[nnasnet] Audubon Program Feb 6 - Birders in Popular Culture - Movies
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- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:05:43 -0500
AUDUBON PROGRAM FEBRUARY 6
IMAGES OF BIRDERS IN U.S.
POPULAR CULTURE
On Monday, February 6
at 7:00 p.m., the Northern Neck Audubon Society will host a program entitled
“Miss Hathaway and Her Kind: Images of
Birders in U.S.
Popular Culture”. The public is invited
to this program at Grace Episcopal Church in Kilmarnock. Refreshments will be
served.
Birders have been
on-screen since the beginning of moving pictures to the latest television
sit-com. What sort of roles, appearances
and plot functions do birders have, and how might these influence the
perception of birders (and, by extension, bird conservation) in
U.S. culture?
Ned Brinkley, formerly a professor of literature and film studies at the
University of Virginia, has spent a decade researching these questions. He
will present his thoughts on the subject
with extensive clips of media from 1930 through 2005.
Dr. Edward (Ned) S.
Brinkley is the author of the National Wildlife Federations’ Field Guide
to the Birds of North America and is the editor of North American Birds,
the American Birding Association’s quarterly journal of ornithological
record. Along with Steve Rottenborn, he
is the author of the Virginia Society of Ornithology’s Virginia Birdlife: An
Annotated Checklist. A native of Norfolk,
Ned has birded since age 6, his interest sparked by the southern warblers of
the Great Dismal Swamp and, later, by the seabirds of the Gulf Stream off of
North Carolina. For Field Guides, Inc., he has guided birding
tours to Africa, the Caribbean, Iceland,
Portugal, Mexico, Central America and Antarctica. He currently lives in Cape
Charles, VA
with “a half beagle and a feral cat”.
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