"After the Tenth Muse : Perception and Motion in Writing and Film", Paris, 9/04/10

[Madeleine L.]

After The Tenth Muse: perception and motion in writing and film
A LARCA one-day conference at the University of Paris-Diderot
10, rue Charles V, 75004, Paris, salle SAV 9h-19h
See list of speakers below:

Description:
Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths Professor of English, Oxford, is visiting professor
at Paris-Diderot this year. We will be taking her book The Tenth Muse as our
theoretical starting point for our colloquium and considering both in the
nineteenth-century and the modernist period the extraordinary interface
between literary and filmic discourse and practice. We will be considering
not only the becoming of film and its dialogue with literature from
1880-1930, but also the importance of new technology and its effect on
perception, the interpellation of the viewing or reading subject and the
experience of passage as they occur in both film and literature. Papers may
also consider how mid-nineteenth-century literature practiced pre-filmic
modes of writing and how these are taken up in recent film adaptations. Time
space, narrative space and subjectivity as they appear in early cinema can
help us to understand literary space as well as the dependence of both media
upon the industrialization of perception. We will be considering the
ideological implications of the many forms of merging or fracturing as they
appear in film and writing. What linguistic and visual practices are
involved? How are visual or verbal languages dismembered and remembered?
This conference will interest literary and cinema specialists as it will
those working on the history of film, early film criticism and the history
of media.

The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of
the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early
twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural
consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of
early writings about film with literary engagement with cinema in the same
period. She gives a new understanding of the ways in which early writers
about film - reviewers, critics, theorists - developed aesthetic categories
to define and accommodate what was called 'the seventh art' or 'the tenth
muse' and found discursive strategies adequate to the representation of the
new art and technology of cinema, with its unprecedented powers of movement.
Laura Marcus's other publications include : Auto/biographical Discourses:
Criticism, Theory, Practice (1994), Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work
(1997: 2nd edition 2004) et The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the
Modernist Period (2007). She is editor of Freud's The Interpretation of
Dreams: New Interdisciplinary Essays (1999), co-editor of the Cambridge
History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2005)

Catherine Bernard and Sara Thornton: Introduction

Laura Marcus, University of Oxford: The Aftermath of the Tenth Muse

Caroline Pollentier, Paris-Diderot: Imaginary Cinemas and Ordinary
Perception in Virginia Woolf's London

Nicola Glaubitz, University of Siegen, Germany: Living, Loving,
Cinema-Going: Henry Green and the Movies

Florence Bigo-Renault, Paris-Diderot: The power of movement, blur and
narrative bytes in Dickensian writing and film.

Ariane Hudelet, Paris-Diderot: Fiction, perception, motion: Austen and
Sterne beyond heritage.

Anemona Ligensa, University of Siegen, Germany: Textual and filmic
technologies and perceptions

Jeremy Tambling, University of Manchester, UK: Moving words between text and
film