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Over the next four months, Fresh City Life will offer Jane Austen, Literature's Posthumous It Girl, a four-part series on the cultural meaning of writer Jane Austen.
Created to supplement Masterpiece Theatre's winter telecast of The Complete Jane Austen, this short course will chronicle Austen's slow but steady rise in popularity since the late 1800s, compare her to other It Girls like aviator Amelia Earhart and actresses Jean Seberg and Brigitte Bardot, critique Amy Heckerling's Clueless, a Hollywood teen re-make of Austen's Emma and finally, read Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club, a fictional take on why Austen's work and persona still endures.
Jane Austen, Literature's Posthumous It Girl is based on Audrey Sprenger's university course Flying Blind, American Feminism in Map and Landscape.
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Schedule of Events
Amelia Earhart Wore Khakis and Other Stories About American "It Girls."
with sociologist Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D
Sunday, February 10, 1 - 3:30 p.m., Central Library Level B2 Conference Center
An It Girl is a young, sexy woman who temporarily captures the publics' popular imagination. On February 10, Fresh City Life presents Amelia Earhart Wore Khakis and Other Stories About American "It Girls," a cinematic and academic exploration of the everyday lives of some of these women and how their public persona can work to both raise and lower their social status. The second in a special four-part series offered by Fresh City Life and Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting about literature's posthumous "It Girl," Jane Austen, Amelia will include a full length screening of the documentary From The Journals of Jean Seberg, as well as commentary from sociologist Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D. In preparation, participants are encouraged to read Sprenger's short essays Lolita's Last Scene, Fat In A Better Light or Susan Ware's Still Missing, Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism. This lecture is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Double Feature Film Screening of Gurinder Chadha's Bride and Prejudice and Amy Heckerling's Clueless
with sociologist Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D
Saturday, March 15, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 2 - 4 p.m., Central Library Level B2 Conference Center
Free and open to the public. Both screenings include an after-film discussion. Special guest speaker to be announced.
Jane Austen, Literature's Posthumous It Girl
with sociologist Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D
Sunday, April 6, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m., Central Library Level B2 Conference Center
Free and open to the public. Special guest speakers and film screening title to be announced.
For more information please contact Dr. Audrey Sprenger at asprenger@denverlibrary.org
or 720-865-1206.
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