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Dr Francesca Hardy

Senior Lecturer

School of Arts & Humanities

Staff Group(s)
Journalism and Media

Role

Dr Francesca Hardy is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television and co-director of the Centre for Research in Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Her research interests lie in how film engages with corporeality, both on- and offscreen, and with sustainability. Currently, she is working on two major research projects: ‘Body Hair on Film’, which examines the entangled (hi)stories of depilation and cinema, and ‘Dirty Movies’, which aims to cultivate better press for the earth beneath our feet

Publications

  • The Body in Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave Films (Routledge, 2023)
  • Vital Resonances: Encountering film through Varda, Haneke and Nancy (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
  • ‘Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962): A triptych of the textile’, Agnès Varda Unlimited: Image, Music, Media, ed. Marie-Claire Barnet (Legenda: Oxford, 2017)
  • ‘Avoid contact with the eyes and skin, may cause irritation: Agnès Varda’s La Pointe courte (1954)’, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Film and Media Studies, 7 (2013)

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