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"'The Corpse Inaction' (on the action movie and a geneology of writing on cinema's bodies)"

Louis-Georges Schwartz

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Event Date: Monday, October 16, 2000
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Gregory Flaxman

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Louis-Georges Schwartz teaches contemporary American cinema and film theory at the University of Iowa, where he is an assistant professor. His work to date has concentrated on, among other things, the use of film and video in United States courts. Previously, he taught at San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and U.C Santa Cruz.

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