From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri Feb 3 23:05:32 2023 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:38 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] =?utf-8?q?TALK=3A_=E2=80=9CThird_Cinema_in_the_Second_?= =?utf-8?q?World=3A_Images_of_Anti-colonialism_in_the_Polish_People?= =?utf-8?b?4oCZcyBSZXB1YmxpY+KAnQ==?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The department of Slavic Languages & Literatures cordially invites you to next Tuesday?s exciting talk on Zoom! TALK: ?Third Cinema in the Second World: Images of Anti-colonialism in the Polish People?s Republic? When: February 7, 2023; 5:00-6:15 p.m. Zoom Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92453723595 This talk locates key elements of the politics and aesthetics of Latin American Third Cinema in anti-colonial reportage films made in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s. The point is not to posit an alternative origin of a form of militant cinema first conceptualized by Argentinian filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino in the late 1960s, but to draw attention to the shared ideological and material conditions, as well as points of influence, that allowed it to develop simultaneously in different corners of the world struggling for the right to national self-determination. I argue that, when seen from standpoint of the ?satellite state,? the Eastern Bloc?s support for anti-imperialism abroad was frequently in contradiction with it practices at home. This contradiction was the basis on which of a more thoroughly anti-imperialist socialist politics could have, and occasionally did, emerge during the Cold War?in aesthetic form if not often in political practice. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Marla Zubel is Assistant Professor of World Literature and Film at Western Kentucky University. Her research focuses on the Cold War-era politics and aesthetics of anti-colonial solidarity between the former second and third worlds. Her work has appeared in the journals Studies in Eastern European Cinema, The Global South, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Postcolonial Studies, among other venues. Her current book project examines Internationalist literature and film between Poland and the Global South, from the post-war period through the Solidarity movement. Isabelle S. Administrative Assistant Slavic Languages and Literatures -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri Feb 17 10:52:48 2023 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:38 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts 2023 Message-ID: Dear UW community: This symposium (and screening series) for the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts at U of Chicago was inspired by an essay Hayley O?Malley wrote for *Feminist Media Histories* last summer, in a special issue on ?Speculative Media Histories? guest edited by Allyson Field. We?re attaching the link to the FMH essay for your reading pleasure. The symposium will stream live (March 2-4) and tickets are free! Reserve yours now via the link below. Cheers from FMH@UW-Seattle! + + + + + Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are delighted to announce that symposium tickets are now available for the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts, 2023. Drawing inspiration from the 1976 Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts ? likely the first Black women's film festival ? the 2023 symposium (March 2-4) will celebrate the rich tradition of Black women's filmmaking with screenings, roundtable discussions, poetry readings, special tributes, and much more! The events will be held at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. Admission is free, but seating is very limited, so please reserve your ticket today! *Festival website:* https://voices.uchicago.edu/sojourner/ *In-person tickets:* https://tickets.uchicago.edu/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=19A87A85-1915-4774-8283-60EF1253A40C *Streaming tickets:* https://tickets.uchicago.edu/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=6B6FB1E9-DCCC-4590-B5E6-C764645338D1 Please share these links widely, and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions. We hope to see you in Chicago or online! All best, Allyson Nadia Field, The University of Chicago Monica J. Freeman, independent filmmaker and programmer Hayley O?Malley, University of Iowa Michael J. Phillips, Jr., South Side Projections Yvonne Welbon, Sisters in Cinema + + + + + Warmly, Sarah Sarah Choi (she/her) PhD Student | Cinema & Media Studies University of Washington, Seattle Managing Editor, *Feminist Media Histories * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Mon Feb 27 14:13:34 2023 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:38 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] Seattle University Film Studies Speaker Series March 8th and March 10th Message-ID: Dear colleagues and students, Seattle University's Film and Media Studies program has a really exciting week of talks coming up in early March. Dr. Diana Flores Ru?z will speak on Wednesday March 8th, with a response from SU's Dr. Natalie Cisneros; and Dr. Pooja Rangan will speak on Friday March 10th, with a response from SU's Nalini Iyer. We are working on flyers, which I will send out soon, but details about the events can be found below. Event 1: Title: Self-Evident? Paradoxes and Struggles in Constructing Visual Arguments About Migration Speaker: Dr. Diana Flores Ru?z, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington Respondent: Dr. Natalie Cisneros, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University Time/Place: March 8th 4:30pm at Casey Commons Event Page: https://fb.me/e/2DURtscI2 Description: This talk examines how images of migrants? belongings