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
The research seminar and workshop series' occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.
Unless otherwise advertised, the seminars occur on a Friday afternoon from 3-4 pm in the Digital Learning Space (Room 224) in the Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37).
Semester 2, 2019 Seminars & Workshops
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Friday, 26 July |
School Forum |
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| Friday, 2 August 3-4pm |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 16 August 3-5 pm 3:00pm-4:00pm (Panel) 4:00pm- onwards (CAPS launch event) |
CommArts Postgraduate Society Panel: “How to Write a Journal Article and Target the Right Journals” Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Angela Hannan (SCA Librarian) Dr Elena Danilova (Scholarly Publishing, Library) Dr Ted Nannicelli (Editor, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind) Associate Professor Kelly Fielding (Communication scholar) Dr Jennifer Clement (Literary Studies scholar) Associate Professor Pradip Thomas (Communications, Media and Cultural Studies scholar) |
| Friday, 23 August 3-5 pm |
All in One Quire: Emotional Communities in John Donne's Easter Sermons Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 6 September 3-4pm |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Aparna Hebbani and Mairead MacKinnon |
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Friday, 13 September |
CANCELLED AustLit and BlackWords—Platforms for Storying Research Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Kerry Kilner and The AustLit Team |
| Friday, 27 September 3-4pm |
Centre for Critical and Creative Writing Hosted Roundtable: The State of Australian Arts Criticism The Geoffrey Rush Drama Studio
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Dr Stephen Carleton with panellists Miriam Cosic, Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Kathryn Kelly |
| Friday, 4 October 3-4pm |
Enacting a Sense of Home Among Older Chinese Migrants in Australia Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
A/Prof Shuang Liu |
| Friday, 11 October 3-4pm |
Selfies, Affordances, and Situational Properties Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Katrin Tiidenberg, Tallinn University |
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Friday, 18 October |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 25 October 3-4pm |
POSTPONED UNTIL 2020 - TBA Why Paintings Matter: Filming Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565) Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Andrea Bubenik |