 |
Executive secretary Diane M. Calhoun-French Provost Jefferson Community College 109 E. Broadway Louisville, KY 40202 |
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PAST PRESIDENT John Zubizarreta Department of English Columbia College Columbia, SC 29203 |
ACAS MEMBER AT LARGE Elsa Nystrom Department of History and Philosophy Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591 |
PCAS MEMBER AT LARGE Mary Alice Money Humanities Division Gordon College Barnesville, GA 30204 |
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PCAS MEMBER AT LARGE Hugh Davis Department of English Hertford County High School Murfreesboro, NC 37855 |
MEMBER AT LARGE/TECHNOLOGY David Lavery Department of English Middle Tennessee University Box 70 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 dlavery@mtsu.edu |
GRADUATE STUDENT/NEW PROFESSIONAL MEMBER AT LARGE Heather Holloway Georgia Southern University P. O. Box 19219 Statesboro, GA 30460 |
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ACAS REPRESENTATIVE TO THE BOARD Donna Waller Harper Department of English Middle Tennessee State University Box 70 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 |
EDITORS, STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE Michael and Sara Dunne Department of English Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132 |
EDITOR, STUDIES IN AMERICAN CULTURE Linda Rohrer Paige Department of Literature and Philosophy Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA 30460-8023 |
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EDITORS, The PCAS Newsletter Shelley Aley and Tracy Pipkins Writing Program James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Beth Brunk-Chavez University of Texas at El Paso |
PROGRAM CHAIRS Mary Alice Money and Rhonda Wilcox Humanities Division Gordon College Barnesville, GA 30204 |
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PCAS/ACAS STATE COORDINATORS 2002-2003
ARKANSAS: Harry Jameson and Mary Jameson
FLORIDA: Sallie M. Nielsen, Department of Communications, Florida Community College at Jacksonville-South, Jacksonville, FL 33246.
GEORGIA: Linda Rohrer Paige, Department of English and Philosophy, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460-8023.
KENTUCKY: Dennis Hall, Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292.
LOUISIANA: Kerry Owens, Department of Speech, Communication and Theater, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA 71209.
MISSOURI: Larry Vonalt, Department of English, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65409.
NORTH CAROLINA: Sarah Davis, English Department, Hertford County High School, Murfreesboro, NC 27855.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Beckie Flannagan, Department of English, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC 29051.
TENNESSEE: Linda Badley, William Badley, Developmental Studies, Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132.
VIRGINIA: Shelley Aley, The Writing Program, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807.
WASHINGTON, DC: Lewis Moore, Department of English, University of District of Columbia, Washington, DC 20008.
WEST VIRGINIA: William Denman, Department of Communications Studies, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755.
Program at a Glance
Thursday, 2 October 2003
Registration: 9:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m., Conference Foyer
10:00 a.m.--11:30 a.m.
(1) Poetry in Context: Readings and Discussion
[Amelia: VCR/TV]
(2) Southern Belles and Romantic Fantasies [Island A: VCR/TV]
(3) Pedagogy I [Ponte Vedra: overhead, screen]
11:45 a.m.--1:15 p.m.
(4) The Commercial and the Natural in Art [Fernandina: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(5) Films and the Foreign [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(6) Film: Philosophic Underpinnings [Island A: VCR/TV]
(7) Pedagogy II: Making Composition Matter: Case Studies in Real Rhetoric [Island B]
(8) Expressions of Death: Natural Tragedy and Human Articulation [Ponte Vedra]
(9) Panel Discussion: Perils and Pearls of Starting a New Conference [Island C]
1:30 p.m.--3:00 p.m.
(10) Construction and Reception of Screen Worlds [Fernandina: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(11) Presenting Power: From The Simpsons to the Superbowl
[Amelia: VCR/TV]
(12) Pedagogy III: Technology and the Classroom [Ponte Vedra: Overhead, screen]
(13) Southern Fiction: Augusta Jane Evans and Eugene Walter [Island B]
(14) Political Fictions, Political Realities [Island C]
3:15 p.m.--4:45 p.m.
