{"id":28362,"date":"2018-01-09T13:16:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=28362"},"modified":"2018-04-17T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T17:46:12","slug":"ovalle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/ovalle\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Ovalle \u2014 \u201cFrom Black Hair to Black Panther: Collaborative Scholarship and Thinking through Cinematic Blackness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

McKenzie Hall
\nRoom 375
\n1101 Kincaid St.
\nUO Campus<\/p>\n

Join Priscilla Pe\u00f1a Ovalle (UO Cinema Studies) and guest Leah Aldridge (LMU School of Film and Television) as they discuss their new book projects in a talk titled \u201cFrom Black Hair to Black Panther: Collaborative Scholarship and Thinking through Cinematic Blackness.\u201d At this CSWS \u201cWorks-in-Progress\/Author Meets Reader\u201d event, Aldridge and Ovalle will share how production and organizing experience informs their thinking and approaches to collaborative scholarship. Ovalle will then present \u201cKim Kimble\u2019s Celebrity Hair\/Style,\u201d followed by Aldridge’s presentation of \u201cBlack Panther to Breitbart.\u201d The event concludes with a discussion; attendees are invited to ask questions and offer feedback so Aldridge and Ovalle can further develop their ideas for presentation and publication.<\/p>\n

Presentations build from their new book proposals, which will be available the week of the event by emailing povalle@uoregon.edu.<\/p>\n

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Leah Aldridge<\/p><\/div>\n

Leah Aldridge<\/strong> is adjunct faculty at Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television. Leah\u2019s research interests include the relationship between domestic and global production, distribution, and circulation of blackness. Leah earned a BA in English Literature\/Creative Writing from the University of Southern California (USC), an MFA in screenwriting fro UCLA, and a PhD from USC\u2019s School of Cinematic Arts. Previous works include \u201cTo Brand and Rebrand: Questioning the Futurity of Tyler Perry,\u201d in From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry<\/em>, and \u201cWill Smith: A Global Brand of Blackness,\u201d in Colorblind Hollywood<\/em> (forthcoming).<\/p>\n

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Priscilla Pe\u00f1a Ovalle<\/p><\/div>\n

Priscilla Pe\u00f1a Ovalle<\/strong> is the associate head of UO\u2019s Department of Cinema Studies. Her scholarship and teaching focus on race, gender, and sexuality in mainstream media. She is currently working on a book and interactive media project called Hair\/Style in Commercials and Music Videos<\/em> about the production and performance of hair on television. Her first book, Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom<\/em>, is about how Latinx women\u2014from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez\u2014have achieved stardom through dance. CSWS has supported her research with a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.<\/p>\n

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McKenzie Hall Room 375 1101 Kincaid St. UO Campus Join Priscilla Pe\u00f1a Ovalle (UO Cinema Studies) and guest Leah Aldridge (LMU School of Film and Television) as they discuss their new book projects in a talk titled \u201cFrom Black Hair…<\/p>\n

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