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Screening the Avant-Garde Face
Mary Ann Doane
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Listen to a 80 minute recording, or download the file
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Slought Foundation
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Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia are pleased to announce "Screening the Avant-Garde Face," a lecture by theorist Mary Ann Doane as part of the Cinema Studies Colloquium on Thursday, September 27, 2007 from 6:30-8:00pm. This event has been organized by Karen Beckman, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; for more information on the Cinema Studies Colloquium, visit: http://cinemastudies.upenn.edu/
Mary Ann Doane is George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. In 1996-1997 and 1998-2000 she was Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media. She has also served on the Executive Board of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She has held visiting teaching positions at New York University and the University of Iowa. In 1994 she was Frederic Ives Carpenter Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. A specialist in film theory, feminist theory and semiotics, Doane holds degrees from Cornell University (B.A. English, summa cum laude, 1974) and the University of Iowa (M.A. Speech and Dramatic Art, 1976; Ph.D. Speech and Dramatic Art, 1979). She is the author of The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Indiana University Press, 1987), Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1991), and The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (Harvard University Press, 2002). She has published a wide range of articles on feminist film theory, sound in the cinema, psychoanalytic theory, sexual and racial difference in film, melodrama, and television. Doane was a member of the Executive Council for The Society for Cinema Studies from 1986 to 1989 and served on the Film Division of the Modern Language Association from 1993-1997. She is a member of the editorial board of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and an advisory editor for Camera Obscura and Parallax. In 1990-91, she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2005 she was invited to deliver the Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton. She also received a Wriston Fellowship and a Pembroke Center Faculty Fellowship at Brown in 1982-83.
This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of the Cinema Studies Program in the School of Arts Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Mary Ann Doane. "Screening the Avant-Garde Face." Slought Foundation Online Content. [27 September 2007;
Accessed 18 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11372/>.
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