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David Greven is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, USA. His books include Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese and Friedkin; The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender; and Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature. Greven's essays on film have been published in journals such as the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, Genders, Jump Cut, CineAction, and Cineaste and he is on the editorial boards of Cinema Journal, Genders, and Poe Studies.
David Greven's 2011 study is an intriguing exploration into the woman's film ... The project sets a high bar in utilizing both feminist and gay readings of the woman's film, and insightfully synthesizes these theories ... The overall project is clearly written and thoroughly researched ... The study is an engaging read. - American Studies Today David Greven sets out to give a reading of femininity and its representation in film which is founded, like Freud's Oedipus theory, in classical mythology, and also takes into account queer perspectives ... [The] book is well structured and clear, and Greven makes a strong case for the relationship between the modern horror film and earlier women's films in terms of the representations of femininity and sexuality in the two. His ideas are clearly explored and well backed up, and the text makes for an interesting and engaging read. - Journal of American Studies
