Event overview
The year 2000 is drawing close. How did films think about the end of the world? How did theorists think through the end of film? And what connections might we forge between the two? This talk will focus on apocalypse as a figure for a medium in crisis—or rather, for a medium thought to be in crisis—and on the emergence of the virtual as a category of critique. Films to be discussed include Strange Days, The Matrix, Fight Club, and The Truman Show; theorists, among others, Deleuze, Rancière, and Baudrillard.
James A. Steintrager is professor of English, Comparative Literature, & European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He divides his research time among early modern intellectual history, the reception and relevance of critical theory, and media studies. The working title of his current book project is “The End of World Cinema,” which focuses on Hong Kong cinema, French cinema, Hollywood, and apocalyptic discourses of virtualization, digitization, financial turmoil, and cultural collapse.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 3 Dec 2014 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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