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Join Dr Dalila Missero (Film Studies, Lancaster University), Prof Danielle Hipkins (Italian Studies and Film, University of Exeter) and Dr Debra Ferreday (Sociology, Lancaster University) to discuss Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture, (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

This book explores the multiple intersections between feminism and Italian cinema from the perspective of women's everyday relationship with the medium. Drawing from a feminist approach to Gramscian cultural theory, the book builds an archival counter-history of Italian cinema in which women took part as movie-goers, activists and practitioners, by means of a collective-historical agency that challenged cinema's patriarchal structures and strategies of invisibilisation.

Dalila Missero is Lecturer in Film Studies at Lancaster University. Her research interests include feminist cinema history, audience studies, popular and transnational cinema. She has published essays on gender, sexuality and film in the journals Feminist Media Histories, About Gender, and The Italianist, and her first monograph “Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema. Archives from a Film Culture” (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), has received the 2023 Runner-up award for "Best First Monograph" by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS).

Danielle Hipkins is Professor of Italian Studies and Film at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on gender representation in postwar Italian cinema, including the monograph Italy's Other Women: Gender and prostitution in Italian cinema, 1940-1965 (Peter Lang, 2016) and is co-author of Italian Cinema Audiences: Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy (Bloomsbury, 2019). She is currently Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project ‘A Girls’ Eye-view: Girlhood on the Italian Screen since the 1950s’ (2021-2024).

Debra Ferreday is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Her research engages with embodied and social aspects of new media and digital cultures, celebrity culture, fashion, and consumption. Ferreday is a feminist cultural theorist with strong research interests in gender, feminist theory, sexuality, critical race theory, queer theory and embodiment. She has published on journals like Celebrity Studies and Feminist Theory.

Please join us for fascinating discussions and refreshments. This is a free in-person event and everyone is welcome to attend. Please email Vanessa Longden v.longden2@lancaster.ac.uk to register.

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