BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//hammer.ucla.edu//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.4.3// VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20091124T070210CET-8446Dtfr0l@hammer.ucla.edu DTSTAMP:20091124T060210Z DESCRIPTION:A distinguished panel discusses high profile modernist monument s that ultimately become protagonists when used as locations in feature fi lms. Highlighted architecture will include John Lautner's Chemosphere\, wh ich played a starring role in Body Double\, Richard Neutra's Lovell House\ , featured in L.A. Confidential\, Adalberto Libera’s Casa Malaparte in G odard’s Contempt\, and the Marin County Civic Center which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is a central location in GATTACA. \;\n\n\nEd ward Dimendberg is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies\, Visual Studies\, and German at the University of California\, Irvine\, and author of Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity. He is currently completing a bo ok on the architecture of Diller Scofidio + Renfro as a University of Cali fornia President's Fellow in the Humanities. \; \n\n\n\nAnne Friedberg is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts\, and is a historian and theorist of modern media culture. Her books include: Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern\, Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism\, and The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft. \n\n\n\nBarbara Lamprecht\, M.Arch.\, and Senior Architectural Historian at ICF – Jones Stokes\, specializes in Early and Mid-Century Modernism and is the author of Richard Neutra – Complete Works and Neutra – Sel ected Projects. \; \n\n\n\nJon Yoder is Assistant Professor in the Syr acuse University School of Architecture and a Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. His doctoral dissertation\, Widescreen Architecture: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner\,” ta kes Lautner’s ocular-centric projects as lenses through which to focus o n issues of experiential and projective vision. \n\n\n\nCo-presented by th e UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.\n\n DTEND:20080715T095300 DTSTART:20080715T190000 SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Building Character\, Modernist Architecture in Fi lm END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR