Lecture by Dr. Laura Serna (Humanities Research Center, Rice University)

Title - "Cinema Culture and Urban Masculinity in Postrevolutionary Mexico or the Transnational Origins of the Zoot Suiter"

Cosponsored with the Film Studies Program and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

Time:  7:00-8:45 p.m.

Venue: Evans Library Annex 410

Laura Isabel Serna is currently an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Rice University.  She is completing a manuscript entitled Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age, which will be published by Duke University Press.  Her primary areas of research are historical reception studies, immigration and mass culture, and the transnational circulation of silent cinema in the Americas.