The posts on this page were part of an ongoing series related to Women and New Hollywood. This project began as part of an Irish Research Council postdoctoral research fellowship I undertook at Maynooth University from 2016-2018. The original scope of the postdoc was meant to cover several women, but the more I worked on it, the more I became convinced the Polly Platt alone was a big enough topic. My monograph on Polly Platt is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan (2021).
The project culminated in an international conference in May 2018, which I co-organised with Dr Martha Shearer. Martha and I are currently co-editing a book on Women and New Hollywood for Rutgers University Press.
Video Essay: “Pray for Mama”
(11 May 2018)
Video Essay: Polly Platt – Authorship by Design
(23 January 2018)
Call for Papers
(31 August 2017)
Searching for Polly in the Bogdanovich Archives: Reflections
(19 August 2017)
Searching for Polly in the Bogdanovich Archives: Week One
(16 July 2017)
The Other Side of the Director: Polly Platt and Orson Welles’s Last Movie
(30 March 2017)
The Bad News Bears: Design by Polly Platt
(16 March 2017)
The Thief Who Came to Dinner: Design by Polly Platt
(7 March 2017)
#52FilmsByWomen
(18 February 2017)
Multiple Authorship
(13 February 2017)
One More Reason Women in Hollywood Can’t Catch a Break
(17 December 2016)
The Auteur Paradigm, Part 2
(2 December 2016)
Polly Platt – DVDs and collaboration
(26 November 2016)
The Auteur Paradigm, Part 1
(14 November 2016)
Why New Hollywood?
(2 November 2016)
De Palma De Palma! DE PALMA
(14 October 2016)
Women and New Hollywood: A New Research Project
(11 October 2016)