Ambler Theater
108 E Butler Ave | Ambler, PA 19002 | (215) 345-7855
Guests are invited to gather at 6pm for an Amherst-only meet and greet with Professor Hastie and learn about the new but growing Film and Media Studies program at Amherst. Enjoy connecting upstairs at Deterra, 129 E. Butler Avenue (across the street from the theater.) Light food provided; cash bar.
Amelie Hastie, Professor of English and Film and Media Studies will introduce and lead a discussion about the film Shampoo. The film screening will begin at 7:30 p.m., and will be followed by the discussion.
The author of Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection and Film History (Duke UP) and The Bigamist (a BFI "Film Classic"), Amelie Hastie was the founding Chair of the Film and Media Studies Program (a position she held for six years) at Amherst College. Her research and teaching focus on film and television theory and historiography, feminism, and material cultures. She has edited special issues of academic journals Film History, Journal of Visual Culture, and Vectors, and she currently writes "The Vulnerable Spectator" column in Film Quarterly. She was a proud member of the Camera Obscura feminist editorial collective for ten years. She is currently writing a book on the 1970s television series Columbo for Duke University Press. The courses she teaches at Amherst include "Things Matter," a first year seminar, “Television and Experience,” “US Films of the 1970s” and “Cinema and Everyday Life.”
Questions? Please contact Emily Collier at ecollier215@gmail.com.