Chimes at Midnight: Film Screening and Talk by Michael Anderegg
Department: Film and Media Studies
Date and Time: February 25, 2015 | 6:00 PM-8:00 PMEvent Location: McCormick Screening Room (HG 1070)
Event Details
In honor of its 50th Anniversary, Orson Welles' classic rendition of
Shakespeare's history plays,
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1965) film screening, and a talk by Michael
Anderegg:
"'Every Third Word a Lie'--Rhetoric and History in Chimes at Midnight"
Wednesday, February 25th at 6:00 p.m.
McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway
In this film, Orson Welles adapts parts of four Shakespeare plays in
such a way that the act of adaptation is woven into the texture of the
film itself, drawing on issues in Shakespeare that are particularly
meaningful to him: the use and abuse of power and the relationship of
love to betrayal. Welles centers his adaptive strategies on a conflict
between rhetoric and history on the one hand and the immediacy of a
timeless physical world on the other. This conflict comes to us
primarily through the actions and character of Falstaff, but it informs
as well nearly every moment of Welles's film.
MICHAEL A. ANDEREGG is Professor Emeritus at the University of North
Dakota and the author of ORSON WELLES, SHAKESPEARE, AND POPULAR CULTURE
(Columbia University Press, 1999) and CINEMATIC SHAKESPEARE (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2004).
Co-sponsored by ILLUMINATIONS, Humanities Commons, the Department of
Film and Media Studies, and the Department of English