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SUMMARY:Representations of Grief and Mourning in modern European and Ameri
 can cinema - Richard Armstrong
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CONTACT:Dr Moritz Baumstark
DESCRIPTION:The nineteenth century saw widespread experimentation in the s
 ciences\, enhancing academic knowledge and capturing the public imaginatio
 n. Yet there were many who saw positivism as a threat to other ways of see
 ing. Spiritualism and the evolution of the moving\nimage both responded to
  the attempt to reconcile science and metaphysics\, and offered succour to
  a timeless human desire\; to witness images of things not physically pres
 ent. \nThis paper charts the rise of mediumship in Britain\, America and F
 rance\, and the concurrent refinement of cinema\, showing how the desire f
 or presence in absence met the public need to believe\, offering a space f
 or minority perspectives\, and throwing light on one of film's essential g
 enres\; the cinema of mourning.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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