Day I
Registration is free and open to the public. For pre-registration please email sexmediareception@gmail.com
SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY, FEB 14
NQ 2435
1:30 Opening remarks
1:45 – 3:15 Sites of Reception: From Drive-Ins to Cable
Moderator: Candace Moore (Screen Arts and Cultures)
John Vari (UT Austin): “Open Late for that Sexy Date: Exhibition and Reception at the Adult Drive-In Movie Theater”, David Church (Indiana): “This Thing of Ours: Heterosexuality, Recreational Sex, and the Survival of Adult Movie Theaters”, Luke Stadel (Northwestern): “Bedroom TV: Cableporn and the Shifting Site of American Television Reception, 1981-1985”
3:30 – 5:00 Sex in the City
Moderator: Gayle Rubin (Anthropology) (TBC)
Ben Strassfeld (U Michigan): “’The Detroit Model’: Regulating Adult Businesses in the Motor City”, Philip Hallman (U Michigan): “Mapping Sex and the Motor City”, Noelle Griffis (Indiana): “Institutionalizing New York City Film Culture: Anti-Censorship Rhetoric meets Pornography Policy in John V. Lindsay's "Fun City"
5:15 Keynote: Elena Gorfinkel (UW Milwaukee): “Watching ‘An Audience of Voyeurs’: Sexploitation and the Problem of Adult Film Reception”
6:45 Reception
