October 3, 2014
All Day
Page Hall 0060, 1810 College Road North
CLAS is pleased to welcome Dr. Nilo Couret to Campus on October 3, who will give a talk at the SPPO Colloquium entitled, "Traveling Players: The Round Trip Itinerancy of Argentine and Brazilian Film Comedies."
Dr. Couret is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan. His primary research areas are Latin American cinema and popular culture; post-independence cinemas of Asia and Africa; theories of film, television and new media; postcolonial studies; trauma studies and affect theory. His research considers both what is represented on screen as well as how media move viewers (in the many senses of the word move) into alternative spectator positions and counterpublics off screen.
Dr. Couret is currently preparing a book manuscript on early sound cinema in Latin America, tracing the cultural significance of film comedies. Through a discussion of the films of comedians Mario “Cantinflas” Moreno, Luis Sandrini, Niní Marshall, Oscarito and Grande Otelo, Dr. Couret explores how these commercially successful films negotiate local and global cultural influences, arguing that these comedies function as peripheral responses to modernization and anticipate and inform New Latin American Cinema.
Dr. Couret's talk is sponsored by CLAS, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Film Studies Program, and LASER.
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