THE NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION

FRIDAY & SATURDAY NEWBURY COLLEGE

OCTOBER 29-30^th, 2004 BROOKLINE, MA

27th ANNUAL NEPCA CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, October 29^th, 2004

4:00-6:00 Registration and Coffee Student Center Auditorium

Session I 4:30-6:00

Panel 1 PBS’ Colonial House Holland House 101

Chair: Ken Dvorak (San Jacinto College District)

Ellen A Foster, (Clarion University – Venango Campus) “A Twenty-First Century “Modell of Christian

Charity:” or, The Ambivalences of Colonial House.”

Katherine Howe, (Boston University) “Class, Community, and Historical Memory on Frontier House

and Colonial House.

Kimberly Hebert, (Tufts University) “Birthing A Nation: Locating Historical Anxiety in PBS’s

Colonial House.”

Panel 2 American Suburbs Holland House 103

Chair: Ronald Karr (UMass-Lowell)

Neal V. Hitch (Ohio Historical Society and Ohio State University)“Between City and Suburb: The Rise and

Fall of the Suburban Alternative and the Commodification of the American Dream”

Douglass Muzzio (Baruch College) and Jessica Muzzio-Rentas (William Paterson University)

“A Kind of Instinct”: The Suburban Mall in American

Movies

Nina David (University of Michigan) “Of Sprawl, Suburbia, and Sustainability—Recreating the American

Dream through the Mass Media”

Panel 3 Popular Film and Fiction Academic Center 120

Chair: Carol Mitchell (Springfield College)

Matthew Ortoleva (University of Rhode Island) “The Environmental Voice in Steven Spielberg’s Film The

Lost World: Jurassic Park”

Tim Shary (Clark University) “James Dean’s Lasting Legacy as a Teen Movie Rebel”

Daniel Nathan, Peter Berg, and Erin Klemyk (Skidmore College) “Hollywood, History, and Martin Scorsese’s

Gangs of New York”

Panel 4 Images of America Academic Center 122

Chair: Peter Holloran (Worcester State College)

Margaret J. Tally (Empire State College) “Understanding Hollywood’s Foreign Audiences in the Wake of

Iraq: A Reassessment of the Politics of the Popular”

Mike Chapman (Boston College) “Ellery Sedgwick’s Hidden Agenda: The Atlantic Monthly, Franco’s

Spain, and Un-American Yankee Humanism, 1938”

Jerry Lembcke (Holy Cross College) “CNN’s Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam’s Last Great Myth

Panel 5 Travel Academic Center 004

Chair: Kathy Merlock-Jackson (Virginia Wesleyan College)

Susan Nance (University of Guelph) “The Orientana of Anglo-American Tourism; or, Why the Shriners

Went West, 1880-1910”

Angela Herrald (Syracuse University) “Americans in India: New Age Tours to the Mystic East”

Ilana Nash (Western Michigan University) “The Girl is Abroad: American Teens in Europe”

Panel 6 Teenagers, Consumption, and Popular Culture Academic Center 005

Chair: Donna Halper (Emerson College)

Kim Brinck-Johnsen (Simmons College) “Gidget and the Guys: Gender, Violence, and the Construction of

Surf Culture”

Erica Dymond (Lehigh University)

“The Concerning Case of Christian: Viewer-Misdirection in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless”

Erik Walker, (Plymouth South High School)“ ‘From Saint to School Girl: Joan of Arc’s Relocation from the

Battlefields of Europe to the Hallways of an American High School in the Television Drama Joan of Arcadia”

Panel 7 Food, Culture, & the Maintenance of National Identity Holland House 104

Chair: Alice Julier (Smith College)

Netta Davis (Boston University) “The Bully and the Baklava: American Imperialist Foodways and Edible

National Identity”

Jennifer Shiff Berg (NYU) “Bingeing Away at American Nationalism: Nathan’s Hot Dogs and Competitive

Eating”

Jonathan Deutsch (CUNY-Kinsgborough) “Got Chanko? Sumo and the National Dish of the National

Sport”

6:00-7:00 Welcome to Brookline Reception Student Center Auditorium

Greetings from the NEPCA board and a wine & cheese reception followed by a round-table on Colonial House

7:00-8:00 Evening Event (Round Table Forum) with cast members from Colonial House.

Chair: Ken Dvorak (San Jacinto College District)

Colonial House cast members John, Michelle, and Giacomo Voorhees speak about their experiences and insights on the show.

Saturday, October 30^th, 2004

8:00-9:00 Registration and Coffee Student Center Auditorium

Session II 9:00-10:30

Panel 8 Visions of the Wilderness Holland House 101

Chair: Steve Corey (Worcester State College)

James G. Lewis (Forest History Society) “Paintings, Poetry, and Preservation: Popular Art and the

Early Environmental Movement”

Michael R. Hutcheson (Landmark College) “How Green Was My Valley: Irish National Identity and

Landscape”

J. Brooks Flippen (Southeastern Oklahoma State University) “The Republican Environmentalist” The

Life and Times of Russell E. Train

Panel 9 Health and Everyday Life in 19^th Century America Holland House 103

Chair: Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy)

Martha Gardner (School of Public Health) “An Abortion Scandal in Waldoboro, Maine: Public

Perception of Midwives and Physicians in the Nineteenth-Century Countryside”

Carol-Ann Farkas (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) “Shall Women Practice

Medicine?”: Late Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture and the Medical Woman Debate”

Anu Dudley (University of Maine) “Dramas in Doctors’ Daybooks: 19^th Century Community Life from

the Physicians’ Perspectives”

Panel 10 Women’s Voices, Women’s Choices: Academic Center 120

New Hampshire Women’s Oral History Project

Chair: Doris Schmidt (Fitchburg State College)

Sylvia Foster (University of New Hampshire)

Mary M. Moynihan (University of New Hampshire)

Panel 11 Popular Culture and Identity Academic Center 122

Chair: Virginia Freed (Bay Path College)

Jane Lancaster (Brown University) “Cowboys, Indians, and Perky Waitresses: Myths of The Old West”

Meredith James (Eastern Connecticut State) “The Blame Game: Native Representation in The Sopranos

Richard Canedo (Brown University and Lincoln School “Transformation of Ethnic Comedy on the

Vaudeville Stage, 1890-1915”

Panel 12 Sexuality and Popular Culture Academic Center 004

Chair: Sue Clerc (Southern Connecticut State University)

Mary Buggie-Hunt (SUNY Buffalo/SUNY Brockport) “Planet Hate: The Internet and the Promotion of Anti-

Gay Ideologies”

Linda K. Fuller (Worcester State College) “Gay Bishops, Gay Marriages, Gay News: The Treatment of

“Homosexuality” in the CS Monitor”

Panel 13 Unraveling American Fiction and Film Academic Center 005

Chair: Mark Madigan, (Nazereth College)

W. Thomas Heise, (New York University) “ ‘Going Blood-Simple Like the Natives’: Contagious Urban Spaces

and Modern Power in Dashiel Hammett’s Red Harvest”

Maria del Mar Ramon Torrijos (Harvard University) “Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho and the Search for

Meaning in the Postmodern Urban Culture”

William Hammel (Loyola University New Orleans) “Far From Vietnam: A Portrait of French Colonialism in

Wargnier’s Indochine”

Panel 14 Television Holland House 104

Chair: Tona Hangen (Brandeis University)

Ann Braithwaite (University of Prince Edward Island) “Of Swans and Other Bodies: Identity (In)Stability on

Network Television

Lynn Bartholome (Monroe Community College) “Does Father Know Best? Demystifying the

Osbournes”

Mary Findley (Union Institute) “Sharon! The Osbornes as a Representation of Functional Dysfunctional

Celebrity Culture”

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break and Book Exhibit Student Center Auditorium

Session III 11:00-12:30

Panel 15 Popular Culture Aimed at “Children” of All Ages Holland House 101

Chair: Robert Niemi (St. Michael’s College)

Kyle Hetrick (University of Rhode Island) “A Consumer Education: Nintendo’s Animal Crossing and its

Lessons for Future Capitalists”

Michael K. Green (SUNY-Oneonta) “Finding Nemo and the Social Expression of Optimism”

Rebecca Housel (Rochester Institute of Technology) “Hero Culture in Film”

Panel 16 Innovative Approaches to Social History Holland House 103

Chair: Bruce Cohen (Worcester State College)

Sandy Polishuk (Portland State University) “Julia Ruuttila: Labor Writer and Activist”

Michael Hoberman (Fitchburg State College) “How Strange It Seems”: Regionalizing a Jewish Presence

in New England”

Susan Ouellette (St. Michael’s College) “I conclude there are some strange intentions: Phebe Orvis Goes

a’ Courting”

Panel 17 Examining Cultural Identity Academic Center 120

Chair: James P. Hanlan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Anastasia C. Curwood (Boston College) “Manners, Morals, and Anthropology: Caroline Bond Day’s A

Study of Some Negro-White Families in the United States”

Elizabeth Moyer (West Virginia University) and others “Franco-American Generational Differences”

Implications for Health and Social Services Delivery”

Panel 18 Exploring the Culture of Music Academic Center 122

Chair: Robert Weir (Bay Path College)

Suzanne Cloud Tapper (University of Pennsylvania) “Children of the Earle Theatre: The Philadelphia

Jazz Community and the Jazz Aesthetic”

Emily Hegarty (Nassau Community College) “Freddie Mercury: Rock Music, Critics, and Aids”

