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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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"In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film."
"On May 10, 2008, live events in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked to produce a program of powerful films, live music and visionary speakers. The program will be broadcast live to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones."
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.
An annual faculty research seminar at Temple University
convened by Priya Joshi, Department of English
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
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Temple's own Oliver Gaycken will speak on
"A Modern Cabinet of Curiosities: George Kleine and the Educational Film" at University of Pennsylvania's Department of History and Sociology of Science.
Spring 2008 Workshop
Monday, April 7, 3:30 p.m.
Oliver Gaycken, Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Temple University, will speak on cinema, science, and their meeting in the educational film.
The workshop is on Monday from 3:30 pm until 5:15pm in 337 Logan Hall, with refreshments to follow.
All are welcome!
The University Film & Video Association will award a short documentary by a student or faculty member that follows best practices for fair use.
Deadline is one month away! See details here.
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