The Summer Institute in Film
The Future and the Past of
Cinema and Media Studies
June 4 – 7, 2012
Produced by the Graduate Program in Cinema & Media Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University
ABOUT
When the Society for Cinema Studies became the Society for Cinema and Media Studies ten years ago, the name change was long overdue, as film scholars had increasingly been incorporating television, video art, digital media and many other elements of screen culture into the discipline. Ongoing rapid changes in screen technologies, modes of production, exhibition and distribution — not to mention the impending obsolescence of the physical substance of film itself — have heightened the sense that the field of cinema and media studies continues to face enormous changes in its object of study, methodologies, and cultural and political stakes.
The 2012 Summer Institute in Film: The Future and the Past of Cinema and Media Studies examines the history of a discipline that has, from its inception, been interdisciplinary. Featured guest speakers are film scholars Professor Lucy Fischer (University of Pittsburgh) and Professor Patrice Petro (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), both former presidents of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. They will offer their perspectives on the past and future of the discipline by investigating issues of pedagogy, academic institutionalization, and globalization, with a special focus on the role and continuing legacy of feminist film theory as the appropriately radical foundational moment for its disciplinary formation.
Now in its fourth year, the annual Summer Institute in Film offers York University graduate students and the wider community the opportunity to engage with prominent international scholars through seminars, courses and free public lectures.
Speakers
Dr. Lucy Fischer
Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Patrice Petro
Professor of English, Film Studies and Global Studies, and Vice Provost for International Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
THE FUTURE AND THE PAST OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
Monday, June 4 - 4pm
Patrice Petro: "Globalization and Film and Media Studies"
Tuesday, June 5 - 4pm
Film Studies, Pedagogy and the Academy
Lucy Fischer: “Memories of Underdevelopment”
Patrice Petro: "Organizational Challenges"
Reception to follow
Wednesday, June 6 - 4 pm
Feminism and Film: Past and Present
Lucy Fischer: “A Formative Decade: 1976-1988”
Patrice Petro: ”Beyond Success: After 1989"
Thursday, June 7 - 4pm
Lucy Fischer: “Afterimage and Afterlife: Maya Deren in ‘Transfigured Time’”
Patrice Petro is a professor of English, Film Studies and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also serves as vice provost for International Education. Her teaching and research interests include cinema and media history, theory and criticism; modernism and modernity; feminist and critical theory; and internationalism and globalization. As author and editor, her credits include ten books, among them Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices (2011), Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s (2010), Rethinking Global Security:Media, Popular Culture, and the ‘War on Terror’ (2006), Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age (2003) and Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History (2002). She was president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies from 2007 to 2011.
Public Talks
"Globalization and Film and Media Studies"
Monday, June 4 - 4pm
"Organizational Challenges"
Tuesday, June 5 - 4pm
”Beyond Success: After 1989"
Wednesday, June 6 - 4pm
All talks will take place at
Nat Taylor Cinema
North 102 Ross Building
York University
4700 Keele St. Toronto
Map & Directions
Admission is free
More information: 416.736.2100 ext. 22174
Lucy Fischer is Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where she directs the Film Studies Program. She is the author of eight books: Jacques Tati (1983), Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema (1989), Imitation of Life (1991), Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre (1996), Sunrise (1998), Designing Women: Art Deco, Cinema and the Female Form (2003), Stars: The Film Reader (2004) and American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations (2009). Forthcoming publications include Teaching Film (2012), a collection of essays co-edited with Patrice Petro, and Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema (2013). Fischer has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art, and has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Art Critics Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors. She served as president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies from 2001 to 2003 and received its Distinguished Service Award in 2008.
Public Talks
"Memories of Underdevelopment”
Tuesday, June 5 - 4pm
“A Formative Decade: 1976-1988”
Wednesday June 6 - 4pm
“Afterimage and Afterlife: Maya Deren in ‘Transfigured Time’”
Thursday, June 7 - 4pm
All talks will take place at
Nat Taylor Cinema
North 102 Ross Building
York University
4700 Keele St. Toronto
Map & Directions
Admission is free
More information: 416.736.2100 ext. 22174
