About the Author
Biography: Virginia Wright
Wexman
Title: Professor Emerita of English and Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Books:
A History of Film. 7th Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2009.
Film and Authorship. Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Film and Authorship
Women and Experimental Filmmaking. Co-edited with Jean Petrolle, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Creating the Couple
Roman Polanski. Boston: Twayne 1985.

Roman Polanski
Current Research:
“Compromised Positions: Hollywood Directors and the Cultural Construction of the Artist.”
Other Activities:
President , Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 1993-95.
Associate Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UIC, 1997-1999.
Editor, Cinema Journal, 1991-94.
Executive Committee, Modern Language Association, 1998-2002.
Visiting Appointments:
University of Chicago, Visiting Associate Professor, 1989.
University of Michigan, Visiting Professor, 1999.
Film Festival Jury Service:
Birmingham Film Festival, 1983.
Chicago Film Festival, 1976. At UIC she served as
Education:
University of Chicago: BA (1970), MA (1971), PhD (1976).
E-mail:
vwexman@uic.edu
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