Colloquium in Visual Culture with Genevieve Yue
Rescheduled from April 6
Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Genevieve Yue, director of Screen Studies, Eugene Lang College, The New School presents The Woman in the Film Archive.
The film archive is outwardly governed by a rational, orderly system, though less attention is given to the operation of desire that undergirds it. In archival theory, this is sometimes articulated as a quest for Gradiva, a chimerical woman from an obscure early twentieth century novella by Wilhelm Jensen. In this talk, trace the Gradivan motif of the vanished woman from writings by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida to its expression in films by Bill Morrison, Cheryl Dunye, and Radha May.
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