The New Screen Violence: Realism, Reality, and the An-Esthetic of the Unreal

Speaker: Bert Cardullo
Date: May 8, 2013 Wednesday
Time: 16.00-18.00
Place: santralistanbul Campus, E1-301

Although it is true that the cinema has long portrayed violence without routinely resorting to the kind of obliqueness or discretion deployed in the treatment of sex, in recent movies the violence has become extreme in a way that suggests a significant change. This lecture is an investigation of that change, from a social, moral, philosophical, psychological, and aesthetic point of view.

The lecture will be held in English and no translation will be avaliable.

Bert Cardullo:
Bert Cardullo is professor of film and drama. He has taught in the USA and in Turkey. He was appointed as NEH Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, Colgate University, Hamilton and he was a Visiting Professor of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Recently, he was the Chair and Head of M.A. Program, Department of Media and Communication in University of Economics, İzmir. He is the author of In Search of Cinema: Selected Writings on International Film Art, Vittorio de Sica: Director,Actor, Screenwriter, and Interviews with Jean Renoir, Satyajit Ray, and Federico Fellini as well as translations of the work of André Bazin.