Bio

Marilyn Fabe teaches courses in the History and aesthetics of the silent film (25A), the history and theory of the sound film (25 B), Film Theory (Film 100), auteur (Film 151) courses on Alfred Hitchcock,Charles Chaplin, and Woody Allen, and The Musical as a Genre (Film 108). She has just completed Closely Watched Films, a book on the accomplishments of fourteen film directors, beginning with D.W. Griffith and ending with Spike Lee, illustrating each director's contribution to narrative film art. Her recent research involves the connection of the director's life to his or her films. She is currently at work on a psychobiographical study of the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Selected Publications

"From Crisis to Comedy: Charles Chaplin's 'The Adventurer,'" Clio's Psyche, Vol. 8, No. 3, Dec. 2001

Response to Kathleen Woodward's "Telling Stories: Aging, Reminiscence and the Life Review," (a psychobiographical reading of Citizen Kane) in Doreen B. Townsend Center Occasional Papers, No. 9, 1997

"Maya Deren's Fatal Attraction: A Psychoanalytic Reading of 'Meshes of the Afternoon' with a Psychobiographical Afterword," Women Studies. Vol. 25, 1996

"Feminist Polemics Through Film Poetry: Lynn Sach's 'The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts,' Wide Angle, Vol. 14, nos. 3 & 4, 1992

Up Against the Clock: Career Women Speak on the Choice to have Children, Co-Author with Norma Wikler, Random House, 1979; Warner Paperback, 1980; Mikasa Shobo Ltd., 1985 (Japanese edition)

Notes and Analysis: Booklets on Film Style Published by Macmillan Films, 1976
Fellini 8 1/2: "The Saraghina Sequence"
Fellini 8 1/2: "The Steam bath Sequence"
The Last Laugh: "The Drunken Dream"
M: "Searching for a Victim"
Mother: "The Prison Visit"
Notorious: "The Key Sequence"
The Throne of Blood: "The First Meeting with the Spirit"
Triumph of the Will: "Hitler's Arrival in Nuremberg"
Way Down East: "Rescue on the Ice" (co-author)

Book Reviews for the Oakland Tribune

Inventing the Abbots, Sue Miller, June 19, 1987
Home Ground, Lynn Freed, Feb. 15, 1987
Melanie Klien: Her world and her Work, Phyllis Grosskurth, May 5, 1986
When Talk is not Cheap, Robin Lakoff and Mandy Aftel, March 19, 1986
The Hungry Self, Kim Chernin, August 28, 1985
Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night, Joanne Curthbertson and Susie Schevill, May 8, 1983
Heartchange, Lynn Freed, Feb. 3, 1983
God's Grace, Bernard Malamud, Sept. 19, 1982

Numerous Program Notes for The University Art Museum's Pacific Film Archive Calendar

Film Production

Co-creator with Tom Schmidt of 16mm Compilation Film: The Great Primitives: Landmark Films from the First Decade of Motion Picture History, 1978