Writer's Block & Women in Film Present a Guest Speaker Double Feature

CSULB Writer's Block and CSULB Women in Film Present "Guest Speaker Double Feature"

Diana Anselmo
Dr. Diana Anselmo
  • Thursday, March 16th
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • UTC 201

Dr. Diana W. Anselmo, FEA Faculty, is a feminist film historian and a queer immigrant. She is the author of A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood which gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intimacy, and kinship.

Marilyn Atlas
Marilyn R. Atlas
  • Friday, March 17th
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  • UTC 101

Marilyn R. Atlas is a talent and literary manager, author, and award-winning producer. Among her credits as a film producer are "Real Women Have Curves" for HBO, which is currently being developed as a Broadway musical for 2022. In addition to producing a variety of programming for the cable/pay TV market, Marilyn has produced live theater. She is the co-author of a relationship-based screenwriting guide called "Dating Your Character," about an organic approach to character creation for the 2016 Stairway Press catalog.