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Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, January 16 to welcome Pamela Robertson Wojcik  (Notre Dame) for her talk, " Shirley Temple as Streetwalker."    Miriam Petty ( Northwestern) 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 16 at 6:30pm Pamela Robertson Wojcik , Notre Dame  "Shirley Temple as Streetwalker" Respondent :  Miriam Petty ,  Northwestern Wojcik describes her talk as follows: My talk is called "Shirley Temple as Streetwalker," which I mean literally - she walks in streets - and metaphorically - her mobility in urban space seems to conjure prostitution and narratives of fallen women.  Temple's films of the 1930s yoke together seemingly contradictory narratives of the fallen woman and the "new girl."  They show Temple being unmoored fr...

On Thursday, April 7 at 6:30pm, Michelle Citron (Columbia College) will present "Is This Cinema? Narrative and the Digital," a talk and screening of her short films. Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago) will provide the response. The meeting will take place, as always, in the Flaxman Theater, Room 1307, of the School of the Art Institute's building at 112 S. Michigan Ave. Citron describes her talk as follows: "My reading of Andrew’s What Cinema Is! raises the question: How far can you push the medium (be it film, video, or digital) and still call it cinema? I will show two works, Leftovers (2010) and Mixed Greens (2004). Leftovers , a linear narrative created from photographs, 16mm film, and cameraless digital images, raises issues about the camera and the real (in Bazin's sense). Mixed Greens , an interactive non-linear narrative created from photographs, 16mm film, video, and cameraless digital images, foregrounds issues about editing/ellipsis and aud...