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Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Music as Anamorphic Spot: The Radio Broadcast in *Tengoku to Jigoku* -- Giorgio Biancorosso
Department of Music is cosponsoring with EALAC and the Donald Keene Center a lecture by Giorgio Biancorosso, University of Hong Kong:
Music as Anamorphic Spot: The Radio Broadcast in *Tengoku to Jigoku* ("High and Low," dir. A. Kurosawa, 1963)
October 8th (Thursday) 6:00-7:30pm
Room 403 Kent Hall
Map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/kent.html
Lecturer bio:
Giorgio Biancorosso grew up in Italy and was educated in the UK and the US. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Musicology at Princeton University, in 2001-2003 he was a Mellon Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is now an Assistant Professor in Music and a Member of the Film Culture Project at The University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses in Music History, Aesthetics, and Film Theory and Criticism. Recent publications include: "Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig," in Wagner and Cinema, (Indiana University Press); "The Harpist in the Closet: Film Music as Epistemological Joke," in Music and the Moving Image 2 (3); and the essay "Sound" in The Routledge Companion to Film and Philosophy. Biancorosso is completing a book called Musical Aesthetics through Cinema, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He is also active as a journalist and writes monthly columns on the arts in China and the Asia Pacific for the Hong Kong Magazine Muse. In the Spring of 2010, Biancorosso will be Visiting Professor in Music and Film Studies at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei.
Music as Anamorphic Spot: The Radio Broadcast in *Tengoku to Jigoku* ("High and Low," dir. A. Kurosawa, 1963)
October 8th (Thursday) 6:00-7:30pm
Room 403 Kent Hall
Map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/kent.html
Lecturer bio:
Giorgio Biancorosso grew up in Italy and was educated in the UK and the US. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Musicology at Princeton University, in 2001-2003 he was a Mellon Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is now an Assistant Professor in Music and a Member of the Film Culture Project at The University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses in Music History, Aesthetics, and Film Theory and Criticism. Recent publications include: "Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig," in Wagner and Cinema, (Indiana University Press); "The Harpist in the Closet: Film Music as Epistemological Joke," in Music and the Moving Image 2 (3); and the essay "Sound" in The Routledge Companion to Film and Philosophy. Biancorosso is completing a book called Musical Aesthetics through Cinema, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He is also active as a journalist and writes monthly columns on the arts in China and the Asia Pacific for the Hong Kong Magazine Muse. In the Spring of 2010, Biancorosso will be Visiting Professor in Music and Film Studies at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei.
