高等研究所 訪問研究員 セミナー: Reflexivity and the Post-Medium Condition（10/18）
詳 細/ Details
Reflexivity—the capacity for cinema to address itself or the world beyond its diegesis—has long been a crucial aspect of film theory and a contested practice in film-making. Loosely, it implies a gesture of “looking back,” in a way that assumes distinction between a reflecting subject and an other “self” as an object of reflection, as well as a temporal and spatial remove.
More, by providing a visual representation of the act of philosophical reflection or critical thinking that scholars could elaborate, this gesture helped cement cinema studies as a serious intellectual endeavor in the humanities.
Yet, today, much critical writing on cinema emphasizes affect over reflection, even if not explicitly.
Further, the autonomy of both work and viewer once assumed is also dispersed, a process compounded by the nature of cinematic production today within a transmedia world of franchising, platforms, digital technologies, virtual life-forms, and other image making practices. However, such expressions of ‘post-cinema’ and media are rife with what could easily be identified as reflexive elements, and arguably require them.
If so, however, and this reflexivity is no longer tied to autonomy or medium specificity, the exact role of this reflexivity has been left open and uninterrogated. Is there then a need for a new theory of cinematic reflection? If so, to what end?
講演者 / Speaker
フィリップ・キャフェン (ノースキャロライナ大学シャーロット校 准教授)
日 時 / Date & Time
2024年10月18日（金）17:00 – 19:00 / Oct 18, 2024 (Fri.) 17:00 – 19:00
会 場 / Venue
早稲田大学 早稲田キャンパス 19号館 3階 315号室
Building#19 3F Room#315, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
言 語 / Language
英語 / English
対 象 / Prospected Audience
学生・研究者・教職員・一般 / Undergraduate, Graduate, Researchers, Faculty members, general audience
主 催 / Organizer
早稲田大学高等研究所 / Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
申し込み / Registration
事前予約不要
Registration is not required to participate.
