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Critical Information Conference 2014
Respondent: Cynthia Cruz (Student) and Nancy Princenthal (SVA Faculty)

This panel will explore the connections between trauma and fragmentation by looking at the ways film and TV, racism and censorship can manifest in trauma and fragmentation. Bebe Nodjomi will examine the state of Iranian identity through the lens of Jafar Panahi’s documentary, This is Not a Film. Aurore Spiers will explore TV bodies and Hyper-Embodiment in the films Poltergeist, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Benny’s Video. Chigbo Anyaduba, our third panelist, who had planned to present his paper on Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, did not participate in the conference to protest the Missouri Grand Jury’s decision not to bring criminal charges against the policeman who shot and killed 18 year old Michael Brown. Chigbo’s statement was read in place of his original paper.

• Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba, Cinephilia and the Historical Trauma Film: Reanimating the Repressed in McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Spielberg’s Schindler’s List
(University of Manitoba at Winnipeg, English, Film, and Theatre Department, PhD Candidate)
• Bebe Nodjomi, The Film as Essay: Jafar Panahi’s Search for Self in This is Not a Film (Columbia University, School of the Arts – Film Division, MA Candidate)
• Aurore Spiers, TV Bodies, Media Physicality, and Hyper-Embodiment in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982), and Benny’s Video (Michael Haneke, 1992), (Columbia University, School of the Arts – Film Division, MA Candidate)