Thomas O’Grady (UMass – Boston), “’The Decisive Moment’: The Metronome All-Stars, 1949”

Panel 19 Investigating Visual Culture Academic Center 004

Chair: David Sokol (University of Illinois Chicago)

Patricia Felisa Barbeito (Rhode Island School of Design) “Taking Liberties with the Ladies: Hannah

Duston’s Statues as National Monuments”

Dassia Posner (Tufts University) “Rewriting the Dancing Body: Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and the

Shaping of Popular Taste”

Emma Dassori (Tufts University) “Elephants on Parade: The Circus’ Influence on Walt Disney and Walt

Disney’s Influence on the Circus”

Panel 20 The Culture of Food Academic Center 005

Chair: Margaret Wiley (Colby-Sawyer College)

Madonna L. Berry (UMass-Boston and Newbury College) “What’s Cooking: Social and Cultural

Implications of Cooking Shows”

Mark H. Zanger (Independent Scholar) “Variations of Authenticity in American Ethnic Home Cooking;

How Ten Ethnic Cuisines Feed the Hunger to Belong”

Susan Rossi-Wilcox (Harvard University) “Christmas Myths: Mrs. Charles Dickens’ Plum Pudding”

12:30-2:00 Luncheon and Awards Presentation Student Center Auditorium

Session IV 2:00-3:30

Panel 21 Assumed Identities Holland House 101

Chair: Faye Ringel (U.S. Coast Guard Academy)

Peter Bayers (Fairfield University) “ “I Thought it a Very Pretty Notion To Be a Man’:

William Apess and the Restoration of Native Manhood”

Thomas Nolan (Springfield College) “Galateas in Blue: Women Police as Decoy Sex Workers

Alexis L. Boylan (Lawrence University) “Neither Tramp nor Hobo: Images of Unemployment in the Art

of the Ashcan School”

Panel 22 Sports Holland House 103

Chair: Sharon Yang (Worcester State College)

Jeffrey P. Cain (Sacred Heart University) “The Bomber Crankbait vs. The Royal Coachman: Veblen

Goes Fishing”

Amos St. Germain (Wentworth Institute of Technology) “Horse Sense: The Seabiscuit Phenomenon

and Racing Fans”

Sam Ford (Western Kentucky University) “Grappling with the Theorists: Pinning Down Scholarly

Theory on Pro Wrestling”

Panel 23 World’s Fairs Academic Center 120

Chair: Robert W. Smith (Worcester State College)

David W. Moore (Loyola University New Orleans) “Cleaning up After the Party: The 1984 World’s Fair

in New Orleans and Its Aftermath”

Roberta Zonghi (Boston Public Library) “Accessing the Robert A. Feer Collection of World’s Fairs of North

America, Boston Public Library”

Martin Manning (U.S. Department of State) “Researching World’s Fairs in U.S. Government and Other

Collections”

Panel 24 Humor Academic Center 122

Chair: Karen Woods Weierman (Worcester State College)

Michelle Ephraim (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) “That Shakespeare Shtick: Hamlet in Billy Madison”

Natka Bianchini (Tufts University) “Shakespeare as Popular Culture-An Early 19^th Century Phenomenon”

Panel 25 Modern Advertising Academic Center 004

Chair: Michael K. Shoenecke (Texas Tech University)

Robert M. MacGregor (Bishop’s University) “Clinton/Lewinsky Sex Scandal: Starr Report Lends

Celebrity Power to Certain Products”

Don Vescio (Worcester State College) “SPAM and Community Discourse: The Success that Everyone

Loves to Hate”

Jeremy K. Saucier (University of Rochester) “Every Generation Has Its Heroes?” Popular

Representations of World War II, Memory, and the Symbolism of Modern Military Advertising”

Panel 26 Social Issues in Science Fiction and Fantasy Academic Center 005

Chair: Marc Stern (Bentley College)

Deborah A. Robinson (Roger Williams University) “Middle-earth, Wind, and Fire: J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Green”

Ideology, The Lord of the Rings, and 1960s Environmentalism”

Glenna Andrade (Roger Williams University) “Social Issues In Jean Auel’s Earth’s Children Series”

Barbara A. Silliman (Providence College) “Conserving the Balande: Frank Herbert, Social Consciousness, and

Dune”

3:30 Coffee and Adjournment Student Center Auditorium

4:00 NEPCA/ACA Business Meeting Student Center Auditorium

This brief business meeting and introduction of new officers will include a “One For the Road” coffee break and post-conference discussion of NEPCA’s future. All members, new and old, are urged to stop by.

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION

NEWBURY COLLEGE BROOKLINE, MA

27^th ANNUAL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM

OCTOBER 29^TH-30^TH, 2004

NAME....................................................................................NEW..........RENEWAL.........

MAIL ADDRESS...................................................................SPECIALIZATION.......................................

