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Alan Bennett Program
April 10 - Thursday - 6:30 p.m.
The screening includes two BBC television programs of the British
dramatist and screenwriter, Alan Bennett. Portrait of Bust (1994),
directed by Jonathan Stedall, provides Bennett's overview of art,
filmed on location at the Leeds. The second program is Dinner at
Noon (1988), directed by Stuart Burge, where Bennett reminisces
about his childhood experiences living in boarding homes, inspired
by his visit to a hotel in North England. (Digital. 90 min. Not Rated.)
The James Naremore Lecture with Amy Villarejo
April 11 - Friday - 4:00 p.m.
Indiana University's Department of Communication and Culture
presents the James Naremore Lecture, which is dedicated to
continuing the tradition of scholarly excellence and honoring the
similar breadth and depth in the work of other pre-eminent scholars
in the field of media studies. James O. Naremore is Chancellors'
Professor Emeritus in Communication and Culture, English, and
Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has received
numerous academic honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship
and the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award, and his seven
books and numerous articles cover impressive theoretical and critical
ground.
Amy Villarejo
is professor and chair of the Department of
Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University, where she is also
jointly appointed in the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Program. Her publications include Queen Christina, co-authored with
Marcia Landy (BFI Publishing, 1995); Keyframes: Popular Film and
Cultural Studies, co-edited with Matthew Tinkcom (Routledge, 2001); Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism
and the Value of Desire (Duke University Press, 2003), which won the 2005 Katherine Singer Kovacs
Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies; and Film Studies: The Basics (Routledge,
2007). Her newest book, Ethereal Queer, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in January of 2014.
Her articles on documentary film, activist media, television, and queer culture have appeared in numerous
journals, and she has also contributed to a variety of edited volumes, including a co-edited special issue of
GLQ, and book projects.
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My Child
(2013) Directed by Can Candan
March 24 - Monday - 7:00 p.m.
What happens when your child comes out to you? My Child is a feature documentary about a very
courageous and inspiring group of mothers and fathers in Turkey, who are parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
trans-gender individuals. They have not only gone through the difficult path of accepting their children for
who they are, but also have taken the next step to share their experiences with other LGBT families and
the public. In My Child seven parents intimately share their experiences with the viewer, as they redefine
what it means to be parents, family, and activists in this conservative, homophobic, and trans-phobic
society. In Turkish language with English subtitles. (2K DCP. 82 min. Not Rated.)
Director Can Candan is
scheduled to be present.
Can Candan
is a documentary filmmaker and scholar who holds
a BA from Hampshire College in film and video and an MFA from
Temple University in film and media arts. His films have screened
internationally in festivals, conferences, galleries, and on television,
and include Boycott Coke (1989), Exodus (1991), Duvarlar Mauern
Walls (2000), 3 Hours (2008), and My Child (2013). He has taught
film and video courses since 2000 and is currently a faculty member
at Bosaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is also a founding
member of docIstanbul-Center for Documentary Studies.