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Judith Mayne

b. 1948

American film scholar

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Born 1948. Judith Mayne is an American film scholar and university teacher.

Judith Mayne (born February 26, 1948) is an American academic who specializes in French film and feminist film theory. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written eight books: Private Novels, Public Films, Kino and the Woman Question (1989), The Woman at the Keyhole (1990), Cinema and Spectatorship (1993), Directed by Dorothy Arzner (1994), Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture (2000), Claire Denis (2005), and Le Corbeau (2006). She is professor emerita of French at Ohio State University, where she had worked for several decades.

Biography Mayne was born on February 26, 1948, in Pennsylvania.

After working as a lecturer of English (1972–1973) at Paris Diderot University, Mayne worked at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she was a lecturer of comparative literature and French, as well as a film specialist at the Center for Twentieth-Century Studies.

Mayne once starred in a video named Judith Mayne Reads Soap Magazines, produced by Paper Tiger Television, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and Adams Community Television. Mayne appeared in the 2013 documentary film Golden Gate Girls.

Mayne's partner is Terry Moore.

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1948
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Film scholar, university teacher
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Ohio State University
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship

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American film scholar

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Judith Mayne is a film scholar and university teacher.

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