Event overview
GLITS (Goldsmiths Literature Seminar)
Based on Frank Wedekind’s novel, Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (1903), Hadzihalilovic’s film, Innocence (2004), makes for a fascinating and, at points, uncomfortable viewing experience. Set in an all-girls boarding school in the middle of a forest, Hadzihalilovic summons to the fore questions regarding the meaning of innocence, alongside the treatment of the female child’s body on camera, as well as societal expectations of the ‘correct’ upbringing of young girls.
Over the period of two weeks, we will be thinking about this film, alongside a selection of readings (tbc). On 14th January, we will watch the film and, following this, on 21st January we will meet for a discussion that will be led by psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory, Josh Cohen, as well as Beth Guilding, a PhD candidate approaching completion of her thesis on the meaning of childhood in the works of Maurice Blanchot.
Our aim here will be to think through what childhood and innocence comes to mean in Hadzihalilovic’s film, and the ways in which the film’s composition might be attempting to challenge our perceptions of the child as she approaches adolescence.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Jan 2016 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
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