The Department of Cinema and Media Studies Presents, as Part of the Marva West Tan Lecture Series:
“Intertextual Dialogues: Recombining the Past in Isaac Julien’s Once Again…(Statues Never Die) (2022)”
Nora M. Alter
Professor of Film and Media Arts
Temple University
November 1st, 2024 | 4:00 pm | Cobb 307
Reception to follow in Cobb 310
About the Speaker
Nora M. Alter is a scholar of comparative film and media arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. She has published numerous essays on Cultural and Visual Studies, Contemporary Art, and Sound Studies in venues such as Film Quarterly, Grey Room, New German Crique, and October. Alter has written on a wide-range of contemporary artists and filmmakers including John Akomfrah, Yael Bartana, Stan Douglas, Maria Eichhorn, Dan Eisenberg, Renée Green, Isaac Julien, and Hito Steyerl.She is author of several books including Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (1996), Sound Matters (2004), Chris Marker (2006), The Essay Film after Fact and Fiction (2018), and most recently, Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence (2024).