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HOUSE OF BAMBOO
Please join us for a screening of Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo with an introducution by author, film scholar, and Wesleyan alumna, Lisa Dombrowski '92.
A reception, book signing, and raffle (for Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 3 DVD set: The First Films of Samuel Fuller and copies of Lisa Dombrowski's book The Films of Samuel Fuller) will follow the film.
HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955) USA. Dir: Samuel Fuller. With Robert Stack, Robert Ryan. 102 min. One of the most iconoclastic and innovative directors of his generation, Samuel Fuller wrote every film he directed and produced most of them, instilling each with a daring sense of style and a sensationalistic approach to truth. He wanted to produce an emotional response in the viewer, a shock of recognition, and he was willing to break every rule in the book to do it. "House of Bamboo" is Fuller's most elegant film, the story of a government agent who infiltrates a criminal gang in Tokyo comprised of former GIs. Produced in Technicolor and CinemaScope and shot on location, "House of Bamboo" features exquisite cinematography, hard-boiled dialogue, jitterbugging geishas, and a climactic chase through a rooftop carnival! This rare 35mm print is presented courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Time: 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Location: Goldsmith Family Cinema at the Center for Film Studies, 301 Washington Terrace, Middletown CT
Sponsor: Co-sponsored by the Wesleyan Center for Film Studies and Wesleyan University Press
Admission: FREE
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Welcome!
Wesleyan University has long been a leader in undergraduate Film Studies. Since the 1960s, scholars in both the humanities and the social sciences have recognized cinema as the most important of the new forms of art developed in the 20th century--one which has had a profound and pervasive effect on all of modern culture. The growth of Film Studies as an academic discipline testifies to the importance of examining film not just as a cultural artifact, but also as an influential art form and an industry of global significance.
The model of scholarship in the Wesleyan Film Studies Department is in the liberal arts tradition of wedding history and theory with practice. All film majors study the motion picture in a unified manner, combining historical, formal, and cultural analysis with filmmaking at beginning and advanced levels in 16mm film, digital video, and virtual formats. A unique emphasis on the study of the medium, its industry, aesthetics, and technology distinguishes Film Studies courses from classes in other departments that approach film as a cultural text.
"Why Wesleyan?" - A
video testimonial from Joss Whedon '87, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and
Firefly
A major asset to Film Studies at Wesleyan is the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, where a wide range of primary historical documents are collected reflecting a variety of fields within the liberal arts. Students have full access to these materials, which are also used by scholars from around the world, by biographers, and by media experts. In addition to materials on film, the Cinema Archives also cross-references materials in American Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, and Music. Archive collections include the papers of Ingrid Bergman, Frank Capra, Jonathan Demme, Clint Eastwood, Federico Fellini, Kay Francis, William Hornbeck, Elia Kazan, Roberto Rossellini, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Gene Tierney, Raoul Walsh, John Waters, and others, including our own alumni.
For further information, please contact:
Lea Carlson
Assistant Director
Film Studies Department
Wesleyan University
301 Washington Terrace
Middletown, CT 06459
e-mail: lcarlson@wesleyan.edu
phone: (860) 685-3542
fax: (860) 685-2221
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