In considering why it took so long for cinema to acquire sound it is important to compare between different historical periods. The slow-paced evolution of film sound (this was everything but a revolution) is not well known or documented in good measure because few people know just how diverse the environments for film screenings were during the first 30 years of cinema.
Conférences
Conférence de Catherine Russell
01/16/2015 - 16:00
Série de conférences Arthemis 2014-15
Conférencier(s):
Russell, Catherine
Although Walter Benjamin is frequently cited in film studies scholarship, there is little consensus on what he really offers the discipline. Working with several PhD students, I have tracked citations of Walter Benjamin in two major film studies journals, Cinema Journal and Screen from 1990 to 2014.
Conférence de Daniel Herbert
11/07/2014 - 16:00
Série de conférences Arthemis 2014-15
Historically, video stores in both big cities and small towns often served as de facto cinémathèques and informal “film schools.” Now that Netflix and other digital delivery services have largely destroyed the brick-and-mortar video rental industry, some surviving stores have made efforts to formally re-define themselves as cultural and cinematic institutions.
10/02/2014 - 17:15
Série de conférences Arthemis 2014-15
Since 1940, one year after his inception, Batman has occupied multiple media texts: from 1943 onwards, he has also existed across multiple media forms. This talk takes us through 75 years of Batman as a cross-platform cultural icon, tracing his journey from comics through newspaper strips and film serials to television, movies and video games.
Raymond Bellour sur le Cinéma et les autres images en mouvement
04/04/2014 - 16:00
Série de conférences 2013-2014
La présence accrue de la photographie à l'intérieur du cinéma depuis lesannées 1960, puis le développement de la vidéo à partir des années 1970, ont longtemps rendu nécessaire de comprendre la nature des opérations de passages entre les différentes modalités d'images, au niveau de la réalité du mouvement comme de l'analogie de la représentation.
Dziga Vertov and the Paradoxes of a Revolutionary Materialist Film Practice
03/28/2014 - 16:00
Lecture Series 2013-2014
John MacKay's talk: Dziga Vertov and the Paradoxes of a Revolutionary Materialist Film Practice, March 28, 16h, MB 2,270
Conférence de Veronica Pravadelli
03/14/2014 - 16:00
Lecture Series 2013-2014
Classical Hollywood cinema has been the key filmic form in shaping up Film Studies in the last 40 years or so. One can actually argue that the discipline itself has developed through the study of Hollywood cinema during the Studio Era. From Bellour’s semiotic-psychoanalytic approach to the theory of the “progressive text”, from Feminist Film Theory to Bordwell’s neo-formalist approach, etc.
“Perfectionism’s Ironic Transport (Reading Now Voyager After Cavell)”
02/28/2014 - 16:00
Série de conférences 2013-2014
D.N. Rodowick
“Perfectionism’s Ironic Transport (Reading Now Voyager After Cavell)”
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