Several members of the Popular Seriality Research Unit (PSRU) will be attending the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) in Seattle.

Frank Kelleter, Kathleen Loock, Ilka Brasch, and Jason Mittell will present papers in different panels. For titles of the respective talks and panels view the following list.

D14: Contemporary Issues in Cinematic Remaking
Chair: Sean O'Sullivan (Ohio State University)
Respondent: Jennifer Forrest (Texas State University)

• Frank Kelleter (Freie Universitat Berlin), "The Remake as Fetish Art: Gus Van Sant's "Psycho" and the Franchise That Knew Too Much"

• Kathleen Loock (Freie University Berlin), "Hollywood’s Franchise Era and the Logic of Remaking"

• Constantine Verevis (Monash University), "New Millennial Remakes"

L23: "Breaking Bad": Looking Back and Moving Forward
Chair: Myles McNutt (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

• Radha O'Meara (Massey University), "Cooking with Gas: Phases of Style in "Breaking Bad""

• Myles McNutt (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Best Supporting City in a Drama Series?: Mapping the Meanings of Albuquerque in "Breaking Bad""

• Jason Mittell (Middlebury College), "Skyler's Story: "Breaking Bad," Serial Melodrama, and Character Chemistry"

• Sean O'Sullivan (Ohio State University), "The Inevitable and the Surprise"

Q6: Film and the Serial World: Theory, Audience, Diegesis
Chair: Scott Higgins (Wesleyan University)

• Julika Griem (Goethe University Frankfurt), "Mundophoria? Accounting for the Profusion of Vast Serial Worlds"

• Ilka Brasch (University of Hannover), "“Structuring Serial Worlds: New and Fictional Media in Film Serials of the 1910s”"

• Rafael Vela (Eastside Memorial HS), "Creating the Ideal Youth Gang"

• Scott Higgins (Wesleyan University), "A World of Play: Narrative Architecture in the Sound Serial"

For more information on the conference and the programm visit the SCMS website.