Marcia Pally

Marcia Deborah Pally (born ) is an American author, journalist and academic.John B. Harer & Jeanne Harrel, "Marcia Pally: Sense and Censorship", in John B. Harer & Jeanne Harrel, People for and Against Restricted or Unrestricted Expression, 126-129 (2002) She is known for her work in the fields of culture and religion, freedom of expression,Edward de Grazia,Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius, 604ff (1992) Lori Saint-Martain, "Feminism and the Anti-Porn Movement" in Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, G. Brollotte & J. Phillips (eds.), pp. 455-459 (2007)A. Kama & A. First, Exclusion: Mediated Representations of Others, pp. 141-142 (2015), and politics and the common good,David Brooks, "How Covenants Make Us", The New York Times, April 5, 2016] and as a danceMarcia Pally, "Dance 'Carmen' Comes to the City Center", The New York Times, January 27, 1985 and film critic.FIPRESCI: The International Federation of Film Critics Pally teaches at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, is a member of Princeton Theological Seminary,Center of Theological Inquiry and is a permanent fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
==Academic career==
Pally earned a B.Sc. from the Cornell University College of Human Ecology at Cornell University in 1971,"Bachelor of Science: Human Ecology", The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 87, Number 135, June 4, 1971, p. 11 and a master's degree in dance and choreography from University of California, Los Angeles in 1974 for her thesis "Fragmented Sequences as a form of Choreography".Pally, Marcia Deborah."Master's thesis: Fragmented sequences as a form of choreography" (1974) In 1995, she received a doctorate (Doctor of Education) from New York University for her dissertation "Lingua franca: Film criticism as a content-based ESL text for the development of critical thinking".Marcia Pally, "Lingua franca: Film criticism as a content-based ESL text for the development of critical thinking", Doctoral Dissertation, UCLA, 1995 Pally is an adjunct professor of Teaching English as a second or foreign language at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.Marcia Pally, NYU She is also a regular guest professor at the Theology Faculty of Humboldt University of Berlin."Marcia Pally", Humboldt University"Marcia Pally", Deutsche Times In 2007 and 2010 she was a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.Humboldt University Berlin She is a member of Princeton Theological Seminary, where, in 2019-2020, she was a member-in-residence.Insights, Newsletter of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Feb., 2020 Pally is a permanent fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities,Fellows of the New York Institute for the Humanities a member of the advisory board of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute,Advisory Board, Telos-Paul Piccone Institute and of the editorial board of Telos (journal).Telos
== Journalism, media, and social engagement==
Pally began her journalistic career as the arts editor, and a critic and columnist at the New York Native,"Marcia Pally, Contributor, The Village Voice; former Arts Editor, New York Native", Gay Community News, May 19, 1984, p. 9Marcia Pally, "The Return of Martin Guerre", New York Native, May 9–22, 1983, p. 49Marcia Pally, "The Fireworks at the Sexuality Conference: Whom Should Feminists Fuck", New York Native, May 24, 1982Gay Press Award for Excellence in Editorial and Commentary for Marcia Pally, "Fireworks at the Sexuality Conference" (Montrose Voice, No. 133, May 13, 1983, p.8) and has been a contributor to The Village Voice,Press reviews of "Illusions" The Advocate (LGBT magazine), Marcia Pally, "Lesbian Perspectives – Sorrow and Silk Stockings: The Woeful State of Femme", The Advocate, September 17, 1985Valerie Steele, "Where Cock is King, Go for the Codpiece", Valerie Steele, Fetish, Fashion, Sex & Power, 184, 220 fn. 35 (1996) Religion News Service,"Marcia Pally" at Religion News Service and The New York Times.Marcia Pally, "The New Evangelicals", The New York Times, December 9, 2011 She was also a senior editor of Penthouse Forum,Masthead, Forum, October 1986, p. 5 a contributing editor of Penthouse (magazine),Penthouse, July 1996, p.8 and was the magazine's film critic from 1987 to 1993.Marica Pally, Interview with Oliver Stone, Penthouse, April 1990Pally, Marcia: List of articles and reviews by Marcia Pally in Penthouse She has also been a film critic for such periodicals as Film CommentMax Nelson, "50 Years of Film Comment Part Three", Film Comment, November-December 2013 and Cineaste (magazine).Marcia Pally, "The Politics of Passion: Pedro Almodovar and the Camp Esthetic", Cinéaste 18, no. 1 (1990) p. 32 Since being sent to write about the Berlin Biennale "from ze aus-sider's point of view" in 1987,"Could you imagine?" in Marcia Pally, Liebeserklärungen aus Kreuzberg und Manhattan (Berlin University Press, 2009) p. 17 Pally has been a frequent contributor to Die Tageszeitung,Marcia Pally, "Kampf der Traumatisierten", Die Tageszeitung, January 23, 2021"Marcia Pally" at Taz Archiv and has written political and cultural columns for such German periodicals as Die Zeit,"Marcia Pally", Die Zeit Die Welt,Marcia Pally, "Wir Amerikaner waren schon früh brutal", Die Welt, January 1, 2011 and Süddeutsche Zeitung.Marcia Pally, "Trügerische Sehnsucht", Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010 In 2009, Berlin University Press published an anthology of her columns in the German press, Liebeserklärungen aus Kreuzberg und Manhattan.
