Society of Media and Cinema Studies

March 10-13, 2011: New Orleans, LA

Architectural Spaces: On and Off the Screen

Panel Chair: Jennifer Johung

Drew Ayers (Georgia State University), “The Prismatic Subjectivities and Material Imagination of Kielowski’s DECALOGUE”

Richard Farmer (University College London), “The Dying of the Light: Cinemagoing and the Blackout in Britain During the Second World War”

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Northwestern University), “Film’s Endless Space: The Streamlined Movie Theatre, Spectatorship, and Modernist Architecture”

Amy Herzog (Queens College/City University of New York), “Visualizing the Virtual Citizen: Architectural Rendering Software, “Aspirational” Aesthetics, and the Colonization of Public Space”