Dr. Anne Morey

Curriculum Vitae

 Specializations:

• 20th and 21st Century Studies
• American Literature and Culture
• Cultural Studies
• Film Studies
• Popular Culture

Research Interests:

Dr. Morey’s major research interests are American silent and early sound film. She has published on aspects of British film history, American women screenwriters and commentators on film during the silent period, children’s film, and genre film. She has taught courses in film history, film noir, the woman’s film, British cinema, Italian cinema, Japanese cinema, Hollywood in the 1930s and in the 1950s.

Honors and Awards:

• Winner, Association of Former Students Teaching Award for the College of Liberal Arts, 2013

Publications:

Morey, Anne. Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the “Twilight” Series.  Routledge, 2012 Much of the criticism on Stephenie Meyer’s immensely popular ‘Twilight’ novels has underrated or even disparaged the books while belittling the questionable taste of an audience that many believe is being inculcated with anti-feminist values. Avoiding a repetition of such reductive critiques of the series’s purported shortcomings with respect to literary merit and political correctness, this volume adopts a cultural studies framework to explore the range of scholarly concerns awakened by the ‘Twilight novels and their filmic adaptations.

Morey, Anne.  Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry 1913-1934. University of Minnesota Press, 2003 In the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood sought to establish new connections between audience and industry, suggesting means by which outsiders could become insiders. Hollywood Outsiders looks at how disparate entities conceived of these connections, and combines discussions of cultural politics with a broader argument about how outsiders viewed the film industry as a vehicle of self-validation and of democratic ideals.