Film website address:

http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com

Press Release--PDF:

“THE SHAPE OF WATER” DOC PROFILES SOCIAL JUSTICE

IN ITS WORLD PRIEMERE AT THE
21st SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Screening Monday February 6, 6:30pm at Victoria Hall
and Thursday February 9, 1:00pm at Centerstage Theatre, Paseo Nuevo Mall
• • •
Written and Directed by UC at Santa Barbara Professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani;
Narrated by Academy Award-Winning Actress Susan Sarandon;
With Intro Written by Haitian Writer Edwidge Danticat
and Social Activist John Foran

Curriculum Vita

Teaching Areas and Research Interests
cultural studies; development studies; feminist studies; social representation

Key Publications
Feminist Futures: Re-Imagining Women, Culture, Development (coeditor, 2003); Feminism and Race (ed., 2001); “Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity: Comments on Mississippi Masala,” Meridians (2000); “Women in Prison: A Three Nation Study,” (with Angela Y. Davis), in France Winddance Twine (coeditor), Race-ing Research: Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies (2000); “From Critical Psychology to Critical Development Studies,” (with Peter Chua), International Journal of Critical Psychology (2000); Feminisms and Youth Cultures Special Issue of SIGNS, (Guest Coeditor, 1998); Politics: A Psychological Framing for Views From Youth in Britain (1991).

Contact Information
Office:
2844 Ellison
Email:
bhavnani@soc.ucsb.edu

Academic Credentials
Professor
PhD, King's College, Cambridge, 1988,

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