Tuesday March 8, at 5pm: HQ 133
Rethinking Reflexivity in Cinema (and beyond)
Daniel Yacavone is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at The University of Edinburgh, where he has been Director of the Film Studies Program within the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Film Studies (‘Cinepoetics’) of the Free University Berlin, in 2020 he was a fellow-in-residence at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (where he will be returning in Autumn 2022). The author of Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2015), he is currently writing a book on cinematic reflexivity (Reflexive Cinema: Rethinking Self-Consciousness, Affect, and Intermediality in the Moving Image, Oxford University Press) and co-editing a volume on atmosphere and environment in cinema and moving-image media (Cinematic Atmospheres: Felt Environments in the Moving Image, with Steffen Hven).