Constance Penley
Prof. and Chair, Film Studies, UCSB

Selected Publications:

• Books:
  • PORN 101, with Susie Bright and Linda Williams
  • The Analysis of Film, Raymond Bellour, edited and introduced (Indiana U. Press, 2000)
    
  • Primetime Contemporary Art by the GALA Committee as Seen on MELROSE PLACE (artists' book/Sotheby's catalog), 1998, with the GALA Committee
  • The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science, co-edited with Paula Treichler and Lisa Cartwright (New York University Press, 1998)
  • NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America (Verso, 1997; Japanese edition, Kousakusha, 1998)
  • Male Trouble, edited with Sharon Willis (U. Minnesota Press, 1992)
  • Technoculture, edited with Andrew Ross (U. Minnesota Press, 1991)
  • Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction, edited with Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel and Janet Bergstrom (U. Minnesota Press, 1990)
  • The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis (U. Minnesota Press / Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1989)
  • Feminism and Film Theory, edited and introduced (Routledge, Chapman & Hall, and the British Film Institute, 1988)
• Recent articles from Camera Obscura:
  • "The Cabinet of Dr. Pee-wee: Consumerism and Sexual Terror," Camera Obscura no. 17 (Fall 1988)—special issue on Male Trouble)
  • "Time Travel, Primal Scene, and the Critical Dystopia" (on The Terminator and La Jetée), Camera Obscura no. 15 (Fall 1986—special issue on Science Fiction and Sexual Difference)
  • "Interview with Trinh T. Minh-ha" (with Andrew Ross), Camera Obscura no. 13.14 (Fall 1986—special issue on Documentary)
  • "Les Enfants de la Patrie" (on Jean-Luc Godard's France/Tour/Detour/Two Children), Camera Obscura no. 8-9-10 (Fall 1982—special issue on Godard)
  • "The Avant-Garde and its Imaginary," Camera Obscura no. 2 (Fall 1977)
  • "Interview with Yvonne Rainer" (with the Camera Obscura Collective), Camera Obscura no. 1 (Fall 1976)
• Other Recent Articles and Book Chapters:
  • "Foreward," Speaking about Godard, Kaja Silverman and Harun Farocki (New York: NYU Press, 1999)
  • "Out in Left Field" (on Zero Degrees Latitude), Talkin' with Your Mouth Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin, ed. Steve Fagin (Durham: Duke U. Press, 1998)
  • "Crackers and Whackers: The White Trashing of Porn," White Trash: Race and Gender in America, ed. Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz (New York and London: Routledge 1997)
  • "From NASA to The 700 Club (with a Detour through Hollywood): Cultural Studies in the Public Sphere," Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies, ed. Cary Nelson and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar (London and New York: Routledge, 1996)
  • "Someone to Watch Over You: The Performance Art of Julia Scher" (plus interview), Mondo 2000 (1993)
  • "Violence/Space," Assemblage, guest ed. Mark Wigley, MIT Press (1993)
  • "The Future of an Illusion," excerpt from the Introduction to The Future of an Illusion, Women and the Law, ed. Mary Joe Frug, New England Law School Case Book Series (1992)
  • "Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Study of Popular Culture," Cultural Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler (New York and London: Routledge, 1992)
• Other Current Research:
  • "Oxygen Media Research Project," co-investigator with Anna Everett and Lisa Parks of the UCSB Film Studies Dept.