Join Vanessa Rocco, former Associate Curator at ICP, Assistant Professor of Art History at Southern New Hampshire University, and Saul Robbins, Adjunct Professor at ICP and Board Member Emeritus, The Camera Club of New York, as they discuss The New Woman in Film. Rocco and Robbins will present excerpts from such classics as Blue Angel (Marlene Dietrich), Pandora’s’ Box (Louise Brooks), Metropolis (Brigette Helm), and the mythology of Mulan, while also discussing the environment in which Amelia Earhart made best use of newsreel technology to promote herself and her aeronautics adventures.
Images of flappers, garçonnes,
Modern Girls, neue Frauen, and trampky—all embodiments of the dashing
New Woman—symbolized an expanded public role for women from the
suffragist era through the dawn of 1960s feminism. Chronicling nearly a
century of global challenges to gender norms, The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s,
is the first book to examine modern femininity’s ongoing relationship
with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ most influential new media:
photography and film. This volume of original essays examines the ways
in which novel ideas about women’s roles in society and politics were
disseminated through new media technologies, probing the significance of
radical changes in female fashion, appearance, and sexual identity.
Additionally, these essays explore the manner in which New Women artists
used photography and film to respond creatively to gendered stereotypes
and to re-conceive of ways of being a woman in a rapidly modernizing
world.
The event is free and open to the public.
Saturday, September 29, from 4-6 pm at The Camera Club of New York,
336 West 37th Street (between 8 and 9 Avenues).
336 West 37th Street (between 8 and 9 Avenues).
Seating is limited. Please rsvp to: info@cameraclubny.org
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