GlobaLS Seminar: 'Film and Gender Theory'

The Global Literary Studies (GlobaLS) research group of the IN3 is pleased to invite you to the online research seminar: «Film and Gender Theory» by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Lecturer in English Studies at the University of the Balearic Islands and a member of ADHUC – Research Centre for Theory, Gender and Sexuality (University of Barcelona).

Venue

Online
Espanya

When

03/11/2020 15.00h

Organized by

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Research group GlobaLS of the IN3

Program

The seminar is organized by the ERC Project “Social Networks of the Past. Mapping Hispanic and Lusophone Modernity, 1898-1959”. It will take place on Tuesday 3 November 2020, from 3:00 to 5:30 pm, via Google Meet.

The texts that will be used as a basis for discussion are:

Colaizzi, Giulia. “Género y tecnología: de la voz femenina a la estilización del cuerpo”, La pasión del significante: Teoría de género y cultura visual. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2007: 21-35.

Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989: 14-26.

Paszkiewicz, Katarzyna. “Introduction: Impossible Liaisons? Genre and Feminist Film Criticism”, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018: 1-33.

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz

Professor of English Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and a researcher at ADHUC – Research Centre for Theory, Gender, Sexuality (University of Barcelona). Her research focuses on film studies, cultural studies and gender studies. Her published works include the books Women Do Genre in Film and Television (Routledge, 2017), coedited with Mary Harrod, Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2020), coedited with Stacy Rusnak, and the monographs Rehacer los géneros: Mujeres cineastas dentro y fuera de Hollywood (Icaria, 2017) and Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Along with Marta Segarra, she co-directs the collection Mujeres y Culturas: Ensayos sobre Género y Sexualidad by Icaria Editorial. She is currently principal investigator on the research project "Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene" (PID2019-110068GA-I00, Ministry of Science and Innovation).

To take part in this session, contact lleandro@uoc.edu.