underworld

Film Class Explores Movies, Violent Women

The course, the first of its kind at LMU, seeks to identify ways that filmmakers rely on existing ideologies about gender in creating movies about women who fight, whether those conventions include the femme fatale, revenge fantasy, or shoot-’em-up action flick.

bass

LMU Alumni Group Honors Congresswoman

The African American Alumni Association plans to honor Rep. Karen Bass at its annual awards dinner and scholarship fundraiser. Also to be recognized are business leader Ralph Smith ’69 and Most Rev. Gordon Bennett, S.J., former bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica.