Cinema & Comparative Literature
Cinema and Comparative Literature Current Events
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April 4-12: "Too Early Too Late": Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub: Selected Films 1969-1984. April 4, 5, 6 & April 11, 12, at 3:00 PM, AJB E105. Further Information here.
April 18-19: Professor John Tagg (Chair, Art History and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, State University of New York) will be presenting the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature’s Annual Film Studies lecture in the Spring.
Professor Tagg is one of the foremost historians and theorists of photography and a key figure in the so-called post-1980s 'new' art history movement. His major works -- The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories (1988) and Grounds of Dispute: Art History, Cultural politics and the Discursive Field (1992) -- have become seminal examinations of the institutional discourses animating photography, the ideological implications of the history of documentary evidence, and the political destinies of cultural theory and practice in the field of art history. He also has two new books in the works, Maps of Modernity: A Primer in Art History and Cultural Theory (London: Macmillan) and The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Regimens and the Capture of Meaning (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Fall 2008).
Professor Tagg will be presenting a public lecture on Friday, April 18, 3.30 PM, BCSB 101 titled “Crime Story: Walker Evans, Cuba, and the Corpse in a Pool of Blood” (to be followed by a reception in the ground floor atrium of Adler Journalism Building). He will also be participating in a faculty-graduate seminar on Saturday, April 19,10.00 AM-12.30 PM, AJB E120 for which we will be reading his following essays: “Melancholy Realism: Walker Evans's Evasion of Meaning,” Narrative, 11.1 (January 2003): 1-77 and “The Pencil of History” in Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video, ed. Patrice Petro (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995): 285-304.
Please contact Leslie DeLassus (leslie-delassus@uiowa.edu) for pdf copies of these essays. Please contact Assistant Professor Paula Amad (paula-amad@uiowa.edu) for further information about this event.
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May 6: Professor Wolf Kittler (Department of German, The University of California at Santa Barbara) will be presenting a lecture entitled "Still and Moving Pictures in Kafka's Fiction," Tuesday, May 6, 4:00 PM, AJB E105. This event is sponsored by CCL, Communication Studies, the German Department, and International Programs.
