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Katherine Fusco

Katherine Fusco is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her books include Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative, and Modernity (Routledge, 2016) and, with Nicole Seymour, Kelly Reichardt (University of Illinois Press, 2017). She is currently completing a project focused on celebrity and identification in the 1920s and 1930s. icon

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By Katherine Fusco

To date, the independent filmmaker Anna Biller has tweeted somewhere in the ...

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