Jan 25
CAMS Comps Symposium
Presentation schedule:
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9:00 am - Lance Xiong presents Trashy or Classy? Stardom and Embodied Celebrity. Fame, fortune, fashion; they’re all the rage now. Anyone can be famous now, but what makes them a star? Classy or Trashy? Stardom and Embodied Celebrity Through Kim Kardashian West, seeks to explore the progression in culture from having movie stars to having popular celebrities. Definitions of stardom, celebritism and their evolutions across time will be explored and complexified towards a new type of celebrity: Embodied Celebrity, by casing out Kim Kardashian West’s career.
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9:30 am - Ryan Wetzel will present 'My Family's Little War'. This presentation analyzes the screenplay, Words Left Behind. It is an exploration of the complex relationships in a family that is in the midst of tearing itself apart. Relatives fight to gain sole ownership over a substantially lucrative property, which an affluent grandfather left behind without a beneficiary... or so it seems. Everything from the thematic elements in the plot, to the details of the writing process will be discussed in the hope of giving a clear and concise picture into what this screenplay is all about.
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10:00 am - Mo McConnell
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10:30 am - short break
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10:45 am - Maddy Prins presents 'All the Firsts'. A coming of age story about the journey of 3 sisters.
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11:15 am - Cecilia Kryzda will present Expanded Form, Enhanced Body: Cyborg as Multimedia Metaphor in the Oeuvres of Janelle Monáe and Björk, a paper analyzing the respective audiovisual work of Björk and Janelle Monáe (i.e. music videos) as an extension of the science fiction genre, through the figure of the cyborg.