POSTPONED: Bernadette Wegenstein: JANE CAMPION: FILMMAKER AND PHILOSOPHER (with Laura Di Bianco)

*This event has been postponed. Please stay tuned for a new date!*

Join us for the launch of Bernadette Wegenstein’s exciting new volume, Jane Campion: Filmmaker and Philosopher! In conversation with Laura Di Bianco, Wegenstein will introduce us to her invaluable contribution to gender and women’s studies, film studies, and philosophy. This vital new book engages with Campion’s cross-medium career, and shows how Campion is engaged in a permanent artistic and intuitive exposition of a profoundly feminist philosophical vision.

Click here to order Jane Campion: Filmmaker and Philosopher!

Bernadette Wegenstein is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA. She has written books on media theory including Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory, The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and The Construction of Beauty. She is also a documentary filmmaker.

Laura Di Bianco is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, whose research and teaching lie at the intersection of twenty-first century Italian cinema, literature, and culture; Women’s and Gender Studies; and Environmental Humanities.

Her book—Wandering Women. Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking (Indiana University Press, 2023) explores the work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives.