Ella Taylor
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Ella Taylor is a film critic who was a staff writer for the LA Weekly
and Village Voice Media, writing film and book reviews, interviews, profiles, and cultural and political commentary from 1989 to 2009, when she and much of the staff were laid off.
She currently writes about film for npr.org, Village Voice Media, and the New York Times. She also reviews books for the Los Angeles Times, and she teaches in the Cinema School at the University of Southern California
.
She has also written for The Guardian (UK), The Boston Globe Magazine, The Village Voice, Mirabella, Elle, Newsday
, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and the LA Times Book Review.
She has worked in radio, as co-host of KPCC-FM's weekly “Filmweek,” and has appeared on television on KCET-TV on Los Angeles and on BRAVO and the Independent Film Channel
.
She's won several awards, including the Greater Los Angeles Press Club National Entertainment Journalism Award in Film Criticism (2008), and the National Entertainment Journalism Award in Film Criticism (2007).
She's the author of the book Prime-Time Families: Television Culture in Post-War America, and a contributor to Quentin Tarantino Interviews, Gerald Peary
(ed.), and to 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Steven Jay Schneider (ed.).
She earned a B.A. in Sociology from the London School of Economics
, an M.A. Sociology of Mass Communications at Leicester University (UK), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University
.
She lives in Santa Monica.
LA Weekly
LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...
and Village Voice Media, writing film and book reviews, interviews, profiles, and cultural and political commentary from 1989 to 2009, when she and much of the staff were laid off.
She currently writes about film for npr.org, Village Voice Media, and the New York Times. She also reviews books for the Los Angeles Times, and she teaches in the Cinema School at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
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She has also written for The Guardian (UK), The Boston Globe Magazine, The Village Voice, Mirabella, Elle, Newsday
Newsday
Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area...
, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and the LA Times Book Review.
She has worked in radio, as co-host of KPCC-FM's weekly “Filmweek,” and has appeared on television on KCET-TV on Los Angeles and on BRAVO and the Independent Film Channel
Independent Film Channel
The Independent Film Channel is an American cable TV network that airs independent film and related programming. IFC programming includes commercially interrupted feature-length films, original documentaries, shorts, animated series, original series, acquired series, and content exclusively for...
.
She's won several awards, including the Greater Los Angeles Press Club National Entertainment Journalism Award in Film Criticism (2008), and the National Entertainment Journalism Award in Film Criticism (2007).
She's the author of the book Prime-Time Families: Television Culture in Post-War America, and a contributor to Quentin Tarantino Interviews, Gerald Peary
Gerald Peary
Gerald Peary is an American film critic, who has been a reviewer and columnist for the Boston Phoenix since 1996. He was formerly the Acting Curator of the Harvard Film Archive and is currently the General Editor of the University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Filmmakers Series...
(ed.), and to 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Steven Jay Schneider (ed.).
She earned a B.A. in Sociology from the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
, an M.A. Sociology of Mass Communications at Leicester University (UK), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
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She lives in Santa Monica.