Seminars

Sites of Cinema

Year Founded 2010

Seminar # 735

StatusActive

“Sites of Cinema” takes a new approach to the question of cinema at the moment when cinema is said to be in decline, even in some accounts said to be facing its “death.” At this moment, when are focused on a convergence of moving image forms into a single delivery system we take up divergence over convergence, a divergence. Alternative to André Bazin’s question “What is Cinema?” “Sites of Cinema” will ask “Where is Cinema?” Where has it been seen to be and where will it be spaced in the future—as theoretical construct, national culture, material object, artistic work, social practice and space of exhibition. Cinema has moved and is still moving—from theatrical stages to museum walls, in and on buildings as well as within historical nations and regions of the world. “Sites of Cinema” signals our interest in site-specific cinemas plural but also cinema as a total apparatus—the “cinema of the mind” for the mass audience.

Chair/s

Racquel Gates

Jane Gaines

Rapporteur/s

Matthew Huh

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

21
Nov

November 21, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Early Cinema and the Afterlives of Slavery

Speaker/s

Allyson Field, University of Chicago

Respondent/s

Racquel Gates, Columbia University

Scheduled

07
Nov

November 7, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Foucault in Film and Media

Speaker/s

John Rajchman, Columbia University

Respondent/s

Ann Pellegrini, NYU

Jérôme Game, Haute école des arts du Rhin

Scheduled

07
Mar

March 7, 20247:15 pm - 9:15 pm

Faculty House

Miriam Petty “Settle for My Love: Tyler Perry’s Traumatic Romantic Aesthetic”

Speaker/s

Miriam Petty, Northwestern University

Respondent/s

Danielle Dougé, Barnard College

Scheduled

07
Dec

December 7, 20237:15 pm - 9:15 pm

Faculty House

We Protest!: Women-Directors in Contemporary Russian Documentary Cinema

Speaker/s

Anzhelika Artyukh, St. Petersburg University of Cinema and Television

Respondent/s

Rossen Djagalov, New York University

Tatiana Efremova, Columbia University

Scheduled

10
Nov

November 10, 20237:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Dodge Hall

Room 413

Columbia University

Scheduled

09
Nov

November 9, 20237:15 pm - 9:15 pm

Faculty House

Circulation Worries

Speaker/s

Kaveh Askari, Michigan State University

Respondent/s

Farbod Honarpisheh, Yale University

Scheduled

26
Oct

October 26, 20237:15 pm - 9:15 pm

Faculty House

Heels on Concrete: New York’s Black Women Film Critics and the Sublation of Classical Hollywood Cinema

Speaker/s

Ellen Scott, UCLA

Respondent/s

Racquel Gates, Columbia University

Scheduled

15
Sep

September 15, 20237:15 pm - 9:15 pm

Dodge Hall

Room 511

Columbia University

Panel: “New Paths to Preserving Japanese Cinema”: A Discussion of Kyoto’s Toy Film Museum & the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945) (Dir. Yoneo Ota, 2023)

Speaker/s

Yoneo Ota, Toy Film Museum, Kyoto, Japan

Joanne Bernardi, University of Rochester

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