Jane M Gaines, Professor of Literature & English and Professor of Film Video Digital

Jane M Gaines
Contact Info:
Office Location:  Visiting Professor, Columbia University
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page:  

Teaching (Fall 2008):

  • LIT 110.01, INTRODUCTION TO FILM Synopsis
    East Duke 204B, MW 04:25 PM-07:15 PM
  • LIT 294.01, THEORIES OF THE IMAGE Synopsis
    West Duke 202, Th 06:00 PM-09:30 PM
Education:

PhDNorthwestern University, Evanston, Illinois1982
MANorthwestern University
BSNorthwestern University
Specialties:

Film Studies
Cultural Studies
Research Interests: Film Theory and Feminism, Intellectual Property

Current projects: Women in the International Silent Film Industry, Documentary Theory, Film Historiography

Founder of the Program in Film/Video/Digital and founder of the Duke in Los Angeles Program. Most recently, Professor Gaines won the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for Fire and Desire: Mixed- Blood Movies in the Silent Era (University of Chicago Press, 2001). This is the second time she has won, receiving the award for Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (University of North Carolina Press, 1991). In November, 2001, she received the coveted Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholarly Award for her forthcoming book on early cinema, Fictions of History: Women Film Pioneers (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming). In Spring 2006, Prof. Gaines was Kirsten Hesselgren Research Chair at the University of Stockholm and also taught at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology.

Areas of Interest:

Intellectual Property Law
Feminism
Film history
Film theory
New Technologies
Critical race theory
Mass culture

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Jane M. Gaines, The Documentary Destiny of Cinema (2009)  [author's comments].
  2. Jane M. Gaines, Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers (2009), University of Illinois Press .
  3. Jane M. Gaines, Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (forthcoming) .
  4. Jane M. Gaines, Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era (2001), University of Chicago Press .
  5. with Pearl Bowser and Charles Musser, eds., Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era (2001), Indiana University Press .
  6. Jane M. Gaines and Michael Renov, eds., Collecting Visible Evidence (1999), University of Minnesota Press .
  7. Jane M. Gaines, editor, Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars (1992), Duke University Press .
  8. with Jane M. Gaines and Monica Dall' Asta, Women Film Pioneers: An International Sourcebook (Europe, Canada, Asia), vol. II (forthcoming), University of Illinois Press  [author's comments].
  9. J.M. Gaines, First Fictions, Signs, vol. 30 no. 1 (Fall, 2004), pp. 1293 - 1317  [author's comments].
  10. J.M. Gaines, Sexual Semiosis, Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, vol. 11 (Spring, 2004), pp. 55 - 67  [author's comments].
  11. J.M. Gaines, Early Cinema's Heyday of Copying, Cultural Studies, vol. 20 no. 2 - 3 (Accepted, June, 2006), pp. 227 - 244 .
  12. J.M. Gaines, In and Out of Race, Women and Performance, vol. 29 (Accepted, December, 2005)  [author's comments].
  13. Jane M. Gaines, Machines That Make the Body Do Things, in More Dirty Looks, edited by Pamela Church-Gibson (Fall, 2003), British Film Institute .
Recent Grant Support

  • Documentary Theory and Practice: Challenge for Change, 2007/05-2009/05.      
  • Women Film Pioneers International Archive and 35mm Film Tour, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, 2006/05-2009/05.      
  • Women Film Pioneers International 35mm archive and film tour, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, 2005/03-2008/01.      
  • Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2002/11.      
Email Address: jmgaines@duke.edu

See additional Websites: Women Film Pioneers Micheaux Society