Gaylyn Studlar

phone: 734.763-2147
office: 2008B Frieze
email: gstudlar@umich.edu

 

In the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures Gaylyn Studlar is the Rudolf Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies. She also is a professor in the English Language and Literature and Women's Studies departments.

Ph.D. (Cinema), University of Southern California, 1984 Prof. Studlar's scholarship is well known in the area of feminist film theory, but she has wide ranging interests in how gender and sexuality are represented in film, especially American genre film. Gaylyn Studlar was recently named the Rudolf Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies, making her one of eight faculty members in the College of LS&A to be appointed to endowed or titled professorships in 2000.
Publications: 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); In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic (University of Illinois Press, 1988); numerous articles in anthologies and journals, including "Silent Film", ed. by Richard Abel; "Movies and Methods II", ed. by Bill Nichols; "Film Theory and Criticism", ed. by Mast, Cohen, and Braudy; "Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory"; "Literature as Dance"; "Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies"; "Visual Anthropology"; and "Photography, Fabrications, From Hanoi to Hollywood", and others. Her co-edited volume, JOHN FORD MADE WESTERNS, will be published by Indiana University Press in January 2001.

Classes taught: Film Theory and Criticism, Film Historiography: Silent Film, Feminist Film Theory, Women and Film, Sexual Politics in Film Noir, Orientalism in Film, Kubrick and Welles, Melodrama and the Construction of Sexual Difference, Stardom and Cinematic Spectatorship


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