The Pregnant Moment: Tracing Kant's 'Mother Wit' In Psychoanalysis, Aesthetic Reflection, and Cinema

Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) welcomes everyone interested to the open seminar The Pregnant Moment: Tracing Kant's 'Mother Wit' In Psychoanalysis, Aesthetic Reflection, and Cinema

Lecturer: Acting Assistant Professor Melinda Szaloky, Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

About Melinda Szaloky
Melinda Szaloky’s articles on continental film theory and philosophical aesthetics, silent film aesthetic and history – including her SCS award-winning piece on Murnau’s Sunrise – star acting, genre, feminist theory, and transnational cinemas and media have been published in edited collections (e.g., Janet Walker’s Westerns and Anikó Imre’s East European Cinema) as well as in Cinema Journal, Film History, Cinémas, and the New Review of Film and Television Studies. Her dissertation reevaluates the continuing concern of film and media scholarship, and production, with cinematic and electronic mediations, dissection, and reconstruction of the world- and self-delimiting procedures of consciousness in light of Immanuel Kant’s ideas of aesthetic reflection, as well as Gilles Deleuze’s cine-philosophy.