Christine Holmlund

Major Field

Cinema studies, women's studies

Research Interests

Film, film theory, feminist, post-colonial, and queer theory, cultural studies

Education

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

Recent Publications

President-Elect of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the foremost international organization devoted to the study of film and media, Chris Holmlund is Professor of Cinema Studies, Women's Studies and French, and Chair of the Cinema Studies Program. She is the author of Impossible Bodies (Routledge, 2002), editor of American Cinema of the 1990s (Rutgers University Press, 2008), co-editor (with Justin Wyatt) of Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream (Routledge, 2005) and (with Cynthia Fuchs) of Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary (Minnesota University Press, 1997). Current book projects include Stars in Action (BFI), Female Trouble (Arsenal Pulp Press) and The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Actor, Icon, Auteur, , ed. Chris Holmlund (Wallflower). She has also published nearly 50 articles and book chapters on experimental, documentary, and mainstream genre films made in Canada, Europe, the U.S., and Latin America.

Contact Information

Christine Holmlund
Professor
602 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-6994
E-Mail: cholmlun@utk.edu