Dr. Julia A. Mendenhall, 2010 Provost’s Award for Innovative Teaching in General Education
Forthcoming book: _I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing_, for the series:
QUEER FILM CLASSICS, a critically acclaimed film book series that launched in 2009; the series covers twenty-one of the most important and influential films about and by LGBTQ people, made in eight different countries between 1950 and 2005, written by leading LGBTQ film scholars and critics. http://www.arsenalpulp.com/seriesinfo.php?index=10

This Friday is the next talk in the Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar series, from the winner of SCMS’s Best First Book Prize last year:

Patrick Keating (Trinity University)
Illuminated Space: Electricity, Modernity, and Film Noir

March 16, 2012 5:00 PM
Temple University Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street Room 420

Although film noir is famous for its shadows, the style offers a remarkably wide range of lighting effects. In some noirs, the flatly lit office building is just as important as the dimly lit alley, and the warm glow of the living room can be just as fateful as the darkened hallway. This talk reconsiders noir lighting in films such as Call Northside 777, The Asphalt Jungle, and The Sweet Smell of Success. In particular, Keating proposes that an important context for noir lighting is the increasing industrialization of electric light during the middle decades of the twentieth century.

Just as the electricity industry was developing a narrative of progress to both explain and promote the expansion of light over these years, the film noir was using a combination of lights and shadows to describe and criticize that expansion.

Patrick Keating is an assistant professor of Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, where he teaches courses in film studies and video production. He is the author of Hollywood Lighting From the Silent Era to Film Noir, published by Columbia University Press, which was selected by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) as the Best First Book in 2011.

Recently, he was awarded an Academy Film Scholars grant to support his research on the
relationship between camera movement and the representation of modern spaces in Hollywood cinema.

UGETSU
directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 Black and White
film screening open to the public
March 2nd at 3pm
Room 3, Annenberg Hall
202 13th St. Temple University Main Campus

Show on 16mm film

Writer/actor/producer L.M. “Kit” Carson will be present to discuss his role in the production of *David Holzman’s Diary, this week’s Temple Cinematheque film presentation.

The documentary will be shown in 16mm at 3PM this coming Friday in AH 3, the basement screening room in Annenberg Hall, located at 2020 N. 13th Street on Temple University’s main campus. SCT Film Lab coordinator Len Guercio will introduce the film as well as moderate a post-film Q&A. In a career characterized by a diverse body of work and a singular independent filmmaking aesthetic, Carson will also discuss his latest documentary, *Africa Diary*, which will premiere this March on the Sundance Channel. As before, the screening is free and open to all. However, seating is limited so please arrive early. This Cinematheque screening is made possible by support from Temple’s FMA Department & faculty as well as the SCT Operations department.