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April 15th 2010, Thursday, 2:00pm, Room C201
Karen Beckman is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Associate Professor of Film Studies in the department of the History of Art, and she is also the director of the program in Cinema Studies. She is currently completing a book about car crashes and film that includes chapters on early cinema, slapstick comedy, educational safety films, Warhol, and contemporary disaster films. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism, and the co-editor of two volumes: Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography with Jean Ma (Duke UP, September 2008) and Picture This! Photography and Literature with Liliane Weissberg (forthcoming). She has published articles on a range of subjects, including feminism and terrorism, death penalty photography, pop art and literature, and the relationship between cinema and contemporary art. She is also one of the editors of the journal Grey Room.

Precirculated paper and suggested reading will be posted here shortly.