Hilary Ann Radner Fox is an American–New Zealand film and media studies academic, and is a

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. Radner researches representations of gender in visual culture.

Academic career

Radner's father was American economist

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. Radner completed a Master of Arts at

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, and a

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titled ''Shopping around: locating feminine enunciation through textual practice'' at the

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. Radner was appointed Foundation Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago in 2002, after having been an associate professor at the

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. Radner was appointed professor emerita at Otago in 2017. Radner's research covers feminist film and media studies, and representations of gender in visual culture. Besides film and television, she has written on topics including make-up, fashion photography and women's magazines, celebrity culture, and New Zealand fashion. In 2017 Radner and Vicki Karaminas edited a special issue of the journal ''Fashion Theory'' on the moving image and fashion. The issue contained papers from a two-day conference convened by Radner and Karaminas at

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in 2017, called "The End of Fashion”.

Career outside academia

In 2019, Radner founded RDS Art Gallery in

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, along with Inge Doesburg and Marie Strauss. She now runs the gallery.RDS gallery website
Retrieved 16 February 2024. In 2011, Radner and Natalie Smith curated New Zealand's first exhibition of NOM*d garments and memorabilia from NOM*d founder Margarita Robertson. The exhibition, titled ''Nom*d: The Art of Fashion'', was held at the Eastern Southland Gallery in

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, and contained more than 70 garments. Radner was a judge of the 2019 New Zealand Collarts

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Selected books

* Radner, Hilary (1994).
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
''New York: Routledge. 232pp. * Radner, Hilary (2010)
''Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture''
New York: Routledge. 240pp. * Radner, Hilary; Stringer, Rebecca, eds. (2011).
Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Cinema
'' New York: Routledge. 320pp. * * Radner, Hilary
''The New Woman's Film; Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks''.
New York: Routledge, 2017. 224pp. *

References

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