Participant Info
- First Name
- Marsha
- Last Name
- Gordon
- Country
- United States
- State
- NC North Carolina
- marsha_gordon@ncsu.edu
- Affiliation
- North Carolina State University
- Website URL
- http://marshagordon99.wix.com/filmprof
- Keywords
- American Film History, Hollywood Studio System, War Movies, Documentaries, Women Filmmakers, Educational Film, Nontheatrical Film
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Marsha Gordon is Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies and Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age. She is also the co-editor of Learning with the Lights Off: A Reader in Educational Film and the former editor of The Moving Image journal.
Her latest collection of essays, about non-theatrical film and race, co-edited with Dr. Allyson Nadia Field, will be published by Duke University Press in 2019. Marsha just completed her first documentary, Rendered Small.
She has a monthly radio show, “Movies on the Radio,” on WUNC’s “The State of Things“. You can search for “The State of Things” on Apple Podcasts, or listen through podcast apps like Stitcher or the NPR One app. Search on any podcast platform for “The State of Things” and then “Movies on the Radio.”
- Recent Publications
Books
1) Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies. Oxford University Press, 2017.
2) Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States. Co-edited with Dan Streible and Devin Orgeron. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Articles
“#MeToo on the 1930s silver screen.” The Conversation, March 3, 2018. https://theconversation.com/metoo-on-the-1930s-silver-screen-92321
“Is it Time For a 21-st Century Version of The Day After?” The Conversation, January 24, 2018. https://theconversation.com/is-it-time-for-a-21st-century-version-of-the-day-after-90270
“3mm, the Smallest Gauge.” Co-authored with Dino Everett (USC). The Moving Image, 16.2 (fall 2016): 1-20.
“The Other Side of the Tracks: Nontheatrical Film History, Pre-Rebellion Watts, and Felicia.” Co-written with Allyson Nadia Field (U Chicago). Cinema Journal, 55.2 (February 2016): 1-24.
“Lenticular Spectacles: Kodacolor’s Fit in the Amateur Arsenal.” Film History. Vol. 25.4 (winter 2013): 36-61.
- Media Coverage
- http://marshagordon99.wixsite.com/filmprof/blank
- Social Media
- @MarshaGGordon
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Women, World War II
