Judith Mayne

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Judith Mayne
Born (1948-02-26) February 26, 1948 (age 77)
Pennsylvania, U.S.
PartnerTerry Moore
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis The Ideologies of Metacinema (1975)
Institutions

Judith Mayne (born February 26, 1948) is an American academic who specializes in French film and feminist film theory. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written eight books: Private Novels, Public Films (1988), Kino and the Woman Question (1989), The Woman at the Keyhole (1990), Cinema and Spectatorship (1993), Directed by Dorothy Arzner (1994), Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture (2000), Claire Denis (2005), and Le Corbeau (2006). She is professor emerita of French at Ohio State University, [1] where she had worked for several decades.

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Biography

Mayne was born on February 26, 1948, in Pennsylvania. [2] She attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she got a BA in 1970, and the University at Buffalo, where she got an MA in 1972 and a PhD in 1975. [2] Her doctoral dissertation was titled The Ideologies of Metacinema. [3]

After working as a lecturer of English (1972–1973) at Paris Diderot University, Mayne worked at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she was a lecturer of comparative literature and French, as well as a film specialist at the Center for Twentieth-Century Studies. [2] In 1976, she moved to Ohio State University, where she started out as assistant professor; she was promoted to associate professor in 1982 and full professor in 1990, [2] eventually becoming professor emerita. [1] She worked as acting director for Ohio State's Center for Women's Studies from 1986 to 1995. [2] In 2003, she was appointed Distinguished Humanities Professor at Ohio State. [2]

Mayne specializes in French film and feminist film theory. [1] She has written eight books: Private Novels, Public Films (1988), Kino and the Woman Question (1989), The Woman at the Keyhole (1990), Cinema and Spectatorship (1993), Directed by Dorothy Arzner (1994), Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture (2000), Claire Denis (2005), and her titular monograph of the 1943 horror film Le Corbeau (2006). [2] [1] In 2008, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a historical study on the work of Continental Films. [4]

Mayne once starred in a video named Judith Mayne Reads Soap Magazines, produced by Paper Tiger Television, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and Adams Community Television. [5] Mayne appeared in the 2013 documentary film Golden Gate Girls . [6]

Mayne's partner is Terry Moore. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Judith Mayne". Ohio State University. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Mayne, Judith 1948-". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on June 22, 2025. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  3. ↑ American Doctoral Dissertations. University Microfilms. 1975. p. 74.
  4. ↑ "Judith Mayne". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Judith Mayne Reads Soap Magazines". Paper Tiger. Archived from the original on June 18, 2025. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  6. ↑ Fennessy, Kathy (September 11, 2016). "Golden Gate Girls". The Video Librarian. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  7. ↑ Cohen, Keith (1990). "Review of Private Novels, Public Films". SubStance. 19 (2/3): 204–207. doi:10.2307/3684685. ISSN   0049-2426. JSTOR   3684685.
  8. ↑ Erskine, Thomas L. (1990). "Review of Private Novels, Public Films". South Atlantic Review. 55 (3): 142–144. doi:10.2307/3200321. ISSN   0277-335X. JSTOR   3200321.
  9. ↑ Pye, Douglas (1990). "Review of Private Novels, Public Films; Invisible Storytellers: Voice-over Narration in American Fiction Film". The Modern Language Review. 85 (2): 433–434. doi:10.2307/3731846. ISSN   0026-7937. JSTOR   3731846.
  10. ↑ Zeck, Shari (1991). "Review of Private Novels, Public Films; Feminism and Film Theory; Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema". Signs. 16 (2): 389–393. doi:10.1086/494669. ISSN   0097-9740. JSTOR   3174520.
  11. ↑ McLeland, Susan (1994). ""Cinema and Spectatorship" by Judith Mayne (Book Review)". The Velvet Light Trap. 33: 63.
  12. ↑ Youngblood, Denise J. (1990). "Review of Kino and the Woman Question: Feminism and Soviet Silent Film". Russian History. 17 (1): 123–125. doi:10.1163/187633190X01335. ISSN   0094-288X. JSTOR   24656387.
  13. ↑ Colvile, Georgiana M. M. (1991). "Review of The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema; To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema". SubStance. 20 (2): 112–117. doi:10.2307/3684976. ISSN   0049-2426. JSTOR   3684976.
  14. ↑ Dittmar, Linda (1992). "Feminist Film Scholarship". NWSA Journal. 4 (3): 359–365. ISSN   1040-0656. JSTOR   4316221.
  15. ↑ Balides, Constance (1996). "Review of Cinema and Spectatorship; Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship; Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film". Signs. 22 (1): 248–254. doi:10.1086/495154. ISSN   0097-9740. JSTOR   3175059.
  16. ↑ Williams, Linda (1994). "Review of Cinema and Spectatorship". Film Quarterly. 48 (2): 56–57. doi:10.2307/1213097. ISSN   0015-1386. JSTOR   1213097.
  17. ↑ Lane, Christina (1996). ""Directed by Dorothy Arzner" by Judith Mayne (Book Review)". The Velvet Light Trap. 38: 68.
  18. ↑ Mintz, Steven (1995). "Judith Mayne. Directed by Dorothy Arzner (Women Artists in Film)". H-Film. Archived from the original on June 8, 2025. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  19. ↑ Quart, Barbara (1996). "Review of Directed by Dorothy Arzner". Film Quarterly. 49 (4): 44–46. doi:10.2307/1213560. ISSN   0015-1386. JSTOR   1213560.
  20. ↑ Binhammer, Katherine (2003). "Judith Mayne. Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture". ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 34 (4): 177–179. Archived from the original on May 31, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  21. ↑ Poirot, Kristan (2003). "Review of Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture". NWSA Journal. 15 (2): 227–228. ISSN   1040-0656. JSTOR   4317001.
  22. ↑ Orlando, Valérie (November 28, 2007). "Review: Claire Denis by Judith Mayne Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 25 (1): 87–91. doi:10.1080/10509200500541223. ISSN   1050-9208.
  23. ↑ Hill, Rodney (March 1, 2007). "Review: Claire Denis, by Judith Mayne". Film Quarterly. 60 (3): 96. doi:10.1525/fq.2007.60.3.96.1. ISSN   0015-1386.
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