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		Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004 Spring 2004			Tuesday, January 22, 5:00 pm Sicko Seminar How the movie Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007) influenced and is helping to solve the national healthcare crisis. A presentation by Dr. Mark Meaney (National Institute for Patient Rights) and Ms. Donna Smith (President of the American Patients for Universal Healthcare) to discuss the role of the film in changing the discussion surrounding universal healthcare, as well as presenting ways in which the crisis can be solved. G55 Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania This program is cosponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Cinema Studies Program, Penn Democrats, Fox Leadership, and SPEC Wednesday, January 23, 5:30 pm CINEMA STUDIES COLLOQUIUM ALISON GRIFFITHS Killed in the Crush: A Medieval Pre-History of Cinematic Special Effects What is the nature and power of special effects that they induce such strong reactions in cinema spectators, and is it possible to trace this fascination back to the Middle Ages? I argue in this lecture that spectators during the medieval period may have responded to fantastical, supernatural, phantasmagorical, miraculous, satanic, or spectacular images with a similar sense of awe and wonder as contemporary viewers of cinematic special effects. Despite being very different experiences, they nevertheless often invite spectators to suspend disbelief and enter a semi-rapturous state. We might profit from stepping into the seemingly remote field of medieval visual studies when thinking about the pre-history of cinematic special effects, less because of any inherently cinematic aspect to the images, but to dispel the myth that the allure of special effects is wholly within the domain of cinema and that artists weren’t exploiting the more embodied modes of viewing offered by special effects far earlier than the invention of cinema in the late nineteenth century. 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, January 24, 7:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS The Hollywood Diva... a film series Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel Edmund Goulding, USA, 1932 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, January 29, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series Infernal Affairs Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak, Hong Kong, 2002 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, January 31, 7:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS The Hollywood Diva... a film series Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus Josef von Sternberg, USA, 1932 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Friday - Saturday, February 1 - 2 PENN SOUTH ASIA CENTER and CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT Cinema South Asia, 2008 Schedule and details of the Conference G17 Logan Hall 249 South 36th Street University of Pennsylvania Co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center, School of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Initiative Fund, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Fund for Cinema Studies, Asian American Studies Program, Department of English, Annenberg School for Communication, Department of Anthropology, Comparative Literature Program and Department of South Asia Studies Tuesday, February 5, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series The Departed Martin Scorsese, USA, 2006 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, February 7, 6:30 pm SLOUGHT FOUNDATION PRESENTS PETER WEIBEL Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Friday, February 8, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm SLOUGHT FOUNDATION PRESENTS Modernism: The Time of the Unconscious Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tuesday, February 12, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series Abre los ojos Alejandro Amenábar, Spain, 1977 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, February 13, 5:00 pm CINEMA STUDIES COLLOQUIUM ZHEN ZHANG The Melodrama of Orphanhood: Remapping Postwar Chinese-language Film 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, February 19, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series Vanilla Sky Cameron Crowe, USA, 2001 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, February 21, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS The Hollywood Diva... a film series Jean Harlow in Red-Headed Woman Jack Conway, USA, 1932 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania February 21 - 22 PENN WOMEN'S STUDIES PRESENTS JUDITH HALBERSTAM Thursday, February 21, 5:00 pm Public lecture Queer Animation Bodek Lounge in Houston Hall 3417 Spruce Street University of Pennsylvania Friday, February 22, 12:00 pm GASWorks Seminar for faculty and graduate students Anti-Social Queer Theory RSVP required to reserve a lunch and receive a copy of the paper. Please RSVP to Luz Marin: lmarin@sas.upenn.edu 436 Logan Hall 249 South 36th Street University of Pennsylvania Sponsored by The Alice Paul Center and the LGBT Center with support from the Provost's Diversity Fund, the Annenberg School for Communications, the Cinema Studies Program, and the Gender and Sexuality Reading Group in English. Friday, February 22, 6:30 pm PHILADELPHIA CINEMA and MEDIA SEMINAR PRESENT PETER DECHERNEY Auteurism on Trial: Hollywood’s 'Moral Rights' From Douglas Fairbanks to Steven Soderberg, the U.S. legal system has treated Hollywood filmmakers as a special category of artist. When feature films have been translated to new media, from two-reel serials to home video, courts have consistently offered filmmakers unusually broad authorial protection for their works. In this presentation, Peter Decherney considers some of the reasons that filmmakers, and the Directors’ Guild of America, in particular, have been able to achieve special legal status, and I will consider some of the implications of their lofty perch for film on the internet. Temple University Center City 1515 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 Monday, February 25, 7:00 pm PENN ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES and CINEMA STUDIES present THE NAMESAKE Mira Nair, 2006 Q&A with Kal Penn to follow G-17 Logan Hall 249 South 36th Street University of Pennsylvania Seating is limited. Penn ID required. Tuesday, February 26, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series Shall we dance? Masayuki Suo, Japan, 1996 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, February 27, 6:00 pm PHILADELPHIA FREE LIBRARY'S ONE FILM! PRESENTS PETER DECHERNEY Auteurism on Trial: Spielberg and Copyright Steven Spielberg has been involved in copyright disputes over most of his films from Jaws to Amistad. He has also led the successful charge to secure special legal protection for film directors in the U.S., protection that far exceeds the rights of artists in every other field. University of Pennsylvania professor Peter Decherney examines Spielberg’s impact on copyright law and the place of the auteur in American culture. Free Library of Philadelphia 1905 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (19th & Locust on W. Rittenhouse Square) Thursday, February 28, 5:30 pm PENN HISTORY OF ART and INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART A Sachs Forum Event KAJA SILVERMAN Photography By Other Means Institute of Contemporary Art 118 S. 36th Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, February 28, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS The Hollywood Diva... a film series Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas King Vidor, USA, 1937 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania February 29 - March 1 PENN HISTORY OF ART and SLOUGHT FOUNDATION PRESENT VITO ACCONCI Friday, February 29, 5:00 pm Public Lecture by Vito Acconci B1 Meyerson 210 South 34th Street University of Pennsylvania Saturday, March 1, 6:30 pm Public Nuisance: Encounters with the Works of Vito Acconci Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tuesday, March 4, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series Shall we dance? Peter Chelsom, USA, 2004 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 5, 5:30 pm PENN AFRICANA STUDIES and CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT JACQUELINE STEWART Changing the Joke? Race Humor in the Race Films of Spencer Williams 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 5, 7:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS Contemporary Slovenian Cinema JAN CVITKOVIC presents Bread and Milk (Kruh in Mleko) Jan Cvitkovic, Slovenia, 2001, 35 mm, 68 min, black and white, Slovenian w/ English subtitles Gravehopping (Odgrobadogroba) Jan Cvitkovic, Slovenia, 2005, 35 mm, 103 min, color, Slovenian w/ English subtitles International House of Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 This event was made possible by Arcadia University, Penn Cinema Studies, the Slovenian Film Fund,and International House of Philadelphia Thursday, March 6, 1:30 pm CINEMA and TELEVISION STUDIES SPEAKER SERIES MARK WILLIAMS "Live" Remote: Historicizing Local/National Television News This talk will consider the rise of the local news remote as a historicized trope in the history of early U.S. television. A detailed study of the 1949 Kathy Fiscus telecast in Los Angeles will provide several important avenues of inquiry into this neglected topic, including its significance to inter-medial histories of the period. 201 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, March 6, 7:00 pm ONE FILM and PENN CINEMA STUDIES present Nanking Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, USA, 2007 A powerful, emotional and relevant reminder of the heartbreaking toll war takes on the innocent. This acclaimed documentary recounts a horrific and often forgotten piece of Chinese history that occurred several years before the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, which i depicted in the 2008 One Film featured selection, Empire of the Sun. The Bridge Cinema de Lux 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 March 6 - 9 2008 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Philadelphia Tuesday, March 18, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series La Femme Nikita Luc Besson, France, 1990 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 19, 5:30 pm CINEMA STUDIES COLLOQUIUM MARK SHIEL Mapping Early Hollywood A talk about the geography and architecture of the early film studios in Los Angeles. 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, March 20, 5:00 pm WOMEN'S STUDIES PRESENTS bell hooks 200 College Hall Levy Park University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, March 25, 5:00 pm Penn South Asia Center, Department of English, and the Cinema Studies Program in collaboration with Arcadia University present KUMAR SHAHANI Screening of Char Adhyay (Four Chapters) Kumar Shahani, 1997 Q&A with filmmaker to follow Born in 1940, In Larkana, Sind, Kumar Shahani has had his education in Mumbai, Pune and Paris, and studied with two great modernist cinematic masters, Ritik Ghatak and Robert Bresson. He has made films since the late 60s and has been invited by countries across the globe to present his films and his views. He has taught and written extensively on the theory emerging from the practice of Indian art and won several National and International awards, including the Prince Claus award for the invention of a new cinematic idiom. 