Suzanne Leonard, Assistant Professor of English at Simmons College, discusses celebrity culture and the discourse around contemporary romance and marriage. Her interview is the first in a series with contributors from the collection, Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History. The interview explores her essay from the collection, “The ‘True Love’ of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton,” as well as her essay in the journal Flow “That’s all I intend to share right now” (analyzing The Good Wife and contemporary political marriages), celebrity culture, as well as her research methods. The interview was conducted September 2010 and is also linked to the ideas developed in Feminism 3.0 website (feminism in a networked age).
