The following event is free and open to the general public. Students enrolled in COM 507 Intro to Semiotics first will meet in KT 245 at 6 PM and have a chance to talk with the speaker, and then attend the lecture.
DEEP DEPP:
Travails of Celebrity in a Global Era
Tuesday, 30 Jan. at 7 p.m.
Science Building Room 168
Film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Johnny
Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture. The actor’s
image is studied in terms of its many strange nuances: Depp’s ethnicity,
his smoking, his tranquility, his unceasing motion, his links to the Gothic,
the Beats, Simone de Beauvoir, the history of rationality, Impressionist
painting, and other ambiguities. Both deeply intriguing and perpetually
elusive, Depp is revealed as the central screen performer of the
contemporary age, the symbol of performance itself.
Murray Pomerance, a professor in the department of
sociology at Ryerson University, is the author of An Eye for Hitchcock,
Magia D’Amore, Johnny Depp Starts Here, and winner of an O. Henry short story award.
Generously supported by The Department of Communication and The Chapman Fund
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January 23, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Please let me know how I can get a written transcript of this lecture re Johnny Depp on Jan. 30th. Thanks
January 23, 2007 at 2:47 pm
No plans to do a written transcript at this time. However, it may be videotaped and aired over the local college access station. For more info, see their website: http://www.college56.org/.
January 24, 2007 at 4:28 am
I’ve read your response re. a written transcript of the Johnny Depp lecture but was hoping there might be one done at some stage. Johnny Depp fascinates and enthrals with his talent in Australia too. Anyway, I hope everyone who is lucky enough to attend the lecture enjoys it very much.
January 26, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Prof. Pomerance wanted me to mention that he is available for invitations to lecture and to give talks at other places as well.