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, March 25, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series Point of No Return John Badham, USA, 1993 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 26, 2:00 pm Penn Cinema Distinguished international Scholar Series Presents LAURA MULVEY Discussion on Death 24x a Second 244 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 pm Penn Cinema Distinguished international Scholar Series Presents LAURA MULVEY Screening of Cinevardaphoto International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 pm PENN PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY PRESENTS Buongiorno, notte (Good Morning, Night) Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 2003 Discussion with Nicola M. Gentili to follow 3rd floor of College Hall Levy Park University of Pennsylvania Thursday, March 27, 1:30 pm Penn Cinema Distinguished international Scholar Series Presents LAURA MULVEY Discussion of Death 24x a Second and Cinevardaphoto 222 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, March 27, 5:30 pm Penn Cinema Distinguished international Scholar Series Presents LAURA MULVEY Screening of DV on Visual Pleasure essay followed by public Q&A Institute for Contemporary Art 36th Street and Sansom University of Pennsylvania Thursday, March 27, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS The Hollywood Diva... a film series Bette Davis in Dark Victory Edmund Goulding, USA, 1939 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Friday, March 28, 7:00 pm Awards Ceremony 2008 Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival Elaine C. Levitt Auditorium 401 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19147 Monday, March 31, 5:30 pm Penn Cinema Distinguished international Scholar Series Presents LAURA MULVEY Lecture on City Girls, Flappers, and Feminist Film Theory Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tuesday, April 1, 3:00 pm Penn Cinema Distinguished international Scholar Series Presents LAURA MULVEY Lecture on Kiarostami's transition to the digital 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, April 1, 7:00 pm Penn Cinema Distinguished international Scholar Series Presents LAURA MULVEY Public screening of Riddles of the Sphinx, Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti, and Amy! International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tuesday, April 1, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series Wings of Desire Wim Wenders, Germany, 1987 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, April 2, 5:00 pm Fourth Annual Film and Pedagogy Colloquium Laura Mulvey on Teaching Formal Film Analysis William Boddy on Teaching Television Studies 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, April 3, 5:00 pm Penn Cinema Distinguished international Scholar Series Presents LAURA MULVEY Lecture on Under the Skin of the City 111 Annenberg School for Communication 3620 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, April 3, 7:00 pm The Film Culture program at Gregory College House in collaboration with Ware and Fisher Hassenfeld College Houses present The 4th Annual College House Student Film Festival see films made by your Penn peers on the big screen The Bridge Cinema de Lux 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 A reception will follow at the Metropolitan Bakery where the winners will be announced Thursday, April 3, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS The Hollywood Diva... a film series Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz, USA, 1945 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Sunday, April 6, 2:30pm Penn Cinema Studies at the 2008 PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL presents The Pixar Story Screening introduced by Joshua Mosley Penn, Fine Arts and Cinema Studies The Bridge Cinema de Lux 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 Monday, April 7, 3:30 pm Penn Department of History and Sociology of Science presents OLIVER GAYCKEN Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Temple University A Modern Cabinet of Curiosities: George Kleine and the Educational Film 337 Logan Hall 249 South 36th Street University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, April 8, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series City of Angels Brad Silberling, USA, 1998 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, April 10, 10:30 am CINEMA and TELEVISION STUDIES SPEAKER SERIES DANA POLAN The Role of Genre in Television Studies: The Case of the Cooking Show Using the example of Julia Child's THE FRENCH CHEF TV show from the 1960s, this presentation will examine the role of genre in television and in television studies. We will address such questions as: Does "food TV" constitute a genre or set of genres? What is its place within a popular pedagogy of "do-it-yourself" shows? How does the evolution of food TV speak to changes in gender relations in America? What does the spectacle of food on the TV screen say about leisure culture and its history? The presentation sets out to examine the evolution of "food TV" and its implications for both television history in particular and U. S. cultural history and everyday life more generally 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, April 10, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS The Hollywood