Hilary Radner is Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago and author of three monographs that form a trilogy addressing the formation of feminine identity at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century as it is manifested in a nexus of media forms: 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).
Her research interests revolve around understanding the representations of gender and identity in contemporary visual culture, particularly in terms of how these evolve over time in relation to second wave feminism. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on cinema, visual culture and gender: these range in topic from film melodrama, make-up, fashion photography and women's magazines to, more recently, 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.
Her publications also include seven co-edited volumes: Film Theory Goes to the Movies (Routledge, 1993); Constructing the New Consumer Society (Macmillan, 1997); Swinging Single Representing Sexuality in the 1960s (U of Minnesota P, 1999); Jane Campion: Cinema , Nation, Identity (Wayne State UP, 2009); New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past (Intellect/University of Chicago 2011); Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Cinema (Routledge, 2011); A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (Wiley/Blackwell, 2015). Her most recent project Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the Moving Image, which explores the work of this important film theorist, is in production with Edinburgh UP. She is currently working on a monograph addressing the place of the woman's film in New Zealand cinema, a topic on which she has published a number of articles over the past ten years.
Publications
Radner, H. (2020). Contemporary women's films. In K. Ross (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of gender, media, and communication. (pp. 1-12). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc150
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (2019). Cinema. In A. Geczy & V. Karaminas (Eds.), The end of fashion: Clothing and dress in the age of globalization. (pp. 83-98). Bloomsbury. doi: 10.5040/9781350045071.ch-007
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (2019). [Review of the book Film, Fashion, and the 1960s]. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 46(1), 182-184. doi: 10.1353/crc.2019.0013
Journal - Research Other
Radner, H. (2019). [Review of the book Fashion film: Art and advertising in the digital age]. Film, Fashion & Consumption, 8(2), 189-193. doi: 10.1386/ffc_00006_5
Journal - Research Other
Radner, H. (2019). [Review of the book Red Hot Mama: The life of Sophie Tucker]. Journal of American History, 105(4), 1064-1065. doi: 10.1093/jahist/jaz117
Journal - Research Other
Radner, H. (2019). [Review of the book Lewd looks: American sexploitation cinema]. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 28(1), 159-161. [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
Radner, H., & Fox, A. (2018). Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the moving image. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 232p.
Authored Book - Research
Radner, H., & Fox, A. (2018). Truffaut's apartments. In A. Phillips & G. Vincendeau (Eds.), Paris in the cinema: Beyond the Flâneur. (pp. 55-65). London, UK: Palgrave.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (2018). From Marie Strauss: Artist at large: From painting to fashion design. Scope: Art & Design, 16, 52-60.
Journal - Research Article
Radner, H. (2017). The new woman's film: Femme-centric movies for smart chicks. New York, NY: Routledge, 224p. doi: 10.4324/9781315643595
Authored Book - Research
Radner, H. (2017). No country for women? Top of the Lake and the place of Gaylene Preston's Perfect Strangers in New Zealand cinema. In V. Pravadelli (Ed.), Contemporary women's cinema, global scenarios and transnational contexts. (pp. 109-125). Mimesis International.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (2017). [Review of the book We were feminists once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the buying and selling of a political movement]. Journal of American History, 104(1), 283. doi: 10.1093/jahist/jax150
Journal - Research Other
Radner, H., & Karaminas, V. (Eds.). (2017). Fashion Theory 21(6) [Special issue: Fashion and the moving image]. [Guest Editors].
Other - Edited Journal
Radner, H., & Karaminas, V. (2017). Letter from the editors. Fashion Theory, 21(6), 621-627. doi: 10.1080/1362704X.2017.1366754
Journal - Research Other
Radner, H. (2017). Adaptation and the female event film: From The Bridges of Madison County (1995) to Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) [Keynote]. Proceedings of the Camera-Stylo Conference: Intersections in Literature & Cinema. Retrieved from https://www.camerastylo.org/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Radner, H. (2017, September). After the second wave: Marketplace feminism and contemporary popular cinema. Suffrage Lecture. Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Public Seminar].
