Jean-Pierre Meunier’s Les structures de l’experience Filmique:
L’identification Filmique from 1969 is a key text in the history of Film
studies. Drawing on the work of the French pioneers of phenomenology,
Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as on the insights
of the French Filmology movement, Meunier distinguishes between three
major types of engagements viewers can have with moving images: the
fiction attitude, documentary attitude and home movie attitude. With
this seemingly innocuous distinction, Meunier opens up a new field of
inquiry.
Date and Location:
23.11.2017-25.11.2017
Aula der Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
The
symposium will address the role of Meunier’s book in the history of
Film theory. It will discuss the continuing relevance of the seminal
categories and concepts Meunier proposes for the history of Film
phenomenology and contemporary Film studies. It will search for the
book’s philosophical underpinnings and the role the book played in the
history of Film phenomenology. And it will explore new directions in
Film theory opened up by Meunier’s work.
The symposium is
organized by the Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies of
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger) and
the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen
(Prof. Dr. Julian Hanich) in cooperation with the Permanent Seminar on
Histories of Film Theories and the Städelschule – Staatliche Hochschule
für Bildende Künste.
The whole detailed program can be found in the attached PDF file.