Katherine Marrufo-Rosario is a graduate student at UCLA and a film scholar from Los Angeles. She holds a B.A. in Film from Portland State University. Her research interests focus on early Hollywood and Pre-Code cinema, particularly the film industry’s transition into the Production Code era and its relationship to the political and social climate of the time such as the blacklist. She is especially interested in how censorship and restrictions from the Code-era shaped the representation of women in American cinema, as well as how the industry negotiated changing expectations surrounding gender, sexuality, and most defining for the time, morality. Her work examines the ways these industrial and cultural shifts influenced both the stories Hollywood told and the women it portrayed on screen. If she were to choose Chaplin or Buster Keaton, she’d choose Keaton.
Research and Creative Interests
Pre-Code, Code era, Silent film, Classical studio era, Censorship
Education
Film, BA, Portland State University
M.A., Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA