Cinema, Mobility, Global Society
Since the late 20th century, cinema has been understood as a transnational practice where the circulation of film is key to the constitution of contemporary national societies.
Within the debates in the humanities on the globalization of culture in recent years, two general theoretical positions have emerged:
- one that emphasizes similar local reactions in different world regions to international and/or global practices and
- one that emphasizes asymmetrical, alternative, or different modernities with dissimilar cultural practices.
Kathleen Newman, associate professor of cinema & Spanish at the University of Iowa, will present "Cinema, Mobility, Global Society: A Latin Americanist Perspective" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101.
This talk will examine what Latin American cinema and its international circulation can tell us about global culture and politics today.
Newman is a founding member of the Latino Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Her research focuses on Latin American cinema and theoretical questions regarding the relation between cinema and globalization. Newman co-edited World Cinemas, Transnational Practices (Routledge, 2009) with Natasa Durovicova. Her current book project examines Argentine silent cinema as a transnational practice and calls into question the concept of peripheral modernity.
The Center for the Humanities is sponsoring her talk.
Grinnell College welcomes the participation of people with disabilities. Rosenfield Center Room 101 is equipped with an induction hearing loop system, which enables individuals with hearing aids set to T-Coil to hear the program. Accommodation requests may be made to Conference Operations.
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