"A Cultural History of Cinema: Film Clubs and Film Criticism, 1910-1959"

A seminar titled A Cultural History of Cinema: Film Clubs and Film Criticism, 1910-1959 has been organized jointly by Social Networks of the Past (an ERC-funded project) and the Global Literary Studies (GlobaLS) research group.

The main speaker will be French historian Christophe Gauthier, who is professor of history of books and contemporary media (19th-21st centuries) at the École Nationale des Chartes (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres) and associate researcher at the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Present (CNRS). He was director of the audiovisual department of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and curator of the Toulouse Film Library. He is the author of La Passion du cinéma: cinéphiles, ciné-clubs et salles spécialisées à Paris de 1920 à 1929 (1999), L'auteur de cinéma: histoire, généalogie, archéologie (2013), with Dimitri Vezyroglou, or Loin d'Hollywood? cinématographies nationales et modèle hollywoodien: France, Allemagne, USSR, Chine 1925-1935 (2013), with Anne Kerlan and Dimitri Vezyroglou or Histoires d'O. Mélanges d'histoire culturelle offerts à Pascal Ory (2017), with Laurent Martin, Julie Verlaine and Dimitri Vezyroglou He has recently directed the volume Patrimoine et patrimonialisation du cinema, which will be published in 2020, and is preparing a book on Raymond Borde, founder of the Toulouse Film Library. His main fields of research are the history of cinema, its heritage and film criticism, as well as the history of cultural industries, from cinema to video games and the sound industry. 

The seminar will be held online (via Meet) from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. on 8 July. Discussions will focus on the cultural history of cinema's contributions to the study of cinematographic criticism and film societies.

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If you would like to join the seminar, email Lucía Leandro at lleandro@uoc.edu.