The Departments of Comparative Literature and German & Scandinavian warmly invite you to celebrate the publication of

The Long Century’s Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
(University of Toronto Press, 2021)

by Kenneth Calhoon

Professor of Comparative Literature & German; Department Head of Comparative Literature; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cinema Studies

Friday, January 14

2-3.30 p.m. on Zoom

Email tteo2@uoregon.edu for Zoom link

Professor Calhoon will read from his third monograph and answer audience questions.

Connecting Weimar filmmaking to Romantic thought and practice, Professor Calhoon offers a non-technological, aesthetic genealogy of cinema. In his hands, their different moments and media emerge as connected phenomena, situated at alternate ends of the “long nineteenth century” but joined by their mutual rejection of the neo-classical aesthetic standard of placid and weightless poise in numerous media, including film, painting, sculpture, prose, poetry, and dance.