The Carsey-Wolf Center is excited to announce that Uncanny Histories in Film and Media will be released through Rutgers University Press on June 17, 2022. Edited by Patrice Petro, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, the volume deploys the uncanny as a historical framework to study accounts of film and media, from cinematic movements to the overlooked legacies of critics and theorists. The essays in this collection broaden an understanding of the uncanny, focusing on the unfamiliar, the mysterious, and

This talk presents an overview of Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2021, the first-ever English-written academic monograph on the South Korean nonfiction film and video practices by individual filmmakers and artists as well as collectives since the 1980s. It offers a critical mapping of how they are positioned within a double helix of two trends: first, the 'activist,' cinéma-vérité tradition of the nonfiction films and videos since the 1980s, and second, the 'post-activist' formal and aesthetic variations of documentary

In his lecture, Prof. Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s. He’ll emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili, and Wang Renmei, were far more important than men to the success of Chinese silent cinema. Tuesday, May 10, 3:30 – 5:30 PM, SSMS 2135

In a discussion for graduate students, Professor Pickowicz asks the questions, “What can be learned from oral histories that cannot be learned from other sources? What is unique about oral histories?” Pickowicz will show clips of several oral histories he filmed in China in the 1980s and 1990s and talk about both the pleasure and pain associated with the filming of oral histories. Monday, May 9, 12 – 3 PM, HSSB 4041

Please join us for a 90-minute roundtable discussion with the renowned filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako, who was born in Mauritania, raised in Mali, and currently resides in France. He is the director and writer of a number of award winning films including Life on Earth (1999), Waiting for Happiness (2002), Bamako (2006), and Timbuktu (2014). He recently staged his first opera, Le Vol du Boli that is currently being staged in Paris at the Théâtre de la Ville, and is in post-production on a new