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Film Studies I: Europa, Europa

Session 2 - Saturday 10:00-11:30am
Ching Hall 254
Presiding Officer: 
Craig Svonkin
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
John Sweeney
  1. Hypnosis in the Films of Lars von Trier. Natalia Laranjinha, New York University

    The paper will analyze Lars von Trier’s different approaches on hypnotism in its relation with identity transfer, possession and cinema. The analyses will use the work of Freud (transfer), Mesmer and Charcot (possession) and Bellour (hypnosis and cinema).

  2. Mediating Cultural Context: German Films--Japanese Locations. Aili Zheng, Willamette University

    This paper develops a theoretical approach to films that engage specific transnational contexts. It considers several German films that in their representations have distinct affinities with locations in Japan. The notion of focalization and the possibility of hybrid sign systems form the basis of the analysis.

  3. Tarkovsky’s Terrain Vague: Nomadic Subjectivity and Interspecies Utterance in Solaris and Stalker. April Durham, University of California, Riverside

    This paper considers the nomadic subject in relation to the encounter of human and non-human characters in Tarkovsky’s films Solaris and Stalker. A dialog of becoming emerges from the margins, shifting expectations for memory and communion, evoking a semantics of multiplicity.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed