Burl Ives: Charleston, IL (September 20-23) The Second Annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, featuring the films of Eastern Illinois University alumnus and Jasper County native, Burl Ives, will take place September 20-23, 2006, on the Eastern Illinois University campus with movies presented at the historic Will Rogers Theatre in downtown Charleston. The event kicks off with free viewings of Desire Under the Elms (September 20, 7pm) and East of Eden (September 21, 7pm) at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University. On September 22nd, the Tarble is hosting the conference, “Burl Ives and American Film of the 1950s,” which explores Ives as a person, a musician and an actor. Special guest speakers include Jennifer Cutting and Dr. Steve Winick, both archivists from the Library of Congress. Cutting will share music that can only be heard at the Folklife Archives in Washington D.C. The award-winning Airtight Band will perform following Cutting’s and Winick’s evening presentations. On Saturday, September 23, two more Ives films will be shown at the Will Rogers Theatre (705 Monroe Avenue): The Big Country will be introduced and presented at 2:00 p.m. by Chuck Koplinski of The Hub and Illinois Times, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will be introduced and presented at 7:00 p.m. by Dann Gire of the Chicago Film Critics’ Association. Ives was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1958 for his role in The Big Country, but is perhaps best known for his portrayal of “Big Daddy” in the 1958 classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Accompanying the films and conference are exhibits at Booth Library and the Tarble Arts Center. Additionally, an Ives documentary will be produced after the festival. The Embarras Valley Film Festival is funded in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, The Jaenike Access to the Arts Fund, The Charleston Area Charitable Foundation, Eastern Illinois University College of Arts & Humanities and the Coles County Arts Council. All programming is free and open to the public. For more information please call (217) 549-2876. > There is 1 message totalling 68 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Screen-L / GUY DEBORD: Revolution in the Service of Poetry > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:18:07 -0500 > From: Stacy Lienemann <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Screen-L / GUY DEBORD: Revolution in the Service of Poetry > > Dear ListServ Administrator: > > Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to > review the book for your listserv. Thanks! > > Best wishes, > Stacy Lienemann > Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager > University of Minnesota Press > 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 > Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 > 612-627-1934 > http://www.upress.umn.edu > > > The definitive biography of the author of The Society of the Spectacle and > = > a > compelling account of his war against inauthenticity. > > GUY DEBORD: Revolution in the Service of Poetry > Vincent Kaufmann > Translated by Robert Bononno > University of Minnesota Press | 384 pages | 2006 > ISBN 0-8166-4455-1 | hardcover | $29.95 > > Writer, artist, filmmaker, revolutionary, and impresario of the > Situationis= > t > International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected > brilliantly in his most influential work, The Society of the Spectacle. In > this ambitious and innovative biography, Vincent Kaufmann places Debord's > hostility toward the inquisitive gaze at the center of an investigation > int= > o > his subject's diverse output=8Bfrom his earliest films to his landmark > works > of social and political provocation. > > =B3Many people felt Debord could not be classified. Yet, this is what drew > me > to him most, the fact that he was unclassifiable, difficult to approach, > dismissive of those who tried to describe him, and always willing to > challenge them. I admire his art of defiance, his belligerent and > melanchol= > y > poetics. He forces you to keep your distance, he deprives you of the > convenience and hypocrisy found in what Baudelaire referred to, in the > beautiful language of his century, as fraternal prostitution. I am neither > Debord's equal nor his brother, but these may be qualities no reader can > claim to have.=B2 =8Bfrom the Introduction > > For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book=B9s > webpage: > http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/kaufmann_guy.html > > Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of > Minnesota > Press: > http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html > > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------ > > End of SCREEN-L Digest - 22 Jun 2006 to 23 Jun 2006 (#2006-107) > *************************************************************** > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu