Nouvelles

Ogden Glass Lecture – Deep Depp

Sherbrooke QC - 1 February, 2008

Thursday, February 7th, 8pm, Bandeen Hall at Bishop’s University

Professor and film scholar Murray Pomerance will be at Bishop’s University on Thursday, February 7th to deliver the annual Ogden Glass Lecture.  His one-hour illustrated talk, Deep Depp: Travails of Celebrity in the Global Era, looks at the way in which Johnny Depp is unique among movie stars in remaining enigmatic and unknowable and in giving performances more typical of character actors.  This lecture is free and open to the public.

Professor Pomerance’s book on the actor, Johnny Depp Starts Here,was published in 2005 by Rutgers University Press, and reviewed in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video as “an incredibly refreshing attempt to understand an actor who has become an acclaimed performer within contemporary cinema.” Pomerance has delivered this lecture at universities across North America, including Columbia University, the University of Arizona, Tucson, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the University of British Columbia, and Harvard University. 

Pomerance has authored and edited many other books about film, including The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience beyond Narrative and Theory (forthcoming), City that Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination (2008), From Hobbits to Hollywood:  Essays on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings (2006), An Eye for Hitchcock (2004), and Enfant Terrible: Jerry Lewis in American Film (2002)  He is also a short-story writer, whose collections include Savage Time (2005) and Magia d’Amore (1999). He is a professor at Ryerson University in Toronto.

This lecture series is named after Ogden Glass, Principal of Bishop’s University from 1960 to 1969.  He had been a brilliant undergraduate student at Bishop’s, a considerable athlete, and a Rhodes Scholar.  Dr. Glass passed away in 2001.  As a tribute to his leadership of, and service to, Bishop’s University, the annual Ogden Glass Lecture brings an internationally renowned scholar to the University.

-30-