| The Women's Studies Program is teaming up with the USC Film Studies Program and Nickelodeon cinema to present a film series this fall. The series highlights the WOST 2006-07 programming focus on gender and media. The series will highlight films that address issues of the intersections of race, class, and gender across a variety of historical and cultural contexts. Each film screening will be followed by a discussion with the director and/or a panel discussion.
Susan Courtney, assistant professor in the Department of English and Film Studies Program, will kick off the series with a film screening featuring Streetcar Named Desire from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 12 in Gambrell Hall Auditorium on the USC campus.
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On Sept. 13, Courtney will present a Women's Studies Research Series Lecture at 3:30 p.m. in the Moore School of Business, Room 008. The title of her lecture is "The Long, Hot Melodramas: Gender and Other Southern Disorders in Films of the Fifties and Sixties." Both events are free and open to the public.
The Women's Film Series will be shown at the Nickelodeon, 937 Main St. Tickets are $4.50 for Nickelodeon members; $5.50 for seniors and students; and $6.50 for the general public.
The screenings are:
- Sept. 21, 8 p.m., Beverly Danielle's Learning to Swallow, which follows Patsy Desmond, a charismatic artist with bipolar disorder, as she struggles to rebuild her life after a suicide attempt destroys her digestive system.
- Oct. 9, 7 p.m., Children of the Decree is a story of the Romanian baby boom generation initiated by the Decree 770, which forbade abortion (except for women over 40 years of age or those already taking care of four children) and banned all forms of contraception.
- Nov. 2, 8 p.m., Manhattan, Kansas, a first-person documentary feature told from the point of view of a daughter, filmmaker Tara Wray, coping with her mentally unstable mother. The film details the complicated ways in which we care for one another.
- Dec. 5-7, 7 p.m., A re-release of the classic Louise Brooks silent film Pandora's Box, the story of Lulu, a sensual chorus girl whose uncontainable sexual power literally destroys every man with whom she has an affair, until she encounters one of history's most notorious killers: Jack the Ripper.
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