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"A guided tour of the "Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars Death and Disasters, 1962-1964" exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, conceived and narrated by renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg. Cronenberg says,

"Andy was making underground films when I was making underground films. And I was more inspired by him than by Hollywood. He created himself: He was an outsider, a Slovakian, Catholic, gay, an artist, poor; an outsider in his own family, a triple outsider like Kafka, with his nose pressed against the New York window. And, he became the ultimate insider, the center of his own world, and drew people to him. He became a huge example of the invention of an identity."

Commentary by David Cronenberg, Mary-Lou Green, Dennis Hopper, David Moos, James Rosenquist and Amy Taubin."

Thought long lost since 1927 -- a full eighty years ago -- an almost completely intact 16mm print of the original full-length premiere version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis has surfaced in the archives of the Museum of Cinema in Buenos Aires.

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Forget the Film, Watch the Titles from the SubmarineChannel.

On SubmarineChannel, we love a good main title. That's why we started this online collection in 1997 of the most stunning and original film title sequences. Some are engaging and wildly entertaining, some are funny, exhilarating or simply deadly beautiful. Some are oozing with visual treats, while others hit you hard with their bold and audacious style.

Check out the list of new film studies books and dvds acquired at Temple Libraries in March.

Some highlights:

The Paley reference collection is now home to Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews. This 15 volume set reprints the film reviews and some editorials originally published by P.S. Harrison in Harrison's reports, 1919-1962, with some corrections. Harrison's reports was a weekly sent out to independent exhibitors. The reviews and editorials were directed toward independent theater owners to assist them with booking. Articles in Harrison's take positions on a variety of the concerns of cinema distributors and exhibitors ranging from topics such as censorship to the advent of 3D.

A large number of scripts now appear in the library catalog now that we've uploaded records for the scripts that are available in the full text online database American Film Scripts Online. There are currently 823 scripts in the database, ranging from 1903 to 2006.

On Friday, 25 April 2008 join Temple University's Suzanne Gauch and Jessica Winegar for a discussion on "Cultural Politics, Women’s Rights, and Recent Tunisian Film."

The event will be held at the Temple University Center City Campus (TUCC), Room 420, from 5:30-7:00pm

Often highlighting women’s issues, internationally-distributed Tunisian films contribute integrally to Tunisia’s cultural politics both at home and abroad. This talk explores the transnational discourses that enable many recent Tunisian films to promote the post-independence Tunisian government’s exemplary women’s rights record while simultaneously offering a critique of Tunisian society. It further focuses on two recent films, VHS Kahloucha and Bedwin Hacker, that begin to move beyond entrenched cultural politics to broader criticisms of social, political, and economic policies while simultaneously addressing the lingering Orientalisms that make these same cultural politics possible—and necessary—in the international arena.
Suzanne Gauch is assistant professor of English at Temple University, where she teaches postcolonial and gender studies. She has recently authored Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) as well as a number of articles on African and Caribbean postcolonial literature, film, and theory.

Jessica Winegar is assistant professor of Anthropology at Temple University, where she focuses on visual and material culture, the culture industries, nationalism, neoliberalism, social class, gender, value, and the Middle East. Professor Winegar has authored Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford, 2006) and a number of articles.

Welcoming

• Sangita Gopal, University of Oregon
• Sujata Moorti, Middlebury College
• Sumita Chakravarty, New School University
• Pallabi Chakravorty, Swarthmore College

in a a discussion of Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti (eds.) forthcoming publication Global Bollywood: Transnational Travels of the Song-Dance Sequence (2008). This interdisciplinary collection of essays describes the many roots and routes of the Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle around the world.

Thurs., April 17, 11:40 a.m - 1pm
CHAT Room, 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall
For further information.