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		Events			SPRING 2006

		Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004 Spring 2004			Tuesday, January 17, 7:00 pm Women and Film, First Edition Screenings of: Too Wise Wives, Lois Weber, 1921, 80 min How Men Propose, Lois Weber, 1913, 6 min Matrimony's Speed Limit, Alice Guy Blaché,1913, 14 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Tuesday, January 24, 7:00 pm Women and Film, First Edition Screening of Madchen in Uniform, Leontin Sagan, Germany, 1931, 88 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public January 27 - 29 SELLING DEMOCRACY Friday, January 27th 9:00 am - 4:30 pm The Selling Democracy Symposium Terrace Room in Logan Hall 249 South 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Saturday and Sunday, January 28th and 29th Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan 1948-1953 A two-day retrospective of 25 films from the Marshall Plan era divided into four programs International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tuesday, January 31, 7:00 pm Women and Film, First Edition Screening of Olympia II: Festival of Beauty, Leni Riefenstahl, 1938, 90 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Friday, February 3, 3:30 pm *Visible Thinking: Film and the Essayistic* A lecture by Timothy Corrigan Cinema Studies at Penn Room 201 - Jaffe Building 3405 Woodland Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Tuesday, February 7, 7:00 pm Women and Film, First Edition Screening of Dance, Girl, Dance, Dorothy Arzner, USA, 1940, 90 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, February 8, 3:30 pm Alfred Hitchcock Series Strangers on a Train, 1951, 101 min Introduction by Prof. Valerie Ross Critical Writing at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, February 8, 8:00 pm Penn Cinema Association Film Series, Fourth Edition Jaws, Steven Spielberg, 1975, 124 min Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Thursday, February 9, 5:00 pm Penn Cinema Studies Colloquia, Spring 2006 Cinema Minimo: Digital Media and Participatory Culture in Spain and Latin America A lecture by Michael Solomon Romance Languages (Spanish) at Penn 201 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Tuesday, February 14, 7:00 pm Women and Film, First Edition Screenings of: Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren, 1943, 15 min At Land, Maya Deren, 1944, 15 min A Study in Choreography for the Camera, Maya Deren, 1945, 4 min Sink or Swim, Su Friedrich, 1990, 48 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, February 15, 3:30 pm Alfred Hitchcock Series Rear Window, 1954, 112 min Introduction by Prof. Valerie Ross Critical Writing at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, February 15, 8:00 pm Penn Cinema Association Film Series, Fourth Edition The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese, 1978, 117 min Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Tuesday, February 21, 7:00 pm Women and Film, First Edition Screenings of: Everybody Rides the Carousel, John Hubley, 1975, 72 min My Universe Inside Out, Faith Hubley, 1996, 25 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, February 22, 3:30 pm Alfred Hitchcock Series Vertigo, 1958, 120 min Introduction by Prof. Valerie Ross Critical Writing at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, February 22, 7:00 pm The Tri-College Faculty Group in Film and Visual Studies, Swarthmore's Program in Film and Media Studies, and Penn Cinema Studies present Thomas Elsaesser University of Amsterdam A Mode of Feeling or a View of the World? Melodrama Revisited Lang Performing Arts Center Cinema Swarthmore College Thomas Elsaesser is one of the world's leading cinema studies scholars. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books New German Cinema: A History (1989), Fassbinder's Germany (1996), Weimar Cinema and After (2000), and Metropolis (2000). Recent books have been on Studying Contemporary American Film (2002), the filmmaker and installation artist Harun Farocki (2005) and European Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood (2005). His essays on film theory and history and television have appeared in well over two hundred collections and anthologies and in such journals as Discourse, Framework, Iris, New German Critique, October, Persistence of Vision, Positif, Screen, Sight and Sound, and Wide Angle. At the University of Amsterdam, Elsaesser served as chair of the Department of Film and Television Studies from 1991-2001 and is now Research