Women's History Week 2011: Jazz Age Women - Flappers & Feminists: Thu, March 3

Thursday, March 3, 2011

8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. - VATC 120

Film:  Pandora's Box (1925)

Directed by G.W. Pabst and starring Louise Brooks, this classic silent German film tells of Lulu, a seductive, thoughtless young woman whose raw sexuality and uninhibited nature bring ruin to herself and those who love her, until she encounters one of history's most notorious killers - Jack the Ripper. The film was considered particularly shocking at the time of its release because of the suggestion of a lesbian attraction between Lulu and a Countess.  103 minutes.
 
      
9:25 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. - VATC 120

Women's Center Scholarship Awards and Presentation
 

While Some Were Flapping Others Were Founding a New Community in Texas: Las Mejicanas de Lockhart, Texas
Maria Berriozabal, former City Council member 

  Women of Vision Awards will be presented to two faculty and/or staff who encourage and promote sensitivity to and awareness of issues that relate to women. 


     12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - VATC 120

Film: Sally of the Sawdust (1925)

Directed by D.W. Griffith and starring W.C. Fields, Sally of the Sawdust is a blend of comedy and sentiment, rags-to-riches,, and a critique of upper-class pretenses.  Sally performs in the circus with her "pop," Professor Eustace McGargle, played by Fields. Little does she know that McGargle came to be her guardian through an unlikely set of circumstances, and is not in fact her real father. As Sally nears adulthood, McGargle decides to bring her to her old hometown so that she might know the truth about her family.  104 minutes.