Série de conférences Arthemis 2014-15

Université Concordia

Série de conférences Arthemis 2014-15

Avec Michael Cowan, Will Brooker, Daniel Herbert, Catherine Russell,Eugenie Brinkema, Jacques Aumont, Sarah Cooper

Michael Cowan (McGill University)
Round table on his book Walter Ruttmann and The Cinema of Multiplicity with the participation of Haidee Wasson and Malte Hagener
Jeudi 11 Septembre 17h15 salle : EV 6,720
 
Will Brooker (Kingston University London) 
Batman: 75 Years As A Transmedia Text
Jeudi Octobre 17h15 salle : EV 6,720
 
Daniel Herbert (University of Michigan)
Video Stores and the Thresholds of Cinematic Knowledge
Vendredi  7 Novembre 16h00 salle (info. à venir)
 
Catherine Russell (Concordia University)
Film Studies’ Gamble with Walter Benjamin: A Tale of Two Journals.
Vendredi 16 Janvier 16h00 salle (info. à venir)
 
Eugenie Brinkema (MIT)
Violence and the Diagram: Or, The Human Centipede
Vendredi 13 Fevrier 16h00 salle (info. à venir)
 
Jacques Aumont (Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Forgetfulness at Work : Film as a Site of Oblivion
Vendredi 13 March 16h00 salle (info. à venir)
 
Sarah Cooper  (King’s College)
Merleau-Ponty and film theory
Vendredi 10 Avril 16h00 salle (info. à venir)
LectureSeries2014-15.pdf

Conférences

Jeudi, Septembre 11, 2014 - 17:15

The name Walter Ruttmann recalls enthralling and controversial contexts. A pioneer of experimental film, whose Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is still seen as the quintessential urban documentary of the 1920s, Ruttmann also worked extensively in advertising and other commissioned film genres throughout the 1920s and 30s.

Jeudi, Octobre 2, 2014 - 17:15
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.
Conférence de Daniel Herbert
Vendredi, Novembre 7, 2014 - 16:00
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.
Conférence de Catherine Russell
Vendredi, Janvier 16, 2015 - 16:00

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 Martin Barnier
Vendredi, Janvier 30, 2015 - 16:00

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.

Vendredi, Février 13, 2015 - 16:00

This talk contemplates the figure of enchainment in one of the more graphic films of contemporary horror and exploitation cinema, Tom Six’s The Human Centipede (2009), which literalizes intolerable fastening, an anxiety of overclose touching, in the conceit of its title—a cruel violence in which three bodies are sewn to each other, mouth to anus.

Vendredi, Mars 13, 2015 - 16:00

In most cases, to film (the act of filming something) implies capturing an event which actually takes place, in order to create an image of this event – faithful or not, altered or not, but always referring to it. We all know the momentous importance that the history of film theory has assigned to this conservation of the filmed event, in a filmic work that would perpetuate its memory.

Samedi, Mars 14, 2015 - 10:00

Of the large human symbolic constructions, fiction is probably the most ancient and universal. It concerns every one of us and constitutes an important part of our mental activity. Its main purpose is to duplicate our direct experience of the world while giving it symbolic form; hence its cognitive and even reflexive aspects.

Vendredi, Mars 20, 2015 - 16:00

From the mid-1940s, when Maurice Merleau-Ponty gave a lecture on film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris, which was subsequently published as ‘Le Cinéma et la nouvelle psychologie’ (‘Cinema and the New Psychology’), film scholars have shown a keen interest in the relationship between his philosophy and cinema.