Wednesday 22nd of February Michael Richardson

On Wednesday 22nd of February at 6PM in MB 137, at Goldsmiths
SEPRO will be hosting a talk by
Michael Richardson on
"Aspects of King Kong".
Please join us!

MICHAEL RICHARDSON is currently visiting professor at Waseda University,Tokyo. His principal interest is in processes of communication, whetheracross cultures or across intellectual disciplines. His doctoral researchwas concerned with the relationship between anthropology and surrealismand the different ways in which they approach the question of culturaldifference. He is also interested in questions of representation,especially in relation to film, especially in the ways that meaning isformed and transmitted. He is the author of The Experience of Culture(Sage Publications, 2001), and Georges Bataille (Routledge, 1994). He has also written many articles on aspects of surrealism and has edited severalcollections of surrealist writings, including The Dedalus Book ofSurrealism (Dedalus, 1993-4), Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean (Verso, 1996) and, with Krzysztof Fijakowski, Surrealism Against the Current (Pluto, 2001). His most recent book, Surrealism and Cinema, will be published by Berg next month.