along the US-Mexico border became a popular visual trope, one which has amplified both anti- and pro-immigrant arguments. Discoveries of sunbleached, disintegrating items such as water bottles, clothing, and toys increased following the 1995 strategy known as Prevention Through Deterrence, which pushed migrants? journeys into more dangerous, remote parts of the border lands and waters. This presentation begins in 2005, a year that saw a nativist surge in border spectacles and the advent of YouTube, and concludes with contemporary QAnon social media posts and live streaming platforms. In tracing the proliferation of this visual trope, I analyze its appeal to humanitarian organizations, politicians, artists, and environmentalists on the far right and left. Throughout, I demonstrate how the desire to make this visual trope self-evident is bound up in the enduring historical relationship between images and policing the US-Mexico border. Bio: Diana Flores Ru?z examines forms of mediation that produce and facilitate structures of racialized violence, as well as artistic and activist modes of visual resistance. Her current book project investigates the technological construction of the U.S.-Mexico border through the lenses of apprehension and Latinx visual critique. Spanning from the border?s cartographic founding to its current virtual, biometric capacity, Dr. Ru?z analyzes a constellation of photography, cinema, surveillance, and machine vision to demonstrate how visual cultures of the border constitute differential racial emplacements of mobility and itinerant political subjectivities. Her work appears in Film Quarterly, The Matter of Photography in the Americas (Stanford UP, 2018), and a forthcoming anthology on materiality and performance in the built environments of Mexico City (UAM Cuajimalpa). Her research has been funded by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and UC Berkeley?s Center for Latin American Studies. Event 2: Title: Listening with an Accent: The Documentary Audit as Raciolinguistic Pedagogy Speaker: Dr. Pooja Rangan, Associate Professor of English & Chair of Film and Media Studies, Amherst College Respondent: Nalini Iyer, Professor of English, Seattle University Time/Place: March 10th 4:30pm at the Stuart T. Rolfe Community Room Event Page: https://fb.me/e/4dK6AHxX5 Description: This talk explores the role of documentary forms in cultivating ?neutral? listening habits that justify linguistic profiling and discrimination, and their capacity to engage audiences in listening with an accent, or listening with a relational awareness of one?s embodied social vantage. To that end, I offer a history, a method drawn from my co-edited anthology Thinking with an Accent (UC Press 2023), and an illustration of that method in practice. Early sound documentaries by the British GPO Film Unit were instrumental in shaping the ?objective? listening vantage that has become the habitualized locus of documentary listening, or what I call the documentary audit. Pioneers of the neutral commentator voice, these films exported a supralocal accent as a national-imperial norm and gave audiovisual form to raciolinguistic ideals. I trace the postcolonial resonances of the documentary audit in the evidentiary logic of forensic speech analysis through an engagement with works by artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan. Abu Hamdan?s investigations of the linguistic profiling of asylum seekers by UK immigration authorities are both diagnostic and propositional: they show how documentary forms and comportments are complicit in listening for an accent, and simultaneously cultivate a perceptual and interpretive mode that does not listen for so much as with an awareness of the place from which one has been taught to listen. Bio: Pooja Rangan is a scholar of documentary media based in Amherst College, where she is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Film and Media Studies. Rangan is the author of the award-winning book Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke UP 2017), and co-editor of the anthology Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (UC Press 2023, now available in print and as a free open access ebook). Her new book-in-progress, The Documentary Audit, explores how listening has come to be equated, in documentary discourse, with accountability. Sincerely, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Assistant Professor of Film Studies Seattle University 901 12thAve Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.benjaminschultzfigueroa.com Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available for pre-order from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Tue Feb 28 15:49:11 2023 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:38 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] The Celluloid Specimen is Live Message-ID: Dear friends and colleagues, Apologies for the mass-email, but I?m writing to let you know that the Open Access version of my book The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life is now live on the UC Press website. You can access it for free here: https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.145/?fbclid=IwAR1fUG0KAUuQAkvSNJS3W1DrDUwOL6Bpli6ZZ1fsUSvu21YE8IAncdl4OB0 I also have a piece in today?s Washington Post that rearticulates one of the book?s main points for a general audience, which you can read for free with this link: https://wapo.st/3Z7GTXc Please help me spread the word about the book! Sincerely, -Ben Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Assistant Professor of Film Studies Seattle University 901 12thAve Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.benjaminschultzfigueroa.com Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available for pre-order from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: