Elaine Roth: "Now You See Them: Women and African Americans in Early US Cinema". Guest Lecture.

Elaine Roth is Professor of Film Studies and Chair of the English Department at Indiana University South Bend. Currently she is Mercator Fellow within the Research Training Group "The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics" at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. In the classroom and her writing, Professor Roth aims to uncover the "quiet politics" of the movies and the cultural production around them.Her current research  focuses on sentimental modes in fictional pandemic media, the writer Patricia Highsmith, and early US-American cinema. 

In cooperation with Filmplenum Würzburg. 

This event is free and open to the public. Please contact culturalstudies@uni-wuerzburg.de for further information.

Poster

JMU Cultural Studies