America Is Being Beaten: Visions of the Imperiled Child in D.W. Griffith, Freud, Jenkins, & Jafa

When and Where

Thursday, April 03, 2025 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E
Innis College
2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

Speakers

Ara Osterweil (McGill University)

Description

"America is Being Beaten" examines two films by D.W. Griffith through the lens of Sigmund Freud's essay "A Child is Being Beaten" to expose the white supremacist, pedophlic grammar of American cinema.

Ara Osterweil is Associate Professor of English and World Cinema at McGill University. In addition to being a film scholar, she is also an abstract painter, and art critic. Her second book The Pedophilic Imagination: A History of American Cinema is forthcoming from Duke University Press.

Contact Information

Sponsors

Cinema Studies Institute, Department of Visual Studies

Map

2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

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