Tehran – Specialist sessions in preparation for the upcoming 7th Tehran Short Film Research Conference will essentially take place Wednesday, featuring renowned American academic and film scholar Thomas M. Leicci.
The event will be held by the Iranian Youth Film Association (IYCS), one of the most famous cinemas and short filmmaking schools in Iran and around the world.
Professor Leitch, a well-known scholar at the University of Delaware in the United States, will be the keynote speaker for this online session.
The event will include an introductory presentation by Navid Pourmohammadreza, an Iranian film researcher and instructor who is also a member of the conference’s scientific committee. Expert and translator Mehdi Chavoshvar relaxes the session.
Leitch’s lecture, entitled “The Permanent Alienation of Adaptation in Short Films,” explores how adaptation is a sidelined subject within the genre of short films. Following his presentation, participants will have the opportunity to raise questions.
The conference follows two previous sessions held in collaboration with the Iranian Books and Literature Home and the Iranian Youth Film Association, and features Ramin Shabaji on “New Adaptation” held last week by Ramin Shabaji on “Adaptation from Non-Fiction and Religious Textures” and “New Theory of Adaptation”.
Born in 1951, Thomas Rachch is an American scholar and renowned film scholar known for his extensive contributions to film research and cultural analysis. He received his bachelor’s degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1972. He continued his education at Yale University, earning his MA in 1973 and a doctorate in 1976.
Raych’s academic background began at Yale as an assistant professor in the English department, where he served until 1983. He then first entered the University of Delaware as an assistant professor, then later became an associate professor in 1986 and in 1991 he became a full professor of English. His research spans American and British literature, cultural studies, film, new media and the public humanities.
Leitch’s interest in film, which developed in the 1980s, led him to teach both undergraduate courses in film and graduate courses in cultural and literary theory.
He has written many influential books, including The Film Adaptation and Its Dissatisfaction and Their Encyclopedia and Alfred Hitchcock. His work continues to shape contemporary discourses of film, literature and digital knowledge. His academic focus includes film studies, adaptation theory and Hitchcock studies.
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