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KCL FILM STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR
Edward Dimendberg University of California, Irvine
The Last Film (Noir) Werner Schroeter's This Night
THE SEMINAR One of the most versa.le talents of the New German Cinema, Werner Schroeter (1945-‐2010) directed films, theater, and opera produc.ons. This Night (2008), a French-‐German-‐Portuguese co-‐produc.on was his final film and one of his defini.ve explora.ons of the rela.ons among literature, music, poli.cs, and aesthe.cs. Adapted from Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos OneP's novel Tonight (1943), Schroeter's film is an art film, a film noir, and a melancholic explora.on of the city and authoritarian poli.cs that con.nues to resonate in the present.
Wednesday, 4th November 2015 18H00 – 19H30 King’s Building, K-‐1.56
THE SPEAKER Edward Dimendberg is Professor of Film and Media Studies, Visual Studies, and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he teaches courses on architecture and urbanism. As the principal of Dimendberg Consul.ng LLC, he works with academic authors and runs workshops on wri.ng fellowship applica.ons and book proposals. Dimendberg also has taught at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, the Southern California Ins.tute of Architecture (SCI-‐Arc), and UCLA. He is the author of Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (Harvard University Press, 2004) and Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture a?er Images (University of Chicago Press, 2013), the editor of Facing the Music: DocumenAng Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Redevelopment of Los Angeles: A Project by Allan Sekula (East of Borneo, 2015), and the co-‐editor of The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (University of California Press, 1994). A recipient of fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, The Ge^y Founda.on, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, he is currently wri.ng a book on infrastructure and culture in Los Angeles.
For more informa.on on the KCL Film Studies Research Seminar series visit: h^p://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/filmstudies/research/Research-‐Seminars-‐15-‐16.aspx