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FILM EVENTS
2009/2010
FALL 2009
TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 15
CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series
“Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and
Popular Fiction: The Case of Sunset
Boulevard”
Professor Noël Carroll
Ph.D. Program in Philosophy
Noël
Carroll will
speak following a 1:30 pm screening of Sunset
Boulevard.
Carroll is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center,
CUNY, where he teaches courses in aesthetics, the philosophies of film,
literature, and visual arts, and ethics, among other subjects. He has
published six books, including Beyond
Aesthetics,
A Philosophy of Mass Art, and Interpreting
the Moving Image. His forthcoming book, Art in
Three Dimensions, will be published next year.
4:00pm, Segal Theatre
Co-sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program and the Center for the
Humanities
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2
CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series
“French
Contemporary Cinema and the Music Video Effect”
Laurent
Jullier
Director of
Research, Institut de Recherches sur le Cinéma et l’Audiovisuel (IRCAV),
University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and Professor of Film Studies,
Institut Européen de Cinéma et d’Audiovisuel (IECA), University of Nancy II
Jullier will analyze some
excerpts of Le grand bleu, Nikita, Jeanne d'Arc
(Luc Besson), Mauvais sang (Léos Carax), Sombre
(Philippe Grandrieux), Love Me (Lætitia Masson) and J'ai
toujours rêvé d'être un gangster (Samuel Benchetrit), keeping an
eye an on the music and linking the postmodern to “post-Nouvelle Vague.”
He has written several
articles for Esprit and for the Encyclopædia Universalis, as well as
a dozen books, among them, Holywood
et la difficulté d’aimer, published by Stock in 2004, which won
the Union of French Cinema Critics' prize for best book.
2:00pm,
Room C-198
Co-sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program and the Center for the
Humanities
Click here to
access available readings (you must be registered to view them).
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3
The Dewanatron Soiree
Film/video curator Russell Scholl will present silent film shorts with live
musical accompaniment by Dewanatron.
Dewanatron is a duo of collaborating cousins, Leon and Brian Dewan, who make and
play electronic instruments. This evening's performance will feature their
new Dual Primate Console Mark II.
Brian and Leon Dewan have accompanied numerous silent films, and their
instruments have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Leipzig,
Germany.For more on the Dewanatron experience, see: http://www.latimes.com/theguide/summer/la-gd-dewanatron1-2009jun01,0,1358074.story
7:00-9:30pm, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program, The Cinema Studies Group, Ph.D.
Programs in Music and Theatre, and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
SPRING 2010
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 4-5
Cinematic Desire
A CUNY Graduate Center Interdisciplinary Conference
March 4: 9:00am-8:00pm, Room 9206/9207/Skylight Room
5:00-9:30pm, Segal
Theatre
March
5: 9:00am-8:00pm, Room 9206/9207/Skylight Room
Conference Chairs: Elizabeth Alsop (Comparative Literature) and Kelley Kawano
(English)
Information and CFP (Deadline for Abstracts, December 1, 2009): http://web.gc.cuny.edu/filmstudies/csg/index.html
Sponsored by the Cinema Studies Group and the Film Studies Certificate
Program
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