5th Annual Lebowski Fest - Louisville,
KY September 29th & 30th, 2006
Is this your homework, Larry?
The Lebowski Cult: An Academic Symposium
Click here for the Symposium schedule.
PLEASE NOTE: The symposium requires separate registration. The roundtable on Sept 30th is free and open to the public (no registration required)
As part of the 5th Annual Lebowski Fest,
there will be an academic
symposium and roundtable discussion. The aim of the symposium
is to gather cultural commentators, critics, theorists, and scholars
of all stripes to invent a critical program equal to the tasks of
interpreting The Big Lebowski (dir. Joel Coen, 1998) and
addressing the fan cult that has quickly grown in its wake: the
legions of “achievers” as well as the influence and
implications of their fanaticism.
The roundtable discussion will be held on Sat., Sept. 30th
from noon to 2 pm at The Executive West Hotel (830 Phillips
Ln) in the Scots Room. It is free and open to the public.
Guest speakers include:
Alan Dale (film historian and author of Comedy
is a Man in Trouble)
Joe Morgenstern (Pulitzer-prize winning film critic)
William Preston Robertson (author of The
Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film and TBL
crew member credited with "giggles/howls/marmots")
Some of the papers
include:
"Logjammin and Gutterballs: Masculinities in The Big Lebowski"
"I Hate the Eagles: The Big Lebowski Meditates on
Musical Genre"
"Lebowski/Mnemosyne: Cultural Memory, Cultural Authority, and
Forgetfulness"
Please visit the symposium
web site for more information.
Thanks to the coordinators:
Aaron Jaffe, Assistant Professor of English, University
of Louisville
Ed Comentale, Associate Professor of English, Indiana
University
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