Maria San Filippo is an associate professor of media studies at Emerson College. She authored the Lambda Literary Award–winning The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television (2013), the Lambda Literary Award–winning Queer Film Classics volume Appropriate Behavior (2022), and Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media (2021), and edited the collection After “Happily Ever After”: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age (2021). From 2020 to 2023, she was editor in chief of New Review of Film and Television Studies.
Maria San Filippo
Articles
The Screenwriter Strikes Back: Leigh Brackett in Hollywood
Maria San Filippo explores Leigh Brackett’s career as the screenwriter of “The Big Sleep,” “The Long Goodbye,” and “The Empire Strikes Back.”
"Visible: Out on Television": an LGBTQ TV Roundtable
A group of TV scholars consider Apple TV+'s new docuseries, "Visible: Out on Television," and the narratives of history and visibility it tells.
The Revolutionary Thighs of Hannah Horvath
Maria San Filippo admires Lena Dunham's radical refusal to be a docile body.
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