[SydPhil] SHAPE talk schedule

[David Macarthur]

There will be no SHAPE seminar this week on account of its being Good Friday.

The next SHAPE talk will be on April 25 when Prof. Richard Eldridge will present a paper titled “How Movies Think: Cavell on Film as a Medium of Art”.

Abstract
Stanley Cavell’s writing about movies, from the more theoretical and general (The World Viewed (1971)] to the later
works on specific genres (Pursuits of Happiness, Contesting Tears) has a unifying theme: that (some) movies
as (successful) art investigate conditions of accomplished selfhood and interest in experience in medium-specific
ways.  This claim is explained and defended by explicating the details of moving photographic image medium-specificity
(and its history of uses) and by focusing on Michael Verhoeven’s 1990 The Nasty Girl / Das schreckliche Mädchen.
Though the very ideas of accomplished selfhood and interest in experience naturally prompt some suspicion in a
commercialized, pluralistic society, our responses to (some) movies show that we continue to aspire to life
that embodies them.

Place: S401, Muniment Room (1st floor, under the clock tower in the Main Quad).

Time: 10.30am

David

Dr. David Macarthur | Senior Lecturer & UG Coordinator
Philosophy Department, SOPHI | FASS
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
NSW, 2006 | Australia
Ph: +61 2 9351 3193
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/philos/staff/profiles/dmacarthur.shtml




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