Forwarded by Jeremy Butler. For more information, contact [log in to unmask] ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________ Subject: ICSFV Symposium Author: [log in to unmask] Date: 3/17/97 7:36 PM ICS Institute for Cognitive Studies in Film and Video ************************ The University of Kansas ************************ SYMPOSIUM April 18, 1997 * Mark Your Calendar * *** COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE FUTURE OF FILM STUDIES *** The Institute for Cognitive Studies in Film and Video is pleased to invite faculty and students to a symposium on Cognitive Science and the Future of Film Studies, Friday, April 18. The day long event will be held at the Herk Harvey Sound Stage in Oldfather Studios (9th and Avalon) and is sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Film, University of Kansas. The symposium will begin at 9 A.M. and close at 4:30 P.M. There will be a lunch break from 12:00 to 2:00, and a reception from 4:30 to 5:30. Participants will be asked to register at the door; there is no admission charge. Eight distinguished scholars in the field of Film Studies will present papers (list attached). Among them are David Bordwell and Noel Carroll, authors of MAKING MEANING and MYSTIFYING MOVIES, respectively, and most recently co-editors of POST THEORY: RECONSTRUCTING FILM STUDIES. They have led the cognitive revolution in the field of film studies for almost a decade. The symposium is in part a response to the tremendous outpouring of support for the work the Institute for Cognitive Studies in Film and Video has done during the past year in opening the field of film studies to the vast amount of information available from cognitive science. It is in this spirit of openness that the symposium is offered. Because of considerable international interest in the cognitive paradigm in film studies, the proceedings will be published electronically via the internet and videotapes of the entire symposium will be available from the Institute. ****************************************************************************** Oldfather Studios, 1621 West Ninth Street, Lawrence, KS 66044 Phone 913/749-1130 Fax 913/331-2671 e-mail: [log in to unmask] ****************************************************************************** ICS Institute for Cognitive Studies in Film and Video ******************************* The University of Kansas ******************************* SYMPOSIUM April 18, 1997 *** Cognitive Science and the Future of Film Studies *** 8:30 a.m. Coffee and rolls - Herk Harvey Soundstage 9:00 a.m. Welcome - Martha Hensley Introduction - Joseph Anderson 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS Noel Carroll (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Note: Noel Carroll will appear via video 10:00 a.m. TRANSFORMATIONAL FUNCTIONS OF CINEMA Stephen Prince (Virginia Tech) 10:30 a.m. THE OBJECT IS ALSO LISTENING: COGNITION AND SOUND Edward Branigan (University of California-Santa Barbara) 11:00 a.m. IMAGINING FROM THE INSIDE Murray Smith (University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.) 11:30-12:00 DISCUSSION Moderator: Wayne Munson (Fitchburg State College) 12:00-1:45 Lunch Break 2:00 p.m. INFORMATION IN MOVEMENT Ed S. Tan (Vrije Universiteit - Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 2:30 p.m. EMOTIONAL CONTAGION AND THE HUMAN FACE ON FILM Carl Plantinga (Hollins College) 3:00 p.m. READING FACES: COGNITION AND CULTURAL PROBLEMS Charles Edisvik (University of Georgia) 3:30 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS; OR CULTURE, COGNITION AND EVOLUTION David Bordwell (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 4:00 p.m. DISCUSSION Moderator: Wayne Munson (Fitchburg State College) 4:30 p.m. Reception DAVID BORDWELL is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an internationally recognized film scholar, whose recent books include *The Cinema of Eisenstein* (Harvard University Press, 1993), with Kristin Thompson *Film History: An Introduction* (McGraw-Hill, 1994). He is co-editor with Noel Carroll of *Post Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies* (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) and author of the forthcoming *On the History of Film Style* (Harvard University Press, 1997). EDWARD BRANIGAN is Professor of Film Studies and Chair of the Film Studies program at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He is author of *Point of View in the Cinema: A Theory of Narration and Subjectivity in Classical Film* (Mouton, 1984) and *Narrative Comprehension and Film* (Routledge, 1992). NOEL CARROLL is the Monroe C. Beardsley Professor of the Philosophy of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of *Philosophical Problems of Film Theory* (Princeton University Press, 1988), *Mystifying Movies* (Columbia University Press, 1988), *The Philosophy of Horror* (Routledge, 1990), and co-editor with David Bordwell of *Post Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies* (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996). CHARLES EIDSVIK is Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Georgia and author of the classic text *Cineliteracy* (Random House, 1978). WAYNE MUNSON is Professor in the Department of Communications/Media at Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He has received national recognition for his book *AllTalk: The Talk Show in Media Culture* (Temple University Press, 1993). CARL PLANTINGA is Associate Professor of Film at Hollins College. He is co-editor of the forthcoming *Passionate Views: Thinking About Film and Emotion* (Johns Hopkins, 1997) and author of *Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film* (Cambridge, 1997). STEPHEN PRINCE is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. His most recent book is *Movies and Meaning: an Introduction to Film* (Allyn and Bacon, 1997), and his new book, *Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies* will be published by Texas University Press later this year. MURRAY SMITH is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.). He is author of *Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema* (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1995), and co-editor with Richard Allen of *Essays in Philosophy of Film* (Oxford University Press, 1996). ED TAN is Professor on the Faculty of Arts at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). He is author of *Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film* (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996) and numerous articles on film theory. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]