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Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium - Mary Ann Doane

"Turn in Cinema and the Production of Sound Space"
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Porter College Room D245 (UCSC)
Presented by: 
Arts Division
Film and Digital Media
History of Art and Visual Culture

Mary Ann Doane is Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at The University of California-Berkeley. She is the author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (2002), Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis( 1991), and The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (1987). In 2007, she edited a special issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, “Indexicality: Trace and Sign.” In addition, she has published a wide range of articles on feminist film theory, sound in the cinema, psychoanalytic theory, television, and sexual and racial difference in film. She is currently completing a book on the use of the close-up in film practice and theory, and the way in which screen size and its corresponding scale have figured in the negotiation of the human body’s relation to space in modernity.

For more information: visualmedia@ucsc.edu

Free and open to the public.