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Lisa Smithstead

Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Swansea University

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.