Crying in the Dark: Film, Affect and Writing with Alison Gillmor

  • Thursday, May 21, 2015
  • 6:00pm – 8:00pm
  • The Royal Canadian Legion, 227 McDermot Ave

Free! Everyone welcome! Tim Groves draws on Barthes, Kristeva and affect theory to address two interesting questions (questions that Alison Gillmor has grappled with in her role as film lover and critic!) Why do we cry at movies, sometimes even movies that we hate? And how can we write meaningfully about highly subjective, emotional, even physical reactions to movies?

Reading: Tim Groves, “Cinema/Affect/Writing,” Senses of Cinema (March 2003).

  • Alison Gillmor writes on pop culture for the Winnipeg Free Press and is a contract instructor in Art History at the University of Winnipeg. She has an MA in Art History from York University and has written on visual art, architecture, film and books for Border Crossings, The Walrus, The Winnipeg Review, Azure, Canada’s History and The Globe and Mail. She regularly cries at movies.