Andrée Lafontaine, PhD
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Conference Presentations & Publications

Publications

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Edited collection:
Refocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, September 2019.

Refereed Journal Articles:
"Democratic Movement and the Spaces of American Modernity in Early 1930s Woman's Films". Canadian Journal of Film Studies 26:2 (Fall 2017): 68-92.

"It Happened One Night, the Great Depression and Exodus Politics". Korean Journal of American Studies  48:3 (Winter 2016): 319-334.

“Catherine Breillat’s Tapage nocturne”. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies (2013). Published online in Wiley Online Vol. 11, Issue 4 (December 2014): 297-317. DOI: 10.1002/aps.1350.

​Book Chapter:
“As American as Chop Suey: The Chop Suey Joint in Classical Hollywood Film”. Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea: Chinese and Japanese Restaurants in the United States (Eds. Bruce Makoto Arnold, Tanfer Emin Tunc and Raymond Chong). University of Arkansas Press: 277-296. Purchase on Amazon.

Book Reviews:
"Free and Easy? A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Published online January 4, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2017.1418781.

"Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s by Iwan Morgan and Philip John Davies (eds)". Synoptique 6:1 (Fall 2017). 

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 "The Woman's Film of the 1940s: Gender, Narrative, and History (2014) by Alison L. McKee". Film & History, Winter 2016, 70-72.

“Vito Zagarrio’s The ‘Un-Happy Ending’: Reviewing the cinema of Frank Capra” (Book Review). Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies. Vol 2, No1 (Winter 2013).

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Translation:
Pozner, Valérie. “To Catch Up and Overtake Hollywood: Early Talking Pictures in the Soviet Union”. In Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema (Eds. Lilya Kaganozsky and Masha Salazkina). Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 2014 (60-80).

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Other:
Guest editor (with Kester Dyer and Fulvia Massimi) Special Issue of Synoptique, “Xavier Dolan, Queer Nations, and World Cinema: Locating the Intimate within the Global”, Winter 2016.

"Introduction to this Issue" (co-authored with Kester Dyer and Fulvia Massimi). Synoptique 4:2 (Winter 2016), 1-7.

"Interview with Bill Marshall" (co-authored with Kester Dyer and Fulvia Massimi). Synoptique 4:2 (Winter 2016), 111-120.  ​

Conference Presentations

  • "The Gender Politics of the Women's Pages." The International Associatyion for Media and History (IAMHIST) biannual conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK), July 2019.
  • "The Refracted Gazes of NHK's Home Sweet Tokyo." Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual conference, Seattle (US), March 2019.
  • "Leftover Women and Wasted Lives." Refugees and Waste Symposium. University of Tsukuba, February 2019.
  • "Sailing Through Liquid Modernity: The Ocean Liner in Depression-Era Hollywood". XXIV International Conference of Film Studies. Roma Tre University (Italy), November 2018.
  • "Environmental Anxiety in Recent Female-Centered Science Fiction". Tsukuba Global Science Week. September 2018.
  • "The Fallen Woman's Imagined Geographies in Depression-Era Films". ​International American Studies Association (IASA) Annual Conference, Laredo (Texas), July 2017.
  • "Eating Chinese: Chop Suey Identity in 1930s Hollywood". Presented at the SCMS Annual Conference, Chicago (Illinois), March 2017.
  • “A Feverish Work Ethic: Patriotism in Early 1930s Woman’s Films”. Presented at the Annual Film & History Conference, Milwaukee (Wisconsin), October 26-30, 2016.
  • “Consuming American Identities in Early 1930s Hollywood Films”. Presented at the American Studies Association International Conference, Yongin (South Korea), September 30-October 1, 2016.
  • "Exodus and the National Imaginary in Depression-Era Woman's Films". Presented at the 7th World Conference of the International Association of American Studies, Seoul National University (South Korea), August 17-19, 2015.
  • "MGM's Early Transmedia Practices". Presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST), Indiana University Bloomington (US), June 17-20, 2015.
  • “Our Dancing Daughters (1928): The Unstable Boundaries of an Early Transmedia Object”. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC), at the University of Ottawa (Canada), June 2-4, 2015.
  • “Lesbian Pleasures and Dorothy Arzner’s ‘Spectacularly Spineless’ Men”. Presented at the Third Annual London Film and Media Conference, University of London (England), June 27-29, 2013.
  • “Empire of the Son: Deleuze and Masochism”. Presented at the 2013 Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society Postgraduate Conference, Middlesex University, London (England) June 15, 2013.
  • “Towards Female Masochism : Catherine Breillat’s Night After Night”. Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of Film and Philosophy, John Moores University, Liverpool (England), July 12-15, 2011.
  • “For the Love of Movies: Cinephilia, Philosophy”. Presented at the Third Annual Conference of Film and Philosophy, at Warwick University, Coventry (England), July 15-17, 2010.
  • “Disciplining the Study of Film”. Paper presented at the Second Annual Conference of Film and Philosophy, at the University of Dundee (Scotland), July 16-18, 2009.
Chair and Panel Organizer:
  • "Synecdoche, Québec: The Global Facets of Xavier Dolan's Cinema". Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Toronto (Canada), March 2018.

Campus Talks

"Gender Queerness and Gender-Fluidity in Dorothy Arzner". Faculty of Communications Annual Research Symposium. Aichi University, August 2016.

“How to Save the World One Movie at a Time”. Open Campus lecture at Aichi University, August 3, 2016.

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