Articles and Book Chapters

ARTICLES

"Madge Tyrone." Women Film Pioneers Project, September 2022.

"Going to the Show Again." LA Review of Books, October 2021.

“Dusting Off That Old Projector: Preservation Through Projection.” Co-written with Dino Everett. American Archivist. Spring/Summer 2021.

“'Lights, Camera-maids, Action!': Women Behind the Lens in Early Cinema," LA Review of Books, Jan 2020.

“Creative Encounters with Film History: Thomas Edison Then/Now.” JCMS Teaching Dossier, “Revisiting the Film History Survey.” 2019.

“Nontheatrical Media and Feminism.” Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal special issue, Spring 2018.

"3mm, The Smallest Gauge." Co-written with Dino Everett (University of Southern California). The Moving Image, Fall 2016.

“The Other Side of the Tracks: Nontheatrical Film History, Pre-Rebellion Watts, and Felicia.” Co-written with Allyson Nadia Field (U Chicago). Cinema Journal, February 2016.

“Lenticular Spectacles: Kodacolor’s Fit in the Amateur Arsenal.” Film History, Winter 2013.

“‘You are Invited to Participate’: Interactive Fandom in the Age of the Movie Magazine.” Journal of Film and Video, Fall 2009.

“Familial Pursuits, Editorial Acts: Documentaries After the Age of Home Video.” Co-written with Devin Orgeron. The Velvet Light Trap, Fall 2007.

“‘The Most Profound Shock’: Traces of The Holocaust in Sam Fuller’s Verboten! and The Big Red One.” The Historical Journal of Radio Film and Television, October 2007.

“‘Something Different In Science Films’: The Moody Institute of Science and the Canned Missionary Movement.” Co-written with Skip Elsheimer. The Moving Image, Spring 2007.

“Liberating Images?: Sam Fuller’s Film of Falkenau Concentration Camp.” Film Quarterly, Winter 2006.

“Making It in Hollywood: Clara Bow, Fandom, and Consumer Culture.” Cinema Journal, Summer 2003.

“Rethinking Authorship: Jack London and the Motion Picture Industry.” American Literature, March 2003.

"Eating Their Words: Consuming Class a la Keaton and Chaplin." Co-written with Devin Orgeron. College Literature, January 2001.

“‘What Makes a Girl Who Looks Like That Get Mixed Up In Science?’: Gender in Sam Fuller’s Films of the 1950s.” Quarterly Review of Film & Video, 2000.

"Onward Kitchen Soldiers: Mobilizing the Domestic During WWI." The Canadian Review of American Studies, 1999.

BOOK CHAPTERS

On the History (and Future) of Art Documentaries and the Film Program at the National Gallery of Art. In Documenting the Visual Arts, ed. Roger Hallas. Routledge, 2019.

“Familial Pursuits, Editorial Acts: Documentaries After the Age of Home Video.” Co-written with Devin Orgeron. Originally published in The Velvet Light Trap, fall 2007. Republished in The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism, edited by Jonathan Kahana. Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Multi-Purposing Early Cinema: A Psychological Experiment Involving Van Bibber’s Experiment (Thomas Edison, 1911).” Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema, edited by Marta Braun, Charlie Keil, Rob King, Paul Moore, and Louis Pelletier. UK: John Libbey Press, 2012.

“GI’s Documenting Genocide: Amateur Films of WWII Concentration Camps.” Film and Genocide, edited by Tomas Crowder and Kristi Wilson. University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

“A History of Learning with the Lights Off.” Co-written with Dan Streible and Devin Orgeron. Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States. Co-edited with Dan Streible and Devin Orgeron. Oxford University Press, 2012.

“‘A Decent and Orderly Society’: Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970.” Learning With the Lights Off. Co-edited with Dan Streible and Devin Orgeron. Oxford University Press, 2012.

“The History of Media Celebrity.” Ed. Robert Kolker. The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, August 2008.

“Megatronic Memories: Errol Morris and the Aesthetics of Observation.” Co-written with Devin Orgeron. The Image and the Witness. Eds. Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas. London: Wallflower Press, 2007.

"3mm, The Smallest Gauge." Co-written with Dino Everett (University of Southern California). 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.

“Hettie Gray Baker.” Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. 2013.

“Lenticular Spectacles: Kodacolor’s Fit in the Amateur Arsenal.” Film History. Winter 2013: 36-61.

“‘You are Invited to Participate’: Interactive Fandom in the Age of the Movie Magazine.” Journal of Film and Video. Fall 2009: 3-23.

“Familial Pursuits, Editorial Acts: Documentaries After the Age of Home Video.” Co-written with Devin Orgeron. The Velvet Light Trap. Fall 2007: 47-62.

“‘The Most Profound Shock’: Traces of The Holocaust in Sam Fuller’s Verboten! and The Big Red One.” The Historical Journal of Radio Film and Television. October 2007: 471-496.

“‘Something Different In Science Films’: The Moody Institute of Science and the Canned Missionary Movement.” Co-written with Skip Elsheimer. The Moving Image. Spring 2007: 1-26.

“Liberating Images?: Sam Fuller’s Film of Falkenau Concentration Camp.” Film Quarterly. Winter 2006: 38-47.

“Making It in Hollywood: Clara Bow, Fandom, and Consumer Culture.” Cinema Journal. Summer 2003: 76-97.

“Rethinking Authorship: Jack London and the Motion Picture Industry.” American Literature. March 2003: 91-117.

"Eating Their Words: Consuming Class a la Keaton and Chaplin." With Devin Orgeron. College Literature.January 2001: 84-104.

“‘What Makes a Girl Who Looks Like That Get Mixed Up In Science?’: Gender in Sam Fuller’s Films of the 1950s.” Quarterly Review of Film & Video. 2000: 1-17.

"Onward Kitchen Soldiers: Mobilizing the Domestic During WWI." The Canadian Review of American Studies. 1999: 61-87.

"Cinematic Violations in Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Mâcon." Enculturation. Spring 1998.

MARSHA GORDON

PhD

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