A Retrospective on Gre ~ndand His Career @gTgZEM GREGG:Symposium Schedule The Symposium is Free and Open to the Public All sessions to be held in the Booth Library Conference Room, 4440 (4th floor) Reception at the Tarble Arts Center on the EIU campus The Grapes of Wrath will be shown in the auditorium in Buzzard Hall 8:30 am. Welcome Jim Johnson, Dean, College of Arts & Humanities Roscoe Dan Cougill, Mayor, Charleston, Illinois 900-10:30 am. Charleston Roots - Lynnea Magnuson, Moderator Rural Illinois: Influence of Place on Person - Zhe Charleston Riot Robert D. Sampson, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign People and Their Work During an Era of Change: Central Illinois, Post Civil War to World War I Charles Titus, Department of History, Eastern Illinois University The Toland and Turman Families in Coles County, Illinois Joy Pratte, Coles County Arts Council Debra A. Reid, Department of History, Eastern Illinois University 10:30-11:OO am. Break 11:OO-11:45 America During Toland's Era: Popular Culture & Politics During the 1930s and WWll - Kane Click, Moderator Lynnea Magnuson, Department of History, Eastern Illinois University Noon-1:00 pm. Lunch Break 1:OO-200 pm. Toland, the Cinematographer: Reflections on His Influence Robert L. Carringer (author of 7he Making of Citizen Kane) University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana Introduction: Ann Boswell, Department of English, Eastern Illinois University 2:OO-245 pm. The Films of Gregg Toland - Kane Click, Moderator Joseph K. Heumann, Department of Communication Studies, Eastern Illinois University 245-300 pm. Break 300- 415 prn. Close Reading: Meaning in the Toland Classics -- Ann Boswell, Moderator Welles, Toland, Aldrich, and Baroque Expressionism Tony Williams, Film StudieslDepartment of English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 7hese Zhree: Toland5 Gaze among Hellman3 Schoolgirls Christopher Weedman, Department of English, Eastern Illinois University 7he Best Years of Our Lives Nancy V, Workman, Department of English, Lewis University 500-6:00 prn. Wine & Cheese Reception, Tarble Arts Center Sponsored by the College of Arts &Humanities, Eastern Illinois University Dinner (On your own) 6:30-9:30 pm. Film: The Grapes of Wrath, Buzzard Auditorium With an introduction by Joseph K. Heurnann Saturday, September 25 For details on the festival see greggtolandday.com Events scheduled include a juried art fair, walking tours, 1930s-1940s music, Toland films, and film-related children's activities. The exhibit "Citizen Gregg: Charleston Born, California Bound" will be on display at the Dudley House, Coles County Historical Society. 895 7th Street, with funding from the Illinois Association of Museums and the Charleston Charitable Trust Ann Boswell, Department ofEnglish, Eastern Illinois University - Moderator 10:30-10:45 a.m. 1930s popular culture Lynnea Magnuson, History, Eastern Illinois University 11:30-11:45 a.m. Toland filmography Tony Williams, Film StudiesIDepartment of English, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Noon-1215 Gregg Toland and The Outlaw: Camp in Deep Focus Ilol,in Murray, 1)epartment of Englisli, Eastern Illinois Ilniversily 1:00-1:15 prn Toland and World War II Wane M. Click, Ilcpartment of Communication Studies, Eastern Illinois IJniversity 1:30-1:45 pm The Best Years of Our Lives Nancy V. Workman, 1)ep;trtcncnt of English, I.cwis Ilniversity A~OU~~re~g Toland and our Symposium "Citizen Gregg," a symposium and community festival marking the centen- nial of the birth of Gregg Toland (1904-1948), will feature humanities schol- ars engaged in new research on the life and work of the Charleston, Illinois native often described as the most innovative and influential cameraman of the sound-film era. Toland revolutionized visual popular culture during the interwar years with films including Les Miserables, Wuthering Heights, for which he won an Oscar, fie Grapes of Wrath, and Citizen Kane. Symposium speakers will present research that places Toland's rural Progressive-era ori- gins and family connections into socio-political and historical context, and offers new insight into his commitment to experimental cinematography. Gregg Toland was born in Charleston 100 years ago this year, and family members still reside in the county. They have provided valuable assistance and access to primary resource materials and photographs never consulted by film studies scholars before. The new material provided a foundation for a scholarly exhibit on Toland, his family connections in Charleston, and his film career. Prior to this, no film studies scholar had delved into his family background. Aside from contemporary stories about Toland prompted by five Academy Award nominations and the interest generated by the contro- versial Citizen Kane, little exists on Toland. The new information can help us understand the ways family and community affected professional choice as well as the influence that Toland exerted on visual popular culture during the interwar years. .