Thursday, November 4 at 7:00 p.m. EDT
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Dr. Michael Richardson is Professor and Chair of World Languages and Literatures and Director of the Screen Cultures Program at Ithaca College. His research interests encompass 20th- and 21st-century literature, theater, and film, from the Weimar Republic to contemporary Germany. His current research focuses on three areas: constructions of history in recent German cinema, Holocaust cinema, and the image of Hitler in American and German popular culture.
He is the author of Revolutionary Theater and The Classical Heritage: Inheritance and Appropriation from Weimar to the GDR (2007), and coeditor of A New History of German Cinema (2012) and Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, and Memory (2008). His essays have appeared in Telos, Colloquia Germanica, New German Critique, Stanford Literature Review, and in several anthologies. He is also a member of the editorial board of New German Critique.
Dr. Rachel Schaff is the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Screen Studies in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. Her current research addresses questions of melodrama across various cinematic forms and national contexts in relationship to how Holocaust memorialization is institutionalized. Her scholarly essays have appeared in Afterimage, Cinema et Cie, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Spectator: The USC Journal of Film and Television, and Studies in Eastern European Cinema.
Sessions will feature open discussion and dialogue with students and faculty in attendance.
The event is sponsored by Screen Cultures, the Department of History, and the Finger Lake Film Environmental Festival.