The Killing of Sister George, film, 1968
- Friday, February 2, 2018
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
Liz Millward’s recent book, Killing Off the Lesbians: A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television, showed how lesbian and bisexual characters have always and continue to die at alarming rates on screen. Because this is such a dominant and tenacious narrative, the challenge for filmmakers is to tell a different story that allows lesbians to survive and thrive. This talk looks at some of the dominant storylines and then focuses on the efforts of filmmakers to give their lesbian characters a future.
Free, everyone is welcome.
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Liz Millward is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84 (UBC Press, 2015) and Women in British Imperial Airspace, 1921-1937 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008), and co-author of Killing Off the Lesbians: A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television (McFarland, 2017).