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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