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Special 35mm Film Screening! Author Marsha Gordon in Person!
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Hosted by Marsha Gordon, the author of Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott, a new biography about Boston-born novelist Ursula Parrott whose work was often adapted during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Marsha Gordon
Marsha Gordon is a Film Studies professor at North Carolina State University who loves researching, writing, and speaking about American film and culture. She regularly introduces movies, moderates panels, makes radio and podcast appearances, and lectures on an array of topics.
Her latest book, Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott (2023), was supported by a National Humanities Center Fellowship (2019-2020) and NEH Public Scholar Fellowship (2020-2021). She is also the author of Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies and Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age, and the co-editor of Learning with the Lights Off: A Reader in Educational Film and Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film. She is the former editor of The Moving Image journal.
