There will be no SHAPE seminar this week on account of its being Good Friday.
The next SHAPE talk will be on April 25 when Prof. Richard Eldridge will present a paper titled “How Movies Think: Cavell on Film as a Medium of Art”. Abstract Stanley Cavell’s writing about movies, from the more theoretical and general (The World Viewed (1971)] to the later works on specific genres (Pursuits of Happiness, Contesting Tears) has a unifying theme: that (some) movies as (successful) art investigate conditions of accomplished selfhood and interest in experience in medium-specific ways. This claim is explained and defended by explicating the details of moving photographic image medium-specificity (and its history of uses) and by focusing on Michael Verhoeven’s 1990 The Nasty Girl / Das schreckliche Mädchen. Though the very ideas of accomplished selfhood and interest in experience naturally prompt some suspicion in a commercialized, pluralistic society, our responses to (some) movies show that we continue to aspire to life that embodies them. Place: S401, Muniment Room (1st floor, under the clock tower in the Main Quad). Time: 10.30am David Dr. David Macarthur | Senior Lecturer & UG Coordinator Philosophy Department, SOPHI | FASS THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NSW, 2006 | Australia Ph: +61 2 9351 3193 http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/philos/staff/profiles/dmacarthur.shtml
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