COURSES
CA 454 - Advanced Film Analysis
CA 556 - History of the American Film Industry in the Era of the Studio System
CA 665 - Contemporary Film Theory

Special Topics Courses on:
Melodrama and the Woman's Picture
Early Cinema
Hollywood Classicism: Ford and Hawks

DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES
My primary research interests are in the areas of silent cinema (industry history and film form), melodrama and the woman's picture, the history of the American studio system, and methods of film analysis as they relate to both film history and film theory. Current research projects include a book on the decline of sentiment in American film of the 1920s, and a series of essays analyzing acting style in silent and early sound film.

DEGREES

• PhD. In Film, University of California, Los Angeles -1985.
  

MAJOR HONORS/AWARDS

• Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
• Resident Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin;
• Vilas Associate Award, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin
• 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991; rpt. University of California Press, 1997)

Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film, cowritten with Ben Brewster (Oxford University Press, 1997).

In preparation: The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s

Selected Articles:
"The Seduction Plot: Comic and Dramatic Variants," Film History 13, no. 4 (2001).

"Keeping Up with Hawks," Style 32, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 402-426.

"The Woman's Picture and the Poetics of Melodrama," Camera Obscura 31 (1993):121-147.