(15) Production Values: Managing Loss [Fernandina: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(16) Samurai Jack and Anime [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(17) Panel Discussion -- The Masters' Tournament: Traditions and Conflicts [Island A: VCR/TV]
(18) Heroes and Villains: Spiderman, Fighting American, Movietone [Ponte Vedra: overhead, screen]
(19) Science Fiction and Science Folklore [Island B]
5:00 p.m.--6:00 p.m.
State Coordinators' Meeting [Island C, back corner]
Graduate Students'/New Professionals' Meeting [Island C, front corner]
6:00 p.m.--7:00 p.m. Opening Reception--Cash Bar [Veranda; Island C, if weather is inclement]
Friday,3 October 2003
8:15 a.m.--9:45 a.m.
(21) Religious Rhetoric in Film, Music, and Act [Island B: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(22) Propaganda in World War II and Its Cold War Aftermath [Fernandina: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(23) Science Fiction Cowboys [Island A: VCR/TV]
(24) Shakespeare I: Shakespeare Post 9/11 [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(25) Panel Discussion--"Noam Chomsky, Meet Garth Brooks": A Linguistic and Literary Analysis of Three Country Music Hits [Ponte Vedra: overhead, screen]
(26) Moral Focus in the Movies [Plantation N]
(27) Icons I: Eminem/Madonna, Muhammad Ali, James Dean [Island C]
10:00 a.m.--11:30 a.m.
(28) Purity and Pollution [Island B: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(29) Caribbean Madness: The Jane Eyre Connection in I Walked with a Zombie [Fernandina: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(30) Warped Quests: Memento and The Singing Detective [Island A: VCR/TV]
(31) C.S.I. [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(32) More Than "Precious Memories": Exploring the Rhetoric of Southern Gospel Music [Ponte Vedra: overhead, screen]
(33) Shakespeare II: PCAS Interest Group in Shakespeare: Panel Discussion on the Challenges of Teaching Measure for Measure [Plantation N]
(34) International American Literature [Island C]
11:45 a.m.--1:15 p.m. Friday 3 October
(35) Commercial Imperialism [Island B:VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(36) Eating Up: Food and Meaning [Island B: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(37) Feminism and Popular Culture: Film, Fiction [Island A: VCR/TV]
(38) Queer Studies [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(39) The Lord of the Rings [Ponte Vedra: overhead, screen]
(40) Detective/Mystery I: Detecting a Place: Local Color in Detective Fiction [Plantation N]
(41) Music and Meaning [Island C]
1:30 p.m.--3:00 p.m.
(42) Liz Bell Special Session on Gender and American Culture [Island B: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(43) Recruiting and Raising Morale in Two World Wars [Fernandina: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(44) Shakespeare III: Literature and Film [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(45) Detective/Mystery II: Hard and Soft? [Island A: VCR/TV]
(46) Visual Analysis and Public Discourse [Ponte Vedra: overhead, screen]
(47) Pedagogy V: Crossing and Changing Culture [Island C]
3:15 p.m.--4:45 p.m.
(48) Liminality: Race, Age, Other [Island B: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(49) The Matrix I: Metaphysical and Martial [Fernandina: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(50) Modern Comedy [Island A: VCR/TV]
(51) Masculine Images [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(52) Popular Topics in Anthropology [Ponte Vedra: overhead, screen]
(53) Is the Madwoman Still in the Attic? Representations of Instability [Plantation N]
(54) Harry Potter [Island C]
5:00 p.m.--6:00 p.m.
General Business Meeting: Open to All [Island C]
6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Awards Reception [Veranda: Island C if weather is inclement]:
8:30 p.m.--10:00 p.m.
(55) Buffy Studies I: Workshop Session [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(56) Sunshine State: Screening and Discussion [Island A: VCR/TV]
Saturday, 4 October 2003
8:15 a.m.--9:45 a.m.
