Dr. Shelley Stamp — "Willa Cather and Company"
National Willa Cather Center
413 N. Webster Street
Red Cloud, NE 68970
United States
This event is free and open to the public (and also included in Spring Conference registration). It will be presented from the Red Cloud Opera House, and also available digitally below.
Dr. Shelley Stamp will present "Willa Cather and Company: Female Filmmakers, Female Screenwriters, and Female Authors in Early Hollywood" as part of the 68th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference.
Stamp is a professor of Film + Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, was a finalist for the Theatre Library Association Book Award for Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon. An expert on women in Hollywood, she curated the 6-disk set Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, and is a Founding Editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal.
You can purchase Movie-Struck Girls onsite in our National Willa Cather Bookstore or here on our website.
Funding for this event was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.