Katherine Groo

Katherine Groo is Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at Lafayette College. She is the author of Bad Film Histories: Ethnography and the Early Archive (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and coeditor of New Silent Cinema (Routledge/AFI, 2015). She is currently working on a new book about the referentiality and artifactuality of contemporary visual media.

Contributions

Judging by its Cover, Part 1

On October 26, 1936, T. S. Eliot wrote a letter to American writer and host of an influential Parisian literary salon, Natalie Barney. In it he admitted with discernible embarrassment that his most recent author at Faber & Faber, Djuna Barnes—whose Ladies Almanack (1928) was about Barney’s salon and featured her as the character Dame Evangeline Musset—did not approve of the design for the first edition of Nightwood. “I must explain,” he writes,