BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:https://fzhg.org/ BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event0611201266372ebae2d634.29574428 DTSTART:20121106T170000Z DTEND:20121106T190000Z LOCATION:Cas 1.801 SUMMARY:The Cinema in the 21st Century - Art Form or a Form of Life? DESCRIPTION:The subject of this lecture will be the question–already marginally raised by writers on film as diverse as André Bazin\, Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze – of whether it makes sense to consider the cinema under a somewhat different aspect from the approaches that dominated the discussion in the first century: is it an art form? is it a language? does it provide the most immediate access to reality or is it merely a deceptive simulation of reality? The challenge will be to see in what ways Siegfried Kracauer can still serve as a guide.\nThomas Elsaesser ist Professor Emeritus für Film- und Fernsehstudien an der Universtät Amsterdam. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR