Speakers
- Antonia Lant
- New York University
Antonia Lant works on problems of film style and interpretation, with special emphasis on women’s work in filmmaking, theories of art history that developed in tandem with the arrival of cinema, and questions of racial signification. Her first book, Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema (1991), studied the impact of wartime privations on the film screen, and particularly the role that womanhood played in representing the nation in crisis. Red Velvet Seat: Women’s Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema (2007), edited and interpreted women’s intercessions in film culture. Her article “Haptical Cinema” drew on late nineteenth century theories of art to understand the novel and intricate spatial properties of early cinema. She trained in Fine Arts at Leeds University, England, held a Junior Research Fellowship at Oxford University, and earned her PhD in History of Art at Yale University. She has taught at the Open University, Harvard University, and at the University of Vienna. Lant created NYU Cinema Studies’ Department’s Masters’ degree in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, and served as its Founding Director. She has been a member of the National Film Preservation Board since 2012.