June – 2013 – Frank Kessler

June 27, 2013

From June 19-22 Sabine Lenk and I attended the conference La mise en scène théâtrale et les formes audio-visuelles at Cerisy la Salle. We presented a paper on André de Lorde’s play “Au téléphone” and its various filmic adaptations. Thanks to the wonderful collection of the Association de la Régie Théâtrale deposited at the Bibliothèque Historique […]

Christian Metz Conference Zürich

June 18, 2013

I just returned from this wonderfully organised conference in Zürich, where I gave a paper on “Thinking Cinema: Christian Metz and/in the Tradition of Film Theory”. Here is the abstract: In an interview in 1986 Christian Metz stated that he had always worked “in the company” of classical film theorists such as Béla Balázs, […]

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

- “The Gentleman in the Stalls: Georges Méliès and Spectatorship in Early Cinema” in: Ian Christie (ed.), Audiences. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, pp. 35-44.

- “Die Imagination des Zuschauers – der imaginierte Zuschauer” in: Julian Hanich, Hans-Jürgen Wulff (ed.), Auslassen, andeuten, auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2012, pp. 181-189.

- “The Féerie Between Stage and Screen” in: André Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo (ed.), A Companion to Early Cinema. Malden, MA, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp. 64-79.

- (with Sabine Lenk) “Les images en mouvement au théâtre de variétés: le cas de l’Apollo de Düsseldorf” in: Marta Braun et al. (ed.) Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema. New Barnet: John Libbey, 2012, pp. 247-254.

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