Shelley Stamp
Professor
Film and Digital Media

Phone: 831-459-4462
Fax: 831-459-1341
E-mail: stamp@ucsc.edu
For more information: http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/stamp/

Education and Training
B.A. in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto
M.A. and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University

Research Interests
Silent Cinema, Female Filmmakers, Film Censorship, History of Moviegoing, Early Hollywood

Selected Publications
Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon (Princeton University Press, 2000).  Named one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2000 by Choice Magazine. Theater Library Association Book Award Finalist.

American Cinema's Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices, co-edited with Charlie Keil (University of California Press, 2004).

“Lois Weber, Progressive Cinema and the Fate of ‘Our Work-A-Day Girls’ in Shoes.” Forthcoming in Camera Obscura.

’It's a Long Way to Filmland’: Starlets, Screen Hopefuls and Extras in Early Hollywood.” In American Cinema’s Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices, ed. Charlie Keil and Shelley Stamp (University of California Press, 2004).

"An Awful Struggle Between Love and Ambition: Serial Heroines, Early Celebrity and Modern Femininity." In Silent Cinema, edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer (Routledge, 2003).

"Taking Precautions, or Contraceptive Technology and Cinema's Regulatory Apparatus." In The Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, edited by Jennifer Bean and Diane Negra (Duke University Press, 2002).