Event Title
Film Studies: Locating Film in Cultural, National, and Political Contexts
Location
Burnell 109
Start Time
12-5-2011 1:00 PM
End Time
12-5-2011 2:15 PM
Description
Faculty contributing to the new Film studies minor will present their scholarship and pedagogical reflections on various topics in film studies. The panelists will present papers on documentary films of the Middle East, American and European vampire films and discourses of "otherness" and queerness, the influence of Japanese Noh theatre on Akira Kurosawa's film “Throne of Blood,” and cross-cultural connections between Kurosawa's samurai films and American Westerns. The papers examine films as art forms shaped by and responding to particular socio-historical, national, political, and cultural contexts.
Film Studies: Locating Film in Cultural, National, and Political Contexts
Burnell 109
Faculty contributing to the new Film studies minor will present their scholarship and pedagogical reflections on various topics in film studies. The panelists will present papers on documentary films of the Middle East, American and European vampire films and discourses of "otherness" and queerness, the influence of Japanese Noh theatre on Akira Kurosawa's film “Throne of Blood,” and cross-cultural connections between Kurosawa's samurai films and American Westerns. The papers examine films as art forms shaped by and responding to particular socio-historical, national, political, and cultural contexts.
Comments
Moderator: Kimberly Davis