Marsha Gordon

Bio

Since joining the film studies faculty in 2002, Marsha Gordon has taught courses on topics ranging from 21st Century Documentary Film abd War Documentaries to Women Directors and 1950s American Film. Her research interests include documentary; the Hollywood studio system; Sam Fuller, Ida Lupino, and other independent filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s; orphan films, especially of the educational variety; and the intersections between film and other art forms, such as literature. She has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center (2019-2020), a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar (2020-2021), and a fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation (2024).

She was the co-editor of The Moving Image (University of Minnesota Press) from 2009-2013, and is the co-founder of Home Movie Day Raleigh. She has also directed several short, award-winning documentary films.

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Website

www.marshagordon.org

Research Publications

Books

Film, Form, and Culture. Co-author 5th Edition with Robert Kolker.  Routledge, 2024.

Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott. University of California Press, 2023.

Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film. Co-edited with Allyson Nadia Field. Duke University Press, 2019.

Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies . Oxford University Press (2017).

Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age.  Wesleyan University Press (2008).

Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the U.S.. Co-edited with Dan Streible and Devin Orgeron.  Oxford University Press, January 2012.

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