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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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