Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Swansea University
Dr. Lisa Smithstead is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Swansea University. Her work looks at women's experiences as filmmakers and cinema-goers in Hollywood and Britain from the interwar period to the present day. Her research has explored the archives of film star Vivien Leigh, representations of cinema-going in modernist and middlebrow literature, and early cinema fandom. Lisa is currently researching the experience of older women in Hollywood in the wake of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.
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