Jane Young Film Series: Horror Films and Special Guests

Please join Professors Manya Steinkoler and Robert Masterson of the BMCC English Department for the Jane Young* Film Series, Fall Semester 2024. We are delighted to host highly distinguished guests to introduce this semester’s films.

All students, staff and faculty are welcome.

The films and discussions will be held on Zoom: https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/84526431851?pwd=fME9zptsYDa7XzkN1B4CBThINWrZu7.1.

Sept 29 Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski, 1968
Special Guest: Dr. Patricia Gherovici

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities. Her single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize),  Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference . She co-authored with Chris Christian Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious  (Winner of the Gradiva Award and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize) She edited with Manya Steinkoler Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can’t  ;  Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (and most recently, Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Winner of the Gradiva Award for Best Edited Collection).

Oct 13 Train to Busan,Yeong San Ho, 2016

Thursday Oct 31: Halloween Triple Feature: beginning  at 5 pm:  Dracula, Todd Browning, 1931;  Frankenstein, James Whale, 1931; The Mummy, Karl Freund 1932

Special guest: Ernesto Pezzi, Faenza, Italy, independent educator and scholar of film and art history, author of The Fellini Handbook.

Nov. 10 The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963

Special Guest: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Jean-Michel Rabaté is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, inaugural holder of the Vartan Gregorian professorship at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored or edited 48 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound and Joyce.  Recent books include Lacan Literario; 1913: The cradle of modernism; The Ethic of the Lie and Etant donnés: 1) l’art, 2) le crime. In 2013, he edited A Handbook of Modernism Studies and a new French translation of Joyce’s Exiles. In 2014 he published Crimes of the Future: Theory and its global reproduction,  Bloomsbury Publishing, and Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis, Cambridge University Press.  Editor of 1922: Culture, Politics and Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2015,  The Pathos of Distance (2016), Think, Pig! Beckett at the limit of the human (2016), Les Guerres de Derrida (2016). More recent titles include Rust (2018), Kafka L.O.L. (2018), After Derrida (2018), Rire au Soleil (2019), Understanding Derrida / Understanding Modernism (2019), Knots: Post-Lacanian Readings of literature and film (2020), Beckett and Sade (2020), Rires Prodigues (2021), Knots, Post-Lacanian readings of film, literature and culture, New York, Routledge, 2020, Beckett and Sade, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020. Rires Prodigues: Rire et jouissance chez Marx, Freud et Kafka, Paris, Stilus, 2021., With Angeliki Spiropoulou, Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics, Bloomsbury, 2022 and James Joyce, Hérétique et Prodigue, Paris, Stilus, 2022.

Nov. 24 Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow 1987

Dec 8 The Exorcist, William Friedkin, 1973

Special Guest: Dr. Katherine Jenness, practicing psychoanalyst, New York City. Katie Jenness received her education from the University of Chicago Committee on Human Development, and completed psychoanalytic training at New York University where she now teaches Freud.  She enjoys her rabbit Spartacus as well as thinking about narcissism and the history of psychoanalysis.

* This film series was named in honor of former BMCC English Professor and Department Chair Jane Young, who taught composition, literature, and film for 43 years.

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