Dr. M.C. (Maryn) Wilkinson
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Profile
Maryn Wilkinson is an Assistant Professor in Film Studies for the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, as well as an educational expert for the Faculty of Humanities at TLC FGw.
She studied Film and Television Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury (2002) and the University of Warwick (2003) in the UK, and completed her PhD through a fellowship from the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (2013), with a project that looked at feminist film theory, neo-conservative politics, and the representation of teenage girls in 1980s American cinema.
Her current research interests focus on the politics and aesthetics of film and popular culture, feminist theory, representation, labour, and celebrity culture.
Her teaching and supervision topics include:
- Film style, aesthetics, and close analysis
- Female / feminist film directors and media makers
- American politics, film and popular culture
- Cinema / popular culture and the body; sexuality, representation, agency, resistance, affect, performance
- Teen film, television, and popular culture
- World cinema: esp. Japan, India, and Iran
- Music and film: musicals, concert films, music celebrities
- Celebrity studies
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Publications
2023
- Wilkinson, M. (2023). The Bling Ring: Surface Play: Aesthetics and Performance in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring. In S. Ferriss (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola (pp. 75-90). (Bloomsbury Handbooks). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350244337.0012 [details]
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2023). Designated WIP Time: female labour, resistance, and newfound communities in online craft videos. Manuscript in preparation. In A. R. E. Taylor, L. Kopitz, A. Kviat, & Y. Soncul (Eds.), Digital Exhaustion Intellect Books.
2019
Wilkinson, M. (2019). 'Taylor Swift: the hardest working, zaniest girl in show business…'. Celebrity Studies, 10(3), 441-444. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630160 [details]- Wilkinson, M. C. (2019). The Performativity of Labour and Femininity on Mad Men. In K. McNally, J. Marcellus, T. Forde, & K. Fairclough (Eds.), The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality and American Television (pp. 99-113). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31091-2_7 [details]
2018
- Wilkinson, M. (2018). On the Depths of Surface: Strategies of Surface Aesthetics in The Bling Ring, Spring Breakers and Drive. Film-Philosophy, 22(2), 222-239. https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2018.0074 [details]
2017
- Wilkinson, M. (2017). Leisure/Crime, Immaterial Labor, and the Performance of the Teenage Girl in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers (2012) and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (2013). The Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 12/13, 20-37. http://www.jfsonline.org/issue12-13/articles/wilkinson/ [details]
2015
- Wilkinson, M. C. (2015). Representation of American versus non-American fans in Baillie Walsh's Springsteen & I. Transformative Works and Culture, 19. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0595 [details]
2014
- Wilkinson, M. (2014). The makeover and the malleable body in 1980s American teen film. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(3), 385-391. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877913513698 [details]
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Wilkinson, M. (2019). 'Taylor Swift: the hardest working, zaniest girl in show business…'. Celebrity Studies, 10(3), 441-444.