A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Jian Chen
September 20, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm
Jian Chen, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU
Prior to the multimedia convergence initiated by mass digitalization, documentary and pornographic film/video offered the experiences of communicability and interactivity now attributed to “post-cinematic” multimedia. Pornography and documentary are arguably anti-cinematic [...]
Wednesday, April 14 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
(Conference in English)
Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of French, the Institute of French Studies, the Department of Cinema Studies, and the CNRS/NYU International Research Center.
New Wave Cinema created a new image of woman which is inseparable from modernity and auteur cinema. However, this image [...]
April 8, Thursday 7 to 8:30 PM
Lauren Berlant, English, University of Chicago
“After the Good Life” works with two films of Laurent Cantet [Ressources humaines/Human Resources (1999) and L'Emploi du Temps/Time Out (2001)] to engage the new affective languages of the contemporary economic atmosphere across Europe: languages of anxiety, contingency, and precarity that [...]
Presented by Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)
Wednesday, March 17 at 7pm
5 Washington Place, Room 101 (NYC)
Free Admission (but limited seating)
For more information, please call CLAGS at 212-817-1955 or visit them online.
HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and [...]
A joint presentation by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
April 1, Thursday 4 to 6 PM
David T. Mitchell, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University
Sharon L. Snyder, Brace Yourselves Productions
In this co-presentation, Mitchell and Snyder analyze the ideological, aesthetic, and pedagogical effects of disability film festivals. Mitchell and Snyder are particularly [...]
Marianna Torgovnick at CUNY
Presented by the CUNY Center for the Humanities
Marianna Torgovnick is Professor of English at Duke University and Director of the Duke in New York Arts and Media Program each Fall and Summer. Torgovnick is the author of six books, including the acclaimed Gone Primitive, its sequel, Primitive Passions, and [...]
MIX 22: November 17-22, 2009
The 2009 MIX Festival serves up queer cinema, art, and performances.
MIX22: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival pulls into the MIX Factory Tuesday, November 17th, where the train dispatcher will hold it until Sunday, November 22nd. So pull up a seat and pass the time with [...]