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Arts and the Nuclear Age: Susan Courtney
| When: | Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:00–5:30 p.m. |
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| Where: | Logan Center, Screening Room 201 915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL |
| Description: | Susan Courtney is a Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina. Her work investigates historical relationships between popular conceptions of and pervasive forms of moving image culture, ranging from cinema to television to contemporary media. She is author of Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race, 1903-1967 (2005) and of Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South (2017), a book which uses a range of moving image material to explore questions of race and region in light of the post-war context of the cold war, the atomic age, and the civil rights movement.
Presented by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. The Arts and the Nuclear Age lecture series is supported by the Franke Institute for the Humanities. |
| Cost: | Free |
| Tag: | CP1, Featured Research, Research, Screenings, Lectures, Arts |
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