Jackie Stacey

Jackie Stacey is a feminist film theorist. She has contributed to the fields of cultural studies, ethnography, and feminist film theory, particularly in regards to star studies and examining the spectatorial response to film.[1] She is a currently professor of Media and Cultural Studies and the director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages (CIDRAL) at the University of Manchester.[2] She previously worked in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University as a professor of women's studies and cultural studies. She has served as co-editor of Screen since 1994.[3] As an author, she has been largely collected by libraries.[4]

Education

Stacey received a Bachelor of Arts degree in European Studies in 1982 from the University of Sussex and a Master of Arts degree in Women's Studies in 1985 from the University of Kent. She received her doctorate in 1992 from the University of Birmingham.[5]

Summary of Work

Stacey is noted for her work in film spectatorship analysis. In her book, Stargazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (1993), Stacey surveyed the responses women had to the Hollywood starlets of the 1940s and 1950s, such as Doris Day and Rita Hayworth. Through examining letters the respondents sent to her, she examined the spectatorial reaction of the female viewers, an area of inquiry she claims has been much neglected in feminist film theory. With this study's focus on the female spectatorial experience to film and Hollywood mythology, Stacey pushes against the traditional cine-psych mode of analysis (using psychoanalysis as a tool for interpreting the text), a mode of analysis that emphasizes meaning as exclusively governed by the text.[1]

Along with Annette Kuhn, Stacey co-edited Screen Histories: A "Screen" Reader (1999), an anthology of essays that address the concept of "history" in screen studies. The essays were originally published in academic journal of film and television studies Screen over the preceding twenty years.[6]

In Global Nature, Global Culture (2000), Stacey, along with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury, addresses the problematic inherent masculinity of the theory of globalization. Their argument against this gendered imbalance and their proposition for a field of globalist feminist cultural studies is situated around three case studies. The authors include and analyze cultural images, references, texts, and artworks that are widely distributed to Western audiences, such as The Body Shop, Benetton commercials, and Jurassic Park. While other works in globalization theory have indeed touched on "how global forces shape and reshape landscapes of culture and nature," few have engaged with it so extensively.[7]

Selected Bibliography

Books

Stargazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (1993)

Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (1997)

Gender, Theory and Culture series : Global Nature, Global Culture (2000) (co-authored with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury)

The Cinematic Life of the Gene (2010)

Anthologies

Romance Revisited (1995) edited by Lynne Pearce and Jackie Stacey[8]

Screen Histories: A "Screen" Reader (1999) edited by Jackie Stacey and Annette Kuhn[6]

Notable Critical Articles

"Crossing over with Tilda Swinton–the Mistress of 'Flat Affect'" (2015) in the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society[9]

References

  1. 1 2 Traube, Elizabeth G. "Reviewed Work: Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship, by Jackie Stacey.". Contemporary Sociology. American Sociological Association. 24 (4): 404–405.
  2. ↑ http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Jackie.stacey/personaldetails
  3. ↑ "About the Contributors". Signs. The University of Chicago Press. 30 (3): 2001–2004. 2005 – via JSTOR.
  4. ↑ "Stacey, Jackie". worldcat.org. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Prof Jackie Stacey research profile - personal details | The University of Manchester". www.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
  6. 1 2 "Front Matter". Film Quarterly. University of California Press. 53 (1): 1. 1999 [Spring 1999] – via JSTOR.
  7. ↑ McCann, Leo (2002). "Reviewed Work: Global Nature, Global Culture by Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury, Jackie Stacey". Sociology. Sage Publications, Ltd. 6 (3): 779–781 – via JSTOR.
  8. ↑ Pearce, Lynne; Stacey, Jackie, eds. (October 1, 1995). Romance Revisited. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0814766316.
  9. ↑ Stacey, Jackie (September 2015). "Crossing over with Tilda Swinton--the Mistress of "Flat Affect"". International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. Springer US. 28 (3): 243–271.
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