"Beyond the Film: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Movie Audiences and their Environments" Symposium

Cara Caddoo (Indiana University Bloomington), Tom Gunning (University of Chicago), Jie Li (Harvard University) and Jeff Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Event Schedule

9:30-9:50a      BREAKFAST RECEPTION 

9:50-10a          OPENING REMARKS  

10-11a             SPEAKER Jeff Smith, “Pop Music, Processing Fluency, and Pleasure: Film Songs as Both Hype and Memento”

11-11:15a        BREAK

11:15a-12:15p  SPEAKER Jie Li, “Cinematic Guerrillas: Mobile Film Exhibition in Socialist China”

12:15-1:45p    Boxed lunch by invitation

1:45-2:45p      SPEAKER Cara Caddoo, “Lithos, Stills, and Lobby Cards: Racializing Theatrical Space"

2:45-3p            BREAK

3:00-4:15p      SPEAKER Tom Gunning, “Modernist Cinemas: Black Boxes and Beyond”

4:15-4:45p       RESPONSE/WRAP-UP  

5-5:30p           RECEPTION IN MCDONNELL

Sponsored by the Washington University in St. Louis Film and Media Studies Program. Co-Sponosred by the Washington University in St. Louis Department of Art HIstory and Archaeology