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Modernizing Melodrama Exhibition

Modernizing Melodrama
Carleton College Art Gallery

Friday, January 9, 2009

7:30 pm, 104 Boliou
“Our Melodramatic Fix”
A talk by Professor Linda Williams, Department of Film Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson (Princeton, 2001).

8:30 – 10 pm, Art Gallery
Opening Reception for Modernizing Melodrama Exhibition

Modernizing Melodrama, an exhibition at the Carleton College Art Gallery, explores the history and persistence of melodrama as a popular mode of visual storytelling in the American tradition.  Long disparaged as lowbrow and unworthy of critical attention, melodrama receives a fresh look from curators Carol Donelan, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, and Laurel Bradley, Director of Exhibitions, with input from students enrolled in the Fall 2008 course, “The Melodramatic Imagination.”  The exhibition introduces representative ideas, stories and emotions associated with melodrama in popular media and art, including motion pictures, lobby cards and film stills, stage and circus posters, books and scripts, advertisements, photographs, drawings and experimental works by contemporary artists.

Lenders to the exhibition include The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; the Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin; The Bakken Library and Museum Collections; Minnesota Historical Society; Thomas Barry Fine Arts; Pierogi Gallery; Postmasters Gallery and featured artists.

The exhibition will be available for viewing January 9-March 11, 2009.

Gallery Hours: Monday-Wednesday, noon to 6 p.m.; Thursday-Friday, noon to 10 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.

The Gallery is located on the lower level of the Music and Drama Center, on the corner of First and Winona Streets, Northfield.

507 222 4469 or 4342
www.carleton.edu/campus/gallery

South Asian Film Series at Carleton

Arnab Chakladar in the English dept is hosting a great South Asian Film Series this term.

Screenings will be on Tuesdays at 6.30 pm in Laird 212

Tuesday, September 30 -- /*Charulata*/, Dir. Satyajit Ray, 1964 (Bengali, 117 minutes)
Tuesday, Oct 7 --/*Sahib, Bibi, aur Ghulam*/, Dir. Abrar Alvi/Guru Dutt, 1962 (Hindi, 152 minutes)
Tuesday, Oct 14 -- /*Subarna-rekha*/, Dir. Ritwik Ghatak, 1962 (Bengali, 139 minutes)
Tuesday, Oct 21 -- /*Howrah Bridge*/, Dir. Shakti Samanta, 1958 (Hindi, 153 minutes)
Tuesday, Oct 28 -- /*Bhoomika*/, Dir. Shyam Benegal, 1977 (Hindi, 142 minutes)
Tuesday, Nov 4 -- /*Khamosh Pani*/, Dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003 (Punjabi/Urdu, 101 minutes)
Tuesday, Nov 11 -- /*Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi*/, Dir. Sudhir Mishra, 2003 (Hindi/English, 118 minutes)

All the films are subtitled in English. Each film will be introduced briefly by Arnab Chakladar.

Carleton Students Screen Final Project - Quidditch

Students in Melody Gilbert's Nonfiction Video class will screen their final video project this Monday.  The students have produced their final project on Carleton's Quidditch tournament.  Come take a look at the student work!

Monday, June 2nd | Scoville 102 | 5:30PM

Carleton to Graduate It's First CAMS Majors

This June Carleton will graduate it's first ever Cinema and Media Studies Majors.  Until 2008, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) students could only declare a CAMS Concentration.  However, this June four CAMS students (Left to Right), Sarah Nienaber, Tom Schmidt, Andy Lauer, and Alison Jarzyna will graduate CAMS Majors.

The International Encyclopedia of Communications Arrives in Gould Library

Carleton's Gould library recently received a 12 volume Encyclopedia detailing the communications field.  The volumes include biographies of communications theorists and topical, specific, and hard to find, information.  Cinema and Media Studies visiting professor Michael Griffin contributed to this work as an author and as Visual Communications Area editor.

Kathleen Collins of John Jay Coll. of Criminal Justice, New York described the release of the International Encyclopedia of Communications with a positive review.  She wrote, "Comprehensive though they are, other works covering the same territory—such as Oxford’s 1989 International Encyclopedia of Communications (Erik Barnouw, ed.) and Elsevier’s 2003 Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (Donald Johnston, ed.), both four-volume sets—do not match this work’s depth of scholarship. Definitive, authoritative, and scholarly, it is highly recommended for academic libraries large and small. [The online version exists as either an annual subscription or a one-time purchase with an annual fee covering hosting and regular updates. Interested readers can find more information online at www.communicationencyclopedia.com.]"

"Disconnected" Premiers at Carleton on May 14th

Don't miss the Carleton premier of "Disconnected", a documentary following three Carleton students who go without computers for a month.  Disconnected was produced by Carleton students under the guidance of instructor Melody Gilbert and Educational Associate Wain Yee.

Wednesday, May 14 | Olin 149 | 9PM

Carleton's Premier Showing of "Disconnected" Coming Soon

The CAMS Department will be screening "Disconnected" on Carleton's campus in mid-May.  The screening represents the culmination of several terms of work by eight Carleton CAMS students, under the guidance of instructor Melody Gilbert and Educational Associate Wain Yee.

"Disconnected" is a feature length film that was recently shown at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film festival.  It follows three students who go without computers for a month, and explores computer's presence in our daily social, work, and academic lives.  This film has received considerable media coverage and is the first feature length film any Carleton students have ever produced.

Wednesday May 14 | Olin 149 | 9PM

Site-Specific Media Viewable Online

Carleton students in Cinema and Media Studies professor John Schott's "Site-Specific Media" class have been creating their own site-specific media.  Their projects are now visible online. The projects currently online represent the first set of projects in a series of three.  Each of the projects attempt to connect the viewer to their viewing environment and to challenge conventional venues for viewing images.  Take a look by clicking here.

Ali Momeni Visits Carleton

New media artist and musician, Ali Momeni, is visiting Carleton this Tuesday.  Momeni teaches in the Collaborative Arts and Art Department at the University of Minnesota. Tuesday he will talk about the bikes he has built to include video projectors.

Tuesday, April 29 | Scoville 102 | 7PM

Carleton Film "Disconnected" Will Play in Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

"Disconnected" a documentary film by a group of eight Carleton students has been accepted in the 2008 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. The film has been produced by Carleton students under the guidance of visiting Cinema and Media Studies instructor Melody Gilbert, and Cinema and Media Studies educational associate, Wain Yee.  Ticket information is available here: http://www.mspfilmfest.org/2008/content/view/128/27.

Student contributors include Reed Langton-Yanowitz '11 (Rochester, MN), Julian Laurent '08 (Herndon, Va.), Chel Lundin '08 (Lakeville, MN), Caitlin Magnusson '09 (Renton, WA), Jerome Potter '09 (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA), Tom Schmidt '08 (Northfield, MN), Andrew Tatge '09 (Des Moines, IA), and Ezra Valazquez '10 (Trabuco Canyon, CA).

The feature-length film asks the question, "How long could you go without a computer?"  To find out "Disconnected" follows three Carleton students - Lundin, Magnusson, and Tagte - as they take on the challenge of ditching all computers to see how their academic, work, and social lives are affected.

Sunday, April 27 | St. Anthony | 5PM