[UWcinema] Fwd: Online Event with Tom Gunning

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UW CMS friends — a heads up about an online event this Friday; zoom link below.  Everyone is welcome!

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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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/rn3CC1WLPxcqQwpm9cLfYtVW9oG?domain=docs.google.com__;!!KwNVnqRv!AMxHgRwXHnhNFwVSsfrSFy_ecQVWSx2RdnbVLZUCBTVm9M2fzBAYHIXETFZXIkN5W_J8fhLttj3WnUoj4r4tK-k7Zoo$>



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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/MGkgC2xMQzi8DokG9c1h5t5qNp0?domain=press.uchicago.edu__;!!KwNVnqRv!AMxHgRwXHnhNFwVSsfrSFy_ecQVWSx2RdnbVLZUCBTVm9M2fzBAYHIXETFZXIkN5W_J8fhLttj3WnUoj4r4tMlRZxZY$>



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 André 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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/SpnEC3QNPBi2rYmMEi2i3tQsP7l?domain=usc.zoom.us__;!!KwNVnqRv!AMxHgRwXHnhNFwVSsfrSFy_ecQVWSx2RdnbVLZUCBTVm9M2fzBAYHIXETFZXIkN5W_J8fhLttj3WnUoj4r4te0uUEEM$>

Meeting ID: 993 8765 6597
Passcode: 285517




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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<https://www.linkedin.com/company/tamuwgst/> @ Texas A&M

Editorial Contributor + Country Coordinator (France), Women Film Pioneers Project<https://wfpp.columbia.edu/>
Book Review Editor (Post-1900), Early Popular Visual Culture<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/repv20>
Co-chair, Silent Cinema SIG<https://www.cmstudies.org/general/custom.asp?page=groups_silent>, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Co-chair, Film Studies SIG<https://www.moderniststudies.org/members/sigs/>, 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

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