October 29: Scott Curtis, Northwestern University
Please join the Chicago Film Seminar on Thursday, October 29th, at 6:30 PM, to welcome Professor Scott Curtis (Northwestern University) for his talk, " Experts and Their Images: Vision, Form, and the Historiography of Media Use ." A response will be provided by Oliver Gaycken (University of Maryland). Reception to follow! Scott Curtis is associate professor of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University, director of the Communication Program at Northwestern University in Qatar, and president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. He has written extensively on scientific and medical uses of motion pictures, and his book on film and expert vision, The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany , has just been published by Columbia University Press. Professor Curtis describes his talk as follows: Expert filmmakers--including scientists, physicians, psychologists, educators, and others who use m...