From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Tue Nov 18 12:59:58 2025 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List via Uwcinema) Date: Wed Nov 19 08:17:54 2025 Subject: [UWcinema] Fwd: Online Event with Tom Gunning References: Message-ID: UW CMS friends ? a heads up about an online event this Friday; zoom link below. Everyone is welcome! ************ Dear Silent Cinema SIG members, We?re delighted to announce our first online event of the 2025-2026 academic year! Please join us on Zoom on Friday, November 21, 2025, at 12.30 pm Central Time, for a celebration of Tom Gunning?s latest book, The Attractions of the Moving Image: Essays on History, Theory, and the Avant-Garde (University of Chicago Press, 2025). The event will feature Tom Gunning in conversation with the book?s editor Daniel Morgan. Together they will revisit Gunning?s contributions to silent cinema history, as well as discuss his enduring, multifaceted legacy for film and media studies more broadly. They will also reflect upon their collaboration in putting together the wonderful new volume, The Attractions of the Moving Image. The event will include a Q&A with Tom Gunning and Daniel Morgan. If you?d like, you may send us questions in advance using the form below. You will also have the chance to ask your questions during the event. Thank you! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0Ded17RMkRBwFCN8arAaqvtisFUXLjZrqxiZvi905_ThpJA/viewform Zoom Link: see below. Here's more information about the book and the book?s author and editor: ?An essential collection of new and selected essays by influential cinema and media studies scholar Tom Gunning. Tom Gunning is the author of multiple books and nearly two hundred essays that have defined the field of cinema and media studies. His works have transformed our understanding of early cinema and the American avant-garde and reset the terms of many central debates in film and media history and theory. His 1986 essay ?The Cinema of Attractions? is among the most cited essays on film ever published. Gunning?s writings articulate a distinctive and powerful model for thinking about cinema?s history and likely future, addressing the full range of moving-image media, from film to still photography to digital media. His discussions draw on stage melodrama and magic lantern shows, as well as criminology, world?s fairs, and Spiritualism, surveying the medium as a cultural phenomenon informed by the industrial and information ages, psychiatry, urban experience, discourses on art and aesthetics, and more. This collection brings together twenty-six essays that showcase the depth and range of Gunning?s scholarship, including four that have never before been published. Together, they solidify Gunning?s place as a scholar who has transformed the way generations of scholars, archivists, critics, and artists think about cinema.? https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo238329918.html Tom Gunning is professor emeritus in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, where he taught for over two decades. He is the author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity, as well as numerous articles. With Andr? Gaudreault he originated the influential theory of the ?Cinema of Attractions.? Daniel Morgan is professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago. He is author of Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema and The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera. Please let us know if you have any questions. We hope to see you soon! Our very best, Carolyn Condon Jacobs, Aurore Spiers, and Eileen DiPofi Eileen DiPofi is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Attractions of the Moving Image Silent Cinema SIG Time: Nov 21, 2025 12:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://usc.zoom.us/j/99387656597?pwd=RlaeW4mSKwI9hrLxJdcZF8hfoW5baL.1 Meeting ID: 993 8765 6597 Passcode: 285517 -- Aurore Spiers (she/her) Assistant Professor, Film & Media Studies College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts Texas A&M University https://pvfa.tamu.edu/staff/aurore-spiers/ Core Faculty Member, Women?s & Gender Studies @ Texas A&M Editorial Contributor + Country Coordinator (France), Women Film Pioneers Project Book Review Editor (Post-1900), Early Popular Visual Culture Co-chair, Silent Cinema SIG, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Co-chair, Film Studies SIG, Modernist Studies Association COMING JANUARY 2026 from University of California Press: Archiving the Past: Women?s Film History in France, 1927?1978, https://www.ucpress.edu/books/archiving-the-past/paper [image001.jpg] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 333418 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri Nov 21 16:25:43 2025 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List via Uwcinema) Date: Mon Nov 24 08:23:38 2025 Subject: [UWcinema] Fwd: 16mm films at surplus In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Anyone who is interested in picking up some 16mm films (almost entirely educational/classroom films; condition varies) can go to UW surplus next week. "Public day" (which allows purchases for personal use) is on Tuesday and the reels are expected to be very cheap ($1 or less a reel, I believe). All other days are reserved for direct purchases from UW departments. Mal ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Colt Bristow Date: Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 9:14?AM Subject: RE: 16mm films at surplus To: Kevin T. Grange , Mal Ahern Cc: John Vallier , Ian Dawe Mal and team- We will be putting a good amount of the remaining film reels, into our Surplus store today. Departments can come down Monday to shop if they want, and the public will be able to purchase on Tuesday. Please spread the word to any interested parties! Thanks all, *Colt Bristow* Surplus Assistant Manager UW Facilities / Maintenance & Construction Plant Services Building | Box 354280 4515 25th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 206.351.9603 *coltb@uw.edu * | *https://facilities.uw.edu/uw-surplus/ * *From:* Kevin T. Grange *Sent:* Monday, October 27, 2025 2:51 PM *To:* Mal Ahern *Cc:* Colt Bristow ; John Vallier *Subject:* RE: 16mm films at surplus Great, 1:30 sounds good, see you then! -Kevin *From:* Mal Ahern *Sent:* Monday, October 27, 2025 2:12 PM *To:* Kevin T. Grange *Cc:* Colt Bristow ; John Vallier *Subject:* Re: 16mm films at surplus Hi Kevin - Sure, how does 1:30 or 2:00 work for you? Best Mal On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 1:47?PM Kevin T. Grange wrote: Would you be able to come by tomorrow between 10-3:00 to take a look? -Kevin *From:* Mal Ahern *Sent:* Monday, October 27, 2025 12:33 PM *To:* Kevin T. Grange *Cc:* Colt Bristow ; John Vallier *Subject:* Re: 16mm films at surplus Hi Kevin, Thanks for getting back to me! I'm a little under the weather today, so I'm wondering if we could move things to tomorrow or Wednesday. Let me know. Best Mal On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 11:41?AM Kevin T. Grange wrote: Hi Mel, Yes, these film reels are still available to preview and purchase. We?re available today until 3:00 at the Plant Services Bldg. if you would like to come by and take a look. Let us know if this works for you, if not, we can come up with another time later this week. Thank You, *Kevin Grange* Program Support Supervisor II ? Surplus Receiving & Warehouse Ops UW Facilities | Maintenance & Construction Plant Services Building | Box 354280 4515 25th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98105 Phone 206.543.3948 ktgrange@uw.edu | uwsurplus.com *From:* Mal Ahern *Sent:* Saturday, October 25, 2025 10:57 AM *To:* Kevin T. Grange ; Colt Bristow *Cc:* John Vallier *Subject:* 16mm films at surplus Hi Kevin and Colt, I received word from John early last week that a large shipment of 16mm films are going to UW Surplus. He said I might have a chance to look them over before they go up for public sale and to transfer some to the department of Cinema and Media Studies. I had a busy couple of weeks so haven't had a chance to get back to you until now. Am I too late? Or could I perhaps come by on Monday, or any other time it suits you next week? 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