Where the Lilies Bloom

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Mark A. Hain is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, where he is working on a dissertation examining audience response to and repurposing of star images, based on a reception study of Theda Bara from the 1910s to the present. His recent publications include “Black Hair, Black Eyes, Black Soul: Theda Bara and Race Suicide Panic” in Early Cinema and the “National” (ed. Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini, Rob King. New Barnet, UK: John Libbey Publishing Ltd, 2008), and “Explicit Ambiguity: Hitchcockian Criticism, Sexuality, and the Films of François Ozon,” in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, May 2007.