Our FTS faculty are busy as usual with their teaching and scholarship. For more information about each of us click on our names to check out the faculty pages on our offical website but for our latest endeavors here’s a quick update:
Deb Ellis: October is a long way a way, but this is the time of year when I start really rolling with organizing the Vermont International Film Festival www.vtiff.org. I’m excited that this year we will present some screenings on campus, and I look forward to having FTS more involved. Keep an eye out in the fall for events in town and on campus. On a personal level, I’m looking forward to spending the month of June at the Johnson Studio Center, Johnson, VT, on a month-long retreat. I’ll use the time to get a new rough cut of my current film together (Peace Has No Borders) by the end of the month when I plan to submit it for finishing funds. It’s always a gamble, but deadlines are good! In July I’ll be heading down to Nantucket for 10 days for some R&R, and look forward to visiting one of our FTS majors who is interning for the local station there! Summer always seems to breeze by so fast, so it won’t be long before I’ll be seeing those of you who are returning. Have a great summer!
Dave Jenemann has a book chapter coming out this month: “Camouflage Work: Precisionist Painting and the Hidden Subject of Modernism,” in Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity, Edited by Zubin Meer, Lexington Books. Also, in December, he had an article come out in Flow: “Stop Being an Elitist, and Start Being an Elitist,” Flow 13.5, (December 2010). And in June, he’ll be headed up to the annual Space Between conference in Montreal (Modernism 1914-1945), where he’ll be delivering a paper on modernism and sports broadcasting.
Todd McGowan is currently finishing his final revisions on The Fictional Christopher Nolan and working on his newest book on the disaster film and political action.
Sarah Nilsen received tenure this year and her book, Projecting America, 1958: Film and Culture Diplomacy at the Brussels World’s Fair of 1958 (McFarland) has been released. She’ll be on sabbatical next year and will be researching and writing a book on the history of the Disney princesses. Research for this project will require trips to the Disney archive in Burbank and hopefully a trip to Disney World. She’ll also be working on a co-edited book with Sarah Turner, The Colorblind Screen: Race and Television in Contemporary America.
Hilary Neroni gave a talk at UCLA, “Post 9/11 Horror Films and the Biopolitical,” and a talk at Pomona College, ““Documentaries post 9/11: Circling the Truth at Abu Ghraib”. Both these talks are from her most recent book project about representations of torture on film and television post 9/11, which she will be working on throughout the summer and fall. Additionally, she had two essays come out on documentary film: “Documenting the Gaze: Psychoanalysis and Judith Helfand’s Blue Vinyl and Agnes Varda’s The Gleaners and I,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27.3, (2010) and “The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer: documentary form and the logic of enjoyment,” Studies in Documentary Film 3.3, (2009).
Hyon Joo Yoo is busy revising and completing two books: a monograph Cinema at the Crossroads: Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema; and an edited volume The Trans-Pacific Imagination: Rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society.