Conversations Across Screen Cultures, a national online initiative featuring live virtual interviews and discussions with film and media scholars, media artists, and programmers, continues its 2023-2024 season on Thursday, November 16 at 7:00pm ETwith Barbara Mennel, Professor of German Studies and Film Studies at the University of Florida. Dr. Mennel will be interviewed by Michael Richardson, Professor of German Studies and director of Screen Cultures at Ithaca College.
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Conversations Across Screen Cultures is a collaboratively produced speaker series that creates space for dynamic conversations among screen studies scholars and practitioners. Sessions feature open discussion and dialogue between speakers and attendees. Begun by Patty Zimmermann during the pandemic lockdown, Conversations Across Screen Cultures honors Patty’s legacy by promoting connection and collaboration as critical modes for screen studies practice.
Barbara Mennel is a Professor of German Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and of Film Studies in the Department of English at the University of Florida. From 2017-2023, she served as the Rothman Chair and Director of UF’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. She has published five books and one forthcoming, two co-edited volumes, a special co-edited volume of a journal, and several articles on film and feminism. Her book Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema (2019) received the 2022 Honorable Mention of the Laura Shannon Prize. Her most recent book on American experimental filmmaker Su Friedrich was published by the University of Illinois Press in September 2023. Her volume on Mädchen in Uniform (1931) will be published in the series BFI Film Classics in May 2024 with Bloomsbury. She has begun a new research project on contemporary miniatures that take up traditions of the making of art, crafting, and collecting of tiny objects.
Michael D. Richardson is Professor of German Studies in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ithaca College. He is also the inaugural director of the Program in Screen Cultures. A regular event and talkback moderator, presenter, and discussant for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), he has also recently been named co-director of FLEFF, along with Dr. Andrew Utterson. His research interests encompass 20th- and 21st-century German literature, theater, and film, from the Weimar Republic to contemporary Germany as well as contemporary world cinema. 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.
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