24rd Annual International Conference on Film and Literature
Florida State University Film School and Comparative Literature Circle
"Violence in Film and Literature"
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The
keynote speaker on Friday evening will be Mark
Edmundson, professor of English
at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Towards Reading Freud,
Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida, and Nightmare on
Main Street, as well as essays in such places as Harper’s, The New
York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Raritan, The New Republic,
The Nation, and The Yale Review.
This conference will provide a forum for over three hundred papers presented by scholars from throughout the U.S. and abroad. The theme invites discussion on the depictions of violence in film and literature. Special conference events include film screenings and lunch with entertainment by the Mickee Faust Players in the Turnbull Conference Center dining room on Friday. The local comedy troupe will be performing parodies of films and literary works. Pre-registration is required since Space is limited. For more information, please contact:
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