Events

What Happened to Pantomime?

Lecture by Ben Brewster

When:
Thursday, February 10, 2005, 5:00pm - 5:00pm
Description:
Ben Brewster is currently Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. He is a prime specialist in acting styles in the history of theater and cinema, and his talk is based on previously unknown materials about mime inserts in nineteenth-century ballet as well as on mime inserts in silent films.
Co-sponsored by Committee on Cinema and Media Studies,and the Mass Culture Workshop