Michelle Citron

Michelle Citron is a feminist film, video and multimedia producer, scholar and author. She taught at Northwestern University from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, but recently took the position of Chairperson of the Interdisciplinary arts department at Columbia College Chicago. [1] She grew up in Hawaii and holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Her best known film is Daughter Rite (1979), a feminist pseudo-documentary about her relationships with her mother and her sister. It has won numerous awards and is often cited in analyses of feminist film.

She is also the author of Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions (1998).

References

• Citron, Michelle (1998). Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3262-6. 

External links

• Official site
• Works by or about Michelle Citron in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Interdisciplinary Arts Department Homepage

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