Narration and Justification in Cinema

Lecture Series

In the context of the cluster research project "Rechtfertigungsnarrative: Das Beispiel des gegenwärtigen Kinos" ("Justification Narratives: The Example of Contemporary Cinema"), the lecture series will address the question of how narration and justification relate in different eras and genres of cinema. Using more or less classical films as examples, the individual lectures will scrutinize whether or how cinematic narratives can be - or even effectively are – distinctive contributions to the legitimation and/or de-legitimation of normative attitudes and orders.

The following speakers will provide multiple disciplinary points of view:
Astrid Erll (Frankfurt), Daniel Feige (Berlin), Günter Frankenberg (Frankfurt), Josef Früchtl (Amsterdam), Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt), Gertrud Koch (Berlin), Robert Pippin (Chicago), Regine Prange (Frankfurt), Juliane Rebentisch (Frankfurt), Jochen Schuff (Frankfurt), Martin Seel (Frankfurt), Christiane Voss (Weimar), Thomas Wartenberg (South Hadley, MA), George Wilson (Los Angeles) and Hans Jürgen Wulff (Kiel).

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Programme:

20 October 2011, 4.15pm, HZ9
Martin Seel (Frankfurt am Main): Introduction

27 October 2011, 4.15pm, HZ9
Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt am Main): Führbare und unführbare Kriege
about "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (R: Stanley Kubrick; UK 1964)

3 November 2011, 4.15pm, HZ9
Martin Seel (Frankfurt am Main: Die Widerstandskraft neurotischer Individuen
about "To Be or Not to Be" (R: Ernst Lubitsch; USA 1942)

10 November 2011, 4.15pm, HZ9
Gertrud Koch (Berlin): Narrative Legitimierung von Affekten – Perspektivendrehungen in Inglourious Basterds
about "Inglourious Basterds" (R: Quentin Tarantino; USA/Deutschland 2009)

17 November 2011, 4.15pm, HZ9
Christiane Voss (Weimar): Zur Taxis und Affektlogik des Bewegbildes im Kino
about "Sud sanaeha [Blissfully Yours]" (R: Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Thailand/Frankreich 2002)

24 November 2011, 4.15pm, HZ9
Astrid Erll (Frankfurt am Main): Jarhead, Remediation und die Logik des Kriegskinos made in Hollywood
about "Jarhead" (R: Sam Mendes; Deutschland/USA 2005)

28 November 2011, 4.15 pm, HZ6
Robert Pippin (Chicago): Passive and Active Skepticism in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place
about "In a Lonely Place" (R: Nicholas Ray; USA 1950)

1 December 2011, 4.15pm, HZ9
George Wilson (Los Angeles): "God is Wrong": On Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life
about "Bigger Than Life" (R: Nicholas Ray; USA 1956)

8 December 2011, 4.15pm, HZ9
Thomas Wartenberg (South Hadley, MA): Narrating History in John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
about "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (R: John Ford; USA 1962)

15 December 2011, 4.15pm, HZ9
Jochen Schuff (Frankfurt am Main): Bilder außerhalb der Ordnungen
about "Southland Tales" (R: Richard Kelly; Deutschland/USA/Frankreich 2006)

12 January 2012, 4.15pm, HZ9
Günter Frankenberg (Frankfurt am Main): Die Geschichte der Qiu Ju
about "Qiu Ju da guan si [Die Geschichte der Qiu Ju]" (R: Zhang Yimou; China/Hong Kong 1992)

19 January 2012, 4.15pm, HZ9
Regine Prange (Frankfurt am Main): Monster und Moral – Treue und Verrat in der Trilogie Der Herr der Ringe
about "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (R: Peter Jackson; Neuseeland/USA 2001)

26 January 2012, 4.15pm, HZ9
Daniel Feige (Berlin): Mediale Autopsie des Krieges – Autopsie des medialen Krieges. Brian De Palmas Redacted
about "Redacted" (R: Brian De Palma; USA/Kanada 2007)

2 February 2012, 4.15pm, HZ9
Juliane Rebentisch (Offenbach am Main): I’m Not There. Zur Kritik von Narration und Rechtfertigung im Biopic
about "I’m Not There" (R: Todd Haynes; USA/Deutschland 2007)

9 February 2012, 4.15pm, HZ9
Josef Früchtl (Amsterdam): "Denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht." Überwachen und Strafen in Minority Report
about "Minority Report" (R: Steven Spielberg; USA 2002)

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