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Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, February 7 to welcome  Thomas Elsaesser  (University of Amsterdam) for his talk, "Reevaluating 3D."   Tom Gunning  (UChicago) will provide the response. The CFS will be held  at DePaul's Loop Campus in the  Daley Building at 14 E. Jackson Blvd., Room LL 102, using the State St. entrance   located at   247 S. State . Thursday, February 7 at 6:30pm Thomas Elsaesser , University of Amsterdam  "Reevaluating 3D" Respondent :  Tom Gunning , U.Chicago Elsaesser's talk will tease out the implications of two of his recent articles, " Avatar - Access for All" ( New Review of Film and Television ) and "The Return of 3D" ( Critical Inquiry ), to ask if, in light of what we know about a hundred years of Hollywood, we can finally evaluate whether or not 3D has been a force for good (progressive, liberal, emancipatory, utopian) or bad (reactionary, ideological, spearhead not only of capitalis...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, January 17 to welcome Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece  (Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern) for her talk, " The Monumental Screen: Perfect Vision, Disembodiment, and American Theatrical Architecture in the Era of Widescreen, " and Matt Hauske (Ph.D. Candidate at U.Chicago) for his talk, " The Western's New Horizons: Wide Screens, Big Canvases, and the Great Outdoors in the 1950s ." Don Crafton  (Notre Dame) will provide the response. The CFS will be held  at DePaul's Loop Campus in the  Daley Building at 14 E. Jackson Blvd., Room LL 102, using the State St. entrance   located at   247 S. State . Thursday, January 17 at 6:30pm Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece , Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern  "The Monumental Screen: Perfect Vision, Disembodiment, and American Theatrical Architecture in the Era of Widescreen" Matt Hauske , Ph.D. Candidate, U.Chicago "The Western's New Horizons: Wide Screens, B...