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Christina Lane is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami, and Director of the Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies. She is the author of the books Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break (2000) and Magnolia (2011), the first full-length critical evaluation of Paul Thomas Anderson. With a specialization in Hollywood directors and stars, she has published widely on such figures as Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Jodie Foster, and Sally Field.

She is considered an expert on the subject of Alfred Hitchcock’s women writers, having published "Alma Reville: Adaptation, Continuity, Writing" (in Hitchcock and Adaptation 2014) and “Stepping Out from Behind the Grand Silhouette: Joan Harrison’s Films of the Forties” (in Film and Authorship 2003). She is currently writing Hitchcock’s Phantom Lady: The Life and Career of Joan Harrison, which chronicles the untold story of Hollywood’s most powerful female writer-producer of the 1940s. Harrison went from being the worst secretary Alfred Hitchcock ever had to one of his most influential collaborators, critically shaping his brand as the “Master of Suspense."