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Diana
Last Name
Anselmo
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United States
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https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520299658/a-queer-way-of-feeling
Keywords
Feminist Media History, Queer History, Silent Cinema, Fan Studies, Material Cultures, History of Technology & Medicine
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About Me

Feminist media historian and queer immigrant.

Recent Publications

“Technologies of Intimacy: Film, Photography & Early Female Audiences.” Feminist Film History Handbook. Ed. Shelley Stamp (forthcoming 2025). 

“ ‘I Want to Be Good:’ Morality, Faith & Female Spectatorial Pleasure during World War I.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 22.1 (Spring 2024): 6-33.

“Fire in the Hole: Negative Feelings in Silent Film Fan Communities.” Feminist Media Histories 10.1 (Winter 2024): 28-56.

“Willing Clay: Consent, Stardom & Female Adolescence in Early Hollywood.”Desire & Consent in Representations of Adolescent Sexuality with Adults. Eds. Maureen Turim and Diane Waldman (New York: Routledge, 2023), 39-63.

“Picture Pain: Anti-Heteronormative Female Fandom in Early Hollywood.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 62.1 (Fall 2022): 7-35. 

“The ‘Girl Suicide Epidemic’ of the 1910s: Pain & Prejudice in US Newspapers.” Journal of Women’s History 34.3 (Fall 2022): 34-58. 

“Alternative Archives, or The Things We Did Not Lose in the Fire.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, In Focus Dossier, 60.4 (Summer 2021): 160-167.

“Bound by Paper: Girl Fans, Movie Scrapbooks & Hollywood Reception during World War I.”Film History: An International Journal 31.3 (Fall 2019): 141–172.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Children & Youth, Gender, Labor, Libraries & Archives, Material Culture, Medicine, Sexuality, Technology, Women, World War I