From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal
Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
"I dare anyone to squeeze between
two covers a more varied, useful and
flat out entertaining sampling of
the personalities that make the
seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com
— David Hudson, IFC.com
Dr. Tanfer Emin Tunç
Ankara, Turkey
tanfer.emin@gmail.com
tanfer.emin@gmail.com
Tanfer Emin Tunc is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, located in Ankara, Turkey. She earned her Ph.D. in the social and cultural history of the modern United States from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (2005). Her research interests include the history of women's health; gender, sexuality, and reproduction; and media studies. Dr. Tunc has published on topics as diverse as American eugenics, sexuality and film, reproductive technologies, and breast cancer.
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