The following entries are a sample of Olympia’s writing:
Books
Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom Comedy, and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Virginia Grey: Good Luck Charm – forthcoming with University Press of Kentucky
Book Chapters
Website
Articles
“Our Timeless Romance With Screwball Comedy,” Zócalo Public Square, February 6, 2024 (Also published in The Desert Sun and The Saturday Evening Post)
“Book Review – Interpreting and Experiencing Disney: Mediating the Mouse edited by Priscilla Hobbs” Cineaste (Winter 2023)
“Book Review – Hollywood Screwball Comedy, 1934–1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals by Grégoire Halbout,” Studies in American Humor, Vol. 9, No. 1 (November 2023): 181-184. Article behind paywall. Available for purchase here.
“Book Review – The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star by Catherine Russell” Cineaste (Summer 2023). Read an exerpt here.
“Virginia Grey: the luck of the draw,” Sight and Sound (April 2023). Article behind paywall. Issue available to purchase here.
Dust jacket blurb for Gloria Shin’s Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022). Available here.
“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 Top, September 30, 2022
“Carole Lombard’s Early Career Hurdle,” Breakfast at Dominique’s, September 6, 2022
“Notebook Primer: Screwball Comedy,” MUBI’s Notebook, January 6, 2022
“‘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. Article behind paywall. Available for purchase here.
“Carole Lombard as a Transcendental Comic,” Film Matters Vol. 3, Issue 4 (December 2012): 23-27. Article behind paywall. Available for purchase here.
Olympia Kiriakou 