Hilary Radner
American-New Zealand media studies academic
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Hilary Ann Radner Fox is an American–New Zealand[1][2] film and media studies academic, and is a professor emerita at the University of Otago. Radner researches representations of gender in visual culture.
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- Shopping around : locating feminine enunciation through textual practice (c1988)
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| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Discipline | Film and Media Studies |
| Sub-discipline | Visual Culture |
| Institutions | University of Otago |
Academic career
Radner's father was American economist Roy Radner.[3] Radner completed a Master of Arts at University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD titled Shopping around: locating feminine enunciation through textual practice at the University of Texas at Austin.[4] Radner was appointed Foundation Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago in 2002,[5][6] after having been an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame.[7] Radner was appointed professor emerita at Otago in 2017.[5]
Radner's research covers feminist film and media studies, and representations of gender in visual culture. Besides film and television, she has written on topics including make-up, fashion photography and women's magazines, celebrity culture, and New Zealand fashion.[8][9] In 2017 Radner and Vicki Karaminas edited a special issue of the journal Fashion Theory on the moving image and fashion. The issue contained papers from a two-day conference convened by Radner and Karaminas at Massey University in 2017, called "The End of Fashion”.[10][11]
Career outside academia
In 2019, Radner founded RDS Art Gallery in Dunedin, along with Inge Doesburg and Marie Strauss. She now runs the gallery.[12]
In 2011, Radner and Natalie Smith curated New Zealand's first exhibition of NOM*d garments and memorabilia from NOM*d founder Margarita Robertson. The exhibition, titled Nom*d: The Art of Fashion, was held at the Eastern Southland Gallery in Gore, and contained more than 70 garments.[2]
Radner was a judge of the 2019 New Zealand Collarts Atom Awards.[10]
Selected books
- Radner, Hilary (1994). Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure.New York: Routledge. 232pp.
- Radner, Hilary (2010). Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture. New York: Routledge. 240pp.
- Radner, Hilary; Stringer, Rebecca, eds. (2011). Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Cinema. New York: Routledge. 320pp.
- Radner, Hilary; Fox, Alistair (1 April 2018). Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the Moving Image. Edinburgh University Press. doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422888.001.0001. ISBN 978-1-4744-2288-8.
- Radner, Hilary. The New Woman's Film; Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks. New York: Routledge, 2017. 224pp.
- Fox, Alistair; Marie, Michel; Moine, Raphaëlle; Radner, Hilary, eds. (20 November 2014). A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema. Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781118585405. ISBN 978-1-4443-3899-7.