Mary Desjardins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Desjardins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Desjardins |
| SIGNATURE | DESJARDINS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
S hirley J ennifer L im . Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern
Anna May Wong is currently having a moment. The Chinese American film star, who died in 1961 at the age of fifty-six, is currently the subject of biographies and documentaries about Asians in Hollywood, featured in written fiction, and most recently appears as a character in Hollywood, a television serial rewriting studio-era Hollywood to give minority actors and other talent the success denied in the “real” history of that industry. Wong is also…
Star Studies
Shortly after I started the PhD program in the School of Cinema-TV at the University of Southern California in 1984, Critical Studies program chair Beverle Houston asked me to create a bibliography of the most significant work in feminist film theory for an industry event at which she was speaking on the image of women in film. Since she anticipated audience boredom or dismissal, the list could be no longer than one page—a constraint that I then …
The perils of 'It: Clara Bow, experience, agency, and the scandalous life story
This article explores the ways Clara Bow’s life story is constructed by biographical narratives from the 1920s and early 1930s, the period in which her film stardom began and ended, and from the 1970s–90s, the period in which interest in her life re-emerged at a time when studio-era Hollywood stars, as well as Hollywood films and its production and promotion practices, became objects of both nostalgia and critique. These biographical narratives, …
Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, Temporality
Research Article| May 01 2006 Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, Temporality Mary Desjardins Mary Desjardins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 33–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2005-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Desjardins; Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday …
It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography
While there have been more than a few fine radio histories written by professional and nonprofessional historians in the last forty years, the last decade must be the golden age of radio scholarship. This is especially true of scholarship about radio's relation to American social and cultural histories, such as Susan J. Douglas's Listening In (2004) and Michele Hilmes's Radio Voices (1997). Those two scholars are attentive to the gendered dimensi…
The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter
Mary Desjardins is associate professor of film and television studies at Dartmouth College. She is currently revising her forthcoming book, titled Recycled Stars: Female Stardom in the Age of Television and Video, and has published in journals and anthologies on feminist filmmaking, stardom, and television and film history
Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age
Television Histories argues that television functions as one of culture's primary historians. The main goal of this anthology is better to understand this role, which is shaped by the technical and stylistic features of the medium, the service and/or commercial imperatives of the broadcasting industry, and a shared preoccupation between producers and audiences to create a “useable past” that will illuminate present and future. The first section o…
The perils of 'It: Clara Bow, experience, agency, and the scandalous life story
This article explores the ways Clara Bow’s life story is constructed by biographical narratives from the 1920s and early 1930s, the period in which her film stardom began and ended, and from the 1970s–90s, the period in which interest in her life re-emerged at a time when studio-era Hollywood stars, as well as Hollywood films and its production and promotion practices, became objects of both nostalgia and critique. These biographical narratives, …
Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age
Television Histories argues that television functions as one of culture's primary historians. The main goal of this anthology is better to understand this role, which is shaped by the technical and stylistic features of the medium, the service and/or commercial imperatives of the broadcasting industry, and a shared preoccupation between producers and audiences to create a “useable past” that will illuminate present and future. The first section o…
The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter
Mary Desjardins is associate professor of film and television studies at Dartmouth College. She is currently revising her forthcoming book, titled Recycled Stars: Female Stardom in the Age of Television and Video, and has published in journals and anthologies on feminist filmmaking, stardom, and television and film history
Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, Temporality
Research Article| May 01 2006 Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, Temporality Mary Desjardins Mary Desjardins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 33–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2005-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Desjardins; Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday …
It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography
While there have been more than a few fine radio histories written by professional and nonprofessional historians in the last forty years, the last decade must be the golden age of radio scholarship. This is especially true of scholarship about radio's relation to American social and cultural histories, such as Susan J. Douglas's Listening In (2004) and Michele Hilmes's Radio Voices (1997). Those two scholars are attentive to the gendered dimensi…
The perils of 'It: Clara Bow, experience, agency, and the scandalous life story
This article explores the ways Clara Bow’s life story is constructed by biographical narratives from the 1920s and early 1930s, the period in which her film stardom began and ended, and from the 1970s–90s, the period in which interest in her life re-emerged at a time when studio-era Hollywood stars, as well as Hollywood films and its production and promotion practices, became objects of both nostalgia and critique. These biographical narratives, …
Star Studies
Shortly after I started the PhD program in the School of Cinema-TV at the University of Southern California in 1984, Critical Studies program chair Beverle Houston asked me to create a bibliography of the most significant work in feminist film theory for an industry event at which she was speaking on the image of women in film. Since she anticipated audience boredom or dismissal, the list could be no longer than one page—a constraint that I then …
S hirley J ennifer L im . Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern
Anna May Wong is currently having a moment. The Chinese American film star, who died in 1961 at the age of fifty-six, is currently the subject of biographies and documentaries about Asians in Hollywood, featured in written fiction, and most recently appears as a character in Hollywood, a television serial rewriting studio-era Hollywood to give minority actors and other talent the success denied in the “real” history of that industry. Wong is also…
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