Rate My Professor Hilary Radner

Hilary Radner is Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago in the Department of History, School of Arts, Humanities Division. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and has authored a trilogy of monographs examining the formation of feminine identity through consumer culture and popular media at the turn of the twenty-first century: Shopping Around: Consumer Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure (Routledge, 1995), Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture (Routledge, 2011), and The New Woman's Film: Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks (Routledge, 2017). These works trace the evolution of gender representations in cinema and visual media, establishing her as a prominent scholar in feminist film criticism and visual culture.

Radner's research specializes in representations of gender and identity within contemporary visual culture, particularly their development in relation to second wave feminism. Her extensive publications include numerous articles and book chapters addressing film melodrama, make-up, fashion photography, women's magazines, the woman's film, cinema and fashion, celebrity culture, the contemporary bromance, New Zealand fashion, Hollywood film genres, New Zealand cinema, World Cinema, and French cinema. She has co-edited seven volumes: Film Theory Goes to the Movies (Routledge, 1993), Constructing the New Consumer Society (Macmillan, 1997), Swinging Single: Representing Sexuality in the 1960s (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity (Wayne State University Press, 2009), New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2011), Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Cinema (Routledge, 2011), and A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). Current projects encompass Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the Moving Image (Edinburgh University Press) and a monograph on the woman's film in New Zealand cinema. Through her scholarship, Radner has significantly shaped academic discourse on gender, feminism, and media.