Barbara Brickman
Assistant Professor
(205) 348-0418
bjbrickman@nc.ua.edu
207 Lloyd Hall
Office Hours
By appointment
Undergraduate Education
BA, James Madison University, 1995
Graduate Education
MA, University of Georgia, 1999
PhD, University of Rochester, 2005
Teaching Interests
Feminist Film Theory
Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture
Teen Film and Genre Theory
American Cinema of the 1970s
Horror Film
Queer Studies and Popular Culture
Representative Publications
New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film. New York: Continuum Press, 2012.
“Brothers, Sisters, and Chainsaws: The Slasher Film as Locus for Sibling Rivalry.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 28.2 (Winter 2011):
135-154.
“Portrait of an Artist as a Young Fan: Consumption and Queer Inspiration in Six Feet Under,” in Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom. Eds. Sharon Ross and Louisa Stein. Jefferson, NC: McFarland P, 2008.
“Coming of Age in the 70s: Revision, Fantasy, and Rage in the Teen-Girl Badlands.” Camera Obscura 66 (Dec 2007): 25-58.
“Riot in Girls Town: Remaking, Revising, and Redressing the Teenpic.” Journal of Film and Video 59.4 (Winter 2007): 20-36.
“ ‘Delicate’ Cutters: Gendered Self-Mutilation and Attractive Flesh in Medical Discourse.” Body and Society 10.4 (December 2004): 87-111.