Ithaca College

Conversations Across Screen Cultures, a new online initiative featuring live interviews and discussions with film and media scholars, media artists, and programmers in the Central New York region, resumes Tuesday November 10  at 6:30 p.m. with the  launch Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema (2020) by Dr. Andrew Utterson, Associate Professor of Screen Studies, Ithaca College.

Dr. Michael Richardson, Professor of Modern Languages, will conduct the interview about Utterson’s new book and research.

For the Zoom link, contact Dr. Patricia Zimmerman, patty@ithaca.edu 

Dr. Andrew Utterson is Associate Professor of Screen Studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communications and the Coordinator of the college-wide Ithaca Seminar, the liberal arts first-year seminars, at Ithaca College. His research examines the impact of new technology on cinema and how new technology enables rethinking moving image history across screen media.

He is the author of Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema (2020); From IBM to MGM: Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age (2011), editor of Technology and Culture: The Film Reader (2005), and co-editor of the four-volume anthology Film Theory: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies (2004). His essays have been published in Studies in French Cinema, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Leonardo, and in many anthologies.

Dr. Michael Richardson is Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures at Ithaca College. His research interests encompass 20th- and 21st-century literature, theater, and film, from the Weimar Republic to contemporary Germany. His current research focuses on three areas: constructions of history in recent German cinema, Holocaust cinema, and the image of Hitler in American and German popular culture.

He is the author of Revolutionary Theater and The Classical Heritage: Inheritance and Appropriation from Weimar to the GDR (2007), and coeditor of A New History of German Cinema (2012) and Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, and Memory (2008). His essays have appeared in Telos, Colloquia Germanica, New German Critique, Stanford Literature Review, and in many anthologies. He is also a member of the editorial board of New German Critique.

The initiative is a collaboration between faculty from Ithaca College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, the Cine con Cultura Festival, and the Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival. Sessions will feature open discussion and dialogue with students and faculty in attendance.

For more information, contact Dr. Leah Shafer, shafer@hws.edu or Dr. Patricia R. Zimmermann, patty@ithaca.edu

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