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SUMMARY:Filming War - Jay Winter (Yale)
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Humanitas Visiting Professor in War Studies 2012: Jay Winter\n
 \nProfessor Jay Winter (Charles J Stille Professor of History\, Yale Unive
 rsity) will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding sympos
 ium on Imagining War in the 20th Century and After.\n\nAbstract\n\nThe lec
 tures explore mediating languages and symbolic forms which writers\, artis
 ts\, and filmmakers have used to represent war since 1900. This attention 
 to language in cultural history is at the core of this interpretation. Wha
 t we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. The event itsel
 f\, what Walt Whitman called the red thing\, the actual killing\, is beyon
 d us. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding\, terrifying light
  in order to see it at all. The lectures want to draw attention to these l
 enses as the elements which make understanding war possible at the same ti
 me as they limit what we see.\n\nThe third and final lecture addresses a c
 entral problem in the framing of war in film. That problem is to determine
  how filmmakers have chosen between the spectacular and the indirect appro
 ach to making war films. Both have been mainstays of the industry since it
 s foundation\, just in the nick of time for the arrival of industrialized\
 , assembly-line violence in 1914. The claim is that the genre of war films
  has a history\, a shift in approach over time\, which always runs up agai
 nst the immovable limit condition of the art: which is\, that every attemp
 t to film war fails.\n\nFor more information on this series\, please see t
 he following link: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1718/.
LOCATION:Room 3\, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms\, 8 Mill Lane\, Cambridge
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