Conference Schedule
Max Ophuls Beyond Borders
The following events are restricted to registered attendees of
Max Ophuls Beyond Borders. For information about registration,
please call the Department of Modern Languages at 757-221-3635.
Friday, March 28
- 08:45-09:00
Welcome (Jeanne Zeidler, Mayor of Williamsburg; Susan White & Lutz Bacher,
Conference Co-organizers)
- 09:00-10:00
Panel: Madame de...
- Carmen Hendershott, "Changing Critical Evaluations of Madame
de..."
- Brian O'Leary, "Sameness and Difference in Letter from an
Unknown Woman and Madame de...: An Exercise in Applied
Functional Semiotics"
- 10:15-11:30
Keynote Address
- Helmut Asper, "50 Years in the Theater:
Max Ophuls as Actor, Stage Director, Playwright"
- 11:30-12:45
Lunch (on your own)
- 12:45-13:45
Panel: The Reckless Moment
- Margaret DeRosia, "Black Maids, White Perversity"
- William Paul, "Off The Deep End Far From Heaven: Social
Topography in The Reckless Moment"
- 14:00-15:30
Panel: Influences on Max Ophuls
- Vincent Amiel, "Nature and Artifice in Ophuls's Films" (delivered in
French)
- Laura Deiulio, "Max Ophuls' Vienna"
- Walter Metz, "The Europeanization of Postwar American Culture: A Case
Study of the Ibsen Intertext in Max Ophuls' The Reckless Moment"
- 15:45-17:00
Special DVD Presentation
- Tag Gallagher, "Max Ophuls: A New Art (But Who Notices?)"
- 17:00-19:00
Reception at the Reves Center
Saturday, March 29
- 09:00-10:15
Plenary Address
- V.F. Perkins, "Speculations on Ophuls and Christianity"
- 10:30-12:00
Panel: Ophulsian Aesthetics
- Jean-Pierre Berthomé, "A Director's Art Direction : Max Ophuls in the
Fifties"
- Karl Sierek, "Ophuls' Early Films and Aesthetic Theories of the
Weimar Republic"
- Respondent: Miriam Hansen
- 12:00-13:15
Lunch (on your own)
- 13:15-14:15
Panel: Ophuls and Feminism
- Ayako Saito, "Madame de...Melancholy: Affective Construct, Feminine
Identity"
- Gaylyn Studlar, "Max Op(h)uls Fashions Femininity"
- 14:30-15:45
Plenary Address
- Jean-Loup Bourget, "Ophuls and Renoir"
- 16:00-17:30
Panel: Project, Production, and Distribution Histories
- Lutz Bacher, "No Return Ticket: Hollywood's Rejection of
Ophuls' Adaptation of Rosamond Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source"
- Steven Carr, "`A "Clear and Present Danger" of Substantive
Evil to the Community': Film Censorship, Max Ophuls' La Ronde
(1950) and Commercial Pictures Corporation v Board of Regents of the
University of the State of New York (1954)"
- Ronny Loewy, "A World Upside Down. Max Ophüls' First and Lost Film:
Dann Schon Lieber Lebertran/I'd Rather Take Cod Liver Oil"
- 17:30-19:30
Dinner (on your own)
Sunday, March 30
- 08:30-09:30
Panel: Ophulsian Camera Movement
- Joe McElhaney, "Ophuls and Minnelli: Movements Between Worlds"
- Jakob Nielsen, "Ophulsian Camera Movement in the Films of Paul Thomas
Anderson"
- 09:45-11:45
Screening of Lola Montes (restored German version)
- 11:45-13:00
Lunch (on your own)
- 13:00-14:30
Panel: The Restoration of Lola Montes
- Stefan Drößler and Martina Müller
- 14:45-16:15
Panel: Lola Montes
- John Bloomfield, "Max Ophuls' Lola Montes and Baz Lurhmann's
Moulin Rouge!"
- David Lugowski, "Woman/Road/Cinema"
- Ronald Wilson, "`Un Film Maudit': The Decline and Fall of
Max Ophuls' Lola Montes--A Distribution History"
- 16:30-17:30
Panel: Caught
- Marshall Deutelbaum, "Leonora's Place: The Spatial Logic of
Caught"
- Chris Dzialo, "Rampant Consumerism and Ophuls' Brand New Car:
A Theoretical and Historical Analysis of Caught"
- 17:30-17:35
Closing Remarks (Susan White)
- 17:35-19:30
Dinner (on your own)