SU Hosts Two Lectures on Film and Culture

The Visual Arts and Cultures Cluster of The Central New York Humanities Corridor is presenting two lectures on film at Syracuse University. Both lectures are free and open to the public and will take place in room 500 of the Hall of Languages. For more information, please call cluster director Steven Cohan at 315-443-9476.

Cristina Lucia Stasia, a doctoral candidate in English at SU, is presenting a lecture titled “Mrs. Croft: Angelina Jolie and the Straightening of the Female Action Genre,” Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m.  Stasia’s teaching and research interests include film, particularly action cinema; cultural studies; feminist theory; constructions of femininity; and queer theory.

Abé Mark Nornes, an associate professor in the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures and in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, is presenting a lecture titled “Subtitling Can Be Disterbing: Film Translation of the Third Era,” March 21 at 2:30 p.m. Nornes is the author of  Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary Film (Minnesota UP) and Japanese Documentary Film: From the Meiji Era to Hiroshima (Minnesota UP), as well as many articles in edited volumes and journals such as Cinema Journal and Film Quarterly.

The Central New York Humanities Corridor is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Corridor is a large-scale partnership with Syracuse University, Cornell University, and the University of Rochester that connects scholarship in six cluster areas: philosophy, linguistics, religions and cultures, musicology/music history, visual arts and culture, and humanities at the interface of science/technology.