Join us at International Cinema on 11 March 2020 at 5pm in 250 KMBL for a lecture by Prof. Roger Macfarlane (Classics) on the Coen brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou and its relationship to Homer’s The Odyssey. The title of the lecture is: “‘πολλοῖσιν γὰρ ἔγωγε ὀδυσσάμενος ἱκανώ,’ from the Coens to Homer: Mythological Adaptation in O Brother, Where Art Thou?“
On Wednesday March 4 at 5pm in 250 KMBL our very own Prof. Marc Yamada (IC co-director/Interdisciplinary Humanities) will lecture on Bong Joon-ho’s award-winning Parasite. The title of the lecture is “Hidden Families and Class Conflict in Bong’s Parasite.”
On Wednesday Feb. 26 at 5pm in 250 KMBL Prof. Chip Oscarson (Scandinavian and Interdisciplinary Humanities) will present the lecture “Cinema at the End of the Earth: Representing the Arctic on Film” before the 5:30 screening of Arctic (Penna 2019).
On Wednesday 19 February at 5pm in 250 KMBL Prof. Brian Roberts (English) will be lecturing on the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. His lecture is in connection with the subsequent screening of the documentary And Then They Came for Us (Abby Ginzberg 2017). The title of his lecture is: “Could It Happen Again? Geological Perspectives on Imprisonment at Utah’s Topaz Internment Camp.”
On Friday 14 Feb. at 4.30pm immediately following the screening of the Swedish film, Broken Hill Blues, Professor Chip Oscarson (Scandinavian Studies/Interdisciplinary Humanities) will lead a post-screening discussion.
Prof. James Swensen (Art History/Comparative Arts & Letters) will present on the artist Banksy at the weekly lecture at International Cinema Wed. Feb. 12 at 5pm in 250 KMBL immediately before the 5.30pm screening of this week’s documentary Banksy Does New York (Moukarbel 2014). The title of his lecture is “Everyone Loves Banksy, Right?”
On Wednesday 5 February at 5pm in 250 KMBL, Prof. Steive Riep (Asian and Near Eastern Languages) will present a lecture on Jia Zhangke’s film, Still Life (2006). The title of the lecture is: “The Good People of Three Gorges: Jia Zhangke’s Still Life.”
Join us Wednesday 29 January at 5pm in 250 KMBL for a lecture on War & Peace by Prof. Mark Purves (German and Russian) immediately preceding the screening of the film. The title of his lecture is “This is Not a Novel: Tolstoy’s War and Peace.“
Join us on Wednesday 22 January in 250 KMBL at 5pm for a lecture from special guest Dr. Jennifer Fay (Vanderbilt University). The title of her lecture will be “Imagining Deep History in the Present.” Dr. Fay is the director of Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University as well as the author of the award winning book Inhospitable Nature: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene (Oxford UP 2018). Her research and teaching interests are broad and include transatlantic film and media theory, environmental criticism, including critical Anthropocene studies, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics.
On Wednesday 15 January at 5pm in 250 KMBL, Prof. Darl Larsen (Theater and Media Arts) will lecture on The Godfather. The title of the lecture is “How The Godfather Changed/Saved Hollywood.” A screening of The Godfather will follow at 5.30pm. Darl Larsen is Professor of Theatre & Media Arts and the Center for Animation at BYU, with emphases in film genres and history, animation, and screenwriting. Some of his recent publications include A Book about the Film Monty Python’s Life of Brian (2018), A Book About the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (2015), and Monty Python’s Flying Circus: An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References from Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson to Zambesi (2008).