Kristen Hatch
Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Ph.D., UCLA, 2006, Film, Television, and Digital Media
B.A., Smith College, English and Comparative Literature
B.A., Smith College, English and Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine
Film & Media Studies
Mail Code: 2435
Irvine, CA 92697
Film & Media Studies
Mail Code: 2435
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Classical Hollywood; American Film History; Histories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Cultural Studies; Stardom; Childhood and Girlhood Studies
Publications
BOOKS:
New Hollywood Girlhoods: Childhood, Sexuality, and American Popular Culture in the 1970s (in progress)
New Hollywood Girlhoods: Childhood, Sexuality, and American Popular Culture in the 1970s (in progress)
Hollywood Stardom and the Transition to Sound (in progress)
Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood (Rutgers University Press, 2015)
BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
"How Hollywood Learned to Speak: Voice Culture and the Transition to Sound" in The Routledge Companion to American Film History eds. Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Paula J. Massood (Routledge, February 2025): 5532 words.
"How Hollywood Learned to Speak: Voice Culture and the Transition to Sound" in The Routledge Companion to American Film History eds. Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Paula J. Massood (Routledge, February 2025): 5532 words.
"Tugboat Annie: Cogs in the Wheel of Industry" in Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town ed. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer (forthcoming, Rutgers University Press, May 2025). 4979 words.
"'A Woman's Face and a Child's Body': Brooke Shields and Child Sexuality" in Celebrity Studies v. 14, n. 2 (2023): 159-172.
“Mae West: `It’s Hard to Be Funny When You Have to Be Clean’” in Hysterical: Women in American Comedy ed. Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant (University of Texas Press, 2017).
“Mildred Pierce” in The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz ed. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer (University of Texas Press, 2018).
"Judith Butler: Sex, Gender, and Subject Formation" in Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice Ed. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer (Rutgers University Press, 2015).
"Discipline and Pleasure: Shirley Temple and the Spectacle of Child Loving." Camera Obscura (2012) v. 27 n. 1 79: 127-155.
“Lillian Gish: `Clean, and White, and Pure as the Lily’” in Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars in the 1910s Ed. Jennifer M. Bean (Rutgers University Press, 2011).
“Mildred Pierce” in The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz ed. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer (University of Texas Press, 2018).
"Judith Butler: Sex, Gender, and Subject Formation" in Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice Ed. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer (Rutgers University Press, 2015).
"Discipline and Pleasure: Shirley Temple and the Spectacle of Child Loving." Camera Obscura (2012) v. 27 n. 1 79: 127-155.
“Lillian Gish: `Clean, and White, and Pure as the Lily’” in Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars in the 1910s Ed. Jennifer M. Bean (Rutgers University Press, 2011).
“Little Butches: Tomboys in Hollywood Film” in Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations in Girls’ Media Culture Ed. Mary Celeste Kearney (Peter Lang, 2011).
“Girl Meets Boy: Romantic Comedy After Feminism” in Popping Culture, Fourth Edition eds. Murray Pomerance and John Sakeris (Pearson Education, 2006).
“1951: Movies and a New Masculinity” in American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations ed. Murray Pomerance (Rutgers UP, 2005).
“The Sweeter the Kitten, the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer’s Bad Girls and the Women Who Love Them” in Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen ed. Murray Pomerance (SUNY Press, 2004).
“Daytime Politics: Kefauver, McCarthy, and the American Housewife” in Reality Squared: Televisual Discourse on the Real ed. James Friedman (Rutgers UP, 2002).
“Fille Fatale: Regulating Images of Adolescent Girls, 1962-1996” in Sugar and Spice: Contemporary Cinemas of Girlhood eds. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance (Wayne State UP, 2002).
“Selling Soap: Post-War Television Soap Opera and the American Housewife” in Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s ed. Janet Thumim (I.B. Taurus, 2002).
“1951: Movies and a New Masculinity” in American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations ed. Murray Pomerance (Rutgers UP, 2005).
