TIP/Film symposium

The UW–Madison Department of Communication Arts will come to the rescue of film buffs hungry for more following the recent Wisconsin Film Festival.

The department has organized a day of lectures from some leading film scholars to honor the 60th birthday of Kristin Thompson, one of the leading film historians in the United States. She, along with David Bordwell, have written two classic film studies textbooks. Thompson has been affiliated with the department since 1973. The day of events includes lectures and a film screening of “Design for Living” by Ernst Lubitsch.

“Movies, Media, and Methods: A Symposium in Honor of Kristin Thompson” will take place Saturday, May 1. All events are free and open to the pubic and will take place in Cinematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave. More information is available at http://thompson.commarts.wisc.edu/schedule/

Schedule of events:

9 a.m.: Welcome

9:15 a.m.: Charlie Keil, University of Toronto, “Narration and Authorship in the Transitional Text: Griffith, Thanhouser, and Typicality”

10:45 a.m.: Yuri Tsivian, University of Chicago, “Chaplin and the Russian Avant-Garde: The Law of Fortuity in Art”

1:15 p.m.: Janet Staiger, University of Texas at Austin, “Nuking the Fridge: Great Expectations and Affective Reception”

2:30 p.m.: Henry Jenkins, Annenberg Center, University of Southern California, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Constructing Alternative Media Histories through Kim Deitch’s Graphic Novels”

4 p.m.: Kristin Thompson, “How I Spend My Winter Vacations: The Amarna Statuary Project and Techniques of Visual Analysis”

7:30 p.m.: Screening of “Design for Living,” Ernst Lubitsch, 1934