A weekly public gathering of the Cinema Studies community, designed to foster the exchange of ideas between students, faculty, and guests.
Refreshments provided at all events.
The Wednesday Night Series will take place in 721 Broadway, Tisch School of the Arts, Michelson Theater (Room 648) unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2009 Calendar
Faculty Film Night
RICHARD ALLEN
Wednesday, September 9th 6:15pm
Professor Richard Allen presents one of his favorite films. Discussion to follow.
Graduate Forum - Organized by students in the Cinema Studies PhD program.
IVONE MARGULIES - "BAZIN'S EXQUISITE CORPSES"
Wednesday, September 16th 6:15pm
Bazin’s cine-mythographies trail certain films and stars replicating cinema’s power to create after-lives hovering between past and present incarnations. This presentation attends to the force field of such circulating images by looking at Bazin’s texts on Chaplin, on Stalin’s myth in the cinema, on Luis Procuna, a bullfighter who reenacts his own life events filling in the gaps left by newsreel footage, and on death.
Ivone Margulies is the author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday, and editor of Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema. She has written extensively on performance, theatricality and realism.
Guest Speaker
TONY COMSTOCK - "THE INTENT TO AROUSE: A CONCISE HISTORY OF SEX, SHAME, AND THE MOVING IMAGE"
Wednesday September 23rd 6:15pm
In a world that seems awash in sexualized imagery, why is it that so little of this imagery speaks to the common pleasurable reality of sex? Award-winning filmmaker Tony Comstock (Real People, Real Life, Real Sex erotic documentary series) takes us into the legal and business realities that shape and too often warp the sexual imagery we see. Drawing on examples from Hollywood's history of self-censorship, landmark obscenity cases, and the collision of technology and image-making, Comstock offers an expanded framework for understanding how what we do and do not see in cinema effects our understanding of our own sexuality.
Cinema Studies Colloquium
ED GUERRERO AND MICHAEL TALBOTT
Wednesday September 30th 6:15pm
721 Broadway, Room 652
Faculty member Ed Guerrero and PhD student Michael Talbott present new work for roundtable discussion.
Faculty Film Night
CHRIS STRAAYER
Wednesday, October 7th 6:15pm
Professor Chris Straayer presents one of her favorite films. Discussion to follow.
Graduate Forum - Organized by students in the Cinema Studies PhD program.
PUBLISHING IN CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES TODAY
with John Belton, Heather Hendershot, Drake Stutesman, and Anna McCarthy
Special Date and Time: Friday, October 9th 6:00pm
The Graduate Forum presents a discussion on the state of publishing in the fields of cinema and media studies today with John Belton (Professor at Rutgers University and editor of a series of books on film and culture for Columbia University Press), Heather Hendershot (Professor at Queens College, CUNY, and editor of Cinema Journal), Drake Stutesman (editor of Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media), and Anna McCarthy (co-editor of the journal Social Text). Our panelists will speak about the current opportunities and challenges for scholarly journals and university presses and what it means for graduate students, emerging scholars, and established authors.
Special Screening
FILMS FROM THE HADASSAH ARCHIVES: A GALAXY OF FEATURE FILMS
Wednesday, October 14th 6:15pm
721 Broadway, Room 674
The two films in this screening are the first Hadassah films to be preserved and digitized. The film preservation project began with a survey of all of Hadassah’s extant films, conducted by NYU Cinema Studies MIAP student Lynley Lys in 2005-6.
-A Land of Their Own, 1950, 20 minutes, color
Orphaned children rescued through the Youth Aliyah program after WWII are acclimated to a new life and a new language in Israel.
-Journey Across Centuries, 1952, 17 minutes, color
Students at Hadassah's vocational school in Jerusalem are shown with their end of semester projects in cooking, nutrition, sewing, and other vocational programs.
Co-sponsored by the Hadassah Archives at the American Jewish Historical Society
Guest Speaker
CHRISSIE ILES - "CURATING AND COLLECTING FILM AND VIDEO"
Wednesday, October 21st 6:15
Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and is also an adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University. Her talk will address the various issues involved in the curating and collecting of film, video and projective installations, with particular reference to the Whitney Museum. The Whitney's exhibition program and collection involve a uniquely hybrid approach, in which editioned artworks are shown and collected alongside films that are more usually located in film archives and cinemas. The various philosophical, curatorial and practical issues that this raises will be discussed, using specific examples.
Cinema Studies Colloquium
ANNA MCCARTHY AND JENNIFER BLAYLOCK
Wednesday, October 28th 6:15
721 Broadway, Room 652
Faculty member Anna McCarthy and MIAP student Jennifer Blaylock present new work for roundtable discussion.
Guest Speaker
LAURENT JULLIER - "FRENCH CONTEMPORARY CINEMA AND THE MUSIC VIDEO EFFECT"
Wednesday, November 4th 6:15pm
Abstract: Postmodern cinema synaesthetically associates powerful moments in the music with shooting and editing (what the French call “effet-clip”). It is not surprising that an "authentic" postmodern director like Luc Besson should make extensive use of this third way of conceiving the soundtrack, but we will see that young authors of “post-Nouvelle Vague” French cinema almost do the same, trying to combine the Brechtian imperatives of modern cinema and music video effect. We 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).
Laurent Jullier is a professor at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and is the author of numerous books and articles on cinema.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française, NYU
Faculty Film Night
BILL SIMON
Wednesday, November 11th 6:15pm
Professor Bill Simon presents one of his favorite films. Discussion to follow.
Guest Speaker
RANJANI MAZUMDAR - "GLOBAL TRAVEL, EROTICISM AND LOVE IN 60'S BOMBAY CINEMA"
Wednesday, November 18th 6:15pm
A graduate of the PhD program and the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City, accomplished filmmaker and scholar Ranjani Mazumdar returns to the Department of Cinema Studies for a guest lecture.
Cinema Studies Colloquium
ROBERT STAM AND CHRIS JAYNES
Wednesday, December 2nd 6:15pm
721 Broadway, Room 652
Faculty member Robert Stam and MA student Chris Jaynes present new work for roundtable discussion.
Special Screening
FILM FINDINGS - ODDS AND ENDS FROM AV ARCHIVES
Wednesday, December 9th 6:15pm
Second-year Moving Image Archive and Preservation students present an evening of rare archival gems culled from their recent travels and research projects.
Wednesday Series Planning Committee:
Richard Allen (Department Chair)
Jung-Bong Choi (faculty)
Linda Tadic (faculty)
Paul Fileri (PhD student)
Sandra Gibson (MIAP student)
Ian Hetherington (MA student)
Sarah Luciano (BA student)
Jeff Richardson (Special Events Coordinator)
All programs subject to change.
All events are free and open to the public.
Seating is first-come, first served.
For questions about events, contact Jeff Richardson: (212) 998-1649, jeff.richardson@nyu.edu
