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Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, March 21 to welcome  Luisela Alvaray  (DePaul) for her talk, " Claiming the Past: Venezuelan Historical Films and Public Politics. "   Gilberto Blasini  (UW-Milwaukee) 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, March 21 at 6:30pm Luisela Alvaray , DePaul  "Claiming the Past: Venezuelan Historical Films and Public Politics" Respondent : Gilberto Blasini , UW-Milwaukee Alvaray describes her talk as follows: In 2000, the most financially successful film in Venezuela was Diego Risquez’ Manuela Saenz: La libertadora del Libertador , a revision of the life of Simon Bolívar’s best known lover. In 2012, famous Venezuelan performer Edgar Ramírez depicts Bolívar himself—a guiding force in the Latin American struggle for independence fro...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, February 7 to welcome  Thomas Elsaesser  (University of Amsterdam) for his talk, "Reevaluating 3D."   Tom Gunning  (UChicago) 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, February 7 at 6:30pm Thomas Elsaesser , University of Amsterdam  "Reevaluating 3D" Respondent :  Tom Gunning , U.Chicago Elsaesser's talk will tease out the implications of two of his recent articles, " Avatar - Access for All" ( New Review of Film and Television ) and "The Return of 3D" ( Critical Inquiry ), to ask if, in light of what we know about a hundred years of Hollywood, we can finally evaluate whether or not 3D has been a force for good (progressive, liberal, emancipatory, utopian) or bad (reactionary, ideological, spearhead not only of capitalis...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, January 17 to welcome Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece  (Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern) for her talk, " The Monumental Screen: Perfect Vision, Disembodiment, and American Theatrical Architecture in the Era of Widescreen, " and Matt Hauske (Ph.D. Candidate at U.Chicago) for his talk, " The Western's New Horizons: Wide Screens, Big Canvases, and the Great Outdoors in the 1950s ." Don Crafton  (Notre Dame) 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 17 at 6:30pm Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece , Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern  "The Monumental Screen: Perfect Vision, Disembodiment, and American Theatrical Architecture in the Era of Widescreen" Matt Hauske , Ph.D. Candidate, U.Chicago "The Western's New Horizons: Wide Screens, B...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, November 29 to welcome  Volker Pantenburg  (UIC-visiting) for his talk, " Scanning Landscape: Notes on the Politics and Economy of the Pan ."  Daniel Eisenberg  (SAIC) 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, November 29 at 6:30pm Volker Pantenburg , UIC-visiting, Bauhaus University Weimar  "Scanning Landscape: Notes on the Pilitics and Economy of the Pan" Respondent:  Daniel Eisenberg , SAIC Pantenburg describes his talk as follows: Compared to the abundant research done on montage, Film and Media Studies have paid relatively little attention to the study of camera movement.  Focusing on the horizontal pan, my paper investigates some of the implications of this specific operation.  Which historical constellat...

Note:  If you will be attending the reception immediately following the talk, please  RSVP  by  Thursday, October 18  to the CFS Coordinator, Nova Smith, at nova@uchicago.edu. Please save the date for the opening of the 2012-13 Chicago Film Seminar. We are pleased to announce that on Thursday, October 25th at 6:30pm Haidee Wasson , associate professor of film studies and associate dean of research and graduate studies at Concordia University in Montreal, will give a talk entitled " Protocols of Portability and Projection: Technologies of the Small Screen at Mid-Century ."   Jacob Smith , assistant professor of radio, television and film at Northwestern working on the cultural history of media with a focus on sound and performance, will deliver the response.  We will convene in our  new location   at DePaul's Loop Campus in the Daley Building at 14 E. Jackson Blvd. (at State St.), Room LL 102 .  **...

Please join us for the final Chicago Film Seminar of the year at 6:30 pm on Thursday, May 10 to welcome  Jane Gaines  (Columbia University) for her talk, " A Melodrama Theory of Feminist Film Historiography ."  Christine Gledhill  (New York University) 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, May 10 at 6:30pm Jane Gaines , Columbia University "A Melodrama Theory of Feminist Film Historiography" Respondent:  Christine Gledhill , New York University Gaines describes her talk as follows: This paper is the end of a book that begins with the problem of what we should do with the evidence that so many women made significant behind-the-scenes contributions to building national film industries in the silent era. While the book begins with the chapter “Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?” the end conside...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar, in a joint event with the University of Chicago, at 7:00 pm on Thursday, April 12 to commemorate the life and work of the late Miriam Hansen . The CFS will be held at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center , Cobb Hall Room 307, 5811 S. Ellis Ave. A map can be found here . Thursday, April 12 at 7:00pm Commemorating the Life and Work of Miriam Hansen University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall Room 307, 5811 S. Ellis Ave. The evening will feature a short screening followed by a roundtable discussion with Hansen's colleagues and former students and a reception celebrating the launch of her recently published work Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno.