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Friday, November 30

Cinema after 3/11
Time:
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Presenter:
Akira Lippit
Location:
501 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center

Dr. Lippit is the T.C. Wang Family Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies from University of Southern California. His published work includes Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (2000), Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005), Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video (2012), and Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida's Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift (2016). At present, Lippit is completing a book on contemporary Japanese cinema, which explores the physical and metaphysical dimensions of the "world," and another on David lynch's baroque alphabetics.