March 3: Elena Gorfinkel on Sexploitation
Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, March 3 to welcome Elena Gorfinkel (UW-Milwaukee) for her talk, "The Gawker in the Text: Allegories of Reception in 1960s Sexploitation Cinema." Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern) will provide the response. The CFS will be held, as always, in the Flaxman Theater, Room 1307 of the School of the Art Institute's building at 112 S. Michigan Ave. Thursday, March 3 at 6:30pm Elena Gorfinkel , Assistant Professor, Art History and Film Studies, UW-Milwaukee "The Gawker in the Text: Allegories of Reception in 1960s Sexploitation Cinema" Respondent: Jeffrey Sconce , Northwestern Gorfinkel describes her talk as follows: "This talk treats the historical aesthetics of 1960s sexploitation films through the lens of reflexivity. It argues that American sexploitation films, in their style, modes of address, narrative preoccupations and thematic tropes, consistently refer outwards towards their conditions of reception. ...