Event: Adam Lowenstein, associate professor of film studies at the University of Pittsburgh, will be presenting a talk titled “Ghosts in a Super Flat Global Village: Globalization, Surrealism, and Contemporary Japanese Horror Films.”
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Radio-Television-Film and the Department of Asian Studies.
When: 2 p.m., April 22, 2008
Where: LBJ Conference Room (CMA 5.160)
Contact: Lalitha Gopalan | lalithagopalan@mail.utexas.edu
Background: Adam Lowenstein works on issues relating to the cinema as a mode of historical, cultural, and aesthetic confrontation. His teaching and research link these issues to the relays between genre films and art films, the construction of national cinemas, and the politics of spectatorship, with particular attention to American, British, Canadian, French, and Japanese cases. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (Columbia University Press, 2005).