Snap!“We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.”
-Sigmund Freud
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a talk by Laura G. Gutiérrez
November 29, Thursday 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
Laura G. Gutiérrez, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
This presentation examines a number of cinematic texts that belong to a corpus of films from the so-called Golden-Age of Mexican [...]
 Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded: “Things Change A Lot” New York University, 27 October 2011
The screening and panel discussion of Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded, co-sponsored by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, reflected the importance of “reloading” an analysis of popular representations of Asian women. The [...]
SLAYING THE DRAGON: RELOADED
film screening and panel discussion presented by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute
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October 27, Thursday 6 to 9 pm
Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded 2011, 30 minutes, USA director Elaine H. Kim
Confirmed panelists:
Benjamin Han, Cinema Studies, NYU
Elaine H. Kim, Ethnic Studies and [...]
Barbara Hammer MoMA Retrospective
9/15/10-10/13/10
MoMA CELEBRATES BARBARA HAMMER, WITH A MONTH-LONG RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PROLIFIC ARTIST’S EXTENSIVE BODY OF WORK
Exhibition Includes the World Premiere of Hammer’s Newest Film, Generations, as well as Her Groundbreaking Experimental Short Films and Documentaries
Barbara Hammer from [...]
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 [...]
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