End Date : February 6, 12:30 pm
The M.A. in Film Studies Program, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
Dorothy Arzner has long provided the paradigm for subversive feminist film making and the inspiration for a number of key questions concerning the (in)visibility and agency of female filmmakers in 20th century Hollywood. However, as S. Louisa Wei’s documentary Golden Gate Girls (2013) reveals, Arzner’s contemporary Esther Eng, a Chinese-American, openly-lesbian director, producer, and distributor working in Hong Kong, San Francisco, and New York, offers a new paradigm of world feminist film making. Eng represents an intervention in the study of female film pioneers through the questions that her career poses surrounding immigration and queer theory, Chinese feminism, transnational film making, and more. This conference will celebrate Eng’s legacy and the current state of world feminism through keynote talks, panels, screenings, and roundtable discussions.
Locations:
- Thursday, February 4, 7:30 – 9:30 pm: Round Table, Columbia Faculty House
- Friday, February 5, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm: Conference Panels, Butler Library Room 522/23; 7:30 pm: Screening, Dodge Hall Room 511
- Saturday, February 6, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm: Butler Library Room 522/23
Speakers:
- Weihong Bao, UC Berkeley
- Deirdre Boyle, The New School
- Jane Gaines, Film & Media Studies Program, Columbia University
- DeeDee Halleck, Paper Tiger Television
- Hikari Hori, Columbia University
- Yuka Kanno, Doshisha University
- Debrashee Mukherjee, Columbia University
- Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Columbia University
- Ying Qian, Columbia University
- Paulina Suárez-Hesketh, New York University
- E.K. Tan, Stony Brook University
- S. Louisa Wei, City University of Hong Kong; Director, Golden Gate Girls (2013)
- Patricia White, Swarthmore College
- Liu Yang, Nanjing University
- Zhen Zhang, New York University
- Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director, Women Make Movies
For full details, please visit the Film Studies Conference Site.
