Genre and MediumCatharine Abell (University of Manchester)
Antwerpen
Belgium
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When: March 6, 4-6pm
Where: Annex, Building R, Stadcampus, Antwerp
Who: Catharine Abell (University of Manchester)
What:
Genre and Medium Works in different media can belong to the same genre: there are comic films, plays and novels, and there are noir novels and noir films. Many of the claims made about the nature of genre - that genres consist in sets of features or sets of conventions, for example - seem to preclude genres from spanning media, or at least to restrict too severely the conditions under which they can do so. While noir novels and noir films may share features or conventions of character, setting and plot, these are not generally sufficient to determine their membership of the noir genre. Noir films incorporate a number of visual features that are crucial to their identify as noir films. I examine the purpose that medium specific features of works play in determining their genre membership, and argue that works in different media can share a genre in virtue of the purposes that their features serve.
Upcoming events:
Spring 2014 Speaker series: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception:
March 13: Christopher Peacocke (Columbia)
March 20: Catherine Wilson (University of York) - the 3rd Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture
April 3: Rob Hopkins (University of Sheffield/NYU)
May 8: Dom Lopes (University of British Columbia)
My 15: Alva Noë (University of California, Berkeley)
May 22: Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati)
Upcoming workshops and conferences:
March 12: Workshop on action phenomenology
May 12-13: Conference on the representationalism vs. relationalism debate
June 10-11: Conference on nonpropositional and imagistic content
June 25-26: Symposium with Philip Kitcher
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