Jane M Gaines Professor
Office Location: 104 Crowell Bldg
Office Phone: +1 919 660 3030
Email Address: jmgaines@duke.edu
- Office Hours:
- Wednesdays 2:45-4:15pm and by appointment
- Education and Interests:
- Currently working on a book on feminist film theory and silent flm history, Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers, involving archival print research. The first volume of the accompanying sourcebook covers the U.S. and Latin America. Recent talks and srticles have been on documentary film and video work and practice, new media and pornography. Work continues in critical race theory and African American film history, copyright and piracy, and semotic theory as it pertains to the photographic image.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Jane M. Gaines. "The Documentary Destiny of Cinema." 2009 [author's comments]
- Jane M. Gaines. "Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers." University of Illinois Press, 2009
- Jane M. Gaines. Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law. forthcoming. Second edition, forthcoming; Spanish translation, Marcial Pons Ediciones, Madrid, forthcoming.
- Jane M. Gaines. Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- with Pearl Bowser and Charles Musser, eds.. Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Indiana University Press, 2001.
- Jane M. Gaines and Michael Renov, eds.. Collecting Visible Evidence. University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
- Jane M. Gaines, editor. Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars. Duke University Press, 1992.
- with Jane M. Gaines and Monica Dall' Asta. Women Film Pioneers: An International Sourcebook (Europe, Canada, Asia). II University of Illinois Press, forthcoming [author's comments]
- J.M. Gaines. "First Fictions." Signs 30.1 (Fall, 2004): 1293 - 1317. [author's comments]
- J.M. Gaines. "Sexual Semiosis." Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 11 (Spring, 2004): 55 - 67. [author's comments]
- J.M. Gaines. "Early Cinema's Heyday of Copying." Cultural Studies 20.2 - 3 (June, 2006): 227 - 244.
- J.M. Gaines. "In and Out of Race." Women and Performance 29 (December, 2005) [author's comments]
- Jane M. Gaines. "Machines That Make the Body Do Things." More Dirty Looks. Ed. Pamela Church-Gibson. British Film Institute, 2003.
