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.

Works (10)

2022 article

The Stories We Tell: Contemporary Film and Media: Plots in the Coronavirus Age

Gordon, M. (2022, June 22).

By: M. Gordon

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2022 article

The Stories We Tell: Infectious Disease and Film History

Gordon, M. (2022, June 22).

By: M. Gordon

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2022 article

You Can’t Say They Didn’t Try: Environmentally Conscious Documentaries — Part 1

Gordon, M. (2022, January 15). (Vol. 1). Vol. 1.

By: M. Gordon

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2022 article

You Can’t Say They Didn’t Try: Environmentally Conscious Documentaries — Part 2

Gordon, M. (2022, January 15). (Vol. 1). Vol. 1.

By: M. Gordon

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2018 article

The cinema hypothesis: Teaching cinema in the classroom and beyond

Critical Inquiry, Vol. 44, pp. 800–801.

By: M. Gordon

Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

3MM: The smallest gauge

Moving Image, 16(2), 1–20.

By: M. Gordon & D. Everett

Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

The Other side of the tracks: Nontheatrical film history, pre-rebellion Watts, and Felicia

Cinema Journal, 55(2), 1–24.

By: M. Gordon & A. Field

Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

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.

By: M. Orgeron

Sources: Crossref, ORCID
Added: December 21, 2020

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.

Sources: Crossref, ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

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.

Sources: Crossref, ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

Employment

2002 - present

North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Professor, Flim Studies English