Marsha Gordon, 2019–2020

Marsha Gordon is professor of film studies at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age (Wesleyan University Press, 2008), and co-editor of Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film, forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2019. Marsha is the former co-editor of The Moving Image (University of Minnesota Press), the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.

Marsha does a monthly show, “Movies on the Radio,” with NC Museum of Art film curator Laura Boyes and Frank Stasio, on 91.5/WUNC’s “The State of Things.” She regularly introduces films, gives lectures, and participates in panels all over the United States and Europe. She also co-directed her first documentary, Rendered Small, in 2017 and is currently completing a new documentary about the artist Vernon Pratt.

Visit her website at marshagordon.org.

Selected Publications

• Gordon, Marsha, and Allyson Nadia Field, eds. Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
• Gordon, Marsha. Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Gordon, Marsha, and Allyson Nadia Field. “The Other Side of the Tracks: Nontheatrical Film History, Pre-Rebellion Watts, and Felicia.” Cinema Journal 55, no. 2 (February 2016): 1-24.
• Gordon, Marsha, Devin Orgeron, and Dan Streible, eds. Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Gordon, Marsha. Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008.