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The Philadelphia Cinema & Media Seminar announces talk by Noel Carroll on September 14th
 The Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar (PCMS) announces its first presentation of the 2006-7 season, a talk by Noel Carroll entitled "On the Ties that Bind." Paul Messarias will provide a response.
The Seminar will take place on Thursday, September 14th, 2006, from 6:30pm to 8pm in Room 307 at the Temple University Center City Campus located at 1515 Market Street; driving directions and public transportation information appear below.
Professor Carroll's talk is an exploration of some of the emotional relations between audiences and the characters in popular fictions. Some relations to be examined are identification, simulation, sympathy, antipathy, and mirror reflexes.
Noel Carroll is Andrew W. Mellon Term Professor in the Humanities at Temple University. His books include The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (Routledge, 1990); Interpreting the Moving Image (Routledge, 1998); and A Philosophy of Mass Art (Routledge, 1999). He has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Embodied Mind: Comic Intelligence and Concrete Operations in Buster Keaton's "The General" and recently finished co-editing an anthology with Jinhee Choi called The Philosophy of Film for Blackwell.
Paul Messaris is Lev Kuleshov Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Messaris teaches and does research in the area of visual communication. His publications have dealt with viewers' interpretations of images, viewers' responses to the formal devices of advertising and other types of visual persuasion or manipulation, and ways in which the media have been affected by the advent of computers. His most recent research deals with digital special effects in fiction film, and he is working on a book about viewers' reactions to the style and content of movies.
The PCMS acknowledges the generous support of the Center of the Humanities at Temple.
If you have any questions about the PCMS, please contact Oliver Gaycken at the Temple English department (ogaycken@temple.edu).
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Driving directions to the Temple University Center City Campus:
From the New Jersey Turnpike:
To 1515 Market Street
Take NJ Turnpike to EXIT 4 and follow signs to Route 73 North approx. 1 mile to Route 38 West. Follow approx. 6 miles to cross BenjaminFranklin Bridge and follow signs to Vine Street (76W). Follow Vine Street approx. 1ΒΌ mile, Turn left onto N. 15th Street. Turn right ontoJohn F. Kennedy Boulevard, turn left onto N. 17th Street, and turn left onto Market Street to TUCC at 1515 Market Street.
From the Pennsylvania Turnpike or Schuylkill Expressway:
To 1515 Market Street
Take PA Turnpike to Exit 24 Philadelphia/Valley Forge Exit and follow signs to I-76 East (Schuylkill Expressway): follow
I-76 East for approx. 18 miles to Camden/Center City Exit (this exit is on the left). Follow the 23rd Street exit towards Ben Franklin Parkway. Keep left at the fork in the ramp. Stay straight to go onto Winter Street. Turn right onto North 21st Street. Turn left onto Market Street to 1515 Market Street.
From Points North via I-95:
To 1515 Market Street
Exit at the Center City exit and take 676 West. Exit 676 at the Broad Street Exit. This puts you on 15th Street going south. Turn right onto John F. Kennedy Boulevard. Turn left onto N 17th Street. Turn left onto Market Street to 1515 Market Street.
From Points South via I-95:
To 1515 Market Street
Take I-95 North to Broad Street Exit. Follow Broad Street North 3.2iles to Spruce Street. Turn left on Spruce Street, proceed 2 blocks to16th Street. Turn right on 16th Street, proceed 5 blocks to Market Street. Turn right on Market to TUCC at 1515 Market Street.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO TUCC CAMPUS
Broad Street Subway:
Local and express trains stop at City Hall.
Market-Frankford Elevated Line:
Stops at 15th and Market.
SEPTA Regional High Speed Lines:
(Call SEPTA INFORMATION CENTER at 580-7800 for route information.) All suburban and commuter line trains stop at Suburban Station, located at 16th Street and J.F.K. Boulevard. Follow signs to City Hall/15th Street exit.
PATCO Hi-Speed Lines from New Jersey:
Ride to the 8th and Market stop. Transfer to the Market-Frankford Line until the 15th and Market stop.
or
Ride to last Center City Philadelphia stop, 15th/16th and Locust Street. Exit above ground and walk 3 blocks north to Market Street.
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