The Beaverbrook Fund for Media@捆绑SM社区 is pleased to present a public lecture by Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar, Vanessa Schwartz. Prof. Schwartz鈥檚 lecture is on 14 October, 5h30pm, Thomson House (map), 捆绑SM社区. The lecture is a collaborative event between Media@捆绑SM社区 and the AHCS lecture series.
The Cannes Film Festival and the Rise of Paparazzi Photography
The Cannes Film Festival was scheduled to open on September 1, 1939 when the lights went out on the beach-front Promenade de la Croisette as Hitler invaded Poland. The festival finally opened in 1946 and served as the first international cultural event of the apr猫s-guerre. Vanessa Schwartz examines the history of Cannes in its first phase, from 1946 to 1968, paying particular attention to the key role that a certain kind of still-image culture played in advancing the festival鈥檚 goals. From the birth of the term paparazzi in the film La dolce vita (premiered at Cannes in 1960) to the worldwide phenomenon of Brigitte Bardot, a 鈥渕obile鈥� form of still photography emerged at Cannes that not only disseminated compelling images of the festivities but also contributed to developments in film form.
Biography
Vanessa R. Schwartz is Professor of history, art history, and critical studies at the University of Southern California, where she directs the Graduate Certificate in Visual Studies program. A historian on modern visual culture, she was trained in modern European history with a concentration on France and urban culture at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her Phd. Schwartz is the author or editor of numerous publications, including It鈥檚 So French! Hollywood, Paris and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (2007) and Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in fin-de-si猫cle Paris (1998).
Dr. Schwartz is a Beaverbrook visiting scholar with Media@捆绑SM社区 this October. She will give another lecture at the Intermedial City event.