Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Screening & Roundtable

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story | 2017 | Dir. Alexandra Dean

A documentary celebrating the life and career of the hailed Hollywood star and genius inventor Hedy Lamarr.

The screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion on feminist media led by Dr Darren Elliott-Smith and Dr Susan Berridge from the University of Stirling.

About our panelists:

Dr Susan Berridge is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Stirling. Her research focuses on gender inequalities in the film and television industries, and she has written on these themes in relation to teen genres, stardom, rom coms, motherhood and creative labour.

Dr. Darren Elliott-Smith is Senior Lecturer in Film and Gender at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Queer Horror Film and Television: Masculinity and Sexuality at the Margins (2016) and co-editor of New Queer Horror Film and Television (2020). His research to date is centrally focused on representations of queerness, gender, and sexuality in film and television. His research and teaching specialisms extend to the role of curation theory in film and visual art programming, the study of stars, cult, trash, and experimental film, adaptation from page to screen, film and gender, queer theory, and is also put into practice via several academic videographic film projects.

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI's Film Audience Network, awarding funds from Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI.

Watch a trailer for the film here.