Genevieve Yue is an associate professor of Culture and Media and director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She is co-editor of the Cutaways book series at Fordham University Press, a contributing editor to Film Comment, a member of the October advisory board, and an independent film programmer. Her essays and criticism have appeared in ASAP/Journal, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Grey Room, Metrograph Journal, MUBI Notebook Magazine, October, Representations, Reverse Shot, The Times Literary Supplement, World Records, and elsewhere. She is the author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality (2020) and Trains, due out in October 2026. She is currently working on a book about the material history of Hollywood. She especially loves these movies.
She is passionate about rescuing injured birds.
email: yueg@newschool.edu
Trains
“A beautiful meditation on the machines that make us see. In this book, Yue shows us how they help us realize ourselves. The train is like a river serpent moving through our mind. It brings us together in a shared, hypnotic heartbeat.”—Apichatpong Weerasethakul
available fall 2026, from Fordham University Press
Girl Head
Girl Head is a cogent, imaginative, and important book about the gendered underpinnings of the materials of cinema. It is an important contribution to feminist film history and to film studies more generally.
—Catherine Russell, Concordia University
In this surprising and immensely pleasurable read, Yue reveals a hidden history of disappearing female bodies and their link to the materiality of film and its technical processes. Girl Head is a brilliant and original book and sure to be an important reference for media historians and film theorists alike.
—Nico Baumbach, Columbia University
available from Fordham University Press
