Gaylyn Studlar, Rudolph Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies, 2000-

Director, Program in Film and Video Studies, 1995-2005

Professor, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures and the Dept. of English Languages and Literature with an unbudgeted appointment in Women's Studies, 1995- ; courtesy appointment, School of Music.

Areas of teaching/research specialization: American Film History, especially 1910's-1930s ; The Representation of Gender in Film ; Film Theory & Psychoanalytic Film Theory ; Film Genres and Popular Culture.

Publications

Books:

In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic (1988, University of illinois, reprinted in paperback, Columbia University Press, 1992)

John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era, anthology co-edited with Matthew Bernstein (Indiana University Press, 2001)

Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster, anthology co-edited with Kevin J. Sandler (Rutgers University Press, 1999)

Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film (Rutgers UP, 1997)

This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age (Columbia UP, 1996)

Reflections in a Male Eye: John Huston and the American Experience (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993)

Select Recent Articles:

"Marlene Dietrich and the Erotics of Code-bound Hollywood," forthcoming in an anthology of selected papers from "Marlene at 100: An International Conference," edited by Mary Dejardins and Gerd Germunden, forthcoming Rutgers UP, 2005.

"A Gunsel is Being Beaten: Homoeroticism and the American Movie Gangster 1941-1942," in Mob Culture, anthology edited by Esther Sonnet and Lee Grievson, Rutgers UP, 2005.

"Titanic/Titanic: Thoughts on Cinematic Presence and Monumental History," in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 2003.

"What Would Martha Want? Captivity, Purity, and 'Feminine' Values in The Searchers, in The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western, an anthology edited by Arthur M. Eckstein and Peter Lehman, Wayne State University Press, 2003.

"Be a Proud Glorified Dreg": Class Gender, and Frontier Democracy in Stagecoach" in Barry Grant, ed., Stagecoach (Cambrdige: Cambridge University Press, 2002). pp. 132-157.

"Oh, Doll Divine": Mary Picford, Marquerade, and the Pedophilic Gaze," Cinema Obscura no. 48, 2002, pp. 197-228. (Reprinted in A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, Diane Negra and Jennifer Bean, eds., (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), pp. 349-373.

Dr. Studlar has written numerous other essays, book reviews, and critical reviews. She has also participated in many conferences and presentations. Recently, she has presented papers at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, the Sacher-Masoch Symposium, Graz, Austria (May, 2003), Max Ophuls: Beyond Borders Conference, William and Mary College (March, 2003), Marlene Dietrich at 100: An International Conference (Dartmouth University, October, 2001).

Research in progress:

Book: From Girls to Women: Female Transformation in Classical Hollywood.

Book: Harem Envy: Hollywood Orientalism and American Sexuality, 1919-1929.

Courses taught:

Undergrad: Advanced Film Theory, American Film Comedy, American Visions: John Ford and Francis Ford Coppola, Art of the Film, The Cult Film, Film Aesthetics, Film Criticism, Film History (beginning to 1938), Sexual Politics in Film Noir, Genre Studies, Introduction to Film, Introduction to Film Theory, Melodrama and Sexual Difference, Mystery: Novels into Film, Production of Film (Introductory), The Star System, Women and Film, Major Directors: Welles and Kubrick, The Westerns of John Ford.

Graduate: Hitchcock and Feminist Film Theory, History of the Electronic Media, Seminar in Television Criticism, Seminar in Political Broadcasting, Theories of Mass Communication, Seminar in Genre: Melodrama and Sexual Difference, Seminar in Authorship: Huston, Hawks, and Hollywood Construction of Masculinity, Seminars in Theory: Cinematic Spectatorship, Stardom and Performance, Stardom, Gender and Spectatorship; Feminist Film Theory; Orientalism in Film; Psychology and Film.