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Coming Tuesday, 25th October  5.15pm:

 

 

St Andrews Centre for Film Studies Speaker Series:

Professor Jackie Stacey (University of Manchester)

 

A Whiter Shade of Pale:

Tilda Swinton, David Bowie and the Legibility of Whiteness

 

School II, St Salvator’s Quad

 

This talk will present some new research on Tilda Swinton’s whiteness, linking it to her twinning with David Bowie. In dialogue with Richard Dyer’s work on the history of whiteness, this paper will explore questions of affect, embodiment and humanness through some close readings of Swinton’s visual presence. Moving between her work in cinema, music video, fashion photography and live performance, Prof Stacey shall trace the ways in which her particular embodiment of whiteness raises questions about legibility and interpretation.

 

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 

For further information visit http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/events/

 

Coming up:

 

8th November: Dr Anuja Jain on Cinema after Bollywood

 

For further information and updates, please visit our events page at:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/events/upcoming/


Dr Leshu Torchin
Director of the Centre for Film Studies
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
Department of Film Studies
University of St Andrews
101a North Street
St Andrews, UK
KY16 9AD
Tel: 44 (0) 1334 467 476
 
Publications:

Click to see my contributions to Souciant, an online magazine of culture and politics

Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, November 2012) <http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creating-the-witness>

Film Festival Yearbook 4: Film Festivals and Activism (ed. Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin, St Andrews Film Studies, 2012) http://stafs.org/books/film-festival-yearbook-4/>


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