Author: Julie Grossman

This book posits adaptations as 'hideous progeny,' Mary Shelley's term for her novel, Frankenstein . Like Shelley's novel and her fictional Creatur...

Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique f...

Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywoods contradictory attitudes tow...

Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywoods contradictory attitudes tow...