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"The New Social Justice Documentary"

Date:
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Location:
18th floor of POT
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Diane Negra

Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of Film Studies at University College Dublin, is an internationally prominent film scholar and feminist critic who has lectured on five continents about the political and economic dynamics of race and gender in contemporary film. She is the author, editor or co-editor of seven books: Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (2001), A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (2002); The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture (2006); Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (2007); What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism (2008); Old and New Media After Katrina (2010); and In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (2011).