Christine Holmlund, a professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, was elected in March as president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the foremost international organization in film studies. This singular honor comes in the wake of the publication of her edited volume, American Cinema of the 1990s: Themes and Variations. Holmlund has just signed contracts to prepare an anthology titled The Ultimate Stallone Reader and a monograph titled John Waters’ Female Trouble. She was also the plenary speaker at the international conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, the University of Otago, New Zealand, in November 2008.

Selected Publications

Chris Holmlund, “Campion-Keitel Connections, a.k.a. ‘We Are the Piano’”, in: Cinema, Nation, Identity: Jane Campion, ed. Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox and Irene Bessiere, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2009, pp. 55-73.

Chris Holmlund, “Wham! Bam! Pam!: Pam Grier as Hot Action Babe and Cool Action Mama,” in: Screening Genders, ed. Krin Gabbard and William Luhr, Rutgers University Press, 2008, pp. 61-77.

Chris Holmlund, ed., American Cinema of the 1990s: Themes and Variations; Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, 2008.

Chris Holmlund, “Excavating Visual Fields, Layering Auditory Frames: Signature, Translation, Rensonance, and Gunvor Nelson’s Films,” in: Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks, ed. by Robin Blaetz; Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2007, pp. 67-88.

Chris Holmlund and Justin Wyatt ed., Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream; Routledge, London and New York, 2005.

Chris Holmlund, American Independent Cinema; Routledge, London and New York, 2004.

Chris Holmlund, Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies; Routledge, London and New York, 2002.

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