film history, American film, American literature, documentary
Marsha Gordon is Professor and Director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, a former Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and an NEH Public Scholar. She is the author of Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott (University of California Press, 2023), Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age (Wesleyan University Press, 2008), and co-editor of Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019). She has co-directed three documentary shorts, Nesting (2020), All the Possibilities… (2019), and Rendered Small (2017), which have played at film festivals like DOC NYC, Art FIFA, Hot Springs, River Run, and Sheffield Doc Fest.
2024 chapter
Film as Cultural Practice
2024 book
Film, Form, and Culture
2024 chapter
Formal Structures
2024 chapter
Global Cinema
2024 chapter
Image and Reality
2024 chapter
Introduction
2024 chapter
The Building Blocks of Film I
2024 chapter
The Building Blocks of Film II
2024 chapter
The Stories Told by Film I
2024 chapter
The Stories Told by Film II
2024 chapter
The Storytellers of Film I
2024 chapter
The Storytellers of Film II
2024 chapter
The Storytellers of Film III
2023 book
Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
2022 journal article
Gauging Film History: An Exquisite Corpse
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 63(1), 126–130.
2022 chapter
Madge Tyrone
In J. Gaines, R. Vatsal, & M. Dall’Asta (Eds.), Women Film Pioneers Project. NY: Columbia University Libraries.
Ed(s): J. Gaines, R. Vatsal & M. Dall’Asta
2022 magazine article
Making Concessions: A Tale of Capitalism, Control, and Snacks
Pipewrench, (5). https://pipewrenchmag.com/making-concessions-movies-and-popcorn/
2022 journal article
Reflections on the Decision to Teach Darnella Frazier’s Cellphone Video of the Murder of George Floyd, and on Changing My Mind
[Teaching Dossier]. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/idx/j/jcms/18261332.0061.902/--reflections-on-the-decision-to-teach-darnella-fraziers?rgn=main;view=fulltext
2022 article
The Stories We Tell: Contemporary Film and Media: Plots in the Coronavirus Age
Gordon, M. (2022, June 22).
2022 article
The Stories We Tell: Infectious Disease and Film History
Gordon, M. (2022, June 22).
2022 article
You Can’t Say They Didn’t Try: Environmentally Conscious Documentaries — Part 1
Gordon, M. (2022, January 15). (Vol. 1). Vol. 1.
2022 article
You Can’t Say They Didn’t Try: Environmentally Conscious Documentaries — Part 2
Gordon, M. (2022, January 15). (Vol. 1). Vol. 1.
2021 journal article
Dusting Off that Old Projector: Preservation through Projection
The American Archivist, 84(1), 139–164.
2021 weblog post
Face-to-Face Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Some Practical Advice for Fall Classes
Gordon, M. (2021, August 20). https://delta.ncsu.edu/news/2021/08/20/face-to-face-teaching-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-some-practical-advice-for-fall-classes/
2021 journal article
Going to the Show Again
LA Review of Books Quarterly, (31). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/going-to-the-show-again/
2021 journal article
Seeing Life Through a Different Lens
Sight + Sound, 31(3), 19–21.
2021 magazine article
The subversive joys of Joan Micklin Silver's little-known New York City short films
Gordon, M. (2021, March 13). Salon. https://www.salon.com/2021/03/13/joan-micklin-silver-short-films-fur-coat-club-elevator-duck/
2020 journal article
‘Lights, Camera-maids, Action!’: Women Behind the Lens in Early Cinema
Los Angeles Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lights-camera-maids-action-women-behind-the-lens-in-early-cinema/
2019 journal article
Creative Encounters with Film History: Thomas Edison Then/Now
[Teaching Dossier]. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 5(2).
2019 chapter book
On the history (and future) of art documentaries and the film program at the National Gallery of Art
2019 book
2019 other
The American World War II Film
2018 journal article
#MeToo on the 1930s silver screen
The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/metoo-on-the-1930s-silver-screen-92321
2018 journal article
A Double Feature: Sam Fuller’s The Steel Helmet and Stanley Kubrick’s Fear and Desire
Cineaste, XLIII(4), 32–35.
2018 journal article
Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies
The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/brett-kavanaugh-goes-to-the-movies-104182
2018 journal article
Is it Time For a 21-st Century Version of The Day After?
The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/is-it-time-for-a-21st-century-version-of-the-day-after-90270
2018 journal article
Nontheatrical Media
Feminist Media Histories, 4(2), 128–134.
2018 newspaper article
Six Must-See 21st Century Documentaries About Life in North Carolina
Gordon, M. (2018, June 14). NCSU News Services. https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/06/six-documentaries-about-nc/
2018 article
The cinema hypothesis: Teaching cinema in the classroom and beyond
Critical Inquiry, Vol. 44, pp. 800–801.
2017 journal article
Blade Runner’s Chillingly Prescient Vision of the Future
The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/blade-runners-chillingly-prescient-vision-of-the-future-84973
2017 monograph
Film is Like a Battleground
2017 book review
Review of Alain Bregala’s The Cinema Hypothesis: Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond
[Review of The Cinema Hypothesis: Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond, by A. Bergala]. Critical Inquiry. https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/marsha_gordon_reviews_the_cinema_hypothesis/
2016 journal article
3MM: The smallest gauge
Moving Image, 16(2), 1–20.
2016 journal article
The Other side of the tracks: Nontheatrical film history, pre-rebellion Watts, and Felicia
Cinema Journal, 55(2), 1–24.
2015 journal article
An Introduction to the Bastard Film Encounter
INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media, 6, 130–132.
2013 journal article
Editor's Foreword
The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, 13(1), viii.
2013 chapter
Hettie Gray Baker
In J. Gaines, R. Vatsal, & M. Dall’Asta (Eds.), Women Film Pioneers Project. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-hettie-gray-baker/
Ed(s): J. Gaines, R. Vatsal & M. Dall’Asta
2013 journal article
Lenticular Spectacles: Kodacolor's Fit in the Amateur Arsenal
Film History, 25(4), 36.
2012 chapter
A History of Learning with the Lights Off
In D. Orgeron, M. Gordon, & D. Streible (Eds.), Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (pp. 15–66). UK: Oxford University Press.
2012 journal article
Editors' Foreword
The Moving Image, 12(1), viii-xiv.
2012 chapter
GI’s Documenting Genocide: Amateur Films of WWII Concentration Camps
In T. Crowder & K. Wilson (Eds.), Film and Genocide (pp. 170–186). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Ed(s): T. Crowder & K. Wilson
2012 chapter
Multi-Purposing Early Cinema: A Psychological Experiment Involving Van Bibber’s Experiment (Thomas Edison, 1911)
In M. Braun, C. Keil, R. King, P. Moore, & L. Pelletier (Eds.), Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema (pp. 153–160). UK: John Libbey.
Ed(s): M. Braun, C. Keil, R. King, P. Moore & L. Pelletier
2012 chapter
‘A Decent and Orderly Society’: Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970
In D. Orgeron, M. Gordon, & D. Streible (Eds.), Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (pp. 424–441). UK: Oxford University Press.
2011 journal article
Editors' Foreword
The Moving Image, 11(2), viii-xi.
2011 journal article
Editors’ Foreword
The Moving Image, 11(1), viii-xiv.
2011 journal article
Object Lessons: <i>An Introduction to an Interview with Jan Švankmajer That Turned into an Essay by Jan Švankmajer</i>
The Moving Image, 11(2), 100–102.
2010 chapter
Alexander Bogardy's Beauty Books
In Raw Vision (pp. 48–51). National Gallery of Art.
2010 journal article
Editors’ Foreword
The Moving Image, 10(1), vii-xiii.
2009 journal article
"You Are Invited to Participate": Interactive Fandom in the Age of the Movie Magazine
Journal of Film and Video, 61(3), 3–23.
2009 book review
Book review
[Review of The Films of Samuel Fuller: if you die, I'll kill you!, by L. Dombrowski]. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 29(1), 139–141.
