Tuesday - Thursday, February 24-26, 1998
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Abstract

[The complete text of Tom Gunning's presentation is also available.]

There are many instructive and unsettling parallels between the period of the advent of the movies and our turbulent contemporary experience with digital media.

Metaphors for the Cinema as a New Technology:
Captured Shadows and Projected Voices
Tuesday, February 24

The Lumiere Kinematograph and Amateur Photography Culture:
Seizing the Instant
Wednesday, February 25

Fritz Lang Calling:
The Cinema, the Telephone and the Terrain of Modernity
Thursday, February 26

Speakers

Tom Gunning is widely recognized as the leading American historian of silent film. He is the author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of Narrative Film (1991) and many essays on film and the culture of the turn of the century.