In this talk, scholar Craig Buckley draws from his forthcoming book The Street and the Screen: Architectures of Spectatorship in the Age of Cinema, which explores the development of …

In the new book from which this talk is drawn, I elaborate on what is becoming an increasingly familiar materialist approach to media history, but I also press on that approach’s limits.

A lecture by Ying Qian From the toppling of the Qing Empire in 1911 to the political campaigns and mass protests in the Mao and post-Mao eras, revolutionary upheavals characterized …

This talk focuses on the period of growth for daytime soap opera, from its transition out of radio in the 1950s through the early 1980s. While men still dominated the broadcast industry, women …

This illustrated talk will recount the curious episode of Polavision’s instant movies, finding in it a way of questioning the idea of the medium of film as a unified object.

Light Industry will be hosting a talk by scholar Masha Salazkina, related to her recent book World Socialist Cinema. Its focus is the Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, which …

Tonight's talk will unfold this history, proposing an account of the reasons behind the increasing adoption of the limited edition over the past twenty years, and will explore what implications …

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 7:30pm Car Wreckers and Home Lovers Car Wreckers and Home Lovers: The Automobile in Silent Slapstick A lecture by Karen Beckman This talk …

The splintered and indirect dialogism of my 'talk' was designed to interrupt the authoritarian disposition that I found in Sharits's work; to distance me from my audience and my critical …

Recovering a range of forms, tools, and intentions that, considered together, constitute a kind of shadow history of film, Zinman’s talk will offer an overview of this approach to thinking about …