Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335

 

 
 

Melissa Rigney

Brandon Goes to Hollywood: Boys Don't Cry and the Transgender Body in Film

Melissa Rigney recently completed her dissertation on lesbian literature and film at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
 

Mark Garrett Cooper

The Contradictions of Minority Report

Mark Garrett Cooper is an assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. He describes the kinship between cinematic romance narrative and managerial order in Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and is currently investigating the relationship of filmaking practice to the gendered division of labor at the Universal Film Manufacturing Company during the 1910s.
 

 

 
 

Charles Tryon

Virtual Cities and Stolen Memories: Temporality
and the Digital in Dark City

 

Charles Tryon is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This essay is drawn from his book manuscript, which focuses on time travel films. He also has a forthcoming essay on Chris Marker's Sans Soleil.
     
   
 

Barbara Tena Lupack, Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Morrison

Reviewed by Laura Quinn

 
     
   

Jyotika Virdi, The Cinematic Imagination: Indian Popular Films as Social History

Reviewed by Ishita Sinha Roy