Session Details

Sunday, 09 January

775. Powers of the False

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Diamond Salon 8, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Film

Presiding: Homay King, Bryn Mawr Coll.

1. “Racial Stereoscopy: Robert Flaherty and the Samoan Reality Effect,” Brian Hochman, Harvard Univ.

2. “The Timisoara Massacre Revisited,” Anca E. Parvulescu, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

3. “The False Leftist Hero of Luis Ospina’s Cinema Mentiré: Social Cynicism or Contestation?” Dierdra Reber, Emory Univ.

4. “Ethics, Indexicality, and the Animated Documentary,” Drew Morton, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

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