Professor in the Department of Media and Culture. In addition, twenty volumes have appeared to date under his editorship of the Amsterdam University Press series Film Culture in Transition. He is currently teaching at Yale University. This presentation explores why the melodramatic imagination has become one of our most important forms of cultural memory and political expression. For directions to Swarthmore: http://www.swarthmore.edu/visitors/directions_maps.html For more information contact: Patricia White pwhite1@swarthmore.edu Wednesday, February 22, 8:00 pm Penn Cinema Association Film Series, Fourth Edition Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, 1981, 115 min Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 1, 3:30 pm Alfred Hitchcock Series North by Northwest, 1959, 136 min Introduction by Prof. Valerie Ross Critical Writing at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 1, 8:00 pm Penn Cinema Association Film Series, Fourth Edition Walk the Line, James Mangold, 2005, 136 min Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Tuesday, March 14, 7:00 pm Women and Film, First Edition Screening of Madame X: An Absolute Ruler, Ulrike Ottinger, Germany, 1978, 141 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 15, 3:30 pm Alfred Hitchcock Series Psycho, 1960, 109 min Introduction by Prof. Valerie Ross Critical Writing at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 15, 8:00 pm Penn Cinema Association Film Series, Fourth Edition Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick, 1987, 116 min Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public March 17 - 18 South Asia Center Project for Global Communication Studies Cinema Studies present CINEMA SOUTH ASIA A South Asia Cinema Conference Rooms 108, 110 & 111 Annenberg School 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 ****************************************************************************** Friday, March 17th 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:00 Welcoming Remarks Suvir Kaul, Penn South Asia Studies Peter Decherney, Penn Cinema Studies 2:00 - 3:30** First Session Moderator: Suvir Kaul, Penn South Asia Studies Myths of Origin: Modernity and Early Indian Cinema Manishita Dass, Swarthmore College The Sant Idiom and Early Marathi Cinema Christian Novetzke, University of Pennsylvania Phenomenology, Film Theory, and Indian Popular Cinema Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 5:00 Keynote Address Introduction: Manishita Dass, Swarthmore College Researching Indian Film Ravi Vasudevan, Sarai, Center for the Study of Developing Societies 6:00 - 7:30 Dinner 8:00 Film Screening Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi A Thousand Desires Like This (One) Directed by Sudhir Mishra, 2003 English subtitles ****************************************************************************** Saturday, March 18th 9:30 - 11:00** Second Session Moderator: Christian Novetzke, Penn South Asia Studies Bollywood, USA: Diasporas, Nations, and the Figure of the NRI Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage Amit Rai, Florida State University Knocking on Heaven's Door Priya Joshi, Temple University 11:00 - 11:30 Break 11:30 - 1:00 Third Session Moderator: Manishita Dass, Swarthmore College Projecting the past Lalitha Gopalan, Georgetown University Immortal Story or Nightmare? Dr. Kotnis Between Art and Exploitation Neepa Majumdar, University of Pittsburgh The Critical Enchantment of Mourning Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California at Santa Barbara 1:00 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 4:00 Fourth Session Moderator: Peter Decherney, Penn Cinema Studies A New Universalism: Terrorism and Film Language in Mani Ratnam’s Kannathil Muthamittal (Peck on the Cheek, Tamil, 2002) Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California An Anomalous Case: The Censorship of the Self-Sacrificial Woman Monika Mehta, SUNY Binghamton The Formalization of Informality Nitin Govil, University of California at San Diego 4:00 - 4:30 Break 4:30 - 5:30 Roundtable Including, among others, Gayatri Chatterjee, Penn and Sangita Gopal, University of Oregon 6:30 Reception and Conference dinner ****************************************************************************** Event is free and open to all Penn and non-Penn members RSVP required by March 13 by emailing to Haimanti Banerjee Rooms 108, 110 & 111 Annenberg School 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 March 20 and 22 Cinema Studies Program and Temple-Penn Poetics in partnership with the Penn Humanities Forum present Richard Foreman ******************************************* Monday, March 20, 5:30 - 7:30 pm** Jay Sanders introduces a program of never before screened footage of Richard Foreman's plays, the Philadelphia premiere of Henry Hill's King Richard, and some clips of 60s & 70s performance art related to the early years of Foreman's work. 