Diva... a film series Bette Davis in All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA, 1950 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Friday, April 11, 2:30pm Penn Cinema Studies at the 2008 PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL presents The Sun Also Rises Screening introduced by Xiaojue Wang Penn, East Asian Languages & Civilizations and Cinema Studies The Bridge Cinema de Lux 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 Friday, April 11, 7:15pm Penn Cinema Studies at the 2008 PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL presents You, the Living Screening introduced by Karen Beckman Penn, Art History and Cinema Studies The Bridge Cinema de Lux 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 Saturday, April 12, 2:30pm Penn Cinema Studies at the 2008 PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL presents Son of Rambow Screening introduced by Peter Decherney Penn, English and Cinema Studies The Bridge Cinema de Lux 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 Sunday, April 13, 12:30pm Penn Cinema Studies at the 2008 PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL presents Secrecy Screening introduced by John L. Jackson, Jr. Penn, Anthropology, Communications, and Cinema Studies The Bridge Cinema de Lux 40th and Walnut Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tuesday, April 15, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series Insomnia Erik Skjoldbjærg, Norway, 1977 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 pm SLOUGHT FOUNDATION, PENN CINEMA STUDIES and ROMANCE LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT PRESENT DANIEL BOHM Daniel Böhm is a filmmaker based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His cinema explores the poetics of movement and psychological awareness. After his initial career as a psychoanalyst, Daniel Böhm studied cinematography and film directing at New York University. His short films have received international recognition, including a First Prize at the Joseph Papp Latino Film Festival in New York, a Golden Plaque in Chicago’s international Film Festival, and a Silver Lion at Cannes, among others. His latest film, Sólo Hombres Solos, is a dance-film triptych. Inspired by the photography of Duane Michals, the film explores three men who share an apartment, albeit unaware of each other's presence. They are each one and the same person, at different stages of life, whose paths unexpectedly intersect for a moment. The camera witnesses this instant through a poetic investigation on male bonding and movement. Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Thursday, April 17, 5:00 pm MASHUP AWARDS EVENT 2008 Dr. Peter Decherney, Cinema Studies and English, and Chair of the Weigle Information Commons Faculty Advisory Group, will moderate this event, which includes guest speaker Leah Kauffman. Leah Kauffman is the singer and songwriter behind the massive YouTube video hit "I got a Crush on Obama" which now lists over 7.5 million downloads. She is the singer and songwriter for the "My Box in a Box" video which now lists over 3.7 million downloads on YouTube. She has created several other viral videos with the group BarelyPolitical.com as well as on her own. This Temple University undergraduate student's creations have been featured in several national magazine articles as well as on national TV shows. She released her first album "Folk and Fantasy" in 2005. Leah will share excerpts from her videos and her insights on what makes a YouTube video successfully "viral", attracting millions of viewers and national attention. Class of '55 Room Van Pelt Dietrich Library University of Pennsylvania Thursday, April 17, 5:30 pm Department of the History of Art presents JUAN SUÁREZ Associate Professor, University of Murcia, Spain Myth, Matter, Queerness: The Films of the Gryphon Group 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Monday, April 21, 6:30 pm PENN PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY PRESENTS KAREN BECKMAN Screening and discussion of CRASH Paul Haggis, USA/Germany, 2005 3rd floor of College Hall Levy Park University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, April 22, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS You Talking To Me? America Remakes Movies... a film series Insomnia Christopher Nolan, USA, 2002 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, April 23, 5:00 pm PENN ENGLISH AND CINEMA STUDIES PRESENT JOSEPH ROACH Shakespearean Romance: Chick Flicks of the Deep Eighteenth Century The talk is based on my new research in the Hanbury-Williams letters at the Lewis Walpole Library. It will have Garrick's Lear and Winter's Tale (Florizel and Perdita) woven into the lives of Williams's two daughters, who write extraordinary letters to him reporting on the London stage; but they are really working out their deeply troubled relationship with their remote and juridical Papa. They use the plays as what I call "synthetic experience," braiding the pathos of the celebrity actors and actresses into their own tortured family romance (in a proto-Hollywood kind of fandom). There will be a screening of the film It (Clarence G. Badger, 1927) before hand on Tuesday, April 22, at 5:00 pm in B3 Meyerson Hall. 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall 3440 Walnut Street University of Pennsylvania Thursday, April 24, 8:00 pm PENN CINEMA PRESENTS The Hollywood Diva... a film series Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder, USA, 1950 Sky Lounge Harrison College House 3910 Irving Street University of Pennsylvania

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