Heather Addison joined the Department of Film at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV FILM) in 2016 as the new Chair. Her primary research area is Hollywood's relationship to American culture, and at UNLV she is focusing on the materials in the Howard Hughes Motion Picture Records. Addison has published her work in a large number of scholarly journals, and her books include Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture (Routledge) and Motherhood Misconceived: Representing the Maternal in U.S. Films (SUNY), a collection of essays co-edited with Elaine Roth and Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly. 
Covid-19 · Disease and Epidemics · Men & Masculinity · Military and Paramilitary · Pandemic · SF & Fantasy
As a single-minded seismologist posted in Antarctica who predicts the disastrous DC quake, Yoshizumi embodies the willful blindness and debasement of humans in the Cold War era: like those who[…]
Actors & Personalities · Hollywood
INTRODUCTION Jean Harlow (1911-1937), born Harlean Carpenter, rose to screen fame in the early 1930s playing characters with an unaffected, uninhibited, spontaneous sexuality. [See Figure 1.] Dubbed the “Platinum Blonde”[…]
“What befalls Veta can perhaps be justified as part of the film’s critique of psychiatry; after all, her unfortunate experience mocks the short-sightedness and arbitrary operation of the mental health[…]
Crime · Historical & Epic · Reviews
“The Grenouille of the film experiences an emotional epiphany that does not bring him humanity, but at least makes him yearn for its possibilities.”
