Tina-Louise Smith, from South Africa, is pursuing her PhD in film and television studies at the University of Cape Town. Her research allows her to combine her lifelong concerns with gender disparity and social inequality with her passion for crime fiction television stories.
Through her research, Tina will determine how South Africans are represented in film and television narratives and identify how film language may be contributing to gendered and social inequalities. Screens dominate contemporary life and shape our perceptions of each other and Tina’s research is driven by the desire to contribute to more considered screen representations of different groups in society. Tina aims to share her findings through teaching, publishing, and public engagement. To date, she has been teaching the findings of her Master’s studies on Laura Mulvey’s male gaze in South African crime fiction films to film students at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
Before returning to postgraduate studies, Tina worked briefly in radio news, then as a freelance writer and a film and television producer. Her TV work includes Mr Table Tennis (2015) and Engender (2015), a feminist TV show on Cape Town Community TV.
AFFILIATED WITH: INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES IN AFRICA (HUMA)
