.... © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 1970s US cinema cinephilia feminist film criticism Lesley Stern tropisms Criticism is always more interesting if it not only describes, but if it probes, evidences curiosity, is attuned to resonance. —Lesley Stern, “Writing...

... 2022 Black women’s history character actor Christine Goding-Doty cinephilia film archive film extra Hollywood speculative historiography Theresa Harris women’s film Rather than conceptualizing race as identity, phenotypic characteristics, or biological inheritance, my reading...

... Les deux gamines (1921). Both a critique of intellectual cinephilia as a cultural discourse and a geographically specific retrieval of the multiple ways in which socioeconomically and culturally marginalized audiences interacted with the cinema, this historical study repositions young women from...