NRFTS is thrilled to be celebrating our 20th anniversary!

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“I Want to Be Good:” Morality, Faith, and Female Spectatorial Pleasure during World War I

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Click here for Anselmo’s tie-in podcast episode, in which she discusses her book, A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood, with Maggie Hennefeld

“Some Things Are Proper, and Some Things Are Not”: Forgotten Men and Disciplined Women in My Man Godfrey

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Earners and Spenders, Husbands and Wives: The Affective Restraints on Women’s Labor in High Cold War American Sitcoms

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Click here for Naser-Hall’s tie-in blog post, “Cinderella on the Homestead: Labor Nostalgia in I Love Lucy”

Female Convict Scorpion: Production Context, Gender Politics, and Cinematic Excesses in a Japanese Women-in-Prison Film

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Cityscapes, Trance States and Women Walking: Embodied Practices of Walking in Experimental Film and Video

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“This is My House Now!”: Fighting with My Family, the Female Underdog and Constructing a Public History of WWE

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Othered Form and Insectile Subjectile: Under the Skin

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The Fantasies of Black Final Girls

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Girls Gone Wild: Animality, Female Teenagers, and Disidentification in Contemporary European Cinema

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Shit Happens on the Big Screen: Faecal Motifs in Contemporary Film

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Ghost Riders: Kelly Reichardt, Certain Women, Certain Men

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Countersentimentality in the contemporary televisual intimate public of femininity: race, class, gender and the critical nostalgia of Little Fires Everywhere

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Televisual Authorship and the Affective Feminism of HBO’s Sharp Objects Adaptation

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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: Feminism and the Adaptation of True Crime in the #Me-Too Era

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Reese Witherspoon’s Popular Feminism: Adaptation and Authorship in Big Little Lies (2017-2019)

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Lost Souls, Victims and Deviants: Radicalization and Gender in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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“The Mother Is a Child, Too”: Neoliberal Segmentarity, Reproductive Futurism, and Relationality in Enlightened

EXCERPT: Amy’s attempts to create a sense of community fail to materialize as a consequence of the perceived inappropriateness of political discussion within the workplace – a form of etiquette gesturing to the aforementioned lines of segmentarity that Deleuze and Guattari posit as being in perpetual operation in our lives.

Women’s Adaptation and Authorship in Contemporary Television

Moderator: Sarah Louise Smyth (University of Essex)

Participants: Elizabeth Alsop (City University New York), Jodi Brooks (University of New South Wales), Jacqueline Johnson (University of Southern California), Stefania Marghitu (University of Alabama), Isabel C. Pinedo (Hunter College), Theresa Trimmel (University of Bristol)

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“Monsters All, Are We Not?”: An Interview with Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel

In this podcast episode, Matt Boyd Smith interviews Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel about their new edited volume Penny Dreadful and Adaptation: Reanimating and Transforming the Monster (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), which explores the titular Showtime series (2014-16) and its spinoff, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020). 

The Bind of Exceptional Women: Alicia Kozma in Conversation on the Cinema of Stephanie Rothman

By Maya Montañez Smukler

Excerpt: The exceptional woman essentially functions as a pass for Hollywood as an industry, and sometimes for critics and filmmakers, to mistake the appearance of a handful of women as meritocracy; essentially mistaking tokenism as meritocracy. It’s equally applicable to the gendered labor of directing and film production as a whole, because we could use the same paradigm and apply it to editors and composers, cinematographers, etc.