Hilary Ann Radner Fox is an American–New Zealand^[1][2] film and media studies academic, and is a professor emerita at the University of Otago. Radner researches representations of gender in visual culture.

Radner's father was American economist Roy Radner.^[3] Radner completed a Master of Arts at University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD titled Shopping around: locating feminine enunciation through textual practice at the University of Texas at Austin.^[4] Radner was appointed Foundation Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago in 2002,^[5][6] after having been an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame.^[7] Radner was appointed professor emerita at Otago in 2017.^[5]

Radner's research covers feminist film and media studies, and representations of gender in visual culture. Besides film and television, she has written on topics including make-up, fashion photography and women's magazines, celebrity culture, and New Zealand fashion.^[8][9] In 2017 Radner and Vicki Karaminas edited a special issue of the journal Fashion Theory on the moving image and fashion. The issue contained papers from a two-day conference convened by Radner and Karaminas at Massey University in 2017, called "The End of Fashion”.^[10][11]

In 2019, Radner founded RDS Art Gallery in Dunedin, along with Inge Doesburg and Marie Strauss. She now runs the gallery.^[12]

In 2011, Radner and Natalie Smith curated New Zealand's first exhibition of NOM*d garments and memorabilia from NOM*d founder Margarita Robertson. The exhibition, titled Nom*d: The Art of Fashion, was held at the Eastern Southland Gallery in Gore, and contained more than 70 garments.^[2]

Radner was a judge of the 2019 New Zealand Collarts Atom Awards.^[10]

• Radner, Hilary (1994). Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure.New York: Routledge. 232pp.
• Radner, Hilary (2010). Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture. New York: Routledge. 240pp.
• Radner, Hilary; Stringer, Rebecca, eds. (2011). Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Cinema. New York: Routledge. 320pp.
• Radner, Hilary; Fox, Alistair (1 April 2018). Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the Moving Image. Edinburgh University Press. doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422888.001.0001. ISBN 978-1-4744-2288-8.
• Radner, Hilary. The New Woman's Film; Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks. New York: Routledge, 2017. 224pp.
• Fox, Alistair; Marie, Michel; Moine, Raphaëlle; Radner, Hilary, eds. (20 November 2014). A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema. Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781118585405. ISBN 978-1-4443-3899-7.