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Silent Hollywood, Cinema of Contradictions

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On Thursday, September 30, at 20:00, Mark Garrett Cooper, a leading expert on silent films, will give a lecture entitled “Silent Hollywood, Cinema of Contradictions,” followed by the screening of the film Our Hospitality by Buster Keaton. The lecture is open to the public and translation will be provided.

Mark Garrett Cooper is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and English at the University of South Carolina. He also serves as Interim Director of Moving Image Research Collections, part of the University of South Carolina Libraries and one the largest public film archives in the United States. A specialist in the filmmaking institutions of early Hollywood, Professor Cooper has written two books. Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood (University of Illinois Press, 2010.)

In addition to these books, Prof. Cooper has published scholarly articles in Cultural Critique, Screen, Film Criticism, and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He has spoken on silent cinema to audiences in Bologna, Stockholm, Guadalajara, Montreal, and across the United States. A native of Littleton, Colorado, Professor Cooper earned his BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and his MA and PhD from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

For more information please visit: http://www.markgarrettcooper.org/Mark_Garrett_Cooper/about.html