The Berkeley Film Seminar of UC Berkeley provides a forum for faculty and graduate students in the Bay Area to present new research on - and to debate - theoretical, historical and methodological questions related to the study of the moving image. Thursday evenings, 142 Dwinelle Hall (Nestrick Room), UC Berkeley Click the speaker's name for the abstract and event flyer. CURRENT PROGRAM Fall 2005 - Spring 2006 Friday, April 21, 2006 4:30 pm "Chaplin and the Soviets" Yuri Tsivian (University of Chicago) February 23, 2006 5:00 pm "Hard Core Eroticism: In the Realm of the Senses" Linda Williams (UC Berkeley) November 17, 2005 "Hero: China's Response to Hollywood Globalization" Jenny Lau (San Francisco State University) October 6, 2005 "Photography's Expanded Field" George Baker (UC Los Angeles) September 15, 2005 "Crying in Color: How Hollywood Coped When Technicolor Died" Russell Merritt (UC Berkeley) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 2004 - Spring 2005 May 5, 2005 "Golem and Gollum: Creating Artificial Beings" Tom Gunning (University of Chicago) March 18, 2005 "Evidence, Fantasy and Documentary" Bill Nichols (San Francisco State University) February 17, 2005 "Alice, At Play: Information Architecture as a Device of Fiction" James Tobias (UC Riverside) November 4, 2004 "East is East and West is West?: Early Hollywood, Japanese Modernity and Sessue Hayakawa's Transnational Stardom" Daisuke Miyao (UC Berkeley) September 17, 2004 "How Deep is the Ocean, How High is the Sky: Interactivity, Immersion and Digital Art" Margaret Morse (UC Santa Cruz) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spring 2004 April 29, 2004 "Bruce Lee's Body, or, Chinese Masculinity in a Transnational Frame" Chris Berry (UC Berkeley) "Lois Weber, Progressive Cinema and 'Our Work-a-Day Girls' in Shoes" Shelley Stamp (UC Santa Cruz) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contact: FilmSeminar@berkeley.edu or Kristen Whissel, kwhissel@berkeley.edu Sponsors: Townsend Working Groups, Film Studies Program Site design: Irene Chien