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Thursday, September 14, 5:00 pm
Cinematic Travels I: A Film Series Tabù F. W. Murnau, 1931 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, September 14, 6:30 - 8:00 pm Noel Carroll On the Ties that Bind Respondent: Paul Messaris Noel Carroll is Andrew W. Mellon Term Professor in the Humanities at Temple University. His books include The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (Routledge, 1990), Interpreting the Moving Image (Routledge, 1998), and A Philosophy of Mass Art (Routledge, 1999). He has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Embodied Mind: Comic Intelligence and Concrete Operations in Buster Keaton's The General and recently finished co-editing an anthology with Jinhee Choi called The Philosophy of Film for Blackwell. Paul Messaris is Lev Kuleshov Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Messaris teaches and does research in the area of visual communication. His publications have dealt with viewers' interpretations of images, viewers' responses to the formal devices of advertising and other types of visual persuasion or manipulation, and ways in which the media have been affected by the advent of computers. His most recent research deals with digital special effects in fiction film, and he is working on a book about viewers' reactions to the style and content of movies. Tuesday, September 19, 6:00 pm How did we get into a prolonged war in Iraq? Panel Discussion, 6:00 p.m. Thursday, September 21, 4:30 pm Thomas Koebner The Contemporary German Film Scene: A New Generation's Lust for Everyday Life Thomas Koebner, a distinguished scholar of modern German literature, theater, and film, taught at the universities of Munich, Cologne, Wuppertal, and Marburg, before he served as the director of the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Berlin (DFFB) in 1989-1992. Since 1993, as professor of Filmwissenschaft, Koebner has built the Department of Film Studies at the University of Mainz into the leading academic program of its kind in Germany, combining training in academic scholarship with film production. Among his numerous publications on film are Idole des deutschen Films, Reclams Film Klassiker, Diesseits der 'Dämonischen Leinwand' and studies about television, techniques of film narratives, Robert Altman, Federico Fellini, and other film directors. Co-sponsored by the German Department and Cinema Studies 231 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, September 21, 5:00 pm Cinematic Travels I: A Film Series Sans soleil/Sunless Chris Marker, 1982 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tuesday, September 26, 6:00 pm D.A. Miller The Craft of Brokeback Mountain Co-sponsored by the English Department, the Gender and Sexuality Reading Group, the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Cinema Studies, the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature and The Kelly Writers House Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, September 28, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Corey Field Ballard, Spahr, Andrews, and Ingersoll Legal Responses to New Technology Copyright and Culture Speaker Series 401 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, September 28, 5:00 pm Cinematic Travels I: A Film Series Man with the Movie Camera Dziga Vertov, 1929 Berlin, The Symphony of a Great City Walter Ruttmann, 1927 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, October 4, 5:00 - 6:00 pm Alejandro González Iñárritu Q & A with the famous Mexican filmmaker Babel (2006); 21 Grams (2003); Amores Perros (2000) Sponsored by Cinema Studies 110 Annenberg School 36200 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, October 4, 9:00 pm World Cinema: A Film Series Run Lola Run Tom Tykwer, 2003 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, October 5, 5:00 pm Ivone Margulies Staging ideas in Serial monologue films: from "The Silence of the Sea" (1948) to "The Talking Picture" (2003) Ivone Margulies is the author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday (Duke U. Press, 1996) and the editor of Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema. She works on questions of realism and theatricality in Postwar cinema. She is a Mellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, NYC and teaches film studies at Film and Media Studies dept at Hunter College, CUNY. Sponsored by Cinema Studies Colloquium 231 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, October 5, 5:00 pm Cinematic Travels I: A Film Series The Street of Crocodiles Stephen and Timothy Quay, 1986 Dekalog # 8 Krzysztof Kiesloski, 1988 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, October 11, 9:00 pm World Cinema: A Film Series Amelie Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, October 12, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Rebecca Tushnet Professor of Law at Georgetown University Attribution as a Substitute for Monetary Compensation and Control Copyright and Culture Speaker Series 401 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, October 12, 5:00 pm Cinematic Travels I: A Film Series Do the Right Thing Spike Lee, 1989 or The End of Violence Wim Wenders, 1997 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, October 12, 6:00 pm Dan Krauss presents his documentary The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club tells the tragic story of Kevin Carter, an intrepid South African photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a starving Sudanese girl being stalked by a vulture. With