“Nowhere Space:” Sonic Materiality and Sites of Reading
In Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound, Don Ihde writes: “Sometimes there is a ‘singing’ of voice in writing. I have often been shocked at ‘hearing’ a friend’s voice on reading his or her...
View ArticleOn Montage and Ideology in Alexander Kluge’s Nachrichten aus der...
In one of his latest works, Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike – news from the ideological past or antique – Alexander Kluge, a friend and protege of Theodor W. Adorno, uses the medium of the DVD...
View ArticleBeautiful Views, or The Wind in the Trees
It’s one of the most persistent anecdotes of film studies that the first audiences of motion pictures were awe-struck by what Dai Vaughan has called the “incidentals” of scenes: “smoke from a forge,...
View ArticleQueer Transpositions: Censorship and Desire in Andy Warhol’s 13 Most Wanted Men
13 Most Wanted Men, 1964 I recently visited The Andy Warhol Museum to take a look at Warhol’s 13 Most Wanted Men (1964) before it was returned to its home in the Queens Museum. I couldn’t miss catching...
View ArticleFall 2015 Cinematheque: Now In Theaters
It goes without saying that the act of viewing in a movie theater or screening room has long been left behind as the sole means of experiencing film. With the ease of home viewing and online streaming,...
View ArticleReflecting on “Screening Politics”
This year’s FSGSO conference, “Screening Politics: Affect, Identity, and Uprising” addressed a number of critical and emerging issues in both film studies and related fields of inquiry. The panels and...
View ArticleAction!: Performance, Sport, and Moving Bodies in Film and Visual Media
University of Pittsburgh, September 29-30, 2017 Hosted by the Film Studies Graduate Student Organization (FSGSO)
View ArticleNo More Room in Hell: A Half-Century of Undead Media
University of Pittsburgh, September 28-29, 2018 Hosted by the Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Organization (FMSGSO)
View ArticleLimits of Cinema / Cinema Limited?
University of Pittsburgh, September 27-28, 2019 Hosted by the Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Organization (FMSGSO)
View ArticleStriking Back at Empire: Politicizing Media Genres
University of Pittsburgh, February 18-19, 2021 Hosted by the Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Organization (FMSGSO)
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