CLST is co-sponsoring a major event that honors longtime CLST affiliate Lucy Fischer. It is an event we urge CLST students and faculty to attend.
Overview
In the digital era the moving image has moved from its usual boundaries. Some worry that this move even threatens to undo the cinema. Un/Framing Cinema is a two-day symposium that looks at both the traditional parameters of cinema as we have come to know it, and the way in which the cinema has always (and continues to be) un-framed by its relationship with other arts, modes, platforms, and technologies. In his 1952 essay “For an Impure Cinema” André Bazin offered insights from his historical era which, in our contemporary context, seem prophetic:
Film is assimilating the tremendous capital . . . developed and gathered around it by its neighbors over the course of a hundred years. It borrows from them because it needs them and we wish to discover them through it. In truth, there is no competition or replacement at work, only the addition of a new dimension.
As much as Un/framing Cinema considers film assimilating the other arts and technologies, the symposium also confronts the manner in which other media and platforms may “need” the cinema. Thus, it explores how we can learn more about film through an investigation of such borrowings.
September 14th
12:00-1:00 Opening Lunch Reception
1:00-1:15 Welcome
Adam Lowenstein
1:30-2:30
Introduction Jedd Hakimi
"In Other Words: Film and the Spider Web of Description.”
Timothy Corrigan
Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, English, and History of Art
The University of Pennsylvania
2:30-3:30
Introduction Charles Exley
"Instruments and Instrumentation: Gramophone, Microphone, and Cinema in Prabhat Talkies' Kunku(1937)"
Neepa Majumdar
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, English Department, University of Pittsburgh
3:30-4:00 Break
4-5:00
Introduction Volodia Padunov
“Damien Chazelle’s Jazz Aesthetic and Its Discontents”
Krin Gabbard
Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Stony Brook University, amateur trumpet player. Editor in Chief of Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies
15th
9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30-10:30
Introduction Kelsey Cummings
“Cine-cognition/Cine-consciousness: Montage, Collage, the Kippbild”
Randall Halle
Director of the Film and Media Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45
Introduction
“Shirley Clarke’s The Connection and the New American Cinema Group.”
Paula Massood
President-Elect, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Professor of Film Studies
Brooklyn College, CUNY
11:45-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30
Introduction Kun Qian
“Breaking the bounds of cinema: reclaiming innovative aspiration of the 1940s and 50s”
Ian Christie
Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History
Birkbeck, University of London
1:30-2:30
Introduction Jinying Li
"What is an Unwatchable Film?"
E. Ann Kaplan
Distinguished Professor
English and WGSS
Stony Brook University
2:30-3:00 Refreshments
3:00-4:00
Introduction Sonia Lupher
“Mainstreaming Feminism in Cinema Studies.”
Virginia Wright Wexman
Professor Emerita of English and Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago
President Emerita, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
4-4:15 Break
4:15-5:15
Introduction David Pettersen
“Between Revolutionary Romanticism and Postcolonial Anomie: On Point of View in Pyaasa”
Dan Morgan
Chair, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, The University of Chicago