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, 2018 Seminars & Workshops
Monday, 23 July |
Strategic communication in the age of global information warfare: How it works Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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Friday, 3 August 3-4pm |
Algorithmic cultural recommendation: the coded gaze and Google’s face match up Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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Friday, 10 August 9:30am-11:00am |
Researching Media Platforms: A Research Methods Conversation Seminar Room, Level 4, Forgan Smith Tower, UQ St Lucia |
Dr Angela Wu (New York University) |
Friday, 10 August 3-4 pm |
LNR ethics information session Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
A/Prof Liz Mackinlay |
Friday, 17 August |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Prof Ling Chen |
Friday, 24 August 3-4pm |
Hey Siri! How should I title my talk? Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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Friday, 31 August |
Tastemaking in Post-digital Literary Culture: The Role of Book Blogs Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Beth Driscoll |
Friday, 7 September 3-4pm |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Ted Nannicelli |
Friday, 14 September TBC |
HDR forum; Research Data Management workshop; Postgraduate Student Welcome | |
Friday, 21 September 3-4pm |
Young Adult Fantasy: Policing Genre Boundaries Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
A/Prof Kim Wilkins |
Friday, 5 October 3-4pm |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Marg Henderson |
Wednesday, 28 November 1pm-3:30pm |
Workshop - Writing ARC grants: tips and guidance from the experts Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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