Image of a domestic interior in A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954). Listen to John David Rhodes's talk on the encounter between cinema and modernist American domestic architecture, in relation to this film and others. |
Today, Film Studies For Free brings you glad tidings of the very high quality, audio and video, Film Studies research resources that have been generously shared through the University of Kent website.
As FSFF's author well knows, having been fortunate enough to work there for a decade, Kent is one of the largest and best university centres in Europe dedicated to Film Studies. Film research there, in both theory and practice (faculty include the world-leading scholars Murray Smith and Elizabeth Cowie, as well as the award-winning film-makers Clio Barnard and Sarah Turner), is currently centred in four broad areas: national cinemas – form and history: North American, European, Latin American, Asian; the digital in film; the documentary film; and, especially, film aesthetics, the latter often in collaboration with the interdisciplinary ‘Aesthetics Research Group’.
Some of these interests, and plenty more besides, are beautifully reflected in the amazing wealth of recordings of conferences, symposia and seminars directly linked to below. Just feast your eyes and ears on them.
Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image
Audio Resources
- "The Art of Not Playing to Pictures’ in British Cinemas, 1908-1914" Dr Jon Burrows (University of Warwick) Recent scholarship on musical practices in the silent era argues that by the end of the 1900s and throughout the 1910s the typical cinema musician was a lone pianist who occupied a subordinate position in relation to the projected image and provided forms of accompaniment which ignored traditional musical logic and obediently responded instead to the dictates of narrative logic. Using a variety of evidential sources available in the UK (cinema licensing records, police inspection files, trade paper debates) my paper will argue the contrary: that miniature orchestras were extremely common in British cinemas before the First World War, and that, well into the feature film era, careful synchronisation of music and image was probably the exception rather than the rule. Listen to the lecture here (mp3)
- "Theory and Practice in British Film Schools" Prof Duncan Petrie (University of York) Film and media education in the UK has long been characterised by a fundamental polarisation between theory and practice. This is most clearly manifest in the widespread separation between academic study and hands-on production training within University and College departments and programmes...Listen to the lecture here (mp3)
- "Easy Living: The Modernist House and Cinematic Space“ Dr John David Rhodes (University of Sussex) In this paper I will look at a series of encounters—both real and imaginary—between cinema and modernist American domestic architecture. The paper moves from the sets of A Star is Born (Cukor, 1954), to the short experimental film House (1954)...Listen to the lecture here (mp3)
- "World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism" Prof Lucia Nagib (University of Leeds) This paper will address world cinema through an unusual theoretical model, based on an ethics of realism. The juxtaposition of the terms ‘world cinema’, ‘ethics’ and ‘realism’ creates a tension intended to offer a productive alternative to traditional oppositional binaries such as popular vs art cinemas, fiction vs documentary films, Hollywood vs world cinema... Listen to the lecture here (mp3)
University of Kent Aesthetics Research Group
Audio and video resources:
Kendall Walton and The Aesthetics of Photography and Film (2007)- Interview with Kendal Walton (pdf)
- Videos of all lectures (flash format)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'The Aesthetic'(mp3 - 1hr 36s)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Beauty' (mp3 - 1hr 14mins)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Art' (mp3 - 1hr 13s)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'The Artwork' (mp3 - 1 hr 12m
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artform' (mp3 - 1hr 14m)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic form'(mp3 - 1hr 20m)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic expression' (mp3 - 1hr 04m)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic Interpretation' (mp3 - 1 hr 25m)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic Value' (mp3 - 1hr 28m)
- Audio - Cynthia Freeland: 'Why Some Art Should Be Censored' (mp3 - 44mins 7secs)
- Audio - Aaron Meskin: 'Kinds of Multiples' (mp3 - 53mins 39secs)
- Audio - Howard Caygill: ‘Sun Pictures - Photography And The Astronomic Image’ (mp3 - 56mins 24secs)
- Audio - Noël Carroll: ‘The Problem with Movie Stars’ (Introduction by Murray Smith) (mp3 - 57mins 09secs)
This paper is published in Scott Walden (ed.), Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature, New York: Blackwell, 2008. - Audio - Andrew Kania: ‘The Death of the Narrator: Fiction and Narrative in Literature and Film’ (mp3 - 1hr 33 secs)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson: 'Defending Hypothetical Intentionalism' (excerpt - mp3 - 19m 28s)
- Audio - Jennifer McMahon: 'Aesthetic Autonomy: the Expression of Freedom (a Pragmatist Reading of Adorno) (mp3 - 1hr 4min 39s)
- Audio - Aaron Meskin: 'Authenticity in the Hybrid and Digital Arts' (mp3 - 50m 35s)
- Photos from the conference
- Video - Cain Todd (University of Lancaster): ‘Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual Desire: the aesthetic and the pornographic attitude’
Respondent: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland) - Video - Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex): ‘What Pornography Can Tell Us About Imaginative Responses to Fiction’
Respondent: Murray Smith (University of Kent) - Video - David Davies (McGill University): ‘Is Pornography in the (Intended) Eye of the Beholder?’
Respondent: Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University) - Audio - Rob van Gerwen: ‘How to do Things with Pictures: Pornography and Real Sexuality’ (mp3 52m 40s) Response by Ted Nannicelli (mp3 19m 53s)
- Audio - Susan Dwyer: ‘Docusex: Display and Desire in Internet Pornography’ (mp3 45m 40s)
Response by Elizabeth Cowie (mp3 19m 01s) - Audio - Alex Neill: ‘The Pornographic, the Erotic, and the Charming: remarks on a Schopenhauerian theme’ (mp3 45m 36s)
Response by Jerrold Levinson (mp3 12m 28s)
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