Essays

Click the images to read recently published essays and reviews (or see the full list below)

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Peer-reviewed articles and chapters:

Book reviews:

  • Forthcoming: 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, 2024
  • 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. Introduction to special series, “Judging by its Cover,” Visualities forum, Modernism/modernity Print Plus (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

If you don’t have access to any paywalled publications and you’d like to request one or more of them as PDFs, please feel free to contact Alix via email.