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SUMMARY:Graduate work in progress: Screen Media seminar with Lauri Kitsnik
  and Alice Allen - Lauri Kitsnik and Alice Allen (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Hannah Mowat
DESCRIPTION:The final Screen Media Group seminar of term will showcase ong
 oing research by PhD students Lauri Kitsnik (Department of East Asian Stud
 ies) and Alice Allen (Department of Spanish and Portuguese).\n\nLauri will
  be presenting a paper entitled 'Discursive functions of the screenplay in
  the pre-war Japanese cinema'.\n\n*ABSTRACT* In various stages of the earl
 y history of Japanese film\, debates centering on the screenplay have acte
 d as a catalyst for how cinema has been positioned in the field of cultura
 l production. In the 1910s\, when the critics involved in the Pure Film Mo
 vement focused on making a distinction between stage and screen arts\, fil
 m screenplay was seen to be instrumental for liberating film from the heav
 y influence of theatre\, and from the tradition that left narrative contin
 uity of the film dependent on the presence of benshi. The 1920s saw the es
 tablishment of new film studios such as Shochiku that concentrated its eff
 orts on modernising production methods\, including the founding of a separ
 ate screenwriting section in the company. With the coming of sound in the 
 early 1930s\, some contemporary critics initiated the Scenario-as-Literatu
 re Movement that argued for the literary qualities of the film script and 
 forged a trend to analyse screenplays separately from the films. Unlike ea
 rlier critics who saw film as a medium in its own right\, this movement so
 ught to drag it back to the domain (and prestige) of literary arts.\n\nAli
 ce will be talking about 'Sites of Transformation: Artful Waste and Recycl
 ing in Lixo Extraordinário'.\n\n*ABSTRACT* Waste possesses a powerful sym
 bolic charge that captured the imagination of many artists and intellectua
 ls of the Modernist era. A symptom of all that falls outside of the bounda
 ries of social acceptability\, humankind's endless generation of 'useless'
  material has continued to fascinate\, shock and inspire artists\, intelle
 ctuals and\, with increasing urgency throughout the last century\, environ
 mentalists. In the light of such observations\, this paper examines the do
 cumentary film Lixo Extraordinário (Waste Land\, 2010)\, a UK/Brazil co-p
 roduction featuring a 'transformational' encounter between renowned artist
  Vik Muniz and a group of rubbish collectors working on a landfill site in
  the state of Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. As we contemplate the circuit of im
 ages and materials that shape our lives\, questions surrounding media mult
 iplicity\, exchange and (artistic) reproduction inevitably assert themselv
 es. It is within this framework that I explore motifs of visibility\, frag
 mentation and redemption\, asking how we can better understand the tension
  between ethics and aesthetics in a domain that lies all too uncomfortably
  close to home.\n\nThe session starts at 5 for 5.15 and will be followed b
 y a Q&A.\n\nAll welcome\, no registration required.\n\nThis talk is organi
 sed by the Cambridge Screen Media Group at CRASSH. 
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
 9DP
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