Drake Stutesman

Drake Stutesman edits Framework The Journal of Cinema and Media, is a novelist and nonfiction writer, and holds a PhD in literature/film. Her cultural history, Snake (Reaktion Books), was published in 2005 and she is now writing a biography of milliner/couturier, Mr. John, who designed for Garbo, Dietrich, Monroe and many more. Her articles on costume design and fashion have appeared in BFI and MoMA publications, in the 2006 Schirmer’s Encyclopedia of Film and the forthcoming The Women’s Film Pioneer Source Book. Her interviews with directors, writers and costume designers include all honorees for New York’s long running Designing Hollywood award ceremony. Co-chair of The Women’s Film Preservation Fund, she also co-programs the WFPF films for MoMA’s annual Save and Project series. She lived in London for twenty years, working as a researcher and a literature/film teacher in University and in prison and ran the East West Gallery performance/reading series.