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public ********************************************* Wednesday, March 22, 5:00 - 6:30 pm** Richard Foreman presents Experimental Ontological-Hysteric Theatre Bodek Lounge in Houston Hall 3417 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public, but registration is required <http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/05-06/foreman.shtml> Tuesday, March 21, 7:00 pm Women and Film, First Edition Screening of The Man Who Envied Women, Yvonne Rainer, USA, 1985. 125 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman, Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 22, 3:30 pm Alfred Hitchcock Series The Birds, 1963, 120 min Introduction by Prof. Valerie Ross Critical Writing at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 22, 8:00 pm Penn Cinema Association Film Series, Fourth Edition Lolita, Stanley Kubrick, 1962, 152 min Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Friday, March 24, 3:00 - 5:00 pm Film and Pedagogy III The Cinema Studies Program and the Graduate Humanities Forum are pleased to offer their third workshop on film and pedagogy featuring Penn Cinema Studies faculty Karen Beckman Theory and Research in the Cinema Studies Classroom Timothy Corrigan Film and/as/against Literature Peter Decherney Using Images in the Film History Lecture John Lessard, Ph.D. in English at Penn Graduate Studies in Literature and Film and the Academic Job Market Graduate students and faculty are welcome to attend This workshop fulfills the attendance requirement at one of two workshops for the graduate certificate in cinema studies. More information at: <http://cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/about/graduatecertificate.html> 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Reception to follow Free and open to the public Tuesday, March 28, 7:00 pm Women and Film, First Edition Screenings of: Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself..., Yvonne Welbon, 1996, 30 min Sisters in Cinema, Yvonne Welbon, 2003, 62 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 29, 3:30 pm Alfred Hitchcock Series Marnie, 1964, 120 min Introduction by Prof. Valerie Ross Critical Writing at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 29, 5:00 pm Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film A lecture by Dana Polan, New York University Dana Polan is a professor of cinema studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of 7 books in film and cultural studies, including SCENES OF INSTRUCTION: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE U.S. STUDY OF FILM (forthcoming, University of California Press) and THE SOPRANOS (forthcoming, Duke University Press). Among his current projects is a study, entitled PROFESSORS, of academic life, and its status and representation in American everyday culture. 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Wednesday, March 29, 8:00 pm Penn Cinema Association Film Series, Fourth Edition Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick, 1964, 93 min Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public March 30 - April 12 2006 Philadelphia Film Festival In conjunction with the Philadelphia Film Festival Cinema Studies presents CINE CAFES Monday, April 3, 5:00 pm Cinema of the Muslim World Led by Pardis Minuchehr Penn Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at the Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street (next to The Bridge Cinema) Philadelphia Wednesday, April 5, 5:00 pm Documentary Led by Timothy Corrigan Penn Cinema Studies Program and English Department at the Last Word Bookshop 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia Friday, April 7, 5:00 pm Regional Filmmaking Led by Nicola M. Gentili Penn Cinema Studies Program at the Voices and Visions The Bourse, 4th Street Lower level (across from Ritz at The Bourse) Philadelphia Monday, April 10, 5:00 pm The Business of Film Led by Peter Decherney Penn Cinema Studies Program and English Department at the Penn Bookstore 2nd Floor (Music section) 3601 Walnut Street Philadelphia Tuesday, April 11, 5:00 pm Music and Film Led by David Copenhafer