Julia Leyda teaches North American literature (20th and 21st-century) and cinema to British and American literature majors at Sophia University in Tokyo. Her current projects include a collaboration with Diane Negra on disaster television, a co-edited collection with Theresa Geller tentatively entitled Playing with Dolls: Women in the Work of Todd Haynes, and a monograph on representations of debt and the home during the housing crisis in television and cinema. Directors · Interviews · LGBT & Queer
“I’m just always interested in the ways in which we are not free agents, that our desires, our instincts, our anger, our determination, our survival instincts all butt against social constraints and social learning that are really deep. It’s not just a matter of changing your job or your lover.”
Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness, ed. and with an introduction by Daniel J. Bernardi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Trade paper. 516pp. ISBN 0-8166-3239-1. Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness continues the project[…]
Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle, by Allison Graham. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Cloth, $39.95, 224pp. ISBN 0-80186-615-4. If you watch Hollywood[…]
