[bioundgrd] Fwd: "New Perspectives in Contemporary Literature and Media Lecture Series" - first lecture this Thursday

[Janice Chang]

>From: "Jamie Graham" <jamiecg at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: "New Perspectives in Contemporary Literature and Media 
>Lecture Series" - first lecture this Thursday
>Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:39:28 -0500
>
>
>"New Perspectives in Contemporary Literature and Media Lecture Series"
>Hosted by the Literature Faculty of MIT
>
>Rot's Progress: Gastronomy According to Peter Greenaway
>
>Presented by
>
>Eugenie Brinkema
>
>Thursday, January 14
>4:30pm-6:30pm
>14E-304
>
>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 haute cuisine-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 The Cook, The 
>Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989), producing a rotting film form 
>that simultaneously brings into being the new.
>
>
>---
>
>Jamie Graham
>Administrative Assistant for Undergraduate Academic Administration
>Literature Section @ MIT
>14N-407
>T. (617) 258-5629
>F. (617) 253-6105
>
>
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