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.
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.
2018 article
The cinema hypothesis: Teaching cinema in the classroom and beyond
Critical Inquiry, Vol. 44, pp. 800–801.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2002 - present