CWC Classics: The Misfits

Emily Carman is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and a Fellow at the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research at Chapman University. Her research and teaching interests include American film history, (specifically Studio-era Classic Hollywood), archival-based research, and media historiography, as well as film genres (film noir and the Western), moving-image archival theory and practice, film censorship, gender and stardom, and media industry studies. She is author of Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System and co-editor of the anthology Hollywood and the Law. Her new book, forthcoming on University of Texas Press, A Misfit Cinema, examines how John Huston’s The Misfits is a transitional film between Classical and New Hollywood.

Ross Melnick is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara and Interim Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center. He was named an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholar and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for his book Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (Columbia University Press, 2022). He is the author of American Showman: Samuel ‘Roxy’ Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry (CUP, 2012), co-editor of Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive (AFI/Routledge, 2018), and co-author of Cinema Treasures (MBI, 2004). His research has appeared in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Film History, The Moving Image, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and in numerous other journals and edited collections.