The essay, "What Happened in the Dressing Room," explores early cinema's fascination with backstage space and the relationship between interiority and the archive. It is also a supplement to her forthcoming book, The Dressing Room: Backstage Lives and American Film (Rutgers, 2025).
LALACS Assoc. Prof. Desiree Garcia's video essay is published in the 10th anniversary issue of the academic journal, inTransition: The Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies.
View the essay here.