My Arisia Schedule, for those what care
Jan. 8th, 2008 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiThe panels I most wanted to do (Direct-to-video B Horror Films and Watching Movies Like a Critic) look to have not made the cut, alas, but this should be a fun slate. Some of you guys are on some of these panels with me, I believe:
(All descriptions cut and pasted from the Arisia email)
Friday:
Non-Genre Films that Fans Love
Fri 6:00 PM
There's nothing fantastic about _Memento_, but it somehow feels like science fiction. What other realist movies are especially attractive to fans of SF and fantasy? What are the qualities that make them feel like genre?
Saturday:
Continuity? What's That?
Sat 1:00 PM 1hr
In the wake of Infinite Crisis and House of M, do back issues matter anymore? When long-standing storylines are ignored or rewritten, does what came before factor into the enjoyment of a title? Is continuity the sign of a well-written story or just obsolete?
The Living Dead
Sat 4:00 PM 1hr
Forty years after George Romero gave us "Night of the Living Dead," his zombies still walk among us in remakes, new films from Romero himself, and astonishing recent movies from others ranging from "Shaun of the Dead" to "28 Weeks Later." Why is this SF/horror subgenre so enduring? What are its classics and which are merely the walking dead?
Science on the Big Screen (Moderating)
Sat 5:00 PM 1hr
Movies are rife with faulty science. Who gets it right? Who gets it hilariously wrong? Is it ever reasonable to gloss over science for the purpose of plot? Does too much science get in the way of plot?
Sunday:
Gods and Monsters (Moderating)
Sun 12:00 PM 1hr
In a world with Galactus, the Celestials, Darkseid, Zeus, Thor, the wizard Shazam, the Endless, and on and on, what happens to human religions?
Comic Books Go to the Movies (Moderating)
Sun 3:00 PM 1hr
Comic books and graphic novels are showing up on the big screen, and television. Why so many recently? Are they just easier to adapt? How important is accuracy in the conversion? Is this good or bad for comics?
Monday:
Misogyny in Comics
Mon 11:00 AM 1hr
A statue of a scantily-clad Supergirl. Another of Peter Parker's wife doing his laundry, thong showing and breasts hanging out, a vapid smile on her face. Formerly strong women tied up on a comic cover, costumes artfully torn, cowering before a batch of phallic, goo-dripping tentacles. What on earth has gotten into Marvel and DC? How can we fix it?
(All descriptions cut and pasted from the Arisia email)
Friday:
Non-Genre Films that Fans Love
Fri 6:00 PM
There's nothing fantastic about _Memento_, but it somehow feels like science fiction. What other realist movies are especially attractive to fans of SF and fantasy? What are the qualities that make them feel like genre?
Saturday:
Continuity? What's That?
Sat 1:00 PM 1hr
In the wake of Infinite Crisis and House of M, do back issues matter anymore? When long-standing storylines are ignored or rewritten, does what came before factor into the enjoyment of a title? Is continuity the sign of a well-written story or just obsolete?
The Living Dead
Sat 4:00 PM 1hr
Forty years after George Romero gave us "Night of the Living Dead," his zombies still walk among us in remakes, new films from Romero himself, and astonishing recent movies from others ranging from "Shaun of the Dead" to "28 Weeks Later." Why is this SF/horror subgenre so enduring? What are its classics and which are merely the walking dead?
Science on the Big Screen (Moderating)
Sat 5:00 PM 1hr
Movies are rife with faulty science. Who gets it right? Who gets it hilariously wrong? Is it ever reasonable to gloss over science for the purpose of plot? Does too much science get in the way of plot?
Sunday:
Gods and Monsters (Moderating)
Sun 12:00 PM 1hr
In a world with Galactus, the Celestials, Darkseid, Zeus, Thor, the wizard Shazam, the Endless, and on and on, what happens to human religions?
Comic Books Go to the Movies (Moderating)
Sun 3:00 PM 1hr
Comic books and graphic novels are showing up on the big screen, and television. Why so many recently? Are they just easier to adapt? How important is accuracy in the conversion? Is this good or bad for comics?
Monday:
Misogyny in Comics
Mon 11:00 AM 1hr
A statue of a scantily-clad Supergirl. Another of Peter Parker's wife doing his laundry, thong showing and breasts hanging out, a vapid smile on her face. Formerly strong women tied up on a comic cover, costumes artfully torn, cowering before a batch of phallic, goo-dripping tentacles. What on earth has gotten into Marvel and DC? How can we fix it?