With support from the Humanities Council’s David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project, the Committee for Film Studies launches a new seven-part, year-long lecture series called Thinking Cinema on September 26. The series structures vibrant encounters between leading film scholars and the Princeton community. At its core will be the work of historians and theorists whose research interests span temporal and regional frames but who share a commitment to critical film and media analysis.
On Tuesday, September 26, Francesco Casetti will be the first in an eclectic range of speakers to deliver a Thinking Cinema lecture: Is Film an Optical Medium? Casetti is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University.
Two more Thinking Cinema lectures are scheduled for later this fall:
October 16 Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania
Thinking Like a Holy Girl: A Philosophy of Grandma’s Bedroom
November 13 Paula Amad, The University of Iowa
The Sky of an Image: Modernity’s Cin-Aerial Dimension
The series will continue with four additional events in Spring 2018:
February 15 John Durham Peters, Yale University
Weather as a Test Case for Media Theory
March 7 Thomas Lamarre, McGill University
Animation and Animism
April 2 Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley
“Melodrama Unbound,” or The Elephant That is Melodrama
April 30 Pooja Rangan, Amherst College
Documentary’s Listening Ear
The Thinking Cinema lecture series is sponsored by the Committee for Film Studies and the Humanities Council’s David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project.
