Elizabeth Alsop

Bio

Elizabeth Alsop is Assistant Professor in Communication and Media at the City University of New York School of Professional Studies, and a faculty member in the Film and Media Cultures Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio State University Press, 2019) and a forthcoming book on the films of Elaine May (University of Illinois Press, 2025).

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Twitter: @elizabethalsop

Contributions

Woman with a Movie Camera: Marie Menken’s Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945)

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As I watched Marie Menken’s short film, Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945)—screened as part of an exhibit at the Noguchi Museum earlier this year—I found myself thinking about Gertrude Stein. Specifically, I recalled the letter Stein wrote to Samuel Steward in 1940, thanking him for a gift he had sent her and Alice B. Toklas: a countertop stand mixer known as the Sunbeam Mix Master 500. “The Mix master came Easter Sunday, and we have not had time to more than read the literature and put it...

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