Professor Joseph D. Anderson, director of the Center for the Cognitive Study of Moving Images at Georgia State University, will present a University Lecture on Nov. 9 in the Film Forum of the Center for Theatre Arts at 4:30 p.m.
Anderson's lecture, titled "Realism and the Perception of Artifacts in Motion Pictures," is free and open to the public.
Anderson is one of the major scholars in a most important recent development in the study of the moving image called cognitive film studies, which argues -- as distinct from ideologically driven theories -- that theoretical claims about fundamental elements of film can be made in such a way that they can be tested empirically. He is the author of the groundbreaking book The Reality of Illusion: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Film Theory (1996), numerous articles and papers, and has edited and/or produced nine films.
Anderson earned his B.A. in art (1964), his M.A. in painting/art history (1965) and his Ph.D. in visual communication/motion picture production (1974) all at the University of Iowa. Before joining the department of communication at Georgia State, he was a professor and coordinator of the film program in the department of theater and film at the University of Kansas, and he has been on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa. He also has been president of Anderson-Hart Productions, in Austin, Texas; vice president of Texas Pacific Film/Video, also in Austin; and a producer/director for Time Inc.
In May 2001, Anderson will co-host the Third International Conference on Cognitive Film Studies in Pecs, Hungary.
The University Lecture fund at Cornell was first endowed at the beginning of the 20th century by historian Goldwin Smith. The designation "university lecturer" is given to a speaker whose subject is likely to draw, on the occasion of presenting a single lecture, a wide audience from a range of departments or programs.
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