Job title:
Professor, Rhetoric and Film Studies
Publications & Presentations:
Books
- Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film (University of Illinois Press, 1981; paperback: University of California Press, 1991)
- Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible (University of California Press, 1989, 1999)
- Revision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism, co-edited with Mary Ann Doane and Patricia Mellencamp (University Publications of America, 1984)
- Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film, editor (Rutgers University Press, 1994)
- Re-inventing Film Studies, co-edited with Christine Gledhill (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- "Playing The Race Card": Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson (Princeton University Press, 2001)
Journal Articles
- "Women in Love: Review of Personal Best." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Cinema 27 (July 1982): l-l2.
- "Eric Rohmer and the Holy Grail." Literature/Film Quarterly 11:2 (1983): 71-82.
- "Something Else Besides a Mother’: Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama." Cinema Journal 24 (Fall 1984): 2-27.
- "The Critical Grasp: Bunuelian Cinema and Its Critics." Dada/Surrealism 15 (1986): 199-206.
- "Power, Pleasure, and Perversion: Sadomasochistic Film Pornography." Representations 27 (Summer 1989): 37-65.
- "Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess." Film Quarterly Vol. 44:4 (Summer 1991): 2-13.
- "Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and the New Documentary." Film Quarterly 46:3 (Spring 1993) 9-21.