Venue: Past & Present Room N202, 2nd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House, London
Time: Thursdays, 17:30
Convenors: Mark Glancy (Queen Mary University of London)
Autumn Term 2017
12 October: “When the Revolution Comes”: The Politics of Remembering Mary C. McCall Jr and the Women Who “Owned” Hollywood, J.E. Smyth (University of Warwick)
9 November: Travolta Fever: Masculinity as Spectacle in the 1970s, Adrian Garvey (Queen Mary University of London)
23 November: Looking For Lela: Finding, and Defining, Women’s Creative Labour in the Production Cultures of Classical Hollywood Cinema, Helen Hanson (University of Exeter)
7 December: “Our Bravest and Most Beautiful Soldier”: Pola Negri, Wartime, and the Gendering of Anxiety in Hotel Imperial (1927), Elisabetta Girelli (University of St Andrews)
For further details, please visit: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminar/film-history
