Professor Erica Carter at Nottingham

The Visible Woman in Béla Balázs

Professor Erica Carter (UCL),

This talk takes as its focus the figure of the fin-de-siècle New Woman in the early film theory of Béla Balázs. Balázs has recently resurfaced in film studies as a figure whose writings on early cinema’s introduction of new modes of perception and experience shed light on current changes in the experience of moving images in the digital age. Less often noted is his indebtedness to a generation of emancipated New Women, who served, this paper argues, as intellectual companions and muse for what I suggest is an ekphrastic, and gendered, poetics of cinema in the work of Balázs.

5 February 2014

4.15-6pm

Trent C 40

All welcome!