Research Seminar - The Plague of Fascination
The Plague of Fascination
Presented by Professor Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University)
Date: 27 April, 2018
Time: 3pm-4pm
Location: Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37)
Abstract:
This talk will explore some historical roots and contemporary outcomes of a widespread cultural bias against spectatorial rapture in response to cinema: performance and its vicissitudes; the suspicion of pleasure and its substitution by “cinephilia”; illumination as manipulation of belief; asceticism and effect.
Presenter:
Murray Pomerance is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University and the author of numerous volumes, most recently The Man Who Knew Too Much (BFI 2016) and Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance (Rutgers 2016). His book A Dream of Hitchcock is forthcoming. He has edited or co-edited Close-Up, Hamlet Lives in Hollywood, Cinema and Modernity, A Little Solitaire, and more than two dozen other books. He edits the “Horizons of Cinema” series at SUNY Press and “Techniques of the Moving Image” at Rutgers.

About Research Seminar and Workshop Series
School of Communication and Arts Research Seminar Series
The research seminar and workshop series occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.
Friday, 11 March Online via Zoom | Research Seminar - Tuning In with the Stethoscope in the Nineteenth Century | Dr Melissa Dickson (University of Birmingham) |
Friday, 25 March Hybrid | Dr Chris Hay | |
Friday, 8 April Online via Zoom | Invention and reinvention in the landscape symbolism of Joachim Patinir | Michael Levy |
Friday, 29 April Online via Zoom | Negotiating balance of cultures among Chinese Australians to facilitate ageing well | A/Prof Shuang Liu |
Friday, 13 May Hybrid | Redefining crisis in museums: insider’s perspectives on digital engagement | Dr Caroline Wilson-Barnao, Craig Middleton (National Museum of Australia), and Lisa Enright |
Friday, 3 June Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | A journey through the Australian environmental movement ecosystem | Dr Robyn Gulliver |
Friday, 10 June Online via Zoom | TBA | Dr Alex Bevan |