Join Professors Maggie Hennefeld (CSCL), Travis Workman (AMES), and Lorenzo Fabbri (FRIT) for a joint presentation of their recently published books on cinema, aesthetics, and politics: Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2024);  Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War (University of California Press, 2023); and Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy (University of Minnesota Press, 2023).

Moderated by Dr. Michelle Baroody (Mizna, Archives on Screen).

Presented by Media Archives for the Future. This activity is supported by an Institute for Advanced Study Research and Creative Collaborative Grant.