publications
Books, authored and edited
Co-editor. Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema. With Christopher Weedman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP (2023).
Author. What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor. UP of Kentucky (June 2020). (Paperback edition coming in 2024.)
Senior editor. The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Popular Culture. With Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, and Michael Howard. UP of Mississippi, 2016. (Paperback release 2018.)
Editor. Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Co-editor. Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek. With Taylor Harrison, Sarah Projansky, and Kent A. Ono. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Journal Issues, edited
Editor. Special Issue on Jews and Social Media. Jewish Film and New Media (in-progress).
Co-editor. Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television 7.3 (2014). Special Issue on SF Anime. With Alex Naylor.
Co-editor. Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema. With Christopher Weedman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP (2023).
Author. What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor. UP of Kentucky (June 2020). (Paperback edition coming in 2024.)
Senior editor. The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Popular Culture. With Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, and Michael Howard. UP of Mississippi, 2016. (Paperback release 2018.)
Editor. Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Co-editor. Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek. With Taylor Harrison, Sarah Projansky, and Kent A. Ono. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Journal Issues, edited
Editor. Special Issue on Jews and Social Media. Jewish Film and New Media (in-progress).
Co-editor. Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television 7.3 (2014). Special Issue on SF Anime. With Alex Naylor.
Journal Articles, authored
"Racial Darkness in Ace in the Hole." Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61.3 (Spring 2022): 36–58.
“Theatricality and Female Drag in Three Films by George Cukor.” Feminist Media Studies 14.4 (2014): 593-607.
“Yiddishkeit, 'Jewissance,' and Double-Coding in Leverage.” Studies in Popular Culture 36.2 (2014): 109-124.
“Figuring Jewishness in George Cukor’s A Double Life.” Jewish Film and New Media 1.2 (2014): 114-138.
“‘A queer feeling when I look at you’: Gender and Sexuality in Three Films by George Cukor.” Journal of Bisexuality 7.1-2 (2007): 91-112.
“The Gaze, The Stepford Wives, and Envisioning Feminism in 1975.” Feminist Media Studies 6.2 (2006): 145-156.
“The Future of Political Community: Race, Ethnicity, and Class Privilege in Novels by Piercy, Gomez, and Misha.” Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 124-142.
“‘I’m Wondering What Sort of Misunderstanding is Happening Right Now’: Poststructuralism, French Feminism, and Carol Emshwiller’s ‘The Start of the End of It All’.” Foundation 74 (1998): 67-79.
“Going ‘Native’: Le Guin, Misha, and the Politics of Speculative Literature.” Foundation 71 (1997): 77-88.
Rpt. In Short Story Criticism. Vol. 69. Ed. Joseph Palminsano. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
“‘Would You Really Rather Die Than Bear My Young': The Construction of Gender, Race, and Species in Octavia E. Butler's 'Bloodchild.'" African American Review 28.2 (1994): 259-271.
Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Vol. 6. Eds. Jerry Moore and Tim Akers. Detroit: Gale, 1999.
Rpt. in Modern Black Writers. Ed. Joanne Cerrito. Detroit: Gale, 1999.
“We Are Only Seeking Man: Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris.” Science-Fiction Studies 57 (1992): 167-177.
Rpt. In Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 149. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
Book Chapters, authored
"Larry Trainor and the Queer Spirit of HBO’s Doom Patrol." Masculinities in 21st-century Science-Fiction Television. Eds. Sara Martín and Michael Pitts. Bloomsbury (in progress).
"Traumatic Timescapes: Holocaust Memory in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic and Nava Semel’s And the Rat Laughed." Jewish Future Females. Ed. Marleen Barr. UP of Mississippi (forthcoming).
"Race and the Noir Western: Navigating The Walking Hills." Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema. Eds. Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher Weedman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023).
“Placing Parker: Negotiating the Hegemonic Binary in Leverage.” The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Popular Culture.
“‘Ok, homeboys, let’s posse’: Gender, Race, Class, and Masculine Anxiety in Red Dwarf.” British Television Science Fiction: A Hitchhiker’s Guide. Eds. Peter Wright and John Cook. I.B. Tauris, 2005.
“‘It’s a Rip-off of the Women’s Movement’: Second-Wave Feminism and The Stepford Wives.” Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s. Ed. Sherrie Inness. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003: 24-38.
“‘My Emotions Give Me Power’: The Containment of Girls’ Anger in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 18-34.
“(E)raced Visions: Women of Color and Science Fiction in the U.S.” Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy. Eds. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser. Greenwood, 2002. 127-138.
“Feminism, Queer Studies, and the Sexual Politics of Xena: Warrior Princess.” Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television.
“Postfeminism and the Female Action-Adventure Hero: Positioning Tank Girl.” Future Females: The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. Ed. Marleen S. Barr. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 291-308.
"Racial Darkness in Ace in the Hole." Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61.3 (Spring 2022): 36–58.
“Theatricality and Female Drag in Three Films by George Cukor.” Feminist Media Studies 14.4 (2014): 593-607.
“Yiddishkeit, 'Jewissance,' and Double-Coding in Leverage.” Studies in Popular Culture 36.2 (2014): 109-124.
“Figuring Jewishness in George Cukor’s A Double Life.” Jewish Film and New Media 1.2 (2014): 114-138.
“‘A queer feeling when I look at you’: Gender and Sexuality in Three Films by George Cukor.” Journal of Bisexuality 7.1-2 (2007): 91-112.
“The Gaze, The Stepford Wives, and Envisioning Feminism in 1975.” Feminist Media Studies 6.2 (2006): 145-156.
“The Future of Political Community: Race, Ethnicity, and Class Privilege in Novels by Piercy, Gomez, and Misha.” Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 124-142.
“‘I’m Wondering What Sort of Misunderstanding is Happening Right Now’: Poststructuralism, French Feminism, and Carol Emshwiller’s ‘The Start of the End of It All’.” Foundation 74 (1998): 67-79.
“Going ‘Native’: Le Guin, Misha, and the Politics of Speculative Literature.” Foundation 71 (1997): 77-88.
Rpt. In Short Story Criticism. Vol. 69. Ed. Joseph Palminsano. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
“‘Would You Really Rather Die Than Bear My Young': The Construction of Gender, Race, and Species in Octavia E. Butler's 'Bloodchild.'" African American Review 28.2 (1994): 259-271.
Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Vol. 6. Eds. Jerry Moore and Tim Akers. Detroit: Gale, 1999.
Rpt. in Modern Black Writers. Ed. Joanne Cerrito. Detroit: Gale, 1999.
“We Are Only Seeking Man: Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris.” Science-Fiction Studies 57 (1992): 167-177.
Rpt. In Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 149. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
Book Chapters, authored
"Larry Trainor and the Queer Spirit of HBO’s Doom Patrol." Masculinities in 21st-century Science-Fiction Television. Eds. Sara Martín and Michael Pitts. Bloomsbury (in progress).
"Traumatic Timescapes: Holocaust Memory in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic and Nava Semel’s And the Rat Laughed." Jewish Future Females. Ed. Marleen Barr. UP of Mississippi (forthcoming).
"Race and the Noir Western: Navigating The Walking Hills." Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema. Eds. Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher Weedman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023).
“Placing Parker: Negotiating the Hegemonic Binary in Leverage.” The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Popular Culture.
“‘Ok, homeboys, let’s posse’: Gender, Race, Class, and Masculine Anxiety in Red Dwarf.” British Television Science Fiction: A Hitchhiker’s Guide. Eds. Peter Wright and John Cook. I.B. Tauris, 2005.
“‘It’s a Rip-off of the Women’s Movement’: Second-Wave Feminism and The Stepford Wives.” Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s. Ed. Sherrie Inness. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003: 24-38.
“‘My Emotions Give Me Power’: The Containment of Girls’ Anger in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 18-34.
“(E)raced Visions: Women of Color and Science Fiction in the U.S.” Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy. Eds. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser. Greenwood, 2002. 127-138.
“Feminism, Queer Studies, and the Sexual Politics of Xena: Warrior Princess.” Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television.
“Postfeminism and the Female Action-Adventure Hero: Positioning Tank Girl.” Future Females: The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. Ed. Marleen S. Barr. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 291-308.
Reference Articles and Book Reviews, authored
Book Rev. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood edited by Michael Renov and Vincent Brook. Jewish Film and New Media 9.1 (2022): forthcoming.
Ref. Article. "Film Industry in the United States." Jewish Women's Archive. Published 24 June 2021.
Ref. Article. "Linda Lavin." Jewish Women's Archive. Published 24 June 2021.
Book Rev. Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust, edited by David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt. Jewish Film and New Media 8.2 (2020): 259-263.
Book Rev. Women in European Holocaust Films, by Ingrid Lewis. Jewish Film and New Media 7.2 (2019): 243-246.
Book Rev. George Cukor: Hollywood Master, edited by Murray Pomerance and Barton Palmer. Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal 5.1 (2017): 106-108.
Book Rev. New Jews?: Race and American Jewish Identity in 21st-Century Film, by David L. Reznik. Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal 1.1 (2013): 91-94.
Ref. Article. “Feminism.” Encyclopedia of Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Gary Westfahl. Greenwood Publishing, 2005. 289-291.
Book Rev. Cult Television, edited by Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta A. Pearson. Science Fiction Review 272 (June 2005): 11-12.
Book Rev. Notes on Nowhere: Feminism, Utopian Logic, and Social Transformation, by Jennifer Burwell and Frankenstein’s Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction, by Jane Donawerth. Signs 26.1 (Autumn 2000): 293-295.
Book Rev. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood edited by Michael Renov and Vincent Brook. Jewish Film and New Media 9.1 (2022): forthcoming.
Ref. Article. "Film Industry in the United States." Jewish Women's Archive. Published 24 June 2021.
Ref. Article. "Linda Lavin." Jewish Women's Archive. Published 24 June 2021.
Book Rev. Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust, edited by David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt. Jewish Film and New Media 8.2 (2020): 259-263.
Book Rev. Women in European Holocaust Films, by Ingrid Lewis. Jewish Film and New Media 7.2 (2019): 243-246.
Book Rev. George Cukor: Hollywood Master, edited by Murray Pomerance and Barton Palmer. Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal 5.1 (2017): 106-108.
Book Rev. New Jews?: Race and American Jewish Identity in 21st-Century Film, by David L. Reznik. Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal 1.1 (2013): 91-94.
Ref. Article. “Feminism.” Encyclopedia of Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Gary Westfahl. Greenwood Publishing, 2005. 289-291.
Book Rev. Cult Television, edited by Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta A. Pearson. Science Fiction Review 272 (June 2005): 11-12.
Book Rev. Notes on Nowhere: Feminism, Utopian Logic, and Social Transformation, by Jennifer Burwell and Frankenstein’s Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction, by Jane Donawerth. Signs 26.1 (Autumn 2000): 293-295.
Other Articles, authored (magazines, websites, etc.)
Nashville Jewish Observer
JewThink
The Dark Pages: The Newsletter for Film Noir Lovers
Flicker Alley
Screen Prism / The Take
Queering Classic Hollywood Series for Screen Prism / The Take (May-July 2016)
"That Old Black Magic: Women, Race, and Post-Millennial U.S. Science Fiction Television." Deletion 4 (April 2014).
"A Galaxy of Our Own: Searching for Black Women in Science Fiction Film." Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture 15 (Winter 2001).
Nashville Jewish Observer
- People of the Books (monthly book review column, 2022-present)
JewThink
- "What's in a Name? Lovecraft Country's Hiram Epstein." 26 Nov. 2020.
The Dark Pages: The Newsletter for Film Noir Lovers
- "The Genius of B Noir" (February 2022).
- "The Desert of Bad Day at Black Rock" (California Special Issue, Dec. 2021).
- "Postwar Racial Politics and A Double Life" (1947 Special Issue, Dec. 2020).
- "Who Gets to Sing the Blues in the Night?" (July/Aug. 2020).
- "A Noir Eye on Ida Lupino’s Hard, Fast and Beautiful!" (May/June 2020).
- "Billy Wilder: Film Noir Beyond Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard" (Mar./Apr. 2020).
- "Poetic Realism and Film Noir" (Jan./Feb. 2020).
- "Can the Femme Fatale Be Reformed?" (Big Heat Special Issue, Nov./Dec. 2019).
- "George Cukor and Film Noir" (May/June 2019).
- "Good Girls Gone Noir" (Sep./Oct. 2018).
- “Pretty Boys in Noir” (July/Aug. 2018).
- "Born to Kill: Sociopaths in Lust" (Couples in Noir Special Issue, Nov./Dec. 2018).
- “Beauty and the Beast In a Lonely Place.” (Jan./Feb. 2016).
- “The Function of the Gaze in The Asphalt Jungle.” (Asphalt Jungle Special Issue, Nov./Dec. 2015).
