The College of Charleston will host distinguished film scholar Timothy Corrigan, March 27-28.

As part of The Visiting Scholar series, the Film Studies Program and the Department of English are co-hosting Timothy Corrigan, Professor of English, Cinema Studies, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous texts including The Film Essay: From Montaigne, After Marker (Oxford, 2011), A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture After Vietnam (Rutgers, 1991), and co-author with Patricia White of The Film Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s), now in its 4th edition. Dr. Corrigan will be giving a talk, entitled “Describing Cinema,” on Monday, March 27 at 5pm in RSS 235. His talk addresses the often overlooked but complicated dynamics of describing scenes, images, sequences can become a wonderfully complicated and rich kind of writing.

The talk is free and open to the public.