Please join us for
the final Epiphany Term seminar in the series:
Writing in the Cinema
Professor Laura Marcus
Oxford University
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Tuesday, 13th March
2012
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Elvet Riverside,
ER149
ABSTRACT
This talk examines the ways in which the
representation of authorship in film bears on the relationship between the
visual and the verbal, the image and the word, which has been the ground of
longstanding aesthetic debate. It looks at films and texts in which the
transition between book and film, word and image, is foregrounded, thematically
and through formal strategies. In a significant number of recent films, the
writer, and often the screen writer, becomes a central figure, creating or
created by his or her verbal/textual imaginings. This bears on the question of
the primacy of the word or the image in cinema, and on the relationship between
the word and the filmic world. The paper illustrates this discussion with
examples from a range of films, including early Dickens' adaptations, Smoke
(scripted by Paul Auster), and the recent film Howl.
ABOUT
THE SPEAKER
Laura Marcus is
Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of New
College. She has published widely in the fields, of auto/biography, modernist
literature and culture, and literature and film. Her book publications include
Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice; Virginia Woolf:
Writers and their Work, The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist
Period, and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English
Literature.
Forthcoming seminars in the series:
26 April: Dr Peter Howarth
(Queen Mary, University of London)
9 May: Professor Rachel Bowlby
(UCL)
23 May: John Clegg (Durham
University) and Kaja Marczewska (Durham University)
30 May: Professor Jonathan Hart
(Durham University)
6 June: Dr Sarah Wasson
(Edinburgh Napier University)
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