Women Auteurs, Western Promises

Patricia White is Centennial Professor of Film and Media Studies and Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Rebecca (BFI Classics, Bloomsbury, 2021) and Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (Duke University Press, 2015) as well as many essays on topics in feminist and LGBTQ film and media studies. She is co-author with Timothy Corrigan of The Film Experience (Bedford St. Martin’s, 6th edition 2021). She is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Camera Obscura (Duke University Press) and serves of the boards of Film Quarterly and Women Make Movies.