Film & Media in a Time of Repression: Practices & Aesthetics of Resistance

Please join us for an urgent conversation about film’s histories and futures, examining its status in times of fascism, dictatorship, and moments of stress. The conversation, moderated by critic and Film Quarterly Editor B. Ruby Rich, will include reports on Italy, Argentina/Paraguay, Portugal, the PRC, and the United States itself (past, present, and future).

Panelists will report from the front about the new Action Group Network, a nationwide network organizing to move the country progressively forward in the wake of a divisive election, representations of race in a time of increased risk, and strategies of resistance to media repression.

The conversation, hosted by Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Quarterly, will take place in the Amphitheater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Center beginning at 7pm on Tuesday, December 13th. Film Quarterly is published by the University of California Press with major support from the JustFilms initiative of the Ford Foundation.

Panelists:

  • Walter Bernstein, Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter (The Front), Author of Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist.

  • Natalia Brizuela, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley (Department of Spanish & Portuguese), author, Depois da fotografia. Uma literatura fora de si (Rocco: Rio de Janeiro, 2014) and Fotografia e imperio. Paisagens para um Brasil moderno (Cia das Letras: Sao Paulo, 2012), and Co-editor with Alejandra Uslenghi, Modern Argentine Photography: Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern, Special Issue of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies  (2015).

  • Ruth Ben Ghiat, Cultural critic and Professor of History & Italian Studies at New York University; author, Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema (2015) and Fascist Modernities (2001)

  • Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at the City College of New York, City University of New York, and author, Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (Duke, 2016)

  • Imani Perry, Princeton University, Hughes-Rogers professor of African American studies at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of: More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States (NYU, 2011) and Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Duke, 2004)

  • Susana de Sousa, Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias has been using the images photographed and filmed by the Salazar dictatorship, which lasted nearly half a century, from 1926 to 1974, to provide a history of those years (Still Life, 48).

  • Beau Willimon is a screenwriter, playwright, producer, and the creator of Netflix’s original series House of Cards for which he served as showrunner and executive producer. His plays The Parisian Woman, Breathing Time, Farragut North, Lower Ninth, and Spirit Control have won awards and been produced in New York and internationally. He is a two-time winner of the Lincoln Center Le Comte du Nouy Award. He is the founder of the new Action Group Network.

  • Angela Zito, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Religious Studies; Director, Religious Studies Program; Co-director of the Center for Religion and Media, NYU; co-editor, DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations After Independent Film











When: Tue., Dec. 13, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: Film Society of Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
212-875-5600
Price: Free
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Please join us for an urgent conversation about film’s histories and futures, examining its status in times of fascism, dictatorship, and moments of stress. The conversation, moderated by critic and Film Quarterly Editor B. Ruby Rich, will include reports on Italy, Argentina/Paraguay, Portugal, the PRC, and the United States itself (past, present, and future).

Panelists will report from the front about the new Action Group Network, a nationwide network organizing to move the country progressively forward in the wake of a divisive election, representations of race in a time of increased risk, and strategies of resistance to media repression.

The conversation, hosted by Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Quarterly, will take place in the Amphitheater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Center beginning at 7pm on Tuesday, December 13th. Film Quarterly is published by the University of California Press with major support from the JustFilms initiative of the Ford Foundation.

Panelists:

  • Walter Bernstein, Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter (The Front), Author of Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist.

  • Natalia Brizuela, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley (Department of Spanish & Portuguese), author, Depois da fotografia. Uma literatura fora de si (Rocco: Rio de Janeiro, 2014) and Fotografia e imperio. Paisagens para um Brasil moderno (Cia das Letras: Sao Paulo, 2012), and Co-editor with Alejandra Uslenghi, Modern Argentine Photography: Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern, Special Issue of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies  (2015).

  • Ruth Ben Ghiat, Cultural critic and Professor of History & Italian Studies at New York University; author, Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema (2015) and Fascist Modernities (2001)

  • Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at the City College of New York, City University of New York, and author, Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (Duke, 2016)

  • Imani Perry, Princeton University, Hughes-Rogers professor of African American studies at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of: More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States (NYU, 2011) and Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Duke, 2004)

  • Susana de Sousa, Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias has been using the images photographed and filmed by the Salazar dictatorship, which lasted nearly half a century, from 1926 to 1974, to provide a history of those years (Still Life, 48).

  • Beau Willimon is a screenwriter, playwright, producer, and the creator of Netflix’s original series House of Cards for which he served as showrunner and executive producer. His plays The Parisian Woman, Breathing Time, Farragut North, Lower Ninth, and Spirit Control have won awards and been produced in New York and internationally. He is a two-time winner of the Lincoln Center Le Comte du Nouy Award. He is the founder of the new Action Group Network.

  • Angela Zito, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Religious Studies; Director, Religious Studies Program; Co-director of the Center for Religion and Media, NYU; co-editor, DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations After Independent Film

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