CSS Lecture: Matthew Croombs, “Cinematic Solidarity and the Global Imaginary”
November 11 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Prof. Croombs’ talk seizes on a renewed investment in the term solidarity, questioning how we might begin to theorize an aesthetics of solidarity for the cinema, focusing on the cinematic legacies of Third-World internationalism. Through his lecture, he seeks to respond to a growing impetus within Film and Media studies to reopen the influential and overlooked film radicalisms of the past in order to better conceptualize the role of cinema within the ideological battle-lines of advanced capitalism. Prof. Croombs is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. His work focuses on the intersection between documentary film, political modernism, and anti-colonialism and has been published in Discourse, Cinema Journal, Third Text, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Screen.