Some Recent Work
For WBUR and WBUR’s The ARTery:
Below are a few highlights. A comprehensive and current list of contributions to WBUR can be found at: www.wbur.org/staff/erin-trahan
Linda Black at her beloved West Newton Cinema with its owner David Bramante.
Radio:
- Roxbury-Made ‘Memoirs Of A Black Girl’ Brings Emerging Filmmaker Into Her Own, aired June 16, 2021
- 91-Year-Old Pens Love Letter To Her Favorite Local Movie Theater, aired Oct. 23, 2020
- After Filmmaker’s Death, Her Husband And A Longtime Collaborator Work To Finish Her Last Film, aired July 3, 2019
- Inmates And MIT Students Team Up To Turn A Blank Wall Into A Lasting Experience, aired Jan. 25, 2019
- ‘SMILF’ Audaciously Refashions The Boston ‘Tough Guy’ Facade Often Seen On Screen, aired Jan. 18, 2019
Film and TV News & Reviews:
- Two Environmental Film Events Merge Global Concerns With Local Action, WBUR.org, May 25, 2021
- Old, New, And Weird: New Boston Indie Film Company Brings Fresh Energy To Distribution, WBUR.org, April 15, 2021
- New Film Series ‘Shared Stories’ Centers The BIPOC Experience, WBUR.org, Feb. 25, 2021
- With Great Humanity, ‘Nomadland’ Acknowledges A Distinctly American Grief, WBUR.org, Feb. 19, 2021
- Documentary ‘Picture A Scientist’ Spells Out Collective Cost Of Sexism Within Science, WBUR.org, June 10, 2020
Books:
- Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestoes (Routledge, 2019), contributor
- Frommer’s co-author of guides to Boston, New England, Montreal
Book Reviews:
- Who Are You Calling Old? Brandeis Scholar Argues For An End To Ageism WBUR.org, August 15, 2017
“Ending Ageism” and other books by Margaret Morganroth Gullette.
- Trouser Roles: “Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema” By Laura Horak Women’s Review of Books, Jan/Feb 2017
- Add These To Your Queue: “Women’s Cinema, World Cinema” By Patricia White Women’s Review of Books, Nov/Dec 2015
Essays and Op-Eds:
- ‘Spotlight’ Brings This Film Critic Back To Her Catholic Roots — And Rebellion, WBUR.org, Nov. 2, 2015
- Introduction: A Conversation Between Robert Gardner and Peter Matthiessen, AGNI Online, 2014
- Bad Girls from Bay City in Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop, Soft Skull, March 2012