Departments and Programs

• Film & Media Studies
• Women's and Gender Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~film/fac-staff/

Contact Information

Email: mary.r.desjardins@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3402
Office: 6194 Wilson Hall

Education

B.A. University of California at Riverside; M.A. University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D. University of Southern California

Areas of Expertise

film and television history; media history; film and television stardom; feminist theory; gender and the media; feminist filmmaking; melodrama

Selected Works

• "Ephemeral Culture/eBay Culture: Film Collectibles and Fan Investments," in Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting and Desire, K. Hillis, et al. (eds.), (2006).
• "Our Movie-Made Parents, or Watching TV with My Mother," flowtv, 4:2 (March 2006).
• "Are You Lonesome Tonight? Gendered Discourse in The Lonesome Gal and The Continental," written with M. Williams, in Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture, S. Squier (ed.), (2003) 251-274.
• "Maureen O'Hara's Confidential Life: Recycling Stars Through Gossip and Moral Biography," in Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s, J. Thumim (ed.), (2002) 118-130.
• "Systemizing Scandal: Confidential Magazine, Stardom, and the State of California," in Headline Hollywood: 100 Years of Film Scandal, A. McLean and D. Cook (eds.), (2001) 206-231.

Current Projects

Dietrich Icon; Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video; "The Objects of Our Affection: Material Practices, Material Culture, and (a) Film History;" "Archive of the Future/Archive of Everyday Practices: Feminism, Materiality, and Temporality"