Hilary Neroni, Associate Professor, Program Director Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu 311 Old Mill 802-656-1356

Hilary Neroni teaches courses in film theory, history and production. Her areas of interest include representations of gender and race in contemporary American film, violence in film, women directors, documentary film/video, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. She has published essays on women directors (in particular Jane Campion and Claire Denis) and on issues surrounding gender and violence in the cinema.

Current Courses:  Two sections of FTS 121 (description, schedule)

Education:

• Ph.D., 1999, University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television
  
• M.A., 1995, University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television
• B.A., 1991, Clark University
  

Selected Publications:

The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2005)

“Documenting the Gaze: Psychoanalysis and Judith Helfand’s Blue Vinyl and Agnes Varda’s The Gleaners and I,” QRFV 27.2, (forthcoming February 2010).

“Jane Campion’s Jouissance:  Holy Smoke and Feminist Film Theory” in Lacan and Contemporary Film. Eds. Sheila Kunkle and Todd McGowan (The Other Press, 2004).

“Lost in Fields of Interracial Desire: Claire Denis’ Chocolat (1988),” Kinoeye 3.7 (June 2003).

“Expressions of Masculinity: Violence in American Film,” Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 5.2 (Fall 2000).

Selected Presentations:

“Buffy’s Collective: Linear Narrative and The Power of a United Femininity,” The Society for Cinema Studies 2006 Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 5, 2006.

“The Ubiquity of the Gaze in Jane Campion’s In the Cut,” The Thirty-Fourth Annual 20th Century Literature and Culture Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, February 24, 2006.

“Theorizing the Particulars of Documentary Form,” Visible Evidence XII, Montreal, Canada, August 22, 2005.

“Lost in Claire Denis’ Fields of Desire: Interracial Relationships in Chocolat,”The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, MN, March 9, 2003.

“The Exigency of Racism in the Western: Bad Day at Black Rock and The Absent Signifier,” The American West(s) in Film, History, and Television, Kansas City, MO, November 7, 2002.

“Was Betty Boop a Feminist?: Changing Gender Roles and Other Subtexts in House Cleaning Blues (1937),” 14th Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference, Glendale, California, September 27, 2002.

“Feminist Jouissance as Feminist Politics,” Seventh Annual APCS Conference for Psychoanalysis and Social Change, Rutgers University, New Jersey, November 10, 2001.

Sample Courses: (Click on the course year to download a PDF version of the syllabus)

FTS 7: History of Motion Picture I:                    2005
FTS 8: History of Motion Pictures II:                 2006
FTS 9: History of Television:                            2006
FTS 121: Studies in Film/Television Theory:      2006,
FTS 122: Studies in Film/Television Genre:       The Horror Film, 2003
                                                                            Film Noir, 2000
FTS 123: Global Studies in Film/Television
FTS 124: Contemporary Topics
FTS 272: Senior Seminar:                               Theory and Practice: Autobiography, 2006
                                                                    Theory and Practice: Narrative Technique, 2005
                                                                    Violence in Film, 2002       
                                                                    Women in Film, 2001

All Courses Taught

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