Publications
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock
The first biography of Joan Harrison, one of the most influential women of Hollywood’s golden era, the woman who, working behind the scenes, shaped the screen style of Alfred Hitchcock, master of suspense.
Susan Seidelman’s Contemporary Films: The Feminist Art of Self-reinvention in a Changing Technological Landscape
[Article] This chapter spotlights Susan Seidelman, who came of age during the second-wave feminist movement and found success and acclaim in the 1980s indie wave but, like other female filmmakers of her generation (Julie Dash and Allison Anders), struggled subsequently when their follow-up projects failed through poor distribution or never reached production.
A Modern Marriage for the Masses: Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, and the Cultural Front
Quarterly Review of Film and Video [Article] The iconic romance and marriage between Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, which has received scant scholarly attention, registered a symbolic cultural shift in…
Good Grief: The Cultural Work of Flight Plan and the Vanishing Lady Tale
Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War, Second Edition [Chapter] A look at the way that Flightplan revisits the cultural-emotional trauma of 9/11 by drawing on the source…
“What did Alma Think?”: Continuity, Writing, Editing, and Adaptation with Josephine Botting
[Chapter] In Hitchcock & Adaptation: On the Page and Screen, Mark Osteen has curated a number of essays that open up this crucial piece of Hitchcock’s directorial methodology and detail…
The Feminist Poetics of Sofia Coppola: Spectacle and Self-consciousnesses in Marie Antoinette
Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central…
Magnolia
There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere―they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race to consumerism and social identity. This new…
The Strange Days of Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron
The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor [Chapter] Kathryn Bigelow has undoubtedly been one of Hollywood’s most significant female players, well known in popular terms for films such as Point…
Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break
Feminist Hollywood examines the differences between commercial cinema and counter cinema by focusing on the work of contemporary women directors who have entered Hollywood from the realm of independent filmmaking.