Centre for Film and Screen 2017/18 Lent term … · Raymond Bellour and the elision of animal and cinema Jonathan Burt Wed 21 February, 5.15pm Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi Jonathan

Centre for Film and Screen 2017/18

Michaelmas term

11 October A Day with A.L. Steiner, and without Wednesday capitalism Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi, 4.00pm

12 October Barth David Schwartz ‘Pasolini Requiem’ Thursday Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi, 5.15pm

19 October Tilda Swinton’s Embodiment of Whiteness Thursday (Jackie Stacey, Manchester) Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi, 5.15pm

1 November “Underground cinema will soon invade the Wednesday Beautiful American Home” (Erika Balsom, King’s College London) Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi, 5.15pm

29 November Ridley Scott, Laureate of Neoliberalism Wednesday (Henry K. Miller, Slade School of Fine Art) Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi, 5.15pm

4 December Soviet spectatorship, Capitalist spectatorship Monday Book launch and discussion of Emma Widdis’s Soviet

Senses and John David Rhodes’s Spectacle of Property

British Film Academy Library, BFI Southbank, 6.30pm

Lent term

21 January The Social Body in Béla Balázs Wednesday (Erica Carter, King’s College London) I4 Meeting Room, Corpus Christi, 5.15pm

21 February Raymond Bellour and the elision of animal Wednesday and cinema (Jonathan Burt) Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi, 5.15pm

7 March Disembowelled vision: Fascism, Rome, Wednesday Cinema (John David Rhodes, Cambridge) Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi, 5.15pm

Centre Director

John David Rhodes ✉ [email protected]

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA

Twitter@FilmScreenCam www.mml.cam.ac.uk/film

Michaelmas term

Research Seminars

A Day with A.L. Steiner, and without capitalism

A.L. Steiner

Wed 11 October, 4.00pm Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi

4.00pm: Introduction and screening, More Real Than Reality Itself (A.L. Steiner, 2014, 53 mins )

5.30pm: Reception

6.00pm: A.L. Steiner in conversation with John David Rhodes and Amy Tobin

A.L. Steiner utilizes constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, performance, writing and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a skeptical queer ecofeminist androgyne. Steiner is a serial collaborator, co-curator of Ridykeulous, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) and a collective member of Chicks on Speeds. She is MFA Faculty in Visual Arts at Bard College and Yale University, and is currently a Fall 2017 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Tilda Swinton’s Embodiment of Whiteness

Jackie Stacey, University of Manchester

Thurs 19 October, 5.15pm Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi

Jackie Stacey is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester where she is currently co-director of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. Running across her interdisciplinary research interests on gender, sexuality, psychoanalysis, cinema and the visual arts has been a concern with changing formations of fantasy, processes of subjectivity and modes of embodiment. Her most recent books include The Cinematic Life of the Gene (2010) and the co-edited collections Queer Screen (2007) and Writing Otherwise: Experiments in Cultural Criticism (2013). She is now working on a new research project on the work of Tilda Swinton.

“Underground cinema will soon invade the Beautiful American Home”: The 8mm Reduction Print as Poor Image of the 1960s

Erika Balsom, King’s College London

Wed 1 November, 5.15pm Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi

Erika Balsom is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London, focusing on the history of the moving image in art and experimental documentary practices. Her most recent book, After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation, was published by Columbia University Press in 2017. She is author of Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (2013), the co-editor of Documentary Across Disciplines (2016), and a frequent contributor to

Artforum and Sight and Sound. Her work has appeared in publications such as Grey Room, e-flux and Cinema Journal.

Ridley Scott, Laureate of Neoliberalism

Henry K. Miller, Slade School of Fine Art

Wed 29 November, 5.15pm Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi

Henry K. Miller is an Honorary Research Associate at the Slade School of Fine Art and an affiliate of the Centre for Film and Screen at Cambridge. His work has appeared in Screen and the Hitchcock Annual, among other journals, and he is a regular contributor to Sight and Sound. He is the editor of The Essential Raymond Durgnat, published in 2014

Special events

Barth David Schwartz ‘Pasolini Requiem’

Thurs 12 October, 5.15pm Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi

Author of the definitive biography of Pasolini, recently revised and reissued in a second edition (Pasolini Requiem, University of Chicago Press, 2017), Barth David Schwartz will discuss Pasolini and his book in dialogue with John David Rhodes and Robert Gordon.

New Writings: Socialist spectatorship, Capitalist spectatorship

Mon 4 December, 6.30pm British Film Institute Library at the National Film Theatre, London

Book launch and discussion of Emma Widdis’s Socialist Senses (Indiana UP, 2017) and John David Rhodes’s Spectacle of Property (Minnesota UP, 2017)

Discussants: Ian Christie (Birkbeck) and Laura Marcus (Oxford)

Lent term

Research Seminars

The Social Body in Béla Balázs

Erica Carter, King’s College London

Wed 21 January, 5.15pm I4 Meeting Room, Corpus Christi

Erica Carter is Professor of German and Film at King’s College London, and Chair of the UK German Screen Studies Network. She has published widely on German-language cinema and cultural history as well as early film theory. Her publications include Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory (2010); Dietrich’s Ghosts. The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (2004); and the co-edited German Cinema Book (2nd edition forthcoming 2018).

Raymond Bellour and the elision of animal and cinema

Jonathan Burt

Wed 21 February, 5.15pm Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi

Jonathan Burt started working on animals in history in the early 1990s. He co-founded the Animal Studies Group UK in 2000 and also created and edits the Reaktion Animal series which now runs to 85 volumes. He has published two books, Rat and Animals in Film, and numerous articles in animal history most of which languish in obscurity. He is currently writing a novel based on the nineteenth century ivory trade, and is also writing a cultural history of the Seahorse for Reaktion Books which will come out in 2019.

Disembowelled vision: Fascism, Rome, Cinema

John David Rhodes, Cambridge

Wed 7 March, 5.15pm Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi

John David Rhodes is the Director of the Centre for Film and Screen at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Corpus Christi College. He has most recently published Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film (2017).