The Department of Film, Theatre & Television is delighted to welcome Professor Gilberto Perez to give a lecture titled 'Moving with characters' on Friday 29th November at 1pm in the Bulmershe Theatre, the Minghella Building, at the University of Reading's Whiteknights campus.
This talk will deal with different ways in which camera movement can follow or respond to character movement and their different effects on the spectator. It will consider a stylistic device and its rhetoric, its transaction with the audience, and will rely on Kenneth Burke’s rhetorical notion of identification. Just as seeing with a character in a point-of-view shot creates at least a momentary identification with the character’s perspective, so moving with a character makes for an identification with the character’s ongoing action. What kind of identification, and to what effect? Near the beginning of Murnau’s Sunrise the woman from the city, the femme fatale, sets out in the evening for a rendezvous with the unfaithful peasant husband, and the camera pans with her from across the village street and then, as if under an irresistible pull, starts traveling with her down the street and follows along behind her as she moves toward her illicit purpose. Here, as at other points in Sunrise, the camera seems drawn to the villainous woman as if itself under her spell, and its movement becomes identified with her movement. If this does not mean that the film is taking the villain’s side, what does it mean? And how does it work on us? Such are the questions this lecture proposes to address. Along with Sunrise, it will examine other films such as Mizoguchi’s Osaka Elegy, Antonioni’s La signora senza camelie, and Ophuls’s La signora di tutti and Madame de…
Gilberto Perez is the author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium, and is the Noble Professor of Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College.
The event is free and open to all. So that we can keep track of numbers, please reserve your place by emailing our administrator Gaenor Burchett-Vass, at [log in to unmask]
Information on getting to the University can be found here: http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findindex.aspx. The Minghella Building is building number 195 on the Whiteknights campus map.
We look forward to seeing you.
Best wishes,
Dr Lisa Purse
Associate Professor and Department Director of Teaching and Learning
Department of Film, Theatre & Television
School of Arts and Communication Design
Minghella Building, room 202
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0118 378 4084
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