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April 4–6, 2008 • April 11–13, 2008
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Colgate University Hamilton, New York Golden Auditorium, 105 Little Hall |
Hamilton College Clinton, New York Kirner-Johnson Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building |
Nature/Place/Cinema will focus on the representation of landscape, place, and the natural world in film and video. It will include visiting filmmakers screening their films and videos, and lectures by cinema scholars and scholars of the landscape. The symposium will draw attention to two overlooked dimensions of moving-image history that relate to the depiction of place and the environment: the emergence during the past twenty-five years of a modern school of landscape filmmaking/videomaking; and the long, generally under-appreciated history of the nature (or “wildlife”) film. It will also examine cinematic manifestations of place, as it relates to contemporary culture, history, and habitat. Nature/Place/Cinema will engage a wide range of academic disciplines and is sure to spark dialogues which will yield new understandings of nature films and their relationship to contemporary film scholarship.
FUNDED BY:
The Art and Art History Department, Arts Mix of the Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts,
the Biology Department, the Center for Ethics and World Societies, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies
Hamilton College
Office of the Dean of the Faculty, Dean Joseph Urgo, Associate Dean Patrick Reynolds,
the Kirkland Endowment, the Comparative Literature Department, and the Art History Department
Additional funding from the New York State Council on the Arts
ORGANIZED BY:
Luca Caminati, John Knecht, Masha Salazkina, and Lynn Schwarzer
Hamilton College
Scott MacDonald
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