Cities in Film

Laura Marcus, New College) & Carolin Duttlinger (Wadham College) will discuss Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (1930)
The discussion is preceded by a showing at 16:00 at Stanford House, but the film can also be viewed on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hg_vL6IQ6I

Films about cities are both part of modern urban experience and a mode of our reflecting on that experience. Over the last century both cinema and cities have been in flux. What have we learned from films that explore cities? About cities? About films? About tradition? About modernity? About fantasy? About reality? About beauty? About ugliness? About living? About ourselves? About making sense or nonsense of any or all of these? In this series of Film events, the Oxford Forum and Stanford University Centre in Oxford are showing entrancing films about cities, followed by dialogues and discussion.