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

[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

Tom Gunning, University of Chicago