Episode Details

Marsha Gordon, Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, mostly highlights two directors credited with advancing film narrative with four picks. But she also sings the praises of a certain work of stop-motion animation, one taking this season by storm for both guests’ and listeners’ submissions.

Marsha is the author of Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott, Film, Form & Culture (with Robert Kolker), and Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Films. She is currently writing a biography of the pioneering Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner.

Films mentioned:

• Falling Leaves (1912) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• Making an American Citizen (1912) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Girl and Her Trust (1912) - D.W. Griffith
• The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) - D.W. Griffith
• The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) - Wladyslaw Starewicz
• The Divorcee (1930) - Robert Z. Leonard
• Next Time We Love (1936) - Edward H. Griffith
• The Immigrant (1917) - Charlie Chaplin
• The Brutalist (2024) - Brady Corbet
• The Consequences of Feminism (1906) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Lonedale Operator (1911) - D.W. Griffith
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - Mervyn LeRoy
• The Great Train Robbery (1903) - Edwin S. Porter
• Gangs of New York (2002) - Martin Scorsese
• Regeneration (1915) - Raoul Walsh
• Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909) - J. Stuart Black