UNL News Releases 10/23/00
WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 4, 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Mary Riepma Ross Theater Auditorium, Sheldon Art Gallery,
12th & R Streets
CONTACT: Mark Hinchman, Asst. Professor, Interior Design - (402)
472-5903
SCHOLAR OF POPULAR CULTURE TO SPEAK NOV. 4
Lincoln (Neb) - Oct. 23, 2000 - The changing conceptions of domesticity,
visual media and mobile communications technologies from early television
to the computer will be the focus of a Nov. 4 lecture at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Lynn Spigel, professor of cinema and television at the University of
Southern California, will discuss "Mobile Homes" at 4:30 p.m. in the Mary
Riepma Ross Theater Auditorium in Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. The
lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the In.form
Journal and the Kruger Foundation.
Spigel's past works include "Make Room for TV: Television and the Family
Ideal in Postwar America, 1992" from University of Chicago Press, and the
forthcoming "Welcome to the Dream House: Popular Media and Postwar
Suburbs" from Duke University Press. An internationally known scholar of
popular culture, she has edited numerous anthologies on film and
television and is writing a book about the history of television and
modernism.
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