by jasnasouthwest | Mar 28, 2019 | Events, News
By Karen Rueda JASNA Southwest kicked off 2019 by expanding to four meetings per year with its first-ever February meeting, on Saturday the 23rd, with 108 members and guests registering for the sold-out event at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale. JASNA’s...
by jasnasouthwest | Jan 31, 2019 | Events, News
Los Angeles Theatre Works is offering JASNA Southwest members discounted tickets for its production of E. M. Forster’s A Room With a View, with performances March 1-3 at UCLA. Biting social satire and passionate romance take center stage in this new radio...
by jasnasouthwest | Jan 8, 2019 | Events, News
Join us on Saturday, February 23, at the newly renovated Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale for “Jane Austen: Working Woman,” with presenter Liz Philosophos Cooper in her first speaking engagement as JASNA’s new president. Register now for our...
by jasnasouthwest | Jan 8, 2019 | Events, News
On February 2, the JASNA San Diego region will present a half-day event in La Jolla. JASNA traveling lecturer Dr. Regulus Allen will present “From Hampshire to Hollywood: Teaching an Austen Fiction and Film Course.” Collins Hemingway will also speak at the...
by jasnasouthwest | Jan 2, 2019 | Events, News
In their talk at the December 2018 JASNA Southwest meeting, Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield explored “The Unfilmable Austen: The Case of Northanger Abbey,” focusing on Austen’s interest in capturing modernity and cultural shifts, and the challenges this caused not...
by jasnasouthwest | Dec 31, 2018 | Events, Featured, News
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell’s informative talk at the JASNA Southwest December meeting at Sony Pictures Studio covered how fashion is used in Austen adaptations to convey the passage of time, express a character’s transformation and signal differences in...
