NOON: CIMS Colloquium with Iggy Cortez, 330 Fisher Bennett Hall, “A Yielding Movement into Depth: Nighttime, Remediation, and the Minoritarian Sensorium in Long Day’s Journey into Night”
VISITOR, 4-5:00pm: Iggy Cortez, Assistant Professor of Film and Media, University of California, Berkeley. Dinner Tuesday @ 5pm for today’s student hosts!
Today we welcome our third CIMS Colloquium guest, Dr. Iggy Cortez, whose work represents a different set of critical frameworks for the textual, visual, and multisensory analysis of films and art. Sensation, liminality, queerness, kinship, psychoanalysis, global genealogies and ontologies are among the critical concepts central to his work. We’ll be reading two of Cortez’s texts and contextualizing them with the introductions to three books – which address methodologies for understanding sensation, queerness, temporality, and historicity in film – that proved useful in Cortez’s work.
IN-CLASS WORKSHOP, 5-6:30pm: We’ll give you some time to work on your Methods Toolkit contributions (please make sure you’ve finalized your topic and given at least some preliminary thought to our template!), then split up into small groups for a round of peer review. For our final 45 minutes or so, Dr. Cosette Bruhns Alonso will join us again to help us post our toolkit entries on Scalar, which we decided, back in Week 3, was the best platform for our project.
To Read for Today:
- Iggy Cortez, “Licking for the Nation: Auntie Genealogies in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Rak ti Khon Kaen,” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60:3 (Spring 2021): 37-61.
- Iggy Cortez, “Incestuous Wanderlust: 35 Shots of Rum’s Atmospheres of Circulation,” Camera Obscura 109 (2022): 60-89.
The Broader Context for Cortez’s Work (choose two to skim):
- Mila Zuo, “Tasting Vulgar Beauty,” Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium (Duke University Press, 2022): 1-37.
- Karl Schoonover and Rosalina Galt, “Introduction: Queer, World, Cinema” in Queer Cinema in the World (Duke University Press, 2016): 1-34.
- Bliss Cua Lim, “Clocks for Seeing: Cinema, the Fantastic, and the Critique of Homogenous Time,” in Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique (Duke University Press, 2009): 1-41.