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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: "Jamie Graham"
<jamiecg@MIT.EDU></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: "New Perspectives in
Contemporary Literature and Media Lecture Series" - first lecture
this Thursday</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:39:28
-0500</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman">"New Perspectives in Contemporary Literature
and Media Lecture Series"</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman">Hosted by the Literature Faculty of
MIT</font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman">Rot's Progress: Gastronomy According to Peter
Greenaway</font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman">Presented by</font></blockquote>
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color="#1F497D"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman">Eugenie Brinkema</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman">Thursday, January 14</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman">4:30pm-6:30pm</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman">14E-304</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">What is the
relationship between a cinematic grid of color and the most visceral
of the negative affects, disgust? The history of "good
taste"-from the philosophical subdiscipline of aesthetics to
French<i> haute cuisine</i>-simultaneously cultivates and banishes
all things that taste bad and are in bad taste. This talk
explores how rot and decay, the secret ground of the aesthetic and
gastronomic, function as a structural language in Peter
Greenaway's<i> The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover</i>
(1989), producing a rotting film form that simultaneously brings into
being the new.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Jamie Graham<br>
Administrative Assistant for Undergraduate Academic
Administration</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Literature Section @
MIT<br>
14N-407<br>
T. (617) 258-5629<br>
F. (617) 253-6105</font></blockquote>
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