CONWAY — Amelie Hastie, a scholar of film and television, will give a lecture about the television series Columbo as part of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language series exploring the theme “Crime.” The talk will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3 in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix College.
A book signing and reception will follow in Trieschmann Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
Amelie Hastie is associate professor of English and chair of film and media studies at Amherst College. She is the author of Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History (Duke UP, 2007) and The Bigamist (BFIClassics, Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2009); the editor of a special issue of Journal of VisualCulture on Detritus and the Moving Image; and the curator of a project titled “Objects of Media Studies” for the online journal Vectors.
Her work has also appeared in arts and academic journals such as Cabinet, Camera Obscura, Film History, Framework and Screen, and in anthologies on film history and television studies. She is working on a bookabout the TV series Columbo.
For more infor mat ion about this and future events, contact Henr yetta Vanaman at (501) 450-4597 or vanaman@hendrix.edu.
River Valley Ozark, Pages 60 on 10/27/2011