Low Library Trustee's Room
Moinak Biswas, ICLS Visiting Scholar and Professor at the Department of Film Studies Jadavpur University
"Sites of Cinema"
“Sites of Cinema” takes a new approach to the question of cinema at the moment when cinema is said to be in decline, even in some accounts said to be facing its “death.” Alternative to André Bazin’s question “What is Cinema?” “Sites of Cinema” will ask “Where is Cinema?” Where has it been seen to be and where will it be spaced in the future—as theoretical construct, national culture, material object, artistic work, social practice and space of exhibition. Cinema has moved and is still moving—from theatrical stages to museum walls, in and on buildings as well as within historical nations and regions of the world. “Sites of Cinema” signals our interest in site-specific cinemas plural but also cinema as a total apparatus—the “cinema of the mind” for the mass audience.
Presentations will be performed by speaker Moinak Biswas, ICLS Visiting Scholar and Professor at the Department of Film Studies Jadavpur University. Response by Debashree Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, Columbia University.
If you would like to attend the dinner before the meeting from 6:30 to 7:30pm at the Faculty House dining hall, please RSVP by Thursday, October 3rd to rapporteur (T. A. Morris) at t.a.morris@columbia.edu. Dinner is $30.00, payable by cheque only. Cheque payments for the dinner will be collected and recorded by the rapporteur on the evening of the dinner. If you have any special dietary needs, please indicate those to the rapporteur also. Please be advised the Reservation Policy of the Faculty House has changed and we will be charged for any cancelled meals.
RSVP is necessary for the dinner only, please RSVP to T.A Morris at t.amorris@columbia.edu.
