Marsha Gordon is a professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University. With the support of a National Humanities Center Fellowship and an NEH Public Scholar Award, she is writing a new book, Leftover Ladies: Ursula Parrott and the Reinvention of the Modern Woman.&nbsp; She is the author, most recently, of Film Is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-editor of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019).

Marsha Gordon

Charles “Buckey” Grimm is an independant film researcher with over 35 years experience examining various facets of the motion picture industy, specializing in the silent era. His current effort is to document the lives and careers of cinematographers active during the silent era.

Charles “Buckey” Grimm

“Lights, Camera-maids, Action!”: Women Behind the Lens in Early Cinema

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Marsha Gordon is a professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University. With the support of a National Humanities Center Fellowship and an NEH Public Scholar Award, she is writing a new book, Leftover Ladies: Ursula Parrott and the Reinvention of the Modern Woman.&nbsp; She is the author, most recently, of Film Is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-editor of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019).