In addition to her work in print media, Pally was the subject of In the Pictures (1977),"In the Pictures", Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, issue 24/25, March 1981, p. 90Oral History: Philip Mallory Jones (Part #1), Electronic Arts Intermix, a documentary about her as a choreographer, and the subject of a portrait by photographer Robert Giard that was one of the 182 portraits selected from among Giard's more than 500 portraits for publication in his book Particular Voices (1997).Particular Voices, MIT Press,1998Marcia Pally in Robert Giard, [https://archive.org/details/particularvoices00giar/page/290/mode/2up Particular Voices (MIT Press, 1997) p. 290 The portrait is now part of the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.Portrait of Marcia Pally by Robert Giard, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Pally was the co-host and a co-producer of Vito Russo's television series Our Time,Michael Schiavi,Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo (2011) p. 217) Lauren Herold, "Televisual Emotional
Pedagogy: AIDS, Affect, and Activism on Vito Russo’s Our Time," 21(1) Television & New Media 25-40 (2020)"Our Time" on YouTube and from 1990 to 1995, she co-hosted weekly film-review programs on WBAI radio with Stuart Klawans."Critic Checklist", Variety May 12–18, 1997, p. 22WBAI Folio, March/April 1993Marcia Pally, CV Pally also appeared in the documentaries Rights and Reactions: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial (1988),Pally representing GLAAD in "Rights and Reactions: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial" on YouTube (from 37:05) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989),"Common Threads", Vimeo"Common Threads", IMDb and Vito (film) |Vito (2011)."Vito", IMDbMarcia Pally at IMDb
Pally was one of the first women journalists to address the HIV/AIDS crisis.Paula A. Treichler, "AIDS, Gender, and Biomedical Discourse: Current Contests for Meaning", in AIDS: The Burdens of History (Elizabeth Fee & Daniel M. Fox, eds.) (1988) p. 216Marcia Pally, "AIDS and the Politics of Despair: Lighting Our Own Funeral Pyre", The Advocate, December 24, 1985, p. 8[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1527476418813440 
Lauren Herold,"Televisual Emotional Pedagogy: AIDS, Affect, and Activism on Vito Russo’s Our Time, 21(1) Television & New Media 25 (2018)]“Our Time”, Episode 4 – AIDS"Sex in the Age of AIDS", The Advocate (July 8, 1986) pp.41-47 (discussion of the AIDS crisis with Seth Cloutman, Martin Bauml Duberman, Stephan Greco, Marcia Pally, Darrel Yates Rist, and Vito Russo) She was also a member of the founding board of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD),Steven Capsuto, Alternate Channels, p. 254 (2000)Mark Thompson (ed.), Long Road to Freedom, (1994) p. 290Chris Freeman, "From rags to rich kudos," Variety, April 6, 2006) and served as the organization's vice chair and acting chair for some three years.Michael Schiavi, pp. 238-239"Media Watch Group meets with Time", Bay Area Reporter, March 17, 1988Elizabeth Pincus, "Politics or Ego: GLAAD Saga Unravelled", Gay Community News, March 1–7, 1987, p. 3 Her 1988 discussion of "AIDS, Homophobia and the Media" with Vito Russo and Jim Fouratt was one of 150 programs selected from the Pacifica Radio Archives for preservation under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.Pacifica Radio Archives
