Feminist Hollywood (2000)

Carole Lombard (with Clark Gable)
and Katharine Hepburn (with Spencer Tracy)
helped to shape the meaning of marriage in
the classical era.

In 1921, Ruth Bryan Owen directs Florida
film, entitled Once Upon a Time.

Christina Lane received her Ph.D. in critical and cultural theory from the University of Texas at Austin and M.A. in Women's Studies from Ohio State University. As a film studies professor in the Motion Picture Program, her scholarly interests include film authorship, cultural studies, historiography, and feminist theory.

She is the author of the book, Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break (Wayne State UP, 2000). She has published journal articles in Cinema Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Film and TV, Australian Screen Education, and Film and History. She also has essays in various anthologies, including Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War, Authorship and Film, Hollywood Transgressor: The Films of Kathryn Bigelow, Contemporary American Independent Film, and The West Wing: The American Presidency on TV.

Dr. Lane is currently working on a book entitled "State of the Union: Marriage, Politics, and Classical-era Star Couples." Analyzing such couples as Gable and Lombard, Bogart and Bacall, and Tracy and Hepburn, this project furthers the current understanding of Hollywood's construction of marriage and heterosexuality in the 1930s and 1940s by placing it in the context of the American Popular Front.

She is also working on a book entitled "Forging Florida's Sun Screen," which focuses on 1920s visual culture in South Florida. Bringing together film, advertising, architecture, and design, this project takes an interdisciplinary approach to the history of urban planning. It also represents an effort to recover so-called marginal or micro-histories of the region, as many invisible contributions exist behind the images of 1920s Florida.

Dr. Lane teaches at the undergraduate and M.A. level and advises students in the Ph.D. program. She won the 2007 Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She teaches History of Motion Pictures I & II (CMP 204 & 205), Film Directors (CMP 503), Women, Film, & Popular Culture (CMP 508), and Film Culture I (CMP 666), among others. She is Associate Editor of the UM Journal, In Short. She also helps to curate the programming for the Bill Cosford Cinema.

Christina Lane
School of Communication
Frances L. Wolfson Building 4015
5100 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305) 284-3657
Fax: (305) 284-3648
E-mail: clane@miami.edu