Session Details

Friday, 28 December

187. Brecht and Film Today

10:15–11:30 a.m., Parlor E, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the International Brecht Society

Presiding: Barton Byg, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

1. “Musical Materialism: Straub and Huillet’s Schoenberg Films and the Brechtian Inheritance,” Larson Powell, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City

2. “From Class Struggle to ‘Bourgeois War’: Michael Haneke and Brecht in Dialogue,” Martin Kley, Univ. of Texas, Austin

3. “Brechtian Turns in Pan’s Labyrinth,” Christine Long, Johns Hopkins Univ.

4. “New Queer Brechtian Cinema: Gregg Araki’s Totally F***ed Up (1993),” R. Patrick Kinsman, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

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