(57) Buffy Studies II [Island A: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(58) Women and the Body [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(59) There'll Always Be an England: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism [Fernandina]
(60) Lincoln and Jefferson [Ponte Vedra]
(61) Lolita: The Problematic Pedophile, the Child-Woman Lolita, and the Horrors That They Spawn [Island B]
(62) NASCAR and Cracker Kung Fu [Island C]
(63) Iraq and George W. Bush [Plantation N]
10:00 a.m.--2:30 p.m.: Historical/Cultural Tour of Jacksonville [Gather by the Registration Desk]
10:00 a.m.--11:30 a.m.
(64) Buffy Studies III [Island A: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(65) Questioning Stereotypes [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(66) God and The Color Purple [Fernandina]
(67) Employment [Ponte Vedra]
(68) Detective/Mystery III: Naked Wounds: Anne Perry, Patricia Cornwell, and Val McDermid [Island B]
(69) Southern Friends and Family: Donna Tartt and Carson McCullers [Island C]
(70) Three Friends Talk About Movies [Plantation N]
11:45 a.m.--1:15 p.m.
(71) Individuals/Aliens, Heroes/Failures [Island A: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(72) Questioning Reality [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(73) Post 9/11 Worlds [Fernandina]
(74) Illusion and Disillusion [Ponte Vedra]
(75) Native American Intersections [Island C]
(76) The Books We Read: Explorations of Reading Materials and Reading [Plantation N]
1:30 p.m.--3:00 p.m.
(77) The Matrix II [Island A: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(78) Icons II [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(79) Child's Play [Fernandina]
(80) Body and Spirit [Island C]
(81) American Fiction: Hawthorne, Poe, Updike [Ponte Vedra]
(82) Explorations of Rhetorics in Cultural Contexts [Island B]
1:30 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting [Location TBA]
3:15 p.m.--4:30 p.m.
(83) From the Cradle to the Grave: The Death of Motherhood in Six Feet Under [Amelia: VCR/TV]
(84) Opening the Arts: Contemporary Indonesian Art and Polish Dance Theatre [Island A: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
(85) Male and Female: Symbol and Illusion
PCAS/ACAS 2003
Registration: 9:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m., Conference Foyer
Conference Sessions
10:00 a.m.--11:30 a.m. Panels Thursday 2 October
(1) Poetry in Context: Readings and Discussion [Amelia: VCR/TV]
Chair: Thomas A. Van, U of Louisville
"My Rio Bravo--A Poetry Reading Based on 1950s Films," James Brock, Florida Gulf Coast U
"Making Memories Last: Poetry By, For, and Of the Aging," Roger Wilbur, ACAS, DeVry U--Atlanta
(2) Southern Belles and Romantic Fantasies [Island A: VCR/TV]
Chair: David A. Janssen, Gordon C
"The Doomed and Fallen Belle: The Myth of the Southern Belle in William Faulkner's Novels," Erika Allen, U of South Florida
"Moonlight and Magnolias? Southern Belles, Demented Maids, and Manipulative Mothers in Southern Film," Camille McCutcheon, U of South Carolina -- Spartanburg
(3) Pedagogy I [Ponte Vedra: overhead, screen]
Chair: Christina A. McDonald, Virginia Military Institute
"Popular Culture in the Freshman Writing Curriculum," Elaine Ware, Indiana U of Pennsylvania
"The Collaborative Research Project and American Literature," Tom MacLennan, ACAS, and Jane MacLennan, ACAS, U of North Carolina -- Wilmington
11:45 a.m.--1:15 p.m. Panels Thursday 2 October
(4) The Commercial and the Natural in Art [Fernandina: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
Chair: L. Marcile Taylor, Wesleyan [GA]
"Sand, Wind, Water and Sky: Use of Nature Images in Nudist/Naturist
Literature," William Griswold, U of Georgia
"Northernmost Postal Murals: Washington/Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire--How
Distant the Coasts?" L. Marcile Taylor, Wesleyan [GA]
"When It Reigns, It Pours: Selling Art in American Advertising," Julie McGuire, Georgia Southern U
(5) Films and the Foreign [Amelia: VCR/TV]
Chair: Camille McCutcheon, U of South Carolina--Spartanburg
"Hollywood and the Russian Novel in the 1950s," Bruce Nims, U of South Carolina -- Lancaster
"A Romantic and Grotesque World: Beautiful Warps in the Films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet," David A. Janssen, Gordon C
(6) Film: Philosophic Underpinnings [Island A: VCR/TV]
Chair: Adelheid Eubanks, Coker C
"Minority Report, Changing Lanes, and Kierkegaard: Necessary Choices, Unavoidable Actions," Adelheid R. Eubanks, Coker C
"Emerson's Over-Soul, Sergeant York, and The Deer Hunter," David McCracken, Coker C
(7) Pedagogy II: Making Composition Matter: Case Studies in Real Rhetoric [Island B]
Chair: Christina R. McDonald, Virginia Military Institute
"Advanced Composition, Interdisciplinary Programs, and the Uses of Rhetoric." Christina R. McDonald, Virginia Military Institute
"Re-Composing a Truman Scholarship Application," Matthew D. Sharpe, Virginia Military Institute
"Zebra Fish, Apoptosis, and Advanced Composition," Andrew Cochet, Virginia Military Institute
(8) Expressions of Death: Natural Tragedy and Human Articulation [Ponte Vedra]
Chair: James Bucky Carter, U of North Carolina--Charlotte
"England 1832: Cholera, Medicine, and the Bodies of the Poor," Thomas A. Van, U of Louisville
"The Year of Wonders and the Problem of Evil,” Raymond Ruble, Appalachian State U
"Articulating Tragedy: Death at Everest," Linda Levitt, U of South Florida
(9) Panel Discussion: Perils and Pearls of Starting a New Conference [Island C]
Chair: Michael Mills, Georgia Southern U
Panelists
Mary Marwitz, Georgia Southern U
Neal Saye, Georgia Southern U
1:30 p.m.--3:00 p.m. Panels Thursday 2 October
(10) Construction and Reception of Screen Worlds [Fernandina: VCR/TV, slides, overhead, screen]
Chair: Geoffrey C. Weiss, Mt. Olive C
"'Beautiful, Dancing Ghosts': David O. Selznick, the Anecdote, and the Studio System," Brian Doan, U of Florida
"Black Sitcoms in America: A Black Audience Perspective," Miriam Chitiga, Claflin U
(11) Presenting Power: From The Simpsons to the Superbowl [Amelia: VCR/TV]
Chair: Joyce W. Fields, Columbia C [SC]
"Superbowl Television Advertising: Or When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (and Sweetness Enters In)," Joyce W. Fields and Vivia L. Fowler, Columbia C [SC]
"Power and Privilege on The Simpsons," James Hare, Longwood U
(12) Pedagogy III: Technology and the Classroom [Ponte Vedra: Overhead, screen]
MERLOT: Secondary Fermentation, Elsa Nystrom, Kennesaw State U
(13) Southern Fiction: Augusta Jane Evans and Eugene Walter [Island B]
Chair: Bob Doak, Wingate U
"Augusta Jane Evans: 'Queen Regent of Alabama Literature,'" Danon Lucas, Independent Scholar
"The Mobile Southerner: Eugene Walter and Southern Culture," Gabrielle Gutting, Florida Atlantic U
(14) Political Fictions, Political Realities [Island C]
Chair: Ernest L. Wiggins, U of South Carolina
"Law and Morality, Liberal and Conservative," Linda J. Holland-Toll, Newberry C
"The South Carolina Education Lottery: Promise and Reality," Carol S. Botsch, ACAS, and Robert E. Botsch, ACAS, U of South Carolina -- Aiken