Flicker Alley
- “Resisting Romance in Dorothy Arzner’s Dance Girl Dance.” Flicker Alley (26 Mar. 2017).
- “Femme Vs. Homme in Too Late for Tears.” Flicker Alley (20 Apr. 2016).
Screen Prism / The Take
- “Marvel’s Luke Cage: Blaxploitation or #BlackLivesMatter?” (30 Nov. 2016).
- “What Were the First Hollywood Films About Rape and Its Impact?” (24 Oct. 2016).
- “Why is Mr. Holmes More Like Gods and Monsters Than Other Sherlock Holmes Films?” (8 Sep. 2016).
- “In Season Four of Orange is the New Black, How Has Racial Conflict Grown and Changed?” (8 July 2016).
- “Before Orange is the New Black, How Did Stranger Inside Portray Diversity in Women’s Prisons?” (5 July 2016).
- “Are Film Images of Disfigurement Inflected by Gender?” (23 May 2016).
- “Is the Elvis Presley Musical King Creole Film Noir?” (15 Apr. 2016).
- “How Does Thelma and Louise Display a Connection to Feminist Film Theory?” (7 Apr. 2016).
- “Does Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday Finally Answer the Question: Is Pee-Wee Herman Gay?” (30 Mar. 2016).
- “In Vertigo, What is the Significance of the Ending?” (22 Feb. 2016).
- “What is the Significance of the Opening Scene in The Philadelphia Story?” (29 Jan. 2016).
- “What is the Significance of the Ending in Do the Right Thing?” (29 Jan. 2016).
- “What Do Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday Have in Common?” (22 Jan. 2016).
- “Does In a Lonely Place Adhere to or Challenge Traditional Gender Roles?” (11 Jan. 2016).
- “What is the Significance of Helen Ramirez in High Noon?” (11 Jan. 2016).
- “What is the Difference Between Film Noir and Crime Film?” (30 Dec. 2015).
- “Is a Female Gaze Possible in Cinema?” (10 Dec. 2015).
- “What is the Difference Between the Male Gaze and Female Objectification?” (30 Nov. 2015).
- “In Gilda, What Is the Significance of the ‘Put the Blame on Mame’ Number?” (30 Nov. 2015).
- “How Does the 2004 Remake of The Stepford Wives Differ from the 1975 Film?” (28 Nov. 2015).
- “What Gender Messages Does Inside Out Send to Girls?” (24 Nov. 2015).
- “Why Do Some Star Trek Fans Enjoy Pairing Kirk and Spock as Lovers?” (24 Nov. 2015).
- “When is Holocaust-related Humor Considered Acceptable, and When Does It Cross a Line?” (23 Nov. 2015).
- “Why Was George Cukor Known as a ‘Woman’s Director’ and How Did He Feel About It?” (20 Nov. 2015).
- “Did Classic Hollywood Films Feature Characters We Would Call Trans Today?” (9 Nov. 2015).
- “Is There a Male Counterpart to the Femme Fatale of Film Noir?” (9 Nov. 2015).
- “Can Film Noir Be Funny?” (9 Nov. 2015).
- “Was the Western genre ‘queer’ before Brokeback Mountain?” (4 Nov. 2015).
- “What Does 'Double Coding' Mean as an Interpretive Strategy for Film and Television?” (4 Nov. 2015).
- “What Does It Mean to Call a Woman a 'Stepford Wife'?" (2 Nov. 2015).
- “What’s the Significance of the Setting in Key Largo?” (28 Oct. 2015).
Queering Classic Hollywood Series for Screen Prism / The Take (May-July 2016)
- “Queering My Fair Lady: Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?”
- “Lesbianism and the Western: The Case of Johnny Guitar.”
- “Gay Hitmen: Fante and Mingo in The Big Combo.”
- “Why Ned Drinks: Lew Ayres in Holiday.”
- “Why We Love Mrs. Danvers.”
- “The Allure of Queer Romance in Sylvia Scarlett.”
- “Girls are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
- “James Whale and the Queer Delights of The Old Dark House.”
"That Old Black Magic: Women, Race, and Post-Millennial U.S. Science Fiction Television." Deletion 4 (April 2014).
"A Galaxy of Our Own: Searching for Black Women in Science Fiction Film." Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture 15 (Winter 2001).
Editorial Board Memberships and Roles
Jewish Film and New Media. 2012-present.
Reviews editor, 2018-present.
Journal of Science Fiction Television and Film, 2007-present.