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Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, January 19 to welcome Miriam Petty (Northwestern) for her talk, " A Dance with Uncle Billy: Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and African American Children's Spectatorship. " Karen Bowdre (Indiana) 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, January 19 at 6:30pm Miriam Petty , Northwestern "A Dance with Uncle Billy: Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and African American Children's Spectatorship" Respondent: Karen Bowdre , Indiana Petty describes her talk as follows: My paper uses celebrated tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and his cinematic relationship with child star Shirley Temple as the springboard for an examination of African American children’s spectatorship in the 1930s and early 40s. Relying on a variety of autobiography, memoir and personal ...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:45 pm on Thursday, December 1 to welcome Catherine Clepper (Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern) for her talk, " Death by Fright: Risk, Consent, and Sensation in the House of William Castle ," and Adam Hart (Ph.D. Candidate at U.Chicago) for his talk, " Something to Be Scared Of: Fear, Anxiety and Phobia in the Horror Film ." James Lastra (U.Chicago) and Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern) will both 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, December 1 at 6:45pm Catherine Clepper , Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern "Death by Fright: Risk, Consent, and Sensation in the House of William Castle" Adam Hart , Ph.D. Candidate, U.Chicago "Something to Be Scared Of: Fear, Anxiety and Phobia in the Horror Film" Respondents: James Lastra , U.Chicago, and Jeffrey Sconce , Northwestern Clepper descri...

On Thursday, March 3, Elena Gorfinkel (University of Wisconsin – Madison) presented her talk, “’The Gawker in the Text’: Allegories of Reception in 1960s Sexploitation Film” at the Chicago Film Seminar. Jeffrey Sconce of Northwestern provided the response. In this talk, Gorfinkel discusses the reflexive, self-referential nature of sexploitation films, particularly around the generic problem of ‘consuming sex’, to better understand the specific conditions of reception of adult films and sexualized media in the public culture of the 1960s. Gorfinkel notes that sexploitation films of the 1960s, refracting the era’s contentious sexual politics, frequently retained a dystopian tenor, in which sexual activity and exchange often came at a grave narrative cost. The paradox of sexploitation films, she argues, is the that the expanding sexual marketplace is both exploited economically and aesthetically and disdained rhetorically, negotiating the tensions between strategies of display and denial....