One-day symposium “The Hollywood Turn: Viewing, Theorizing, Deconstructing American Cinema Anew”

American cinema as an object of study continues to occupy a special place in academic circles. Far from resulting in a consensual body of texts and concepts, research in this field now encompasses a multitude of approaches, ranging from historical and cultural to socio-economic perspectives and, following the development of new audiovisual technologies, a growing interest for its status as a vast repertoire of continuously remediated images and icons. In keeping with this long tradition of st..