"Duckett's excellent skills as a researcher and a writer shine through. . . . Seeing Sarah Bernhardt therefore not only adds much needed context and analysis to the performances of the legendary Bernhardt, but it also shows the promise of intermedial research."--Theatre Journal

In my article for Film Literature Quarterly, I compare Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962) to Vladimir Nabokov's original 1955 novel. I argue that the film is not a weak copy of a famous novel but introduces Lolita through its own palimpsest of virtuoso parodic turns. I believe, therefore, that there is a conscious and clever humor in the way that ...

In my article "The Stars Might Be Smiling: A Feminist Forage into a Famous Film" (published in Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination : Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon, ed. Matthew Solomon, SUNY, 2011), I argue that the humor of Méliès's A Trip to the Moon derives from the gendered comedy that his images set into play.

Richard Abel (University of Michigan), Kay Armatage (University of Toronto), Janet Bergstrom (University of California, Los Angeles), Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan), Elaine Burrows (Women's Film and Television History 􀀝􀀓􀀎􀀘􀀐􀀉􀀚􀀋􀀞􀀟􀀠􀀡􀀉􀀓􀀆􀀈􀀇􀀁􀀢Network UK/Ireland), Vicki Callahan (USC),...

Here I am in 2018, back in Paris, where I bumped into Orlan after a 20 year absence!! I first met Orlan in 1997, soon after writing my article "Beyond the Body: Orlan and the Material Morph" for Vivian Sobchack's book, Meta Morphing and the Culture of Quick Change (Univ. Minnesota Press, 2000). In this article I argue...