FILM STYLE IN QUESTION
AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF DAVID BORDWELL

UW-MADISON, APRIL 21-23, 2005

The graduate program in Film at the University of Wisconsin -  Madison 
is hosting a major symposium in honor of David Bordwell.   FILM STYLE 
IN QUESTION will bring together eleven renowned film scholars – from 
Denmark, Italy, Hong Kong, and the United States -- to present some of 
the most interesting current research in film aesthetics.

The symposium honors Bordwell on the occasion of his retirement from 
the UW faculty after thirty-one years of stunning productivity and 
inspiration to students and scholars of cinema worldwide.

Symposium speakers will include: David Bordwell, Francesco Casetti, Tom 
Gunning, Mette Hjort, Lea Jacobs, James Naremore, Ben Singer, Kristin 
Thompson, Yuri Tsivian, Casper Tybjerg, and  Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh.

Please visit the web site: http://cinema.wisc.edu/filmstyle

Film aesthetics explores how and why particular films and groups of 
films look and sound the way they do.  It studies the means by which 
film style generates expressive emotion, unfolds narratives, connotes 
meanings, and creates compelling formal patterns.  And it tries to 
understand the historical factors shaping film style – looking at, 
among other things, concrete problems and solutions in the filmmaking 
process, the influence of traditions and trends, industrial and 
technological developments, cultural currents and social contexts.  
FILM STYLE IN QUESTION emphasizes work stemming from concrete research 
questions, while also acknowledging the importance of broader issues 
and debates about the place of film aesthetics within the field of Film 
Studies.

A highlight of the symposium will be a rare complete screening of Louis 
Feuillade's infamous 12-part serial TIH MINH (France, 1919) – a work 
that has been shown only a handful of times in North America in the 
past 85 years. This two-evening event will feature live accompaniment 
by renowned silent film pianist David Drazin.

Please join us!   For complete details, visit:  
http://cinema.wisc.edu/filmstyle

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