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2017 GCPFS - "Cinema and the Thought of Gender" 
April 7 & 8, 2017

The second session of the GCPFS was titled 'Cinema and the Thought of Gender,' and it was, hands down, one of the best seminar experiences I've ever had, thanks in no small part to the participants. Professor Michele Schreiber, associate professor of film and media studies at Emory University, delivered a fascinating keynote address titled, 'The Abominable/Amazing Amy: Gender and the Politics of (Anti)Romance in David Fincher's Gone Girl.' The all-star lineup of seminar participants included filmmakers, as well as scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, aesthetics, Spanish literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, women's, gender, and sexuality studies, and cinema and media studies. The seminar papers were diversely themed and provoked tremendously fruitful discussion lasting well beyond the sessions. The Gettysburg students knocked it out of the park with a panel on gender in the films of Sofia Coppola. And Mandel Cabrera gave a public presentation of his work on the 'doubled woman' following the public screening of Hitchcock's Vertigo on Saturday evening. It was a wonderful and enriching weekend across the board, and I have already heard of new and exciting collaborations to have emerged from the seminar. Thank you so much to all who participated!

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