<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">*Apologies for cross-posting*</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="arial black, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><font size="4">Professor Lesley Stern - Public Lecture</font><br></font><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Date:</b> Thursday, 12<sup>th</sup> November 2015 <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Time: </b>5:45pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Place:</b> Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins St Melbourne</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>RSVP:</b><span class=""> </span><a href="mailto:kirsten.stevens@monash.edu">kirsten.stevens@monash.edu</a> <br></span></p><br><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture by internationally renowned film scholar, Professor Lesley Stern, titled:</span></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font size="4"> </font><b><font size="4">"How does (the) Cinema Feel About (the) Animal?"</font><br><font size="2"><br></font></b></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><b>Abstract</b>:</span> In the
cinema all things are potentially equal: objects, people, animals. All things
come into being—come alive, acquire performative powers—through cinematic
magic. But even though the cinema is not exclusively human it has surely been
permeated by the spirit of human exceptionalism. Bad blood enshrouds the
inception of cinema, and its legacy is a haunting. When we watch movies today we
cannot avoid the presence of ghosts: slaughtered elephants, galloping horses,
sacrificial dogs, carnivorous bears—all hover and materialize and enter our
dreams. Much recent work in cinema studies has turned attention to the place of
the animal in the cinema and this paper is enabled by such work. However,
rather than thinking through generalities my attention is caught, today, by
moments of sensuous intensity, by fragments and scenes from various films in
which animals and people and places are brought into strangely affective
alliance. Reaching from Buster Keaton’s <i>Go
West </i>to <span lang="EN-US"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Apichatpong
Weerasethakul</span></span>’s <i>Tropical Malady</i>, the paper will
speculate on how films (via modes of mimeticism, empathetic projection,
animistic gestures) might affect and change the way we feel and identify across
differences.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(111,168,220)"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Professor Lesley Stern</span></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial"> is the
author of <em>Dead and Alive: The Body as Cinematic Thing, The Smoking
Book</em> and <em>The Scorsese Connection,</em> and co-editor
of <em>Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance</em>. Her work
moves between a number of disciplinary locations and spans both theory and
production: although her reputation was established in the fields of film
theory and history, she is also known for her fictocritical writing. Her work
has been highly influential in the areas of film, performance, photography,
cultural history, postcolonialism, feminism and gardening/ecocriticism. </span></p>
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