Event overview
Goldsmiths Writers' Centre presents
Cinema is unrivalled at showing the external view but struggles to model subjectivity. Very often in films physical disability is used to stand in for an emotional state, such as isolation or vulnerability. But disability is not a metaphor to those it affects directly, whose perspective is rarely taken into account. As part of this wide-ranging talk, Adam Mars-Jones will show clips from films including The Best years of Our Lives, Forrest Gump, The Thing, Awakenings, The Miracle Worker, Manhunter and The Player, as well as referring to his most recent novels, Pilcrow and Cedilla.
Adam Mars-Jones’s books include a collection of stories, Lantern Lecture (1981); a book of essays Blind Bitter Happiness (1997); a book about the film Late Spring entitled Noriko Smiling; two novels, Pilcrow (2008) and Cedilla (2011), which are part of a projected sequence of more; and, most recently, the acclaimed memoir Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and TLS, and has also contributed to the Guardian and Observer. He was recently appointed Research Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 30 Nov 2016 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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