In this talk, scholar Craig Buckley draws from his forthcoming book The Street and the Screen: Architectures of Spectatorship in the Age of Cinema, which explores the development of …

A lecture by Ying Qian From the toppling of the Qing Empire in 1911 to the political campaigns and mass protests in the Mao and post-Mao eras, revolutionary upheavals characterized …

In the new book from which this talk is drawn, I elaborate on what is becoming an increasingly familiar materialist approach to media history, but I also press on that approach’s limits.

At Light Industry, in her talk "The morning after experience design," she will illustrate the development of ideologies behind computer interfaces: from applying metaphors like files and …

This illustrated talk will recount the curious episode of Polavision’s instant movies, finding in it a way of questioning the idea of the medium of film as a unified object.

This talk explores the origins and influence of the No Movie, an intermedia genre pioneered by the LA-based artist collective Asco in the early 1970s. The No Movie was Asco's signature …

This talk focuses on the period of growth for daytime soap opera, from its transition out of radio in the 1950s through the early 1980s. While men still dominated the broadcast industry, women …

Light Industry will be hosting a talk by scholar Masha Salazkina, related to her recent book World Socialist Cinema. Its focus is the Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, which …

He is an editor of October and the author of Realism after Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature. FREE Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens …

Jul 23, 2019 · As the talk will detail, modern changes in color’s materiality also marked a transformation in the industrial field; chemical, pharmaceutical, and colorant conglomerates …