“The Sweeter the Kitten, the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer’s Bad Girls and the Women Who Love Them” in Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen ed. Murray Pomerance (SUNY Press, 2004).
“Daytime Politics: Kefauver, McCarthy, and the American Housewife” in Reality Squared: Televisual Discourse on the Real ed. James Friedman (Rutgers UP, 2002).
“Fille Fatale: Regulating Images of Adolescent Girls, 1962-1996” in Sugar and Spice: Contemporary Cinemas of Girlhood eds. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance (Wayne State UP, 2002).
“Selling Soap: Post-War Television Soap Opera and the American Housewife” in Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s ed. Janet Thumim (I.B. Taurus, 2002).
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, WEB PUBLICATIONS, AND BOOK REVIEWS
Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited ed. Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring. Projections (Forthcoming, 2025).
Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smuckler. Journal of American History (2020).
“Margaret Booth” in Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History ed. Laura Bauer (ABC Clio, 2018): 136-138.
“Rose Smith” in Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History ed. Laura Bauer (ABC Clio, 2018): 150-151.
Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom and the Age of Television and Video by Mary Desjardins. Journal of American History (2016).
“Cutting Women: Anne Bauchens, Margaret Booth, Viola Lawrence, Irene Morra, and Blanche Sewell” in Women Film Pioneers Sourcebook, Volume I. Ed. Jane M. Gaines. (Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship in partnership with the University of Illinois Press, 2013).
“Katharine Hilliker” in Women Film Pioneers Sourcebook, Volume I. Ed. Jane M. Gaines. (Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship in partnership with the University of Illinois Press, 2013).
“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the Spectacle of the Ungovernable Child,” Flow v. 17, n. 11 (May 6, 2013): http://flowtv.org/2013/05/here-comes-honey-boo-boo/
“Downton Abbey and Mad Men: The End of the World as We Know It” Flow v. 17, n. 13 (June 3, 2013): http://flowtv.org/2013/06/flow-favorites-downton-abbey-and-mad-men/
“Free to Be You and Me” Flow v. 17, n. 2 (November 19, 2012): http://flowtv.org/2012/11/free-to-be-you-and-me/
Review of A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna by Mark Rutherford. Journal of the History of Sexuality (May 2011): 426-429.
“Julie Dash” in Black Women in America, Second Edition ed. Darline Clark Hine (Oxford UP, 2004).
Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited ed. Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring. Projections (Forthcoming, 2025).
Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smuckler. Journal of American History (2020).
“Margaret Booth” in Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History ed. Laura Bauer (ABC Clio, 2018): 136-138.
“Rose Smith” in Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History ed. Laura Bauer (ABC Clio, 2018): 150-151.
Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom and the Age of Television and Video by Mary Desjardins. Journal of American History (2016).
“Cutting Women: Anne Bauchens, Margaret Booth, Viola Lawrence, Irene Morra, and Blanche Sewell” in Women Film Pioneers Sourcebook, Volume I. Ed. Jane M. Gaines. (Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship in partnership with the University of Illinois Press, 2013).
“Katharine Hilliker” in Women Film Pioneers Sourcebook, Volume I. Ed. Jane M. Gaines. (Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship in partnership with the University of Illinois Press, 2013).
“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the Spectacle of the Ungovernable Child,” Flow v. 17, n. 11 (May 6, 2013): http://flowtv.org/2013/05/here-comes-honey-boo-boo/
“Downton Abbey and Mad Men: The End of the World as We Know It” Flow v. 17, n. 13 (June 3, 2013): http://flowtv.org/2013/06/flow-favorites-downton-abbey-and-mad-men/
“Free to Be You and Me” Flow v. 17, n. 2 (November 19, 2012): http://flowtv.org/2012/11/free-to-be-you-and-me/
Review of A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna by Mark Rutherford. Journal of the History of Sexuality (May 2011): 426-429.
“Julie Dash” in Black Women in America, Second Edition ed. Darline Clark Hine (Oxford UP, 2004).
Professional Societies
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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Last updated
09/24/2024
09/24/2024