Author Mary Hamer

Mary Hamer

Mary Hamer taught at Cambridge before taking up fellowships at Harvard. She is a cultural historian, publishing widely on representation as it intersects with politics and history. Topics include the image of Cleopatra and the understanding of incest and abuse. Her novel Kipling & Trix, was awarded the Virginia Prize.

Looking for Truth: Elia Kazan’s East of Eden and post-Korean War America

January 2022

Feature Articles

The talk at the supermarket checkout was all of Sam Mendes’ film 1917 (2019). It had picked up three Oscars, just the night before. “Why it did, I don’t know,” said one woman. “I just walked out of that fil...