A long-time advocate for freedom of speech,Nadine Strossen, “Feminist Critique of the Feminist Critique of Pornography, An Essay,” 79 Va. L. Rev. 1099 (1993)Marianne Macy, Working Sex (1996) pp. 37, 57, 59, 76Marcia Pally addressing the 1985 Gay and Lesbian Press Association Conference sponsored by FACT - Feminists Against Censorship Task Force, (Lesbian Herstory Archives, Metropolitan New York Library Council) Pally founded and served as president of Feminists for Free Expression,Hathleen McCaughey, “Femmes. pornographie et liberté,” McGill Français Daily, vol. 82, n. 83 (16 March 1993) p. 14Joan Kennedy Taylor, "Feminism and Public Policy", Free Inquiry, Spring 1995 an organization originally established to oppose the Pornography Victims Compensation ActNadine Strossen, Defending Pornography, (1995) pp. 7, 33, 81,136Robert Trager & Donna L. Dickerson,Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century, (1999) p. 123 in what came to be known as the feminist sex wars. She also published such articles as "Women and Porn",Marcia Pally, "Women and Porn", Penthouse, November 1987, p. 40 "Porn Didn't Make Him Do It",Marcia Pally, "Porn Didn't Make Him Do It", The Washington Post, February 11, 1992 and "Out of Harm's Way: The Great Soothing Appeal of Censorship",Marcia Pally, "Out of Harm's Way: The Great Soothing Appeal of Censorship", SIECUS Report, October–November 1994, p. 3 the monograph Sense & Censorship: The Vanity of Bonfires,Marcia Pally, Sense & Censorship.pdf Sense & Censorship: The Vanity of Bonfires and the book Sex & Sensibility: Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor,Peter Keough, "Sex and Sensibility", Flesh and Blood: The National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence and Censorship, Peter Keough, ed., 258 (1995)Peter Keough, "America versus Hollywood", Flesh and Blood, ibid., 256 which was a 1995 Mencken Award finalist.Mencken Award Finalists Pally also served on the Media and Communications Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and as vice president of The Freedom to Read Foundation.John B. Harer & Jeanne Harrel, "Marcia Pally: Sense and Censorship", in John B. Harer & Jeanne Harrel, People for and Against Restricted or Unrestricted Expression, 127 (2002)
== Books ==
* Sense & Censorship: The Vanity of Bonfires (Media Coalition/Americans for Constitutional Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation,1991) ASIN ‎ B0006EZF3M
* Sex & Sensibility: Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor (Ecco Press, 1994) ISBN 978-0-88001-364-2
* Screening English: Studying Movies for Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking (Burgess International Group, 1997) ISBN 978-0-8087-7495-2
* Sustained Content-Based Teaching in Academic ESL/EFL (Marcia Pally & Nathalie Bailey, eds.) (Houghton-Mifflin, 2000) ISBN 978-0-395-96076-9
* Lob der Kritik: warum die Demokratie nicht auf ihren Kern verzichten darf (Berlin-Verlag, 2003) ISBN 3-8270-0462-4
* Warnung vor dem Freunde: Tradition und Zukunft US-amerikanischer Außenpolitik (Parthas, Berlin, 2008) ISBN 978-3-86601-601-9
* Die hintergründige Religion: der Einfluss des Evangelikalismus auf Gewissensfreiheit, Pluralismus und auf die US-amerikanische Politik (Berlin University Press, 2008) ISBN 978-3-940432-30-8
* Liebeserklärungen aus Kreuzberg und Manhattan (Berlin University Press, 2009) ISBN 978-3-940432-68-1
* Die neuen linken Evangelikalen in den USA: Freiheitsgewinne durch fromme Politik (Berlin University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-3-940432-93-3
* The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good (Eerdmans, 2011) ISBN 0-8801-364-8
* Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics: Politics, and Theologies of Relationality (Eerdmans, 2016) ISBN ‎ 978-0802871046
* Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines (Marcia Pally, ed.) (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) ISBN ‎ 978-1350057418
* From this Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen (T&T Clark, 2021) ISBN ‎ 978-0567694768
* White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here (Routledge, 2022) ISBN 978-1-003-22945-2
Category:American non-fiction writers
Category:Film critics