Steven Cohan
Professor
Ph.D. (English) 1974, UCLA
Office: 416 HL, 315-443-9476
Email:
smcohan@syr.edu
Interests: Film Studies; Narrative and Critical Theory; Gender Studies and Queer Theory; Cultural Studies
Books
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Recent Articles
Work in Progress
Recent Courses
Books
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Book under contract with British Film Institute for “TV Classics” series.
“Postwar Stardom” and Three Case Studies (Doris Day, Paul Newman, Jane Fonda). The Cinema Book, ed. Pam Cook. Rev. 3rd edition (London: BFI, forthcoming).
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Series: In Focus, Routledge Film Readers.
Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Series: "Arts and Politics of the Everyday."
The Road Movie Book. Coeditor: Ina Rae Hark. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema. Coeditor: Ina Rae Hark. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction. Coauthor: Linda M. Shires. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. New Accent Series. Translated into Chinese, 1998. Translated into Korean, 1997
Violation and Repair in the English Novel: The Paradigm of Experience from Richardson to Woolf. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986.
The Plays of James Boaden (facsimile edition). New York: Garland Press, 1980.
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Series
Series coeditor (with Ina Rae Hark): In Focus: Routledge Film Readers
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Recent Articles
“Postwar Stardom” and Three Case Studies ( Doris Day , Paul Newman , Jane Fonda ). The Cinema Book , ed. Pam Cook . Rev. 3rd edition ( London : BFI, forthcoming).
"Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Postfeminism, and The Fab Five's Makeovers Of Masculinity." Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming.
"Dancing with Balls in the 1940s: Sissies, Sailors, and the Camp Masculinity of Gene Kelly." The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema. Phil Powrie, Ann Davies, Bruce Babington, eds. London: Wallflower Press, 2004. New York: Columbia UP, 2004. 18-33.
"Introduction: Musicals of the Studio Era." Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader. Steven Cohan, ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. 1-15.
"Judy on the Net: Judy Garland Fans and 'the Gay Thing' Revisited." Key Frames: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies. Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. 119-236.
"Singin' in the Rain: A Case Study in Interpretation." Reinventing Film Studies. Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams, eds. London: Edward Arnold, 2000. 53-75
"Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby." Out Takes: Film and Queer Theory. Ellis Hanson, ed. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 1999. 23-45.
"'I Think I Could Fall in Love With Him': Victor/Victoria and the 'Drag' of Romantic Comedy." Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s. Peter William Evans and Celestino Deleyto, eds. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1998. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 37-56.
"Censorship and Narrative Indeterminacy in Basic Instinct." Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Steve Neale and Murray Smith, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. 263-79.
"Almost Like Being at Home: Showbiz Culture and Hollywood Road Trips in the 1940s and 1950s." The Road Movie Book. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 113-42.
"So Functional for its Purposes: Rock Hudson's Bachelor Apartment in Pillow Talk." STUD: Architectures of Masculinity. Joel Sanders, ed. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. 28-41.
"The Spy in the Gray Flannel Suit: Gender Performance and the Representation of Masculinity in North by Northwest." The Masculine Masquerade. Helaine Posner and Andrew Perchuk, eds. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995. 43-62.
"Passing Glances: The Crying Game and M. Butterfly." "Symposium on The Crying Game." Harvey Roy Greenberg, ed. Newsletter of the Society of the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, 4, no. 1 (February 1994).
"'Feminizing' the Song-and-Dance Man: Fred Astaire and the Spectacle of Masculinity in the Hollywood Musical." Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. 46-69.
"Cary Grant in the Fifties: Indiscretions of the Bachelor's Masquerade." Screen 33, no. 4 (Winter 1992), 394-412.
Reprinted in The Film Studies Reader. Joanne Hollows, Peter Hutchinson and Mark Jancovich, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
"Masquerading as the American Male in the 50s: Picnic, William Holden, and the Spectacle of Masculinity in Hollywood Film." Camera Obscura 25-26 (1991), 43-72.
Reprinted in Male Trouble. Constance Penley and Sharon Willis, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
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Work in Progress
CSI : Crime Scene Investigation . Book under contract with British Film Institute for “TV Classics” series.
“The Gay Cowboy Movie: Queer Masculinity on Brokeback Mountain .” To be published in Genre and Gender: Cross-Currents in Postwar Cinema , ed. Christine Gledhill . University of Illinois Press , forthcoming 2008.
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Recent Courses
Undergraduate
ETS 352 Narrative Theory and Film
ETS 392 Cinema and Sexual Difference
ETS 492 Sexual Politics of Film Noir
ETS 492 Gender and Genre: Sexual Difference and the Hollywood Musical
ETS 472 Studies in Institutions: Reading Stars
Graduate Seminars:
ENG 890 Masculinity and Film
ENG 890 The Hollywood Musical
ENG 890 Reading Stars
ENG 825 Film and Narrative Theory
ENG 890 Film Noir and Postwar America
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