{"id":731,"date":"2021-02-05T15:17:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/cfac\/?p=731"},"modified":"2021-02-05T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:17:34","slug":"cinema-and-the-frontiers-of-art-cfac-inaugural-lecture-by-emeritus-professor-jacques-ranciere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/screen-work-group\/2021\/02\/05\/cinema-and-the-frontiers-of-art-cfac-inaugural-lecture-by-emeritus-professor-jacques-ranciere\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema and the Frontiers of Art : CFAC Inaugural Lecture by Emeritus Professor Jacques Ranci\u00e8re"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 May 2014 – Bulmershe Theatre, Minghella Building, University of Reading<\/p>\n

Ars gratia artis<\/em>, the three words written on the scroll surrounding the head of the roaring lion at the beginning of the MGM movies may sum up the singularity of cinema. Cinema has blurred in many ways the frontiers separating pure art from the activities of the everyday and the forms of popular performance and entertainment. By the same token, it may have questioned the very unity of what we call art. Through examples borrowed from the history of film and from the history of cinephilia I wish to examine some aspects of this subversion of the frontiers of art.<\/p>\n

Watch his lecture in the video below:<\/h5>\n