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"Susan Sontag's Screen Tests: The Pope of Pop Meets the Dark Lady of American Letters" by Mandy Merck


7 Mar 2012, 5:30pm - 6:45pm

Screen 2, Media Research Building

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Cost Free
Department Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Website For more information, click here.
Contact c.schultz(@gold.ac.uk)

Part of the Radical Media Forum talks series, sponsored by the Department of Media & Communications.

He was a working class Catholic, trained in commercial art. She was a middle-class Jewish intellectual. He painted Coke bottles. She endorsed Absolut Vodka. He liked her look. She doubted his sincerity. They were both homosexual. In 1964 he filmed her portrait. In 1967 she called his work 'inhuman'.

Mandy Merck is Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her latest book, co-edited with Stella Sandford, is “Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone.” Her next is “The Melodrama of Celebrity.”

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7 Mar 2012 5:30pm - 6:45pm
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