The Theatre Library Association Presents:
Women in Film:
Research, Digital Preservation & Access
Join us on October 17, 2014 for
a discussion moderated by TLA President Nancy Friedland looking at women in
film from three different perspectives. Mark Newton, Production Manager for
Columbia University’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), will
discuss the Columbia University’s Women Film Pioneers Project (https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/), a freely accessible online database showcasing the hundreds of
women who worked behind the camera during the silent film era. Kathryn Hearst,
professor of women’s history at Sarah Lawrence College, will speak about her
work as a scholar and professor and the challenges to researching early women
filmmakers. Bette Gordon, filmmaker and film professor at Columbia University’s
School of the Arts will address women in film in the twenty-first century.
Brief panel presentations will be followed by lively moderated discussion.
Nancy E. Friedland has been affiliated with Columbia University Libraries for
19 years, where she is Librarian for Media, Film Studies and Performing Arts,
and liaison to School of the Arts. She served as faculty partner on The
Film Language Glossary and the advisory group for Women Film
Pioneers Project. Nancy currently serves as TLA President, and was Co-Chair
of the SIBMAS TLA 2014 Conference. She also was Editor and contributor to Documenting:
Costume Design (2010), part of Performing Arts Resources’
design series. She contributed to the first editorial team of Oxford
Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies. Ms. Friedland is
Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Information and
Library Science and Long Island University’s Palmer School of Information
Science, where she teaches courses in Film and Media Collections: Archival and
Curatorial Practices, Researching Local History: Cities and Towns, and Digital
Humanities. She currently serves on the board of Women Make
Movies. She received an MA in Theatre Studies from New York University
and MLS from Rutgers.
Bette Gordon is a filmmaker and film professor who premiered her newest
feature Handsome Harry at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival with
subsequent screenings at the IFC in New York City and Sunset 5 in Los Angeles. Handsome
Harry featured a stellar ensemble cast, including Steve Buscemi, Aidan
Quinn, Campbell Scott, John Savage and Jamey Sheridan. A pioneer in the
American independent film world, Gordon is best known for her bold explorations
of themes related to sexuality, violence and power. She has been the
subject of various retrospectives including at IFC Cinema (2010) and Anthology
Film Archives (2011), as well as at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in
2011 and Indiana University in 2012. Her early short films, most notably Empty
Suitcases, won numerous awards and festival acclaim worldwide, including
showings at the Berlin International Film Festival, New York's Museum of Modern
Art and The Whitney Biennial. Variety (1984) marked her debut
as a feature film director, particularly in light of the film's invitational
showing at The Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight. Luminous Motion,
based on the acclaimed novel History of Luminous Motion, was
produced by Ted Hope and Anthony Bregman of Good Machine.
Kathryn Hearst has been on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College since
2011, teaching undergraduate history and graduate-level women’s history. She specializes in gender, race, sexuality, and class in film and
media; women’s and gender history; and social and cultural history of the
United States and Europe. Kathryn has worked in television, film, and media
development at The Polone Company and Hearst Entertainment. In addition to her
work with the WFPP, she is a contributor to the Bancroftania,
University of California-Berkeley; and an advisor to MoMA’s To Save and
Project film series. Kathryn is a member of Women Writing Women’s
Lives, CUNY; the advisory board for the Center for Biodiversity and
Conservation of the American Museum of Natural History; and the advisory
council of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She received a PhD in
History and a MFA in Film, both from Columbia University.
Mark
Newton is the
Production Manager for CDRS. He oversees the production schedules of the
Web-based projects of the Center, including publication support for online
scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and other digital projects related
to the needs of the Columbia University community for scholarly exchange, and
manages a staff of eight developers, designers, and project managers in the
service of the center’s multiple project timelines. Prior to joining CDRS, Mark
was Digital Collections Librarian and Assistant Professor at Purdue University
Libraries. He received a Masters of Science in Library and Information Science
from the University of Illinois in 2007.
At the New York Public Library’s Bruno Walter Theatre, 111 Amsterdam
Avenue. October 17, 2014.
TLA Annual Business Meeting (open to the public) will take place
from 5:30-6:00PM.
Doors open at 6:45, panel event from 7:00-8:00 PM.
‘Dress thyself like an old witch’ postcard. The seventh in a series of ten postcards titled, “The 10 commandments for wives.” From the Dovie Horvitz Collection / UW Digital Collections 2010.27.1
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