21 Nov 2011 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm | CRASSH |
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Dr Libby Saxton (Queen Mary, University of London)
Libby Saxton's research interests include the interactions between film and continental thought, especially philosophies of ethics; French cinema; and representations of the Holocaust and the Algerian War of Independence. She is the author of 'Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters' (co-authored with Lisa Downing, 2009) and 'Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust'(2008). At the moment, she is working on a monograph on European film and postsecular thought and co-editing the volume 'Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium' (forthcoming with Legenda in 2012).
The talk will be followed by a Q&A and refreshments
Open to all. No registration required
Part of the Cambridge Screen Media Group series.
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