Kathleen Mchugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 105509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Mchugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mchugh |
| SIGNATURE | MCHUGH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6891-5213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sexual and Intersectional: Region, Family, Disability, and Lived Experience in Lee Chang-dong's Oasis
This article rereads Lee Chang-dong's 2002 film Oasis (South Korea) from a feminist disability media studies perspective. It begins with Lee's recent revelation that his sister's lived experience inspired its narrative. That inspiration, inflected by regional (South Korean and Asian) cultural priorities that emphasize family, shapes Oasis's distinctive but underrecognized intervention in global disability media studies. The film anticipates and c…
Genre as Feminist Platform: Diagnosis, Anger, and Serial T.V.”
How has the creation of neurodiverse female protagonists worked to make women’s anger generically viable, stripped of conventional stigma? The female T.V. showrunners of Crazy-Ex Girlfriend, Physical, and I May Destroy You fashion genres from musical comedy to autofiction, as feminist platforms through their leads’ diagnoses. These diagnoses facilitate serial generic narratives where the distinction between norm and pathology (the basis of femini…
Prolegomenon
Kathleen McHugh explores the complex functions of women’s anger in the work and aesthetic circuitry—culture, texts, audience, reviewers—of contemporary feminist filmmakers. For all its ubiquity as a feminist feeling, anger has been little considered critically. While 1970s white theorists of feminine/feminist film aesthetics did not mention anger, feminist lesbian, materialist, and women-of-color critics lamented its absence. Julie Dash’s 1982 Il…
The Female Detective, Neurodiversity, and Felt Knowledge in Engrenages and Bron/Broen
The neurodiverse female detective in transnational crime dramas embodies complex ways of seeing the gender-based violence these series frequently contain. This detective both orients and disrupts their narrative and visual fields with what I will argue is her surveilling yet troubled look. She inhabits the longstanding transnational tradition of the male defective detective and derives from two recent Anglo-European generic staples: female-led cr…
Broken Bodies/Inquiring Minds: Women in Contemporary Transnational TV Crime Drama
This special issue concentrates on a dominant trend in contemporary transnational crime television: quality dramas featuring serial criminals who break the bodies/psyches of young women or children, thereby attracting the inquiries of female detectives who have suffered trauma themselves. This trend has generated resources, industrial partnerships, avid viewers, and, importantly for the authors here, feminist commentary across continents. We refr…
Giving Credit to Paratexts and Parafeminism in Top of the Lake and Orange Is the New Black
Research Article| March 01 2015 Giving Credit to Paratexts and Parafeminism in Top of the Lake and Orange Is the New Black Kathleen A. McHugh Kathleen A. McHugh Kathleen McHugh is Professor in the Department of English and in the Cinema and Media Studies program of the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA. Her most recent book is Jane Campion (University of Illinois Press, 2007). She is the author of American Domesticity: Fro…
Of agency and embodiment: Angelina Jolie's autographic transformations
This article analyses Angelina Jolie through her status as an exemplary celebrity – that is, as both particular and typical – considering how that exemplarity has been constructed through gender over the last two decades. The article focuses specifically on Jolie’s autographic presentation of her agency and embodiment, two elements crucial to gender analysis in celebrity studies. From the 1990s to the 2000s, Jolie’s celebrity underwent a signific…
P1-491 Socio-economic variation in the use of ct scans in young people in the North of England, 1990–2002
Introduction Social patterning is known to influence health throughout life. In childhood, studies have shown increased injury rates in more deprived settings. Through this, it is also possible that socio-economic status may be related to rates of undergoing certain medical procedures with relatively high radiation doses, such as computed tomography (CT) scans. This study aimed to assess socio-economic variation among young people having CT scans…
The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts
Feminism in the latter half of the twentieth century was a global movement with widespread and significant, if incomplete, uneven, and diverse, local effects. This essay considers the impact of feminisms on film and media culture and asks why it has proven difficult to historicize that impact. Histories of cinema generally fall within several dominant paradigms: world cinema; Hollywood or industrial cinema; and cinemas in contradistinction to the…
Profane Illuminations: History and Collaboration in James Luna and Isaac Artenstein's The History of the Luiseño People
This essay studies narrative collaboration in film, focusing on The History of the Luiseño People , produced collaboratively by performance artist James Luna and filmmaker Isaac Artenstein. The film uses the ephemeral quality of performance art to allegorize the loss of a material history that would register its story. Rather than invoking division, plurality, and ambiguity, Luna and Artenstein limit their film's historical space to the media and…
Something Other than Autobiography: Collaborative Life-Narratives in the Americas-An Introduction
This Introduction to a special essay cluster on "Collaborative Life-Narratives in the Americas" suggests a field of texts and critical practices, arising from the material circumstances of colonialism in the Americas, that counters traditional autobiographical narrative. The essays explore the complicated relationships among literacy, identity, colonialism, and conquest, as the narration of marginalized lives invokes collaboration with technologi…
Recent Approaches to Film Feminisms
South Korean film melodrama and the question of national cinema
(2001). South Korean film melodrama and the question of national cinema. Quarterly Review of Film and Video: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-14
