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 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html