<div dir="ltr">**apologies for cross-posting**<br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0000ff"><font size="4">Public Lecture - Professor Dana Polan</font></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"> <br></b></font><div><div><br></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture by internationally renowned <span>film</span> scholar, Professor Dana Polan, titled <b>"The Square Screen: A reflection on unhip cinema of the 1960s", </b>s</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ponsored by the School of Media, <span>Film</span> and Journalism, Monash University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Date:</b> Thursday, 11<sup>th</sup> August 2016 </font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Time: </b>6:30pm</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Place:</b> Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins St Melbourne <br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>RSVP</b> to <a href="mailto:kirsten.steven@monash.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">kirsten.stevens@monash.edu</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The Square Screen: A reflection on unhip cinema of the 1960s</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Illustrated with a variety of clips, this reflection suggests how mainstream films of the American Sixties complicate easy divisions of the period into establishment cinema and a hip, cutting-edge alternative.<br></span></font></p><div title="Page 1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div><div><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700">Dana Polan<span> </span></span>is a Professor of Cinema Studies at NYU and author of 8 books in lm and media studies, including 'Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940-1950', 'Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film, 1915-1935', and 'Julia Child’s the French Chef'</span></font></p></div></div></div><br></div></div>
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