[Anthropgrad] Public lecture Hollywood and the end of History Prof Sherry OrtnerThursday 23 October 5:30-7:30

[Sue Fraser]

Public Lecture

 

Venue: 

Haydon Allen Tank, Building 23,

Date: 

Thursday, 23 October 2008

Time: 

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Enquiries: 

Francesca Merlan <mailto:Francesca.Merlan at anu.edu.au>  on 6125 8228 


Hollywood & the End of History

There is a long-standing Hollywood tradition of keeping overt and
explicit political issues out of movies. With the exception of a few
films that get made because of the backing of progressive stars like
George Clooney and Tim Robbins, Hollywood films remain almost shockingly
a-political, at least on the surface. This talk will explore the culture
and practice of political erasure in Hollywood movies, against a
backdrop of the powerful political work that gets done in many
documentaries and in many non-American films.

Sherry B. Ortner is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her AB from
Bryn Mawr College, and her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.
Before coming to UCLA in 2004, she taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the
University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley, and
Columbia University. She has received numerous grants and fellowships,
including awards from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim
Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John D.
and the Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She has done extensive
fieldwork with the Sherpas of Nepal, on religion, politics, and the
Sherpas' involvement in mountaineering. Her final book on the Sherpas,
Life and Death on Mt. Everest, was awarded the J.I. Staley Prize for the
best anthropology book of 2004. She also publishes regularly in the
areas of cultural theory and feminist theory. She is currently working
on the relationship between independent films, Hollywood movies, and
American culture.

This lecture is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served at 4.30pm.
Presented by the School of Archaeology and Anthropology.

 

 

 

Sue Fraser

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