Presentation on Chopin in Film, Followed by a Screening of Impromptu (James Lapine, 1991)

September 16, 2010 - 7:30pm
  • Thursday, September 16, 2010
  • Minor Hall 125
  • 7:30 p.m.
  • Free

 

U.Va. Professor Andrea Press will offer a presentation about films based on Chopin’s life and music as prelude to a showing of James Lapine’s Impromptu (1991). This film focuses on the relationship between Chopin and nineteenth-century French author George Sand (pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) and stars Hugh Grant as Chopin and Judy Davis in the role of Sand.

Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Media Studies Department at U.Va., Professor Press focuses her scholarly attention on the media audience, feminist media issues, and media and social class in the U.S. She is the author of Women Watching Television: Gender, Class and Generation In The American Television Experience (University of Pennsylvania Press), Speaking Of Abortion: Television And Authority In The Lives Of Women (with Elizabeth R. Cole, University of Chicago Press), and The New Media Environment (with Bruce A. Williams, Basil Blackwell Press). For three years (2006-9) she served as Executive Director of the Virginia Film Festival. She has received fellowship and research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Danforth Foundation, and the Soroptimist International Foundation. Currently she is helping to develop a Center for Media Policy and Ethics at the University of Virginia. Her new project looks at representations of feminism/postfeminism in popular media, and their reception and concomitant attitudes towards feminism/postfeminism among women of different ages, occupations, social class and ethnic backgrounds.

This event is part of the Chopin Bicentennial Celebration at the University of Virginia (September 16-19, 2010), which is sponsored by the Page-Barbour Fund, the Mcintire Department of Music, the Center for Russian and East European Studies, the American Institute of Polish Culture, the Chopin Foundation of the United States, the Slavic Literatures and Languages Department, the Media Studies Department, and by an Arts Enhancement Grant from the Vice Provost for the Arts to increase access and engagement with the Arts. For a listing of all festival events please visit: http://www.virginia.edu/music/chopin.

Address

UVA Department of Music
112 Old Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400176 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176

Email: music@virginia.edu