Professional Summary

 

Adrienne L. McLean

Professor of Film Studies

Education:  Ph.D., Emory University, 1994, Film Studies and American Studies.   M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, 1981, Dance.

Areas of Specialization:  Film history and theory; women and film; classical Hollywood cinema; stars and star images; dance history.

Publications:

Books:

Dying Swans and Madmen:  Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2008).  Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008.

Being Rita Hayworth:  Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom (Rutgers University Press, 2004; second printing 2005).

Headline Hollywood: A Century of Film Scandal (co-ed. David Cook) (Rutgers University Press, 2001).

 

Work in Progress:

 

Star Decades:  American Culture/American Cinema, series eds. Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance (Rutgers University Press).  Nine volumes contracted 2006.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

"Putting ’Em Down Like a Man:  Eleanor Powell and the Spectacle of Competence."  In Hetero:  Queering Representations of Straightness, Sean Griffin, ed. (Syracuse, N.Y.:  SUNY Press, 2009).

"Wedding Bells Ring, Storks Are Expected, the Rumours Aren't True, Divorce Is the Only Answer:   Stardom and Fan-Magazine Family Life in 1950s Hollywood."  In A Family Affair:  Cinema Calls Home, Murray Pomerance, ed. (London:  Wallflower Press, 2008).

"1958:  Movies and Allegories of Ambivalence."  In American Cinema of the 1950s:  Themes and Variations, Murray Pomerance, ed. (New Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 2005).  

"'New Films in Story Form':  Movie Story Magazines and Spectatorship," Cinema Journal (2003).  

"Feeling and the Filmed Body:  Judy Garland and the Kinesics of Suffering," Film Quarterly (2002).

"Media Effects: Marshall McLuhan, Television Culture, and 'The X-Files,'" in Horace Newcomb, ed., Television:  The Critical View, 6th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Film Quarterly (1998). 

"The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole," in Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film, Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement (2004).

"The Cinderella Princess and the Instrument of Evil: Surveying the Limits of Female Transgression in Two Postwar Hollywood Scandals," Cinema Journal (1995). 

"'I'm a Cansino': Transformation, Ethnicity, and Authenticity in the Construction of Rita Hayworth, American Love Goddess," The Journal of Film and Video (1993).

Honors and Awards:

Victor Worsfold Award for Outstanding Teaching, School of Arts and Humanities, UTD, 2001.

Sigma Nu Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Emory College, Emory University, 1997.

First Place, Society for Cinema Studies Student Writing Competition, 1993.

Ball Brothers Foundation Visiting Fellowship, Lilly Library, University of Indiana, 1992.

Algur H. Meadows Fellowship in Dance, Southern Methodist University, 1979-1981.