2024/25 Collections Celebration

The Collections Celebration brings together faculty members from CSI who have recently published (or will soon publish) an edited book. Please RSVP.

COLLECTIONS CELEBRATION with the CINEMA STUDIES INSTITUTE

Please join us in celebration and conversation on four edited collections published by faculty from the Cinema Studies Institute in 2024 and 2025. The editors and co-editors (details below) will speak briefly about their collection(s), its progeny, its contributions to the field, and so on.

When: 27 March 2025, 5-7pm

Where: Common Room, Massey College, 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S2E1

There will be drinks and light bites. Please RSVP here.

The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema (2024, eds. Charlie Keil and Rob King)

In conversation with co-editors Charlie Keil and Rob King

The historiographical essays in this collection engage with the question of how we might rethink silent film history, especially in the context of the developed media ecosystem that defined the early 1900s. Influenced by methodologies as diverse as media archaeology and industrial studies, and sensitive to both the textual contours of silent films and the cultural, economic, and ideological currents that helped shape them, the Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema invites its reader to envision its object in expansive terms that incorporate the propulsive energy of the first decades of the 1900s and deploy the analytical frameworks of the current day.

Federico Fellini: Centenary Essays (2025, eds. Marco Malvestio, Jessica Whitehead and Alberto Zambenedetti)

In conversation with co-editors Alberto Zambenedetti and Jessica Whitehead

Federico Fellini (1920–1993) remains central to the Italian cultural imagery and the object of ongoing debates and critical scrutiny. Marking the centenary of Fellini’s birth, Federico Fellini: Centenary Essays reassesses the film-maker’s legacy with diverse contributions from established and emerging scholars and film-makers. From literary influences to pictorial references, from artistic collaborations to politics, and from exhibition history to revivals, the collection covers the pivotal aspects of Fellini’s poetics through contemporary methodological tools and features a wide array of scholarly approaches.

Queer Data Studies (2024, ed. Patrick Keilty)

In conversation with editor Patrick Keilty

Data, perilous and powerful, is both a worldmaking and a dismantling force. The collection of data about queer lives and bodies, the consequences of data analysis for queer subjects, and considerations of privacy and consent often present ethical dilemmas even as queer data expands our understanding of who and what counts. The need for queer analyses and perspectives has taken on a new sense of urgency in light of hostile antiqueer policies by major technology companies, the security theater of airports, the disproportionate rates of policing queer people and people of color, digital surveillance in border security, and the proliferation of digital health records.

Handbook of Adult Film and Media (forthcoming 2025, eds. Patrick Keilty, Peter Alilunas, and Darshana Mini)

In conversation with co-editor Patrick Keilty

The Handbook of Adult Film and Media offers a survey of the state of the discipline. As a site of frequent, intense stigma and significant creative expression, adult film and media occupy a contested space within cultural discourse, challenging normative assumptions about taste, morality, and artistic value, and its study illuminates broad cultural, social, and economic dynamics. While residing in liminal social spaces, these topics afford scholars rich opportunities to interrogate shifting attitudes toward sexuality, censorship, and technological innovation. This work critically engages with questions of representation, labor, and power, foregrounding the significance of media that remains marginalized while exerting profound influence on public and private life.

Organized by: Events Committee, Cinema Studies Institute