Transmission: Cinema/Psychoanalysis
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/162/
Tuesday, 16 September to Thursday, 18 September
Location: Emmanuel College & Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Mieke Bal (University van Amsterdam)
Professor Kaja Silverman (University of California Berkeley)
Conveners:
Isabelle McNeill
Abigail Loxham
Jenny Chamarette
Steve Joy
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The conference will focus around the theme of transmission in its exploration of relationships
between cinema and psychoanalysis. The programme will combine papers from film academics
and film practitioners, to encourage dialogue between film praxis and film theory, and the
conference itself forms a strand of the 28th Cambridge Film Festival 2008. The programme
includes a number of short and feature length films, alongside discussion panels and academic
papers.
In exploring these forms of transmission, the conference will seek to revisit the history of film
theory and look forward to its future, asking whether psychoanalysis still has something to offer
film theorists. In addition, the parallel histories (to use the term from the title of Janet Bergstrom's
edited volume Endless Night) of cinema and psychoanalysis will be re-examined to shed new light
on their past entanglement and possible future collaboration. Finally, through the investigation of
scenarios and film form and their (mis)translations and mirrorings of psychoanalytic discourse and
thought, the conference will examine approaches to film analysis as a continuing discourse with
psychoanalysis.
Various modes of transmission will be explored:
- The transmission of psychoanalytic discourse into film theory (re-visiting and re-assessing
1970s theory, Screen group, Metz, Mulvey etc., evaluating current relations between
psychoanalysis and film theory)
- The transmission of psychoanalytic scenarios into filmmaking (e.g. Hitchcock, Lang; can we
uncover what was lost in translation? what is the cultural/historical significance of such
transmission?)
- Cinema as psychoanalysis: image, scene, time, speech, body, sound (how might cinema transmit
psychoanalytically? Can cinema be conceived as a psychoanalytic mode of thought?)
For full details of the programme, and to register, please see website:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/162/
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