Olympia Kiriakou

Books

Virginia Grey: Good Luck Charm (forthcoming with the University Press of Kentucky)

Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy

Book Chapters

“‘Please Don’t Censor Hamilton’: Disney+, Social Media Fandom, and Censorship,” in Fan Phenomena: Disney

Selected Essays

“But What if I Don’t Want Him Under Those Terms?”: Adaptation, Marriage, and Performance in The Women (1939),” Quarterly Review of Film and Video Vol. 42, No. 1 (2025), 117 – 134

“Our Timeless Romance With Screwball Comedy,” Zócalo Public Square, February 8, 2024 (syndicated in The Saturday Evening Post and Desert Sun News)

“All Hail The Screwball Queen,” Bright Wall/Dark Room, Issue 135: Screwballs (syndicated at RogerEbert.com)

“Virginia Grey: the luck of the draw,” Sight and Sound, April 2023

“Notebook’s 15th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2022,” MUBI’s Notebook, December 27, 2022

“Le Vertige Adjani: Marilyn Monroe, Liminal Stardom And Legacy,” Girls on Tops, September 30, 2022

“’There is Nothin’ Like a Dame:’ Female Stardom and Performance in Pre-Code Cinema,” MUBI’s Notebook, February 1, 2022

“Notebook Primer: Screwball Comedy,” MUBI’s Notebook, January 6, 2022

“Big Name Fandom and the (inevitable) failure of Disflix,” Transformative Works and Cultures, September 2019

“Meet Me At the Purple Wall: The Disney ‘Lifestyler’ Influence on Disney Parks Merchandise,” In Media Res, March 26, 2018

“‘Ricky, this is amazing!’: Disney nostalgia, new media users, and the extreme fans of the WDW Kingdomcast,” Journal of Fandom Studies Vol. 5, Issue 1 (March 2017), 99-112

Book Reviews

Andrew J. Rausch, Dave Wain, and Matty Budrewicz’s “We Must Shoot!”: The Life and Art of Gary Graver, Cineaste, Spring 2026 (forthcoming)

Robert Hofler’s The Way They Were: How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen, Cineaste, Fall 2025

Robert Dance’s Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom, Cineaste, Fall 2025 (web exclusive)

Nat Segaloff’s The Naughty Bits: What The Censors Wouldn’t Let You See in Hollywood’s Most Famous Movies, Cineaste, Winter 2024

Wes D. Gehring’s Kinds of American Film Comedy: Six Core Genres and their Literary Roots, Cineaste, Summer 2024

Interpreting and Experiencing Disney: Mediating the Mouse ed. Priscilla Hobbs, Cineaste, Winter 2023

Catherine Russell’s The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star, Cineaste, Fall 2023

Grégoire Halbout’s Hollywood Screwball Comedy, 1934–1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals, Studies in American Humor Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)

Book Endorsements

Simone O. Elias, Old Films, Young Eyes: A Teenage Take on Hollywood’s Golden Age (McFarland, 2024)

Gloria Shin, Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)