the fame of the photograph, Kevin became notorious, Weeks later, he committed suicide. Hosted by Prof. Paul Hendrickson, Penn Creative Writing Co-sponsored by the Kelly Writers House and Cinema Studies 401 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, October 25, 9:00 pm World Cinema: A Film Series Paradise Now Hany Abu-Assad, 2005 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, October 26, 5:00 pm Cinematic Travels I: A Film Series Underground Emire Kusturica, 1995 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Monday, October 30, 7:30 pm Special Screening of Babel A film by Alejandro González Iñárritu Sponsored by Cinema Studies Contact CINE at Penn for free admission tickets 215.898.8782 - filmatpenn@ccat.sas.upenn.edu The Bridge Cinema De Lux 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 November 1 and 2 The Brothers Quay A Retrospective in 5 Films Wednesday, November 1, 7:00 pm The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes Stephen and Timothy Quay, UK/Germany/France, 2005, 35mm, b/w and color, 99 mins Thursday, November 2 7:00 pm The Epic of Gilgamesh or This Unnameable Little Broom Stephen and Timothy Quay, UK, 1985, 16mm, color, 16 mins Street of Crocodiles Stephen and Timothy Quay, UK, 1986, 35mm, color, 21 mins In Absentia Stephen and Timothy Quay, UK, 2000, 35mm, b/w and color, 20 mins The Phantom Museum Stephen and Timothy Quay, UK, 2003, video, b/w and color, 20 mins 8:30 pm Round-table discussion and Q & A Stephen and Timothy Quay Alan Singer, Temple University Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania Co-sponsored by the Jerry and Emily Spiegel Funds in Fine Arts, the International House of Philadelphia, and Cinema Studies Free Admission with Penn ID International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, November 1, 9:00 pm World Cinema: A Film Series Abre los Ojos Alejandro Amenábar, 1997 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tuesday, November 7, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Peter Jaszi Untold Stories: Copyright and Documentary Film Peter Jaszi, Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and Professor of Law at American University Copyright and Culture Speaker Series 401 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, November 8, 9:00 pm World Cinema: A Film Series City of God Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, November 9, 5:00 pm Cinematic Travels I: A Film Series Zentropa Lars von Trier, 1991 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Friday, November 10, 7:00 pm John Waters Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Fine Arts, the Undergraduate School of Fine Arts, SPEC, and Cinema Studies FREE ADMISSION WITH PENN I.D. Meyerson B1 210 South 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, November 15, 9:00 pm World Cinema: A Film Series Tsotsi Gavin Hood, 2005 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, November 16, 5:00 pm Cinematic Travels I: A Film Series The Draughtsman’s Contract Peter Greenaway, 1982 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Monday, November 27 - Friday, December 1 New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian Film Festival Eight Edition Co-sponsored by Penn Center for Italian Studies and Cinema Studies Program International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, November 29, 9:00 pm World Cinema: A Film Series 2046 Kar Wai Wong, 2004 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, November 30, 5:00 pm Jon Lewis 'If You Can't Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything': Piracy, Privacy and Public Relations in 21st Century Hollywood Talk to be preceded by A workshop on “Publishing in Film Studies” 3:00 - 4:30 pm same location: 231 Fisher Bennett Hall Jon Lewis is a professor in the English Department at Oregon State University where he has taught film and cultural studies since 1983. In 2002, Professor Lewis was named editor Cinema Journal and appointed to the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Professor Lewis has published five books: The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture, which won a Choice Magazine Academic Book of the Year Award; Whom God Wishes to Destroy … Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; The New American Cinema; Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, a New York Times New and Noteworthy paperback; and The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties. Forthcoming in 2007 are two books: American Film: A History and Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History, a collection co-edited with Eric Smoodin. In the past two years, Professor Lewis has appeared in two theatrically released documentaries on film censorship: Inside Deep Throat (Fenton Baily, 2005) and This Film is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick, 2006). Co-sponsored by Temple University Philadelphia Cinema & Media Seminar and Penn Cinema Studies 231 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, November 30, 5:00 pm Cinematic Travels I: A Film Series Russian Ark Alexandr Sokurov, 2002 201 Fisher Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Saturday, December 2, 9:00 am - 7:00 pm In celebration of the centenary of the birth of Italian filmmakers Wednesday, December 6, 9:00 pm World Cinema: A Film Series Y tu mamá también Alfonso Cuarón, 2001 Co-sponsored by PCA - Penn Cinema Association and Harrison College House Heyer Sky Lounge - Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
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