Harrod sees the recent media reaction to the Depp/Heard trail as a knock to the confidence women had just found to speak against gendered violence.
Mary Harrod
Mary Harrod is Associate Professor in French Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to this, she was a Teaching Assistant at King’s College London, where she received her PhD, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Gender Institute. Her primary research is in contemporary film and media history and theory and is tied together by a focus on cultural—especially gender—identity, notably in its relation to aesthetics and in popular and/or transnational modes.After completing a BA in Modern Languages she worked for six years in film development and production, before writing a PhD thesis examining filmed romantic comedy’s phenomenal recent proliferation in France from a cultural studies perspective, the monograph resulting from which was shortlisted for The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies’ (BAFTSS) Best Monograph Prize. She concurrently co-edited a book examining the status of European cinema in today’s increasingly globalised age. More recently, alongside maintaining her expertise in cultural approaches to European audiovisual production, she has co-edited a volume looking at genre narratives authored by women in film and television globally that won the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection Prize (2019). Meanwhile, she completed the related monograph Heightened Genre and Women’s Filmmaking in Hollywood: the Rise of the Cine-fille. In March 2018 she was awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award to fund a series of events on the theme of ‘Imagining “We” in the Age of “I”: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture’. She also co-edited a book for Routledge deriving from the project, with a trans-global and trans-media focus, with Diane Negra and Suzanne Leonard.In April 2019 she was awarded an AHRC Networking Grant to be Principal Investigator on the project ‘Producing the Post-National Popular: The Expanding Imagination of Mainstream French Films and Television Series’, whose key intervention is to take French production as emblematic of major expansions in the transnational circulation of audiovisual culture across even linguistic borders in the contemporary moment, drawing out the implications of this change for representations and cross-cultural perceptions and dialogue.
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