Keynote Speaker
Prof. Pamela Robertson Wojcik (University of Notre Dame): Making Space for Runaway Youth: Hitchhikers and Homeless Kids in US Cinema
Pamela Robertson Wojcik is the Andrew v. Tackes Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, a Guggenheim fellow, and former President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is author of Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise (2020), Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction (2016), The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 (2010), and Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna (1996).
Prof. Pamela Robertson Wojcik (University of Notre Dame): Making Space for Runaway Youth: Hitchhikers and Homeless Kids in US Cinema
Pamela Robertson Wojcik is the Andrew v. Tackes Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, a Guggenheim fellow, and former President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is author of Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise (2020), Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction (2016), The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 (2010), and Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna (1996).
