Transnational Film and Media Studies
The primary aim of the Transnational Film and Media Studies Collaborative is to bring together the film scholars throughout the University of Minnesota in order to nurture a vibrant, interdepartmental academic film culture. There is currently no institutional structure for film studies at the U, but the faculty and graduate students who study cinema recognize the need to learn from each other’s various endeavors and to collaborate on common projects to promote cinema and media studies. The composition of the collaborative is transnational in our geographical areas of specialization, and we furthermore recognize that film cultures throughout the world are, and have always been, characterized by transnational flows of films, technologies, techniques, talent, and capital. We will explore these flows and increase our own transnational awareness by holding screenings, sharing our works in progress, learning from other film scholars in the region, and inviting two major filmmakers and three major film theorists to come to the U for screenings and talks. Convener: Jason McGrath (Asian Languages and Literatures, CLA).
Collaborative Participants: Christine Marran (Asian Languages and Literatures, CLA), Paula Rabinowitz (English, CLA), Lary May (American Studies, CLA), Siobhan Craig (English, CLA), Jigna Desai (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, CLA), Richard McCormick (German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, CLA), Christophe Wall-Romana (French and Italian, CLA), Cesare Casarino (Cultural Studies and Comparative Literatures, CLA), Robert Silberman (Art History, CLA), Hakim Abderrezak (French and Italian, CLA), Lynn Lukkas (Art, CLA), Mark Anderson (Asian Languages and Literatures, CLA), Christopher Scott (Asian Languages and Cultures, Macalester College), Sarah Buchanan (French, UM-Morris), Charlest Sugnet (English, CLA), Rembert Hüser (German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, CLA). With thanks to CSDS PhD students Jonathan Thomas and Raysh Weiss for organizing the film screenings.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, April 29
Film Screening: "Platform" (Jia Zhangke, 2000, 154 min)
5:30 p.m., 125 Nicholson Hall
Friday, May 1
"Truancy, or Thought from the Provinces": A workshop with Yun Peng (CSCL)
3:30 p.m., 235 Nolte Center
A short reading is available in advance of this talk.
Previous Events
Thursday, October 2
Musicology/Music Theory Colloquium: "Noise in American Horror Films," Frank Hentschel (University of Giessen)
11:30 a.m., 205 Ferguson Hall
Thursday, October 23
Bodies and Beds, or Two Film About Care
Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa, 1994, 110m)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2005, 115m)
6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Bell Auditorium
Thursday, October 30
Two Films by Todd Haynes
Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995, 119m)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002, 107m)
6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Bell Auditorium
Friday, October 31
“The Vagabond Voices of Neorealism”: A talk with Jonathan Thomas
3:00 p.m., 235 Nolte Center
Thursday, November 6
Spaces of Conflict in Contemporary Turkish Cinema
Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2008, 122m)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002, 110m)
6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Bell Auditorium
Friday, Novevember 14
“Locomotion and Time in West African Cinema”: A talk by Charles Sugnet
3:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Thursday, November 20
The Sacred, The Violent, and Fragments
"The Sacred and The Violent": A lecture by Brian Price
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke, 1995, 96m)
6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Bell Auditorium
Friday, November 21
“Man and Animal, Master and Servant”: A talk with Brian Price
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Thursday, December 11
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (Robert Wiene, 1920, 71 min)
5:00 p.m., 155 Nicholson Hall
Friday, December 12
“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as a Case of Biocinema”: A talk with Kiarina Kordela
3:30 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Friday, January 30
“Modernizing Melodrama”: A talk with Carol Donelan
3:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Wednesday, February 18
"Gran Torino, Perpetual Warriors and the Performance of Hmong Masculinity" - Presentation by Louisa Schein and Va-Megn Thoj
12:00 p.m., 235 Nolte Center
Wednesday, February 25
Film Screening: "The Sun"
4:00 p.m., 275 Nicholson Hall
Friday, February 27
"Sokurov and Lacan: Painting’s Luminous Archive and Anamorphic Imaginaries": A presentation by Amy Levine
A short reading is available in advance of this talk.
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Wednesday, April 8
"Éloge de l'amour (In Praise of Love)": Film screening with Thomas A. Pepper
5:30 p.m., 275 Nicholson Hall
Thursday, April 9
"A Compass in a Moving World (on genres and genealogies of theory)": A presentation by David Rodowick
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Friday, April 10
"The Virtual Life of Film": A presentation by D. N. Rodowick
3:30 p.m., 125 Nolte Center