Marsha Gordon

Marsha Gordon is Professor and Director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, a former Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and an NEH Public Scholar. She is the author of Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott (University of California Press, hardback 2023/paperback 2024), Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age (Wesleyan University Press, 2008); coauthor with Robert Kolker of Film, Form, and Culture, 5th edition (Routledge, 2024); and coeditor of Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019) with Allyson Nadia Field. She has codirected three documentary shorts, Nesting (2020), All the Possibilities . . . (2019), and Rendered Small (2017), which have played at film festivals like DOC NYC, Art FIFA, Hot Springs, River Run, and Sheffield Doc Fest. She received a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship in 2024 to work on her current documentary project, This Beautiful Vision, The Artistry of Alexander Bogardy. She is currently writing a biography of the pioneering Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner.