Gaylyn Studlar

Gaylyn Studlar is David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Film & Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema among other books on film as well as television. She is currently working on Erotic Labor: Sex, Class, and Stardom in pre-Code Hollywood.

Posts by Gaylyn Studlar

TV’s “Fancy Cowboy” and the Legacy of Have Gun—Will Travel, Which Premiered September 14, 1957, Sixty-five Years Ago This Month

        I have always liked Westerns, and can claim my preference by birthright. I grew up in West Texas in the 1950s, a “flatlander” living in Lubbock, the biggest city on the Llano Estacado, once a dry, vast sea of grass unmarked by hill or tree that befuddled Conquistador Francisco Coronado, Buffalo […]

On the Sunny Shores of Peppermint Bay: Remembering Shirley Temple

    April 23 will mark the birthday of Shirley Temple (1928-2014). Anniversaries of the birth or death of stars are frequently relegated to the category of minutiae—internet trivia quizzes, daily calendar notations, the online “on this day in history” reminder. We may find a few seconds or even minutes for this reminder, but how […]