20 May 2014 | 18.30 | Lab. 5, ISCAP
ABSTRACT
This lecture will trace the roots of the American women’s liberation movement – and other protest movements of the 1960s – to its origins in 1950s America, where post-war lifestyle changes encouraged a “cult of domesticity” that was in direct confrontation with modernity fueled by the decade’s unprecedented prosperity and innovation.
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Kevin Dwyer is an associate professor of American Studies at the Université d’Artois (France). His doctoral research in Film Studies was centered on representations of food in film, and recent articles have focused on cannibalism in Italian cinema, films and the First World War, film adaptations of true stories, and representations of meat in film. He has also translated the subtitles for a French documentary on male circumcision and his short story, O-Zone, was adapted to film in 2003.