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Diane Stevenson
Diane Stevenson is a Mississippi-based poet, photographer and playwright whose work has appeared in The Nation, Raritan, The Yale Review and Cineaste. A doctoral graduate from Columbia University, she was Edward Said's research assistant as he wrote Orientalism (1978). In earlier issues of Film International, she has written on Fred Astaire and questions of race in The Band Wagon (1953), Jean-Luc Godard's aesthetic in relationship to André Bazin, and the effect produced by generic mixing in Howard Hawks's Barbary Coast (1935) and Red River (1948).