Title

Making of the exhibition “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971”

Speaker

Doris Berger, Vice President of Curatorial Affairs at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles

Date & Time

April 14, 2023, 12 PM Eastern

Short Bio

Dr. Doris Berger is the Vice President of Curatorial Affairs at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. She was previously a Getty Postdoc Fellow, a Curator at the Skirball Cultural Center, and the Director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Berger curated the touring exhibition Light & Noir: Exiles and Emigres in Hollywood, 1933-1950 at the Skirball (2014–15). At the Academy Museum, she co-curated the inaugural exhibition Stories of Cinema and Backdrop: An Invisible Art (2021) as well as the touring exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971 (2022-23). She co-edited the catalogue Regeneration(DelMonico, 2022), authored Light & Noir (2015) as well as wrote the book Projected Art History: Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art (Bloomsbury, 2014) among numerous essays in German and English on art and film, gender and exile studies.  
Berger holds an MA from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a PhD from the University of Art in Braunschweig, Germany. 

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