Merrill Schleier
Merrill Schleier is Professor Emeritus of Art and Architectural History and Cinema Studies at the University of the Pacific, specializing in the relationship of urbanism, intersectional identities, and cinema. She is the author of the books Race and the Suburbs in American Film (SUNY 2021), Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film (UMP 2009) and The Skyscraper in American Art, 1890–1931 (DaCapo 1990). She has recently published on urban cinema in Stein, Halegoua, and Kredell, The Routledge Companion to Media and the City (2023); Matos, Massood and Robertson Wojcik, Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures (2021); and Baschiera and Di Rosa, Film and Domestic Space (2020). She has also published articles on such topics as cinematic production design and cinematic monuments in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, The Journal of Architecture, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film Studies, and The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
