Dr. Martin F. Norden

Film theory, criticism, history.

Education

Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1977
M.A., University of Missouri, 1974
B.A., University of Missouri, 1973

Background

Author or co-author of Movies: A Language in Light; The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies; John Barrymore: A Bio-Bibliography; "Portrait of a Disabled Vietnam Veteran: Alex Cutter of Cutter's Way"; "Women in the Early Film Industry"; "The Transformation of Religion in John Sayles' Matewan"; "Hollywood's Ableist Agenda." He served as a jury member for the biennial "Wie Wir Leben!" ("The Way We Live!") international short film festival held Nov. 7-10, 2007 in Munich, Germany. (Read more in In the Loop.) Current research includes early history of the American film industry; movie representation of people with physical disabilities; film screenwriting; John Barrymore as cultural icon. Read more about Dr. Martin Norden...

Select Publications

Books

M. Norden, ed., The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television. Amsterdam and New York: Éditions Rodopi, forthcoming.

M. Norden, ed., The Birth Control Films of Margaret Sanger and Lois Weber: An Annotated Reconstruction and Analysis, in preparation.

B. MacArthur and M. Norden, eds., Making Differences: Images of Disability in Popular Culture, in preparation.

Journal Articles

M. Norden, "Experimental Frames: Bruce Conner's Report," Critical Focus 1 (June 2002).

M. Norden, "Disabled Vets on the Silver Screen," Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine 90.8 (April 2003): 20-24.

M. Norden and J. McConnell, "Cinema of Isolation," Disability Arts in London Magazine 178 (April 2003): 3-5.

M. Norden, "Diegetic Commentaries," Offscreen, forthcoming.

Book Chapters

M. Norden, "Special Topics: Film and Physical Disability," in Instructional Materials for Teaching Sociology and Disability Studies, ed. L. Schlesinger and D. Taub. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, 2004. 188-191.

M. Norden, "Paper Projects on Film and Physical Disability," in Instructional Materials for Teaching Sociology and Disability Studies, ed. L. Schlesinger and D. Taub. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, 2004. 288.

M. Norden, "Reproductive Freedom, Revisionist History, Restricted Cinema: The Strange Case of Margaret Sanger and Birth Control," in Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media, ed. L. Friedman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 263-279.

M. Norden, "The Theo-Political Landscape of Matewan," in Sayles Talk: New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles, ed. D. Carson and H. Kenaga. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. 103-116.

M. Norden, "Villainy, Disability, and the Moving Image: A Psychoanalytic Perspective," in Proceedings of the Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness 7th Global Conference, ed. A. Curry and R. Waterstradt. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, forthcoming.

M. Norden, "'A Jolly Club of the Maimed': Disability and Community in Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon," in Media(ted) Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations, ed. K. Hart. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming.

M. Norden, "Dreamboats on Wheels," in Making Differences: Images of Disability in Popular Culture, ed. B. MacArthur and M. Norden. Forthcoming.

Curriculum Vita

Available at Dr. Norden's personal homepage: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~norden/vita.html