Essays

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Peer-reviewed articles and chapters:

Forthcoming: Beeston, Alix. “Images Dreamed from the Inside: The Ethics of Encounter in Feminist Photography Studies.” Solicited essay for special issue on Historiographies, Metahistories, and Methods, ed. Katherine Groo. Feminist Media Histories, Spring 2025
Beeston, Alix, and Stefan Solomon. “Pathways to the Feminist Incomplete: An Introduction, A Theory, A Manifesto.” Introduction to Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilties of the Unfinished Film, ed. Beeston and Solomon, 1–36. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2023
Beeston, Alix. “Kathleen Collins…Posthumously.” In Incomplete, 245–69
Beeston, Alix. “Photography: Gertrude Käsebier and the Maternal Line of Sight.” Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology, ed. Alex Goody and Ian Whittington, 155–74 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
Beeston, Alix. “The Watch-Bitch Now: Reassessing the Natural Woman in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45.3 (2020): 679–702
Beeston, Alix. “Working the Trap.” Introduction to Special Essay Cluster, “Modernist #MeToo and the Working Woman,” ed. Alix Beeston. Feminist Modernist Studies 2.9 (2019): 304–13
Beeston, Alix. “Icons of Depression.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 73.2 (2017): 1–36
Beeston, Alix. “Images in Crisis: Three Lives’s Vanishing Women.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus 2.2 (2017)
Beeston, Alix. “A ‘Leg Show Dance’ in a Skyscraper: The Sequenced Mechanics of John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer.” PMLA 131.3 (2016): 636–51

Reviews:

Forthcoming: Beeston, Alix. “This Probably Shouldn’t Be A Film…But It Is.” Rev. of Zia Anger, My First Film (MUBI, 2024). Public Books, November 2024
Beeston, Alix. “One with Another.” Rev. of Gail Jones, One Another (Text Publishing, 2024). Sydney Review of Books, 16 October 2024
Beeston, Alix. Rev. of Nicole Erin Morse, Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). Journal of American Studies 58.1 (2024): 159–62.
Beeston, Alix. Rev. of Genevieve Yue, Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020). JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61.1 (2021): 193–98
Beeston, Alix. “A History of Shapes.” Rev. of Anwen Crawford, No Document (Sydney: Giramondo, 2021). Sydney Review of Books, 11 May 2021. Reprinted in Critic Swallows Book: Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books, ed. Catriona Menzies-Pike (Sydney: Giramondo, 2023)
Beeston, Alix. “Fingers Stained with Fruit and Ink.” Rev. of Ellena Savage, Blueberries (London: Text Publishing, 2020). Sydney Review of Books, 15 June 2020
Beeston, Alix. Rev. of Louise Hornby, Still Modernism: Photography, Literature, Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). Modernism/modernity 26.1 (2019): 219–22. Selected as feature review for January 2019 and cross-published at Modernism/modernity Print Plus

Other publications:

Forthcoming: Beeston, Alix, and Pardis Dabashi. “Five Years of Visualities: A Vision for Modernist Studies as Visual Studies.” Visualities forum, Modernism/modernity Print Plus, November 2024
Beeston, Alix, and Robert Lloyd. “Occluded Wales; The Haunted Ground of Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter.” Senses of Cinema 109, May 2024
Beeston, Alix, and Pardis Dabashi. Introduction to special series, “Judging by its Cover.” Visualities forum, Modernism/modernity Print Plus 8.3, 13 March 2024
Beeston, Alix. “Blur.” Visualities forum, Modernism/modernity Print Plus 7.1, 29 July 2022
Beeston, Alix. “A Ghost with a Camera.” Special Essay Cluster on Ling Ma’s Severance, ed. Jane Hu and Anjuli Raza Kolb. Post45 Contemporaries, October 2020
Beeston, Alix, Alexandra Kingston-Reese, and Cadence Kinsey. “On Instagram: An Intimate, Immediate Conversation.” ASAP/J, 29 February 2020
Beeston, Alix. “Looking Like A Modernist.” Visualities forum, Modernism/modernity Print Plus 4.2, 5 August 2019
Beeston, Alix. “The Sound of Loss.” Docalogue, 1 July 2019. Reprinted in Unfinished: Women Filmmakers in Process, ed. Stefan Solomon and Alix Beeston (Cardiff: Image Works, 2022)
Beeston, Alix. “Opening the Book: I Didn’t Wake Up Like This.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus 3.4, January 2019
Beeston, Alix. “The Rock on Top: From King Kong to Dwayne Johnson’s Skyscraper.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 4 August 2018
Beeston, Alix. “From Early Photography to the Instagram Age.” Oxford University Press Blog, 24 April 2018
Beeston, Alix. “Looking Again at Women in Photography.” Wales Arts Review and George Eastman Museum Blog, 1 March 2018
Beeston, Alix. “What Do We Love When We Love Books by Dead Authors?” The Conversation Australia, July 2015