Katharine Coldiron

Katharine Coldiron is the author of Ceremonials (2020), a novella inspired by Florence + the Machine, and Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter (2023), a collection of essays about bad movies. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Ms., Conjunctions, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and many other places. Find her at kcoldiron.com or on Twitter @ferrifrigida.

There’s No Such Thing as a Guilty Pleasure

Katharine Coldiron ponders why we love the bad art we love....

KATHARINE COLDIRON

LITERARY CRITICISM

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Cinema in a Little Mirror: The Hays Code and Cultural Dysphoria

Katharine Coldiron looks at the cultural dysphoria caused by the Hays Code in US cinema....

KATHARINE COLDIRON

FILM

White Writers’ Omission of Race: Jess Row’s “White Flights: Race Fiction, and The American Imagination”

"White Flights" is a faultlessly argued collection of essays about how whiteness dominates the American literary imagination....

KATHARINE COLDIRON

LITERARY CRITICISM

CULTURAL STUDIES