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Please join the Chicago Film Seminar on  Thursday ,  February 18th , at  6:30pm , for a graduate student panel on science fiction and Soviet documentary style. Our panelists will be Stephen Babish (Northwestern University) and Zdenko  Mandušić (University of Chicago). A response will be provided by Joshua Malitsky (Indiana University).  In his paper,   “Empty Spaces: Large-Scale Plans and Urban Dystopia in  A Clockwork Orange  and  THX 1138 ," Babish traces  two case studies, on the filming of  A Clockwork Orange  in the Southeast London development of Thamesmead and the filming of  THX 1138  in the San Francisco Bay Area's unopened BART system, and analyzes the way in which these films exploited notoriously incomplete and over-budget construction projects to critique both their forms and the ideologies underlying them.   In his paper “The Documentary Style in Soviet Cinema of the 1960s,”  Mandušić...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar on Wednesday, January 13th, at 6:30pm, for an exciting roundtable discussion, titled “Why Film History?: Discipline, Institution, and the Archive in Spanish Cinema Studies.” Roundtable participants, Professors Vicente Sánchez-Biosca and Steven Marsh, describe the event as follows: This discussion seeks to address approaches to the cinema of Spain. While Film History as a sub-discipline of cinema and media studies is an important institutional component of almost all media and cinema studies departments, in Spain—uniquely—it is the dominant field in such departments. Indeed, Film History is so dominant that anyone – absolutely anyone – writing on film is considered to be a film historian.  History has a particular resonance in Spain, one doubtlessly connected not only to the trauma but also to the telos of the country’s Civil War (about which Vicente Sánchez Biosca has written extensively). This discussion aims to interrogate historiography and h...