Gloria Shin

Instructor of Film and Television Media Studies Loyola Marymount University

  • Los Angeles CA

Gloria Shin is a lecturer in film and TV studies who teaches courses on postwar international and Hollywood cinema

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Biography

Gloria Shin is an instructor in Film, TV and Media Studies who teaches courses on postwar international and Hollywood cinema.

She is also the author of a major critical study of the movie star Elizabeth Taylor titled Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire and conducts research on beauty and iconic women.

Education

University of Southern California

Ph.D.

Critical Studies

University of Southern California

M.A.

Critical Studies

University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A.

Film and Digital Media and Modern Literary Studies

Social

Areas of Expertise

Stardom
Celebrity Culture
Women Stars
Beauty Culture and the Body
Race
Gender
Class
Sexuality in Hollywood Films and Sports
Film Genres including Melodrama Horror Films Martial Arts Cinema and the Plantation Film
International Cinema
Art Cinemas
Auteurism
Third and Postcolonial Cinema
Asian Cinemas
Postwar European Cinemas
International Cinemas and Hollywood

Industry Expertise

Education/Learning
Motion Pictures and Film
Research
Writing and Editing

Languages

  • Korean

Articles

‘If it be Love Indeed, Tell Me How Much’: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and White Pleasure After Empire

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

2012

In this paper, I use the iconicity of 1960s Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton to theorize the visualization and formation of an ecstatic postcolonial whiteness.

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'Para Norman' 'The Awakening' Put Ghost Images on the Movie Screen

The Los Angeles Times

Susan King

2012-08-15

‘ParaNorman,’ ‘The Awakening’ put ghost images on movie screens

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