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Caryl Flinn is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She has also taught at the Universities of Toronto and University of Florida. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences Research Humanities Council of Canada and the German Academic Exchange Program, among others.
Courses:
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film and popular culture
* film theory
* film music
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camp, kitsch and visual culture
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German cinema
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cultural studies
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critical theory and gender (feminist studies and methods)
Current Research Interests:
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affect and musicals
* The Sound of Music
* deaf cinema
* kitsch and questions of value and good taste
* Frank Tashlin
* goofball musicals
* Robert Mitchum
* music, melodrama and lars von trier
* dog rescue
Caryl makes her home in Tucson with her human family and Chester and Kino, alums of the local Humane Society.
Below: The late Bruno Flinn says, "I'm way prettier than Rita Hayworth."
