(Apologies for cross-posting)
Conference: LITERATURE, FILM AND MODERNITY, 1880-1940
Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 January 2000
University of London Institute of English Studies
Website: http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/filmconf.htm
Conference Fee:
three days 60 pounds sterling (concessions 30 pounds) / one day 25 pounds
(concessions12.50)
Plenaries:
Giuliana Bruno, 'Atlas of the Flesh: Journeys in Film and Architecture'
Thomas Elsaesser, 'City of Lights, Gardens of Delight: Cinema and the Urban
Space of Utopian Modernism'
Tom Gunning, 'Early Cinema and the Attractions of Modernity'
Sessions including:
Ian Christie and Deac Rossell on Film Pioneers
Lynda Nead and Lindsay Smith on Art, Photography and Film
Ian Bell on Literary Spectatorship
Steven Connor on Sound and Film
Andrew Gibson on Film and Phenomenology
Ginette Vincendeau on the Cinematic City
Laura Mulvey and Philip Horne on Magic and Memory
Graeme Gilloch on Benjamin, Film and Cultural Memory
Charles Barr on Early Documentary
Conference Directors:
Laura Marcus, University of Sussex
Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham.
Conference Administrator:
Chris Willis, Birkbeck College - e-mail [log in to unmask]
Enquiries:
Dr Deborah Parsons
Department of English
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Bookings:
Francesca Bettocchi,
Institute of English Studies
Senate House,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU.
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Chris Willis
English Dept
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
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http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
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