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Martin Lefebvre Presents “A New Look at Christian Metz: Semiology and Aesthetics” & Tess McClernon on “Discarded, Outworn, and Passé: Theorizing Obsolescence and Its Aesthetic in Outer and Inner Space (1966)”SCMS 2015

Before beginning his presentation this morning, Concordia’s Martin Lefebvre drolly thanked all in attendance for making it to the 9 AM panel on the 22nd day of SCMS. Indeed, it has been somewhat of a marathon of scholarly rigour by…

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Philipp Dominik Keidl Presents “Media Archaeology in the Museum – Methods and Possibilities” – SCMS 2015

On Friday afternoon, the Silent Cinema Cultures SIG sponsored a panel titled “Digital Film Historiography: Archives, Techniques, Epistemology,” chaired by Mel Hoppenheim PhD candidate Philipp Dominik Keidl and co-chaired by Christian Gosvig Olesen (University of Amsterdam). Though the panel was…

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Rosanna Maule presents “Women’s Cinema on the Web: A New Platform for Feminist Discourse” – SCMS 2015

Concordia Professor Rosanna Maule presented yesterday on “Women’s Cinema on the Web: A New Platform for Feminist Discourse” in the panel “Theorizing Post-cinema: The Cinematic In and Out of the Theatre” where she proposed a step out of a solely theoretical approach…

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Adam Szymanski presents “Composing Peace through the Ecosophic Aesthetic of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” – SCMS 2015

One of the final panels of day one of SCMS, “The Care for Opacity in East Asian Cinema,” was comprised of a group of four Montreal-based scholars: Erik Bordeleau (Concordia University), Dr. Sivestra Mariniello (Université de Montreal), Suzanne Beth (Université…

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