AFFILIATION.......................................................................ZIP CODE....................................................

PHONE..................................................................................EMAIL..........................................................

( ) CONFERENCE & LUNCH REGISTRATION by mail.........................$60.00

( ) CONFERENCE REGISTRATION in person........................................$70.00

( ) FRIDAY RECEPTION..........................................................................Yes ( ) or No ( )

( ) ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DUES.......................................................$20.00

( ) ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DUES

for graduate students, adjunct or emeritus faculty................................$10.00

( ) LIFE or INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP.......................................$150.00

( ) NEPCA FUND CONTRIBUTION......................................................$............

TOTAL CHECK (IN US FUNDS)..................................................$.............

* Please note in which hotel/motel you made reservations:.............................................................................

All those on the program must pay NEPCA annual membership dues and conference registration fees via US mail prior to the conference. Please mail your personal check (payable to NEPCA) by August 30^th (if on the program) and October 4^th (if not on the program) to the conference program chair: Professor Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Department of Urban Studies, Worcester State College, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA 01602-2597; (508) 929-8669.

Email any requests for audio-visual equipment by August 30th.

NEPCA is funded by its annual membership dues and registration fees at the annual meeting. Every effort has been made to keep fees low. Please use this form to register for the conference, to apply for membership, or to renew your membership at any time. Contributions to the NEPCA Fund are tax-deductible to extent permitted by law.

Directions by Car

If driving to Newbury College from I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike), take Route 128 South to Exit 20A, Route 9 East. Go east on Route 9 towards Boston for 5 miles. Follow further directions below.

From the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90)

Traveling eastbound toward Boston, take Exit 14 to I-95/Route 128 South and follow directions below.

Traveling westbound toward New York, take Exit 15 to I-95/Route 128 South and follow directions below.

From I-95/Route 128 South

Follow I-95/Route 128 South to Exit 20A (Route 9 East). Follow Route 9 East for 4.5 miles to Chestnut Hill Avenue. You will pass the large Chestnut Hill Mall on your left, continue one half mile past St. Lawrence Church on your right. Take the left at the next traffic light onto Chestnut Hill Avenue, then the first right onto Channing Road and the first left onto Fisher Avenue. The college is at the top of this hill. Park in the lot adjacent to the library on the left. Follow the NEPCA signs to the conference registration room in the Student Center.

From Logan International Airport, Boston

By plane to Logan International Airport in Boston, take the Back Bay Shuttle (617-746-9929 or 888-222-5229) @ $16.00 to any of these three hotels. You may reserve the shuttle by phone 24 hours in advance. It is a half hour drive. Or you may reach the college or all the hotels by public transportation from the airport or from the Park Street MBTA station.

If driving on your own:

Exit the airport and follow signs for the Sumner Tunnel and I-93 South. Continue on I-93 South to I-90 West (the Massachusetts Turnpike). Take Exit 15 onto Route 128 South and follow directions above.

Directions by Subway/Bus

By MBTA public transportation, from Boston take the Green Line outbound trolley from Park Street Station to the Cleveland Circle station. The college has a shuttle bus from the trolley station or you can walk up Chestnut Hill Avenue to Clinton Road on the left and up to Fisher Avenue. Those staying at the hotels should get directions at the hotel for public transportation to Newbury College.

In short:

From Boston, take the Green Line (C or D) outbound to the Cleveland Circle or Reservoir stop.

From Forest Hills, take the 51 bus to Cleveland Circle.

Walk up Chestnut Hill Avenue, take the first left onto Clinton Road, and the first right onto Fisher Avenue. Newbury College is at the top of the hill. A College shuttle runs from the Reservoir T stop to the College.

RECOMMENDED HOTELS

We have previously suggested that members phone these hotels by October 8 to reserve a room at the NEPCA discount rate. The Beacon Inn, 1750 Beacon Street in Brookline (617-566-0088), has rooms for $79.00 or $89.00 plus $15.00 for parking. The Marriott Newton, 2345 Commonwealth Avenue in Newton (617-969-1000), has rooms for $119.00 and the Howard Johnson Motel, 1271 Boylston Street Boston (near Fenway Park), 617-267-8300, $109.00 nightly, plus $15.00 parking, call by October 1.

October is a very busy time for hotels and motels around Boston, so phone early for your reservation and be sure to mention the NEPCA rate.

ADVANCE NOTICE

Our 28th annual conference meets in Fairfield, Connecticut at Sacred Heart University on October 28-29, 2005. If your college is interested in hosting one of our meetings, please contact Executive Secretary Sue Clerc at anytime.

FUTURE PCA/ACA CONFERENCE information is announced on the national PCA and ACA web site: www. h-net.msu.edu/~pcaaca/. They will be in:

2005 * San Diego * 23-26 March

2006 * Atlanta * 12-16 April

2007 * Boston * 4-9 April