Ella Taylor is a

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who was a staff writer for the ''

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'' 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

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, and the New York ''Times''. She also reviews books for the Los Angeles ''Times'', and she teaches in the Cinema School at the

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. She has also written for ''The Guardian'' (UK), The ''Boston Globe Magazine'', The ''

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'', ''Mirabella'', ''Elle'',''

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'', 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

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and the

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. 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 (born October 30, 1944) is an American film critic, filmmaker, editor of the University Press of Mississippi, and a former curator of the Harvard Film Archive. Early life and education Peary graduated from Rider University in 1964, w ...

(ed.), and to ''1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die'', Steven Jay Schneider (ed.). She earned a B.A. in Sociology from the

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, an M.A. Sociology of Mass Communications at Leicester University (UK), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from

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Bibliography

*''Prime-Time Families: Television Culture in Post-War America'' (1991)

References

External links

Ella Taylor at npr.orgElla Taylor archives at laweekly.comElla Taylor at New York TimesElla Taylor at Los Angeles TimesElla Taylor at The Guardian (UK)Ella Tayor at Rotten Tomatoes
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