La Maison Française - 16 Washington Mews, New York
FridayApril 23, 2010
French Literature andCinema
An International Colloquium
The colloquium explores the varied interactions between cinema andFrench and Francophone literature, from both stylistic and theoretical perspectives.
Please note that the opening remarks are scheduled at 10:45 am instead
of 9:45 am as previously announced.
10:45 a.m. Opening Remarks: Ludovic Cortade (NYU); Tom Bishop (NYU)
Valérie Berty (NYU in France)
Le Cinéma de Blaise Cendrars*
Marc Cerisuelo (Université de Provence)
Breaking Through to Another World: Jean Cocteau and Orpheus’ Gazes
Priska Degras (Université Paul Cézanne/Sorbonne)
Representations of Radical Otherness in Caribbean Literature and Cinema
Philippe C. Met (University of Pennsylvania)
The Haunting Presence of the Western Film in Contemporary French Writing
2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Tom Conley (Harvard)
Jean Louis Schefer: The Invention of L’Homme ordinaire du cinéma
Réda Bensmaïa (Brown)
Marie-Claire Ropars- Wuilleumier ou l'inquiétante familiarité du cinéma*
Robert Harvey (SUNY Stony Brook)
Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima, Mon Amour as Anamnesis
5:00 - 6:45 p.m.
Ludovic Cortade (NYU)
Michel Leiris and Cinema, from Documents to La Course de Taureaux
Dudley Andrew (Yale)
The Hope and the Place of the Screen in Malraux’s Musée Imaginaire
Closing Remarks: Richard Allen (NYU)
*Abstracts in English will be available.
Co-sponsored by the Department of French, the Center for French Civilization & Culture, the Department of Cinema Studies, the Humanities Initiative, and NYU in France.
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