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Holmlund, Chris

Holmlund, Chris

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Chris Holmlund

Chris Holmlund

Chris Holmlund is Professor Emerita of Cinema Studies, Women’s/Gender/Sexuality Studies and French at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where she taught film studies (and other courses, too) from 1988-2017 and chaired the Cinema Studies Program from 2000-2010. She also taught film at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), the University of Stockholm (Sweden) and, earlier, at Louisiana State University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In 2011 she was elected President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) (full term 2009-2015). She was Arts and Science Excellence Professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville from 2011 to 2017. In 2014 she was Neilson Research Professor of Film at Smith College; in 2015 Hedda Andersson Research Professor at the University of Lund (Sweden). In 2019 she was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to work at the Universities of Reading and Leeds (United Kingdom).

Chris’s interests in film and media are broad. She publishes on US independent film, action film, film genres, Swedish film and media, French/francophone film, Latin American/Latinx film and video, global and transnational film, and documentary. She taught in all these areas as well as on feminist, queer and trans film and theory. Her books and anthologies include: Female Trouble (2017, Arsenal Pulp Press), The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur (2014, as editor, Wallflower/Columbia University Press), American Cinema of the 1990s (2008, as editor, Rutgers University Press), Contemporary American Independent Cinema: From the Margins to the Mainstream (2005, as co-editor with Justin Wyatt, Routledge), Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies (2002, Routledge) and Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary (1997, as co-editor with Cynthia Fuchs, University of Minnesota Press). She serves on the editorial boards of Celebrity Studies, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, and Atlantis: Revista de la asociación española de estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. In 2016 she co-edited an issue of the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema on “Sexuality in Scandinavian Cinema.” She has published over 60 essays and articles.

Chris is currently working on an anthology, Action Cinema Since 2000 (co-edited with Lisa Purse and Yvonne Tasker (Bloomsbury/BFI), and a monograph, Action Cinema, Action Stars (Routledge).

Publications

Since 2010

Books and Anthologies:

  • 2017. Female Trouble. Arsenal Pulp Press.
  • 2014. The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur, ed. Chris Holmlund. Wallflower/Columbia University Press.

 Articles:

  • 2021. Forthcoming, with Andrew Nestingen. “Journal of Scandinavian Cinema Turns Ten: About the Past and For the Future.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 10.1.
  • 2020. Forthcoming, “Disclosure (Sam Feder, 2020), Docalogue, https://docalogue.com/.
  • 2019. “Transgender Documentary Subjects Shaping ‘Hirstory.'” Jump Cut 59. Online.
  • 2019. “M.I.A.: Actors, Acting and Swedish Superspy Carl Hamilton.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9.3: 289-309.
  • 2017. “John Waters: Multiple Manias Relaunch.” Film Quarterly 77.1: 97-103.
  • 2016. “Introduction.” Special Issue on Sexuality in Scandinavian Cinema. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 5.2: 75-80. With Elisabet Björklund and Annette Brauerhoch.
  • 2010. “Jackie Chan and the Art of Aging in Transnational Action.” Celebrity Studies 1.1: 96-112.

Essays:

  • 2020. “Transgender Pioneers: Documentaries Shaping ‘Hirstory.” In El cine documental: Una encrucijada estética y política. Inquisiciones contemporáneas al Sistema audiovisual, ed. Javier Campo, Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Clara Garavelli, Pablo Piedras and Kristi Wilson. Promoteo, Argentina.
  • 2017. “Casing ‘Indie’ Acting.” In A Companion to American Indie Film, ed. Geoff King. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 471-492.
  • 2016. “Mutual Muses in Independent Film: Women Directors, Female Stars.” In Indie Reframed: Women in American Independent Film, ed. Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 257-275.
  • 2016. “Remembering the Past/For the Future: Lindsay Anderson and What Can Be Done in Cinema.” In Lindsay Anderson Revisited, ed. Erik Hedling and Christophe Dupin, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. vii-xi.
  • 2014. “Introduction: Presenting Stallone/Stallone Presents.” In The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur, ed. Chris Holmlund. Wallflower/Columbia University Press, pp. 1-25.
  • 2014. “Adventures in Acting: Stallone the Performer.” In The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur, ed. Chris Holmlund. Wallflower/Columbia University Press, pp. 121-146.
  • 2012. “Niche Actors and Acting Gay.” In Screen Acting, Theory, and Philosophy, ed. Aaron Taylor. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 210-226.
  • 2010. “Sigourney Weaver: Woman Warrior, Working Girl.” In Acting for America: Movie Stars of the 1980s, ed. Robert Eberwein, New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, pp. 139-159.
  • 2010. “Jackie Chan and the Art of Aging in Transnational Action.” Celebrity Studies 1.1: 96-112.

Email: cholmlun@utk.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1984

M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1976

B.A., University of Maryland, College Park, 1974

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