American Domesticity: From How-to Manual to Hollywood Melodrama
American Domesticity: From How-to Manual to Hollywood Melodrama
From the cult of domesticity to the Semiotics of the Kitchen, housekeeping has been central to both constructing and critiquing the role of women in American society. Frequently domesticity's style has been to make invisible the labor that produces it, allowing woman to be asserted or argued about in universal terms that downplay race, class, and material relations. American Domesticity considers this relationship in representations of domesticit…
Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography
Research Article| April 01 1998 Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography Kathleen McHugh Kathleen McHugh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (2): 391–412. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-2-391 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen McHugh; Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1998; 97 (2):…
One cleans, the other doesn't
The title of this article conveys the idea which shapes it: that the positioning and identities of ‘the one’ and ‘the other’ are affected by the performance of different social practices. The highly symbolic activity of cleaning inverts the distribution of groups that would usually be divided according to the one/other dichotomy, in that gendered, class and racial others usually clean for their social ‘betters’. This redistribution allows for a l…
A fem(me)inist manifesto
Broken Bodies/Inquiring Minds: Women in Contemporary Transnational TV Crime Drama
This special issue concentrates on a dominant trend in contemporary transnational crime television: quality dramas featuring serial criminals who break the bodies/psyches of young women or children, thereby attracting the inquiries of female detectives who have suffered trauma themselves. This trend has generated resources, industrial partnerships, avid viewers, and, importantly for the authors here, feminist commentary across continents. We refr…
A fem(me)inist manifesto
The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts
Feminism in the latter half of the twentieth century was a global movement with widespread and significant, if incomplete, uneven, and diverse, local effects. This essay considers the impact of feminisms on film and media culture and asks why it has proven difficult to historicize that impact. Histories of cinema generally fall within several dominant paradigms: world cinema; Hollywood or industrial cinema; and cinemas in contradistinction to the…
The Female Detective, Neurodiversity, and Felt Knowledge in Engrenages and Bron/Broen
The neurodiverse female detective in transnational crime dramas embodies complex ways of seeing the gender-based violence these series frequently contain. This detective both orients and disrupts their narrative and visual fields with what I will argue is her surveilling yet troubled look. She inhabits the longstanding transnational tradition of the male defective detective and derives from two recent Anglo-European generic staples: female-led cr…
One cleans, the other doesn't
The title of this article conveys the idea which shapes it: that the positioning and identities of ‘the one’ and ‘the other’ are affected by the performance of different social practices. The highly symbolic activity of cleaning inverts the distribution of groups that would usually be divided according to the one/other dichotomy, in that gendered, class and racial others usually clean for their social ‘betters’. This redistribution allows for a l…
Genre as Feminist Platform: Diagnosis, Anger, and Serial T.V.”
How has the creation of neurodiverse female protagonists worked to make women’s anger generically viable, stripped of conventional stigma? The female T.V. showrunners of Crazy-Ex Girlfriend, Physical, and I May Destroy You fashion genres from musical comedy to autofiction, as feminist platforms through their leads’ diagnoses. These diagnoses facilitate serial generic narratives where the distinction between norm and pathology (the basis of femini…
Of agency and embodiment: Angelina Jolie's autographic transformations
This article analyses Angelina Jolie through her status as an exemplary celebrity – that is, as both particular and typical – considering how that exemplarity has been constructed through gender over the last two decades. The article focuses specifically on Jolie’s autographic presentation of her agency and embodiment, two elements crucial to gender analysis in celebrity studies. From the 1990s to the 2000s, Jolie’s celebrity underwent a signific…
Profane Illuminations: History and Collaboration in James Luna and Isaac Artenstein's The History of the Luiseño People
This essay studies narrative collaboration in film, focusing on The History of the Luiseño People , produced collaboratively by performance artist James Luna and filmmaker Isaac Artenstein. The film uses the ephemeral quality of performance art to allegorize the loss of a material history that would register its story. Rather than invoking division, plurality, and ambiguity, Luna and Artenstein limit their film's historical space to the media and…
A fem(me)inist manifesto
One cleans, the other doesn't
The title of this article conveys the idea which shapes it: that the positioning and identities of ‘the one’ and ‘the other’ are affected by the performance of different social practices. The highly symbolic activity of cleaning inverts the distribution of groups that would usually be divided according to the one/other dichotomy, in that gendered, class and racial others usually clean for their social ‘betters’. This redistribution allows for a l…
Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography
Research Article| April 01 1998 Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography Kathleen McHugh Kathleen McHugh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (2): 391–412. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-2-391 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen McHugh; Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1998; 97 (2):…
American Domesticity: From How-to Manual to Hollywood Melodrama
From the cult of domesticity to the Semiotics of the Kitchen, housekeeping has been central to both constructing and critiquing the role of women in American society. Frequently domesticity's style has been to make invisible the labor that produces it, allowing woman to be asserted or argued about in universal terms that downplay race, class, and material relations. American Domesticity considers this relationship in representations of domesticit…
