Research Topic: Images of emancipation: feminine performance and the construction of women in Weimar film. Ellie is currently completing her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Webber and funded by the Cambridge Trust. Her project investigates to what extent Weimar-era films can be viewed as feminist, and what value they might have to feminism and gender studies.
She is particularly interested in the role performance plays in the films, and to what extent performance is subversive. Her research considers, amongst other elements, comedy, the carnivalesque, dance, make-up, doubling and the exotic.
The most crucial aspect of her approach is the tension between image and narrative, and whether images can work against the narrative in which they appear, and be subversive images of emancipation. View all events. Internal Mediation Service. Harassment and Violence Support. University Counselling Service.
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