2009 book review
Review of Lisa Dombrowski’s The Films of Sam Fuller: If You Die I’ll Kill You!
[Review of The Films of Sam Fuller: If You Die I’ll Kill You!, by L. Dombrowski]. The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 29(1), 139–141.
2008 journal article
Filming The Marines In The Pacific: An Interview With World War II Cinematographer Norman Hatch
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 28(2), 153–173.
2008 book
Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age
MIddletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.
2008 chapter
The History of Media Celebrity
In R. Kolker (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies (pp. 187–223). New York: Oxford University Press.
Ed(s): R. Kolker
2007 journal article
"I Came Back as Nobody": An Interview with the Former Baby Peggy
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 48(1), 4–22.
2007 journal article
"Something Different in Science Films": The Moody Institute of Science and the Canned Missionary Movement
The Moving Image, 7(1), 1–26.
2007 journal article
Familial Pursuits, Editorial Acts: Documentaries after the Age of Home Video
The Velvet Light Trap, 60(1), 47–62.
2007 chapter
Megatronic Memories: Errol Morris and the Aesthetics of Observation
In F. Guerin & R. Hallas (Eds.), The Image and the Witness (pp. 238–252). London: Wallflower Press.
Ed(s): F. Guerin & R. Hallas
2007 journal article
‘The Most Profound Shock’: Traces of the Holocaust in Sam Fuller's Verboten! (1959) and the Big Red One (1980)
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 27(4), 471–496.
2006 newspaper article
How Much Reality Can You Handle? Full Frame Documentary Festival
Gordon, M. (2006, April). Raleigh Hatchet.
2006 journal article
LIBERATING IMAGES? Samuel Fuller's Film of Falkenau Concentration Camp
Film Quarterly, 60(2), 38–47.
2005 chapter
"Divine Teachings.” Alexander Bogardy
In Divine Aesthete exhibit catalogue.
2005 journal article
Review essay of African Americans in Cinema CD-Rom
Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora, 3(1), 119–126.
2004 newspaper article
A How-to in Grassroots Political Filmmaking
Gordon, M. (2004, October 15). Technician, pp. 5–6.
2004 magazine article
Alexander Bogardy: Singular Pursuits.” With Peggy Parsons, National Gallery of Art
Folk Art, the Magazine of the American Folk Art Museum, 62–67.
2003 journal article
Alexander Bogardy: The Union of Divinity, Cosmetology & Art
Alexander Bogardy: The Union of Divinity, Cosmetology & Art. Folk Art Messenger, 16(2), 8–12.
2003 chapter
Happiness
In 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (p. 891). London: Quintet.
2003 journal article
Making It in Hollywood: Clara Bow, Fandom, and Consumer Culture
Cinema Journal, 42(4), 76–97.
2003 chapter
Now, Voyager
In 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (p. 183). London: Quintet.
2003 journal article
Rethinking Authorship: Jack London and the Motion Picture Industry
American Literature, 75(1), 91–117.
2003 chapter
The Road to Nowhere: Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
In J. Fisher & E. Silber (Eds.), Women in Literature: Evaluating Fiction for Gender Bias (pp. 185–187). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
Ed(s): J. Fisher & E. Silber
2001 journal article
Eating Their Words: Consuming Class a la Chaplin and Keaton
College Literature, 28(1), 84–104.
2000 journal article
Interventions: An Interview with Isaac Julien
COIL (UK), (9/10).
2000 journal article
“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 and Video, 17(1), 1–17.
1999 journal article
Onward Kitchen Soldiers: Mobilizing the Domestic During World War I
Canadian Review of American Studies, 29(2), 61–88.
1998 journal article
Cinematic Violations in Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Mâcon
Enculturation, 2(1).
1998 journal article
Review of Donald Pizer's American Expatriate Writing and The Paris Moment
[Review of American Expatriate Writing and The Paris Moment, by D. Pizer]. American Studies International, 36(1), 91–92.
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