Selected Talks & Conference Presentations
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2016-2022
“Sleuths of the First Order: Intermediality and Noir’s Female Audience”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Virtual, 2022
“Noir’s Tough Guys and their Female Fans”
University of Exeter, England, 2021
“’Be a Black Angel in Black Angel Fashions’: Fashion, Beauty, and Film Noir’s‘Femme’ Marketing Campaigns”
Doing Women’s Film and Television History Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, 2021
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, 2021
“Selling Noir’s ‘Red Meat’ to the Female Market”
Keynote address, Histories of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception Conference, Maynooth,
Ireland, 2021
Texas A&M University, 2019
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
Classical Hollywood Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, 2018
Symposium on Women, Film & Media History, University of Pittsburgh, 2017
“Curiosity Seekers, Morbid Minds and Embarrassed Young Ladies:Female Audiences and Reproductive Politics Onscreen”
Women and the Silent Screen Conference, Amsterdam, 2019
“Noir’s Tough Guys and their Female Fans”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, 2019
Stars and Screen Conference, Rowan University, New Jersey, 2018
“Forgetting Women and the Silent Screen”
Doing Women’s Film & Television History IV, Southampton University, England, 2018
“Women in Hollywood: Past, Present and Future”
Keynote Address, Women in Hollywood Conference, De Montfort University, England,
2018
“Forgetting Women and the Silent Screen”
Women and the Silent Screen Conference, Shanghai, 2017
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, 2017
“Selling Noir’s ‘Red Meat’ to the Female Market”
International Association for Media and History, Paris, 2017
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, 2016
“Film Noir’s ‘Gal Producers’ and Its Female Market”
Doing Women’s Film and Television History III, DeMontfort University, Leicester, England, 2016
2010-2015
“Lois Weber in Early Hollywood”
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholars Lecture, 2015
“Noir’s Phantom Ladies: Tracking Female Audiences in the 1940s”
What is Cinema History? Conference, University of Glasgow, 2015
“Forgetting Lois Weber”
Doing Women’s Film and Television History Conference II, University of East Anglia, 2014
“Lois Weber in Early Hollywood”
Keynote Address, Lois Weber Symposium, Waseda University, Tokyo, 2014
“Where Are My Children?: Contraception, Cinema and Censorship in Early Hollywood”
Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2014
“Feminist Media Historiography and the Work Ahead”
Keynote Address, Women & the Silent Screen Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2013
“‘My Old Homestead’: Lois Weber Productions in a Changing Industry”
Yale University, 2013
“‘A Woman’s Picture in a Woman’s Way to a Woman’s Taste’: Lois Weber and Female Moviegoers in the 1920s”
Screen Melodrama: Global Perspectives Conference
Columbia University / New York University, 2013
“Feminist Media Historiography, Ephemera and the Work Ahead”
Keynote Address, The Ephemeral Trace Conference, USC, 2012
“Lois Weber at Rex: Performing Femininity Across Media”
Domitor Conference, Brighton, England, 2012
“Women’s Labor, Creative Control, and ‘Independence’ in Early Hollywood:
The Case of Lois Weber Productions”
Rheney Lecture, Vanderbilt University, 2011
“Women’s Labor, Creative Control, and ‘Independence’ in Early Hollywood,
or the Price of a Good Time”
Doing Women’s Film History Conference, University of Sunderland, UK, 2011
“Exit Flapper, or Lois Weber’s Critique of Jazz Age Hollywood”
Women and the Silent Screen, Bologna, Italy, 2010
“Lois Weber in Jazz Age Hollywood -- Rewriting the Script”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, 2010
2001-2009
“Lois Weber’s ‘Feminine Hand’ at Rex”
Women and the Silent Screen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
"The People vs. John Doe: Early Motion Pictures and the Crusade Against Capital Punishment"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, 2008
"Exit Flapper, Enter Woman: Lois Weber on American and European Screen Types"
Border Crossings: Rethinking Silent Cinema, University of California-Berkeley, 2008
“Women’s Filmmaking: Looking Forward, Looking Back”
Keynote Address, Monterey County Women’s Multicultural Conference, 2007
“Universal Suffrage”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, 2007
“Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, A Couple at Work in Early Hollywood”
University of Toronto, 2006
“Lois Weber, Portrait of a Screenwriter”
Women & the Silent Screen, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2006
“Lois Weber, Star Maker”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, Canada, 2006
“Is Lois Weber Modern?”
Early Cinema and Modernity Symposium, University of Michigan, 2005
“’It's a Long Way to Filmland’: Starlets, Screen Hopefuls and Extras in Early Hollywood”
American Cinema and Everyday Life Conference, London, England, 2003
“Lois Weber, Star Maker”
Feminism and Film History Symposium, University of Iowa, 2003
“Lois Weber, Progressive Cinema and the Fate of ‘The Work-A-Day Girl’ in Shoes”
University of Iowa, 2003
“’It’s a Long Way to Filmland’: Starlets, Screen Hopefuls and Extras in Early Hollywood.”
“Women Film Pioneers”
Hildegard Festival of Women’s Art, California State University Stanislaus, 2003
“’A Perpetual Leading Lady’: Fashioning Hollywood’s First Celebrity Director”
American Studies Association, Houston, 2002
“Shoes and The Unshod Maiden, or Giving Progressive Cinema a Good Talking To”
Orphans Film Symposium, University of South Carolina, 2002
“’It's a Long Way to Filmland’: Fantasies of Early Hollywood”
Society for Cinema Studies, Denver, 2002
“Presenting the Smalleys: ‘Collaborators in Authorship and Direction’”
Women & the Silent Screen Conference, University of California-Santa Cruz, 2001
“Feminism on the Silent Screen: Early Birth Control Films”
Women’s Studies Colloquium Series, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001
1995-2000
“Added Attractions: Female Moviegoers in the Silent Era”
Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 2000
“Taking Precautions, or Contraceptive Technology and Cinema’s Regulatory Apparatus”
Moving Images: Technologies, Transitions, Historiographies, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000
“Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability”
Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago, 2000
“Visualizing Vice and Other Problems of the White Slave Films”
Visible Evidence Conference, Los Angeles, 1999
“Added Attractions: Female Moviegoers at the End of the Nickelodeon Era”
Opening Plenary Session, Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 1999
“Added Attractions: Cultivating Cinema’s Female Audience at the End of the Nickelodeon Era”
Keynote Address, Gender and Silent Cinema Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1999
“Is Any Girl Safe? Female Spectators at the White Slave Films”
Cultural Studies Colloquium Series, University of California-Santa Cruz, 1995