Penn Music Department at the World Cafe Live 3025 Walnut Street Philadelphia Monday, April 3 Project for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication Cinema Studies Program present Mick Csaky ********************************************* 1:00 pm Film & Activism: A conversation with Mick Csaky Mick Csáky works primarily as a freelance writer/producer/director of factual programming for television, as well as an executive producer. At the same time he runs his own independent production company Antelope as Chief Executive & Creative Director. For the past 30 years the primary focus of his programming has been in the areas of biography, history, current affairs, politics, music and arts. More at <http://www.antelope.co.uk/ante_mick.html> Room 500 - Annenberg School 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19014 Seating will be limited, people will need to RSVP to Sylvie Beauvais <sbeauvais@asc.upenn.edu> ******************************************* 7:00 pm AFRICA LIVE The Roll Back Malaria Concert: A screening and conversation about film making and distribution with Mick Csaky The Bridge Cinema De Lux Corner of 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Tuesday, April 4, 7:00 pm** Women and Film, First Edition Screening of Reassemblage, Trinh T. Minh-ha, France/Senegal, 1982, 40 min Introduction by Prof. Karen Beckman Cinema Studies at Penn Cinema at Penn 3925 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Thursday, April 6, 5:00 pm Penn Cinema Studies Colloquia, Spring 2006 Self-Reflexivity in Nazi Cinema A lecture by Simon Richter and Catriona MacLeod German at Penn 201 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Thursday, April 6, 6:30 pm Film as Critical Practice: The Cinema of Guy Debord and the Spectre of Situationism Slought Fundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Friday, April 7, 3:15 pm Film is... Panel in DISCIPLINES: History and Anxiety Symposium <http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/disciplines/> Rebecca Sheehan, UPenn (Comparative Literature – Moderator) Peter DeCherney, UPenn (English and Cinema Studies) Michael Solomon, UPenn (Romance Languages/Spanish and Hispanic Studies) John Lessard, UPenn (English) 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Monday, April 10, 11:55 am 60 SECOND LECTURE Peter Decherney, Penn Cinema Studies What Will Kill the Movies? Lectures will take place on the steps by the Peace Sign to the left of the main entrance to Van Pelt Library Tuesday, April 11, 11:00 am Weigle Information Commons Open House Van Pelt Dietrich Library Center - 1st floor west Thursday, April 13, 2:30 - 5:30 pm Screening: How Little We Know Of Our Neighbors Guest Filmmaker Rebecca Baron Respondant: Timothy Corrigan Temple University Room 3 - Annenberg Hall More on this event, as part of MEDIATING PRACTICES, at: <http://astro.temple.edu/~rcoover/MediatingPractices.html> Friday, April 21, 2:00 - 5:00 pm University of Pennsylvania's Cinema Studies Program and Theatre Arts Program present MUSLIM HERITAGES IN CINEMA AND THEATRE Indonesian American Filmmaker Fatimah Tobing Rony Iranian American Playwright Layla Dowlatshahi 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Free and open to the public Director, screenwriter, and producer Fatimah Tobing Rony will screen three of her short films, On Cannibalism (6 mins.), Treasure (2 mins.), and Jarocho Elegua (4 mins.). An Indonesian American who grew up in Washington, DC, after earning a PhD from Yale, Rony went on to earn an MFA from UCLA in film directing. Her book The Third Eye is about ethnographic and monster films. She is currently under contract to ABC to make her film Gracie Makes a Movie. Penn students will read from the play The Waiting Room by dramatist Layla Dowlatshahi. An Iranian American who grew up in California, Dowlatshahi earned her MFA in playwriting from Goddard. In 2004, she was featured in a New York Times article. The Waiting Room (which takes place during the genocide and mass rapes of Muslims in Bosnia in 1992) premiered at Penn in 2004. Her play The Joys of Lipstick was produced at the Producers Club in NYC in 2003 and the Lark Theatre in NYC in 2005. Both Rony and Dowlatshahi will speak to the audience about their artistic careers and about images of Muslim women in their works. They will take questions from the audience. A light reception will accompany the event, which is free of charge. For more information, please contact Dr. Mera Moore <tmlaffer@sas.upenn.edu>

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