Free Public Lecture:
Adrian Martin
Wood Lecture Theatre
Economics and Commerce Building, University of Melbourne.
5pm, 10 November 2006
‘Cinema Invents Ways of Dancing’
'How do you dance, Sandman?' That pointed question from Francis
Coppola's THE COTTON CLUB (1984) cues us into the many forms and
meanings that dancing has in cinema, once it is liberated from the
strict confines of the conventional musical. Dance as social action,
as strategy or resistance... cinema is always inventing ways of
dancing, often in the least likely contexts. Taking its cue from
writers including Serge Daney, this presentation will present (with
clips) a range of cinematic dance-inventions, from Godard and Akerman
to KING OF NEW YORK and PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE.
Adrian Martin is Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Film and
Television and the author of Raul Ruiz: Sublimes Obsesiones (Altamira,
2004), The Mad Max Movies (Currency, 2003), Once Upon a Time in
America (BFI, 1998) and Phantasms (Penguin, 1994), as well as the
Co-Editor of Rouge
(0000,0000,FFFFwww.rouge.com.au).
This lecture will be delivered to close FLUX, a conference to be held
at the University of Melbourne on the 9th and 10th of November 2006,
and will be followed by a free BBQ. All welcome.
For more details see:
0000,0000,FFFFwww.ahcca.unimelb.edu.au/flux
Or email: ahccapgrads@gmail.com