American Domesticity: From How-to Manual to Hollywood Melodrama
South Korean film melodrama and the question of national cinema
(2001). South Korean film melodrama and the question of national cinema. Quarterly Review of Film and Video: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-14
Recent Approaches to Film Feminisms
Profane Illuminations: History and Collaboration in James Luna and Isaac Artenstein's The History of the Luiseño People
This essay studies narrative collaboration in film, focusing on The History of the Luiseño People , produced collaboratively by performance artist James Luna and filmmaker Isaac Artenstein. The film uses the ephemeral quality of performance art to allegorize the loss of a material history that would register its story. Rather than invoking division, plurality, and ambiguity, Luna and Artenstein limit their film's historical space to the media and…
Something Other than Autobiography: Collaborative Life-Narratives in the Americas-An Introduction
This Introduction to a special essay cluster on "Collaborative Life-Narratives in the Americas" suggests a field of texts and critical practices, arising from the material circumstances of colonialism in the Americas, that counters traditional autobiographical narrative. The essays explore the complicated relationships among literacy, identity, colonialism, and conquest, as the narration of marginalized lives invokes collaboration with technologi…
The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts
Feminism in the latter half of the twentieth century was a global movement with widespread and significant, if incomplete, uneven, and diverse, local effects. This essay considers the impact of feminisms on film and media culture and asks why it has proven difficult to historicize that impact. Histories of cinema generally fall within several dominant paradigms: world cinema; Hollywood or industrial cinema; and cinemas in contradistinction to the…
P1-491 Socio-economic variation in the use of ct scans in young people in the North of England, 1990–2002
Introduction Social patterning is known to influence health throughout life. In childhood, studies have shown increased injury rates in more deprived settings. Through this, it is also possible that socio-economic status may be related to rates of undergoing certain medical procedures with relatively high radiation doses, such as computed tomography (CT) scans. This study aimed to assess socio-economic variation among young people having CT scans…
Of agency and embodiment: Angelina Jolie's autographic transformations
This article analyses Angelina Jolie through her status as an exemplary celebrity – that is, as both particular and typical – considering how that exemplarity has been constructed through gender over the last two decades. The article focuses specifically on Jolie’s autographic presentation of her agency and embodiment, two elements crucial to gender analysis in celebrity studies. From the 1990s to the 2000s, Jolie’s celebrity underwent a signific…
Giving Credit to Paratexts and Parafeminism in Top of the Lake and Orange Is the New Black
Research Article| March 01 2015 Giving Credit to Paratexts and Parafeminism in Top of the Lake and Orange Is the New Black Kathleen A. McHugh Kathleen A. McHugh Kathleen McHugh is Professor in the Department of English and in the Cinema and Media Studies program of the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA. Her most recent book is Jane Campion (University of Illinois Press, 2007). She is the author of American Domesticity: Fro…
The Female Detective, Neurodiversity, and Felt Knowledge in Engrenages and Bron/Broen
The neurodiverse female detective in transnational crime dramas embodies complex ways of seeing the gender-based violence these series frequently contain. This detective both orients and disrupts their narrative and visual fields with what I will argue is her surveilling yet troubled look. She inhabits the longstanding transnational tradition of the male defective detective and derives from two recent Anglo-European generic staples: female-led cr…
Broken Bodies/Inquiring Minds: Women in Contemporary Transnational TV Crime Drama
This special issue concentrates on a dominant trend in contemporary transnational crime television: quality dramas featuring serial criminals who break the bodies/psyches of young women or children, thereby attracting the inquiries of female detectives who have suffered trauma themselves. This trend has generated resources, industrial partnerships, avid viewers, and, importantly for the authors here, feminist commentary across continents. We refr…
Prolegomenon
Kathleen McHugh explores the complex functions of women’s anger in the work and aesthetic circuitry—culture, texts, audience, reviewers—of contemporary feminist filmmakers. For all its ubiquity as a feminist feeling, anger has been little considered critically. While 1970s white theorists of feminine/feminist film aesthetics did not mention anger, feminist lesbian, materialist, and women-of-color critics lamented its absence. Julie Dash’s 1982 Il…
Genre as Feminist Platform: Diagnosis, Anger, and Serial T.V.”
How has the creation of neurodiverse female protagonists worked to make women’s anger generically viable, stripped of conventional stigma? The female T.V. showrunners of Crazy-Ex Girlfriend, Physical, and I May Destroy You fashion genres from musical comedy to autofiction, as feminist platforms through their leads’ diagnoses. These diagnoses facilitate serial generic narratives where the distinction between norm and pathology (the basis of femini…
Sexual and Intersectional: Region, Family, Disability, and Lived Experience in Lee Chang-dong's Oasis
This article rereads Lee Chang-dong's 2002 film Oasis (South Korea) from a feminist disability media studies perspective. It begins with Lee's recent revelation that his sister's lived experience inspired its narrative. That inspiration, inflected by regional (South Korean and Asian) cultural priorities that emphasize family, shapes Oasis's distinctive but underrecognized intervention in global disability media studies. The film anticipates and c…
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