Other Research Output
Fox, A., Marie, M., Moine, R., & Radner, H. (Eds.). (2015). A companion to contemporary French cinema [Translations by Alistair Fox]. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 691p.
Edited Book - Research
Radner, H. (2015). The historical film and contemporary French cinema: Representing the past in the present. In A. Fox, M. Marie, R. Moine & H. Radner (Eds.), A companion to contemporary French cinema [Translations by Alistair Fox]. (pp. 289-313). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (2014). Grumpy old men: "Bros before hos". In M. Deangelis (Ed.), Reading the bromance: Homosocial relationships in film and television. (pp. 52-78). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H., & Smith, N. (2013). Fashion, feminism and the neo-feminist ideal: From Coco Chanel to Jennifer Lopez. In S. Bruzzi & P. Church Gibson (Eds.), Fashion cultures revisited: Theories, explorations and analysis. (pp. 275-286). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (2013). Dirty dancing: Feminism, post-feminism, and neo-feminism. In Y. Tzioumakis & S. Lincoln (Eds.), The time of our lives: Dirty dancing and popular culture. (pp. 131-149). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Pullar, E., & Radner, H. (2013). 'Endangered species turned dangerous': Rena Owen and celebrity in Aotearoa/NZ. Pacific Journalism Review, 19(2), 28-48.
Journal - Research Article
Radner, H. (2011). Neo-feminist cinema: Girly films, chick flicks and consumer culture. New York: Routledge, 240p.
Authored Book - Research
Radner, H., & Stringer, R. (Eds.). (2011). Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. New York: Routledge, 320p.
Edited Book - Research
Radner, H. (2011). Film as popular culture. In W. Guynn (Ed.), The Routledge companion to film history. (pp. 16-26). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Smith, N., & Radner, H. (2011). NOM*d: Conceptual couture in Dunedin. In H. Radner & N. Smith (Eds.), NOM*d: The art of fashion. (pp. 13-34). Dunedin and Gore, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago, and the Eastern Southland Gallery.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (2011). Screening women's histories: Jane Campion and the New Zealand heritage film, from the biopic to the female gothic. In A. Fox, B. K. Grant & H. Radner (Eds.), New Zealand cinema: Interpreting the past. (pp. 257-276). Bristol, UK: Intellect.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (2011). Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 going on 30 (2004). In H. Radner & R. Stringer (Eds.), Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. (pp. 134-148). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (2011). Woman alone: An Angel at My Table (1990) and the New Zealand new wave female biopic cycle. In A. Fox & G. Hine (Eds.), Cinematic adaptation and the articulation of New Zealand identity. (pp. 31-41). Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H. (co-curator), & Smith, N. (co-curator) (2011). NOM*d: The art of fashion. Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore, New Zealand.
Exhibition
Radner, H., Fox, A., & Bessière, I. (Eds.). (2009). Jane Campion: Cinema, nation, identity. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 400p.
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A., & Radner, H. (Eds.). (2008). Cinema genre by Raphaëlle Moine [Translated by Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner]. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 248p.
Edited Book - Research
Radner, H., & Luckett (Eds.). (1999). Swinging Single: Representing sexuality, the 1960s. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Edited Book - Research
Holmwood, J., Radner, H., Schulze, G., & Sulkunen, P. (Eds.). (1997). Constructing the new consumer society. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 302p. doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-25337-1
Edited Book - Research
Radner, H. (1995). Shopping around: Feminine culture and the pursuit of pleasure. New York, NY: Routledge, 224p. doi: 10.4324/9780203610107
Authored Book - Research
Collins, J., Radner, H., & Collins, A. P. (Eds.). (1993). Film theory goes to the movies: Cultural analysis of contemporary film. New York, NY: Routledge, 320p. doi: 10.4324/9780203873243
Edited Book - Research
Hilary Radner is Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago and author of three monographs that form a trilogy addressing the formation of feminine identity at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century as it is manifested in a nexus of media forms: 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).