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Mary Desjardins

Ph.D., University of Southern California, School of Cinema-TV

Associate Professor of Film Studies

Recent Scholarship:

Dietrich Icon, co-edited with Gerd Gemunden (Duke University Press, 2007).

Recycled Stars:  Female Stardom in the Age of Television and Video (forthcoming, Duke University Press).

“Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices:  Feminism, Materiality, and
      Temporality,”  Camera Obscura  61 21:1 (2006), pp. 32-37.

“The Objects of Our Affection: Material Practices, Material Culture, and (a) Film
       History,” Vectors: A Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
       (2006) http:  //www.vectorsjournal.org/issues/03_issue/ObjectofMediaStudies).

"The Incredible Shrinking Star:  Todd Haynes and the Case of Karen Carpenter," Camera
        Obscura  57 19:3 (December 2004), pp. 22-54.

"Ephemeral Culture/eBay Culture:  Film Collectables and Fan Investments," Everyday
      eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire eds. Ken Hillis et al (Routledge, 2006), pp. 31-43.

"Are You Lonesome Tonight? Gendered Discourse in The Lonesome Gal and The
      Continental" (co-written with Mark Williams), Communities of the Air:  Radio Century,
      Radio Culture, ed. Susan Squier (Duke Univ. Press, 2003),  pp. 251-274.

"Lucy and Desi: Sexuality, Ethnicity and T.V's First Family" Television, History and  American Culture:
        Feminist Critical Essays.
Editors, Mary Beth Haralovich and Lauren Rabinovitz (Duke University
        Press 1999).

"'Marion Never Looked Lovelier': Hedda Hopper's Hollywood and the Renegotiation of Glamour in Postwar Hollywood" Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Summer 1999).

"Meeting Two Queens: Feminist Filmmaking, Identity Politics, and the Melodramatic Fantasy," Film Quarterly (Spring 1995)

Interests:

Feminist Theory
Gender and the Media
Feminist Filmmaking
Women in Film and TV
he Female Star
Melodrama and Gender

Courses Taught:

American Women Directors, 1920-1990
Feminist Theory and Methodology
Television and Histories of Gender
Women in the Film Industry

Last Updated: 11/16/07