Events
Berkeley Film & Media Seminar
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BFMS Lecture Series: Giorgio Bertellini
Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 5:00 pm142 Dwinelle
In the forthcoming volume The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America (University of California Press, 2019), I seek to document and analyze an inaugural moment of today’s much discussed convergence of political and celebrity culture. Specifically, I uncover practices of public opinion management that in 1920s America …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Ara Osterweil
Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 5:00 pm142 Dwinelle
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BFMS Lecture Series: Jasmina Metwaly
Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:00 pm142 Dwinelle
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BFMS Lecture Series: Jacqueline Stewart
Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:00 pm142 Dwinelle
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BFMS Lecture Series: Homay King
Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 5:00 pm142 Dwinelle
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BFMS Lecture Series: John David Rhodes - Disemboweled Vision: Fascism, Rome and Cinema
Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:00 pmCosponsored by the Department of Italian Studies John David Rhodes, Professor of Film at the University of Cambridge, will be giving a lecture on Thursday, March 22 entitled, "Disembowelled Vision: Fascism, Rome and Cinema." Abstract: This talk looks at a variety of architectural, urbanist, cinematic, and art historical practices and discourses …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Pooja Rangan - Voice as Documentary Audibility: Two Scenes of Accent Neutralization
Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 5:00 pm188 Dwinelle Hall
In the field of documentary, voice, rather than point of view, is the prevailing metaphor for a filmmaker’s unique perspective, signaling the documentary genre’s textual emphasis on spoken words, as well as its social ethic of “giving voice.” Rangan’s talk will unpack the humanitarian resonances of this metaphor, as elaborated in her book Immediations: The …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Geneviève Sellier -
Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 5:00 pm
Popular cinema and the mass audience in postwar France, 1945-1958142 Dwinelle Hall
French film studies has traditionally restricted itself to aesthetic approaches to the « seventh art » and to the study of film-makers considered, according to a tradition of cinephilia, to be « auteurs. » This tradition has left aside the popular dimensions of French film, including the study of genre and of reception. In this talk, I present my …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Lana Lin - Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects
Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:00 pm142 Dwinelle Hall
Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture For this presentation I will discuss my soon to be released book, which examines the vulnerability of the human body and asks how human beings contend with loss. Employing psychoanalytic theory and literary analysis, Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects tracks three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Rielle Navitski -
Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 5:00 pm
Public Violence and Visual Culture: Cinema's Emergence in Brazil142 Dwinelle Hall
Films that restaged public spectacles of real-life violence became the first popular successes of narrative cinema in Brazil, a tendency that finds echoes in the early film cultures of Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico. These films took part in a sensational visual culture that spans the moving image and the illustrated press, a visual culture uniquely revealing of the constitutive role of …