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 1, 2019 Seminars & Workshops
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Friday, 1 March |
Honours Welcome Level 6, Michie Building (#9) |
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| Friday, 8 March 3pm-4pm |
The Media, Populism, and Polarization in the German Context Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Bernhard Goodwin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Friday, 22 March 4:30pm |
Terrace Room, Sir Llew Edwards Building (#14) |
Katalin Trencsényi (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) |
| Friday, 29 March 3-4 pm |
Storifying Science: Translating Environment through Ecobiography Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Jessica White |
| Friday, 12 April 12noon-1:00pm |
CSC Exchange Room 208 |
Jaime A. Manalo IV Centre for Communication and Social Change |
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Friday, 12 April |
Streaming, disruption and the evolving cultures of use Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 26 April 3-4pm |
Journalism by Numbers: What the Census Tells us about Journalists and Journalism since the 1960s Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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Friday, 3 May |
The Pedagogy of Listening / Listening to people in the age of investment thinking Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Linje Manyozo (RMIT) |
| Friday, 10 May 3-4pm |
The Sweden of the South: Australia's Eurovision Love Affair Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Chris Hay |
| Friday, 17 May 3-4pm |
Workshop: non-ARC grant writing workshop Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
A/Prof Kelly Fielding |
| Friday, 24 May 3-4pm |
Transferring Below-the-line Skillsets Across Creative Indisutries in Early Television Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Alex Bevan |
