“The Russian Kurosawa”
Event on 2013-05-11 10:00:00
Location:
Logan Center for the Arts
Screening Room 201
Contact NameOlga Solovieva
Contact E-mailsolovieva@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone(203) 812 9702
Description:
Presenters:
Dolores Martinez, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London
David Desser, Cinema Studies, University of Illinois
Phil Kaffen, Cinema and Media Studies, UChicago
Robert Bird, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UChicago
Olga Solovieva, Committee on Social Thought, UChicago
The event introduces Akira Kurosawa’s cinematic adaptations of Russian literature through a series of screenings — The Idiot (1951), Ikiru (1952), The Lower Depths (1957), and Dersu Uzala (1975). These four cinematic masterpieces are based respectively on works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, and Arseniev. Each screening will begin with a 15-minute introduction, followed by a 20-minute Q&A period. The speaker will be available also after the screening for an informal discussion of the film over coffee. The event will end with a one-hour roundtable discussion of topics emerging from the relation of Russian literary sources and their cinematic adaptations across cultural and media borders. The event should be of interest to faculty and students in Film Studies, Japanese and Russian Studies, Comparative Literature, as well as to the broader public.
at The Division of the Humanities
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, United States
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