Dear All,
You are warmly invited to the UWE Moving Image Research Group (MIRGe) Research Seminar:
Title: Damsels and Divats by Agata Frymus (University of Ghent)
Date: Wed 13 May
Venue: UWE Bristol, City Campus at Arnolfini, Room 5AF005a (meet in the main foyer to be ushered up to the UWE side of the building).
In this research presentation Agata Frymus introduces her new book, Damsels and Divas, which investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories of three movie stars: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. It combines the investigation of American fan magazines with the analysis of studio documents, and the examination of the narratives of their films, to develop a thorough understanding of the ways in which Negri, Bánky and Goudal were understood within the realm of their contemporary American culture. This discussion places their star personae in the context of whiteness, femininity and Americanization. Every age has its heroines, and they reveal a lot about prevailing attitudes towards women in their respective eras. In the United States, where the stories of rags-to-riches were especially potent, stars could offer models of successful cultural integration.
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Agata Frymus is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Ghent, Belgium. Agata’s research concentrates on the relationship between race and silent film. Her work has been published in Early Popular Visual Culture, Celebrity Studies and Cinema Journal.
This event is supported by UWE Bristol’s Moving Image Research Group (MIRGe)
We very much look forward to welcoming you.
Charlotte Crofts and Mark Bould (Co-Convenors of MIRGe)
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