Publications 

[under review] “Eleanor’s Catch.” In The Teaching Companion to Silent Cinema.  Ed. Liz Clarke and Martin L. Johnson.

[under review] “Fashion and Beauty Promotions for Noir’s Female Audiences.”  In Gender and Historical Moviegoing.  Ed. Agata Frymus and Lies Lanckman.

[in press] “Selling Noir’s ‘Red Meat’ to the Female Market.” In The Oxford Handbook of American Film History.  Ed. Jon Lewis, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

[in press] “Curiosity Seekers, Morbid Minds, and Embarrassed Young Ladies:  Female Audiences and Reproductive Politics Onscreen.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema.  Ed. Charlie Keil and Rob King, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

“What Happened to Women in Histories of Hollywood?” Journal of Women’s History 33, no. 3 (Fall 2021).

“Film Noir’s ‘Gal Producers’ and the Female Market,” Women’s History Review 29, no. 5 (2020): 801-821.

“Critics, Reformers, and Educators: Film Culture as a Feminine Sphere.”  In Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema.  Ed. Melody Bridges and Cheryl Robson.  London: Aurora Metro Books, 2016, 257-81.

“Feminist Media Historiography and the Work Ahead.” Screening the Past, 40 (2015).  Online publication:  

         [Special dossier on Women and the Silent Screen]

“Lois Weber at Rex:  Performing Femininity Across Media.”  In Performing New Media, 1890-1915.  Ed. Scott Curtis, Frank Gray and Tami Williams.  New Barnet, England:  John Libbey Publishing, 2014, 13-21.

“Women and the Silent Screen.”  In The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film Vol. 1:  Origins to 1928.  Ed. Roy Grundmann, Cynthia Lucia, and Art Simon.  Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 181-206. 

“Lois Weber, Star Maker.”  In Reclaiming the Archive:  Feminism and Film History.  Ed. Vicki Callahan. Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 2010, 131-53.

“’Exit Flapper, Enter Woman,’ or Lois Weber in Jazz Age Hollywood.”  Framework:  The Journal of Cinema and Media 51, no. 2 (2010):  358-87. [Special issue on Women and Film History]

 “1916:  Movies and the Ambiguities of Progressivism.”  In American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations.  Ed. Charlie Keil and Ben Singer.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press, 2009, 160-82.

“Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability.”  In Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method.  Ed. Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin.  Raleigh, NC:  Duke University Press, 2007, 89-116.

“Presenting the Smalleys,  ‘Collaborators in Authorship and Direction’.” Film History 18, no. 2 (2006):  119-28.  [Special issue on Women and the Silent Screen]

“Lois Weber, Progressive Cinema and the Fate of ‘The Work-A-Day Girl’ in Shoes.” Camera Obscura 56 (2004):  140-69.

“‘It's a Long Way to Filmland’: Starlets, Screen Hopefuls and Extras in Early Hollywood.”  In American Cinema’s Transitional Era:  Audiences, Institutions, Practices.  Ed. Charlie Keil and Shelley Stamp.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2004, 332-52.

“An Awful Struggle Between Love and Ambition:  Serial Heroines, Serial Stars and Their Female Fans.”  In The Silent Cinema Reader.  Ed. Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer. London and New York:  Routledge, 2003, 210-25. [Excerpted from Movie-Struck Girls.]

“Taking Precautions, or Regulating Early Birth Control Films.”  In A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema.  Ed. Jennifer Bean and Diane Negra. Raleigh, NC:  Duke University Press, 2002, 270-97.

“Moral Coercion, or the Board of Censorship Ponders the Vice Question.”  In Controlling Hollywood:  Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era.  Ed. Matthew Bernstein.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press, 1999, 41-58.

“‘Oil Upon the Flames of Vice’:  The Battle Over White Slave Films in New York City.”

         Film History 9, no. 4 (1997):  351-64.  [Special issue on the 1910s, ed. Kristin Thompson] 

“Is Any Girl Safe?  Female Spectators at the White Slave Films.” Screen 37, no. 1 (1996):  1-15. 

         Screen Award for Excellence in Screen Studies

Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award, SCMS, Honorable Mention

“Toronto's 'Girl Workers,' the Female Body and Industrial Efficiency in Her Own Fault.” Cinémas 6, no. 1 (1995):  81-99.  [Special issue on silent cinema in Canada and Québec]

“Eighty Million Women Want-----?:  Women's Suffrage, Female Viewers and the Body Politic.”  Quarterly Review of Film and Video 16, no. 1 (1995):  1-22.

“Wages and Sin:  Traffic in Souls and the White Slavery Scare.” Persistence of Vision 9 (1991):  90-102.  [Special issue on early cinema, ed. Tom Gunning]