Unequal Before Death

Marcelline Block’s publications include World Film Locations: Paris and World Film Locations: Las Vegas. Her Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema was selected as Book of the Month in January 2012 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It is translated into Italian as Sguardo e pubblico femminista nel cinema del dopoguerra as part of the Università degli Studi di L’Aquila’s “Cinema ed estetica cinematografica” series (Aracne editrice). She co-edited Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative and Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture (vol. 18). Her articles are published in Excavatio: Realism and Naturalism in Film Studies (vol. 22), The Harvard French Review (vol. 2), and LINE: Journal of the Hadar Foundation (vol. 1). She contributed chapters to The Many Ways We Talk about Death in Contemporary Society; Vendetta: Essays on Honor and Revenge, and Cherchez la femme: Women and Values in the Francophone World. Her writing in French appears in Vingtième siècle: revue d’histoire (vol. 96). Her art criticism was translated into Russian for Russian Art beyond Borders: Late 20th Century-Early 21st Century (National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow). She has taught in several departments at Princeton, including as a Lecturer in History.