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SUMMARY:Romance and War/Music and Technology: from David Lean's Brief Encounter to his Lawrence of Arabia
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the connected themes of romance and war in two of David Lean’s classics. Both films were about “transports of love and the transportation of warring parties”\, both comment on the post-Second World War context. What did it mean to make a British film for a newly emerging British film industry? How did this industry differ from that in America? How did the films play to an emerging sense of tourism and travel through British colonies? \nMost particularly\, Lydia Goehr\,  Professor of Humanities at Columbia University\, wants to explore the role of the new post-war technology that brought music into film as an indispensable part. How did the radio\, for example\, play to the transmission of music and news\, or to a broadcast of information that brought the formal movement of film into a parallelism of tracks with the high speed and lines of a train\, a plane\, and an automobile? \nThe talk\, in NYUAD’s ‘Distinguished Lecture in Music Studies’ series\, is moderated by Gwyneth Bravo\, Assistant Professor of Music at NYUAD.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/romance-and-war-music-and-technology-from-david-leans-brief-encounter-to-his-lawrence-of-arabia/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
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SUMMARY:(De)Constructing the Virtual Character in Motion Pictures 
DESCRIPTION:In the last 30 years\, virtual characters in motion pictures have grown from a novelty to a staple of movie-making. This talk for the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute examines is by Luca Fascione\, a senior ray tracing engineer for NVIDIA; she outlines what goes into designing a movie character that captures audiences in a contemporary feature\, explores the historical development of the corresponding technologies\, and discusses the aesthetic and structural choices that led to the current understanding of what a virtual character is (or should be). Fascinating stuff.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/deconstructing-the-virtual-character-in-motion-pictures/
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SUMMARY:On the Meaning of Place: A Walk Through the Old City
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Teller’s Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City (2022) gives voice to the layered tapestry of communities\, each with its own story\, that make up the city. His talk for the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute interweaves stories from Palestinian Arab and Jewish Israeli communities\, as well as African\, Indian\, Greek\, Armenian\, and Syriac societies\, and Gypsy families and Sufi mystics\, too.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/on-the-meaning-of-place-a-walk-through-the-old-city/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
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