Two distinct perspectives on female identity will be explored in a film screening and lecture this fall as part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Series in the College of Visual Arts and Design.

“Dual Gaze: Picturing Female Identity,” which will feature multimedia talks by photographers O. Rufus Lovett and Libby Rowe, begins with a screening of Beauty Knows No Pain, Elliott Erwitt’s documentary film about the Kilgore Rangerettes, at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 23 at UNT on the Square in Denton. Erwitt was documenting Texas culture after the Kennedy assassination for Paris Magazine when he discovered the Rangerettes. He wrote the introduction to Lovett’s book Kilgore Rangerettes, which American Photo ranked as one of the top 10 books of 2008.

Lovett and Rowe will lecture at 2 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Art Building, Room 223, with a book signing following the presentation. While Lovett examines drill team participation, Rowe addresses female identity in confrontational ways, incorporating anatomy and taboo subjects into her work to challenge the 1940s and ’50s idea of “womanhood.” “Dual Gaze” is organized by UNT photography faculty members Brent Phelps, Dornith Doherty and Paho Mann.