I’m pleased to be giving a presentation on the borderline between Gothic and Noir using the films Ivy and Bedelia at the Cinema & Media History Virtual Symposium, 16 May 2026. Good news: it’s online and free to attend this whole day of presentations on a wide variety of films starting at 10am Eastern Time (NY).

RSVP here to get the necessary links.

My panel is all noir:

12 pm – 1 pm, Session 3

Panel 3A – Screening Noir Stars and Music

Chair, Peter Kunze, Tulane University 

Peter Kunze, Tulane University

“Scripting a Second Act: Gloria Swanson’s Unproduced Broadway Musical of Sunset Boulevard”

Chad Newsom, Savannah College of Art and Design

“Jitterbug Fatale: Women, Swing, and Classical Hollywood Cinema”

Kate Laity, Independent Scholar

“Haunted: Where Gothic Bleeds into Noir”

Sheri Chinen Biesen, Rowan University 

“Women ‘Stars’ of Film Noir: On-Screen and Behind-the-Scenes in Hollywood”

See the rest of the schedule here.