"Boys Don't Cry" Director Kimberly Peirce to Speak on Gender and Sexuality in Hollywood

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., October 10, 2014—Filmmaker Kimberly Peirce will present “From Boys Don’t Cry to Carrie: Constructing Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Hollywood” at Williams College on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 8 p.m. in Paresky Auditorium. This event, with support from the W. Ford Schumann Performing Arts Fund, is free and open to the public. A Q&A session will follow.

Peirce, best known for the critically acclaimed Boys Don’t Cry (1999), will discuss her films, her career, and her sexuality, gender on screen and behind the camera, and the challenges of making meaning and content in film. Her discussion will include clips from three of her films: Boys Don’t Cry, Carrie, and Stop-Loss.

Peirce received a B.A. from the University of Chicago. She spent two years in Kobe, Japan, as a photographer before returning to the U.S. and earning an M.F.A. in film from Columbia University. Boys Don’t Cry began as her thesis project at Columbia. The film opened at the Venice, Toronto, and New York film festivals and received numerous awards, and honors, including the Best Actress Oscar for Hilary Swank.

This event is sponsored by Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Oakley Center, Dively Committee, Lecture Committee, Davis Center, and the Departments of Theater, English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies.

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