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The Screen Anniversary Béla Balázs Symposium 

Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Stewart House

Friday 1 May 2009

Programme

 

09.30-10.00:  Coffee and Registration

10.00-10.15:  Welcome and Introduction: Annette Kuhn

Balázs's Intellectual Geography (chair: Erica Carter)

10.30-11.20:  Sabine Hake (University of Texas at Austin), 'Béla Balázs, film folklore, and the reenchantment of the modern masses'.

11.20-12.30:  Hanno Loewy (Jewish Musuem, Hohenems), 'Cinema as "Rites de Passage". Béla Balázs's expeditions into time, space and film'.

12.30-13.30:  LUNCH

13.30:  Screening: Afgrunden (Urban Gad, 1910: with Asta Nielsen) 35'

Balázs: The Problem of the Body in Film Theory (chair: Rodney Livingstone)

14.15-15.00:  Erica Carter (University of Warwick), 'Balázs and the cosmopolitan body'.

15.00-15.45: Andrew Webber (University of Cambridge), 'Cinematic body parts in film theory after Balázs'.

15.45-16.15: TEA

16.15-17.15:  Panel Discussion (chair: Annette Kuhn)

17.15-18.00:  Reception/Book Launch

The organisers acknowledge the kind support of Screen, with Queen Mary, University of London , the University of Warwick, Berghahn Books, Hungarian Cultural Centre and the University of London Screen Studies Group.