Emily Carman is an assistant professor of film studies in the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. She is the author of Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System (2016), published by University of Texas Press and co-editor of Hollywood and the Law (2015), published by on BFI Press-Palgrave-MacMillian. She has published articles in Cinephile, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Celebrity Studies, and The Moving Image.