Hollywood Berlin: To Be or Not To Be

Emily Carman is an Associate Professor at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. While her research focuses on film historiography, stardom, the Hollywood studio system, and media industries, Carman’s scholarly interests include postwar European cinemas and moving image archive theory and practice. She has published articles in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Celebrity Studies, The Moving Image, and Cinephile.  Her most recent book, Independent Stardom: Freeland Women in the Hollywood Studio System (University of Texas Press, 2016), uncovers the ways in which female stars including Constance Bennett, Irene Dunne, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, and Barbara Stanwyck challenged Hollywood’s patriarchal structure by freelancing and working independently in Hollywood.

Patrice Petro is Professor of Film and Media Studies, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, and Presidential Chair in Media Studies. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of twelve books, including The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender (with Kristin Hole, Dijana Jelaca, and E. Ann Kaplan, 2017), Teaching Film (2012), Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s (2010), Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the “War on Terror” (2006), and Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History (2002). She served two terms as President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the largest U.S. professional organization for college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image.