Author Kirsten Stevens

Kirsten Stevens

Dr Kirsten Stevens is Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Melbourne School of Culture and Communication. Her research specialises in examining film festivals and their operation as national, transnational, institutional, cultural and aesthetic events.

Give Me Pity!

Kirsten Stevens

August 2022

Amanda Kramer’s Give Me Pity!, screening this year at MIFF, offers a hyper-real, hyper-saturated, and at times nightmarish portrait of one women’s desire to “make it” in life and on Prime Time TV. Landing somew...