Dear WFTHN members,
Happy New Year to everyone! The WFTHN committee hopes you all had nice holidays with a break! Our first blog of 2018 is published.
In this blog, Fjoralba Miraka reflects on a conference at Bangor University on The American New Wave. Out of a wide-ranging event, she focusses on
key aspects in relation to women and film history, not least in some challenges to the dominance of the prevailing idea of the New Hollywood male auteur. Her report provides further evidence for WFTHN readers of how looking back continues to provide vital
material for reassessment and moving forwards.
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Associate Professor of Film
University of Southampton
Principle Investigator of AHRC-funded Calling the Shots: women and contemporary film culture in the UK
Author: Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
Co-editor: First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics
