Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012. 5:15 PM.
Location: Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Room 252
Malcolm Turvey is professor of film history at Sarah Lawrence College and an editor of October. He has published numerous papers on philosophy and film, and he is the author of Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s (MIT Press, 2011), and co-editor of Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts (Routledge, 2001). He is currently (2011-2012) an external research fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center working on a book titled Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism. In "Vertov, The View from Nowhere, and the Expanding Circle," Malcolm Turvey draws on the work of contemporary philosophers Thomas Nagel and Peter Singer to understand the epistemic and ethical goals motivating the avant-garde visual style of the great Soviet nonfiction filmmaker, Dziga Vertov, focusing in particular on his 1926 film, A Sixth Part of the World. Philosophy and Literature at Stanford: http://philit.stanford.edu/events.html
Location: Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Room 252
Malcolm Turvey is professor of film history at Sarah Lawrence College and an editor of October. He has published numerous papers on philosophy and film, and he is the author of Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s (MIT Press, 2011), and co-editor of Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts (Routledge, 2001). He is currently (2011-2012) an external research fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center working on a book titled Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism. In "Vertov, The View from Nowhere, and the Expanding Circle," Malcolm Turvey draws on the work of contemporary philosophers Thomas Nagel and Peter Singer to understand the epistemic and ethical goals motivating the avant-garde visual style of the great Soviet nonfiction filmmaker, Dziga Vertov, focusing in particular on his 1926 film, A Sixth Part of the World. Philosophy and Literature at Stanford: http://philit.stanford.edu/events.html