Patricia White’s “Women’s Cinema, World Cinema”

Today’s globalized network of film festivals defines world cinema as a way to preserve film art and national cinemas against Hollywood domination. White’s new book, Women’s Cinema/ World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms looks at how a new generation of women directors takes on gendered concepts of authorship, taste, genre, and human rights within this context. Her presentation looks at the fiction and documentary work of London-based Chinese writer and director Xiaolu Guo as a mapping of transnational identity in the space between “I” and “she.”

Discussion will be led by Dr. Laura Di Bianco, Hunter College.

Friday, September 25, 2015
Rm. 5414, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Light refreshments served

Patricia White is a scholar of feminist film and professor and chair of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is also the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian and her work has been published in Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, GLQ, Screen and in the edited collectionsInside/Out and A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, among others. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Co- sponsored by the Dept. of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies Group (CSG), The Graduate Center, CUNY