Marsha McCreadie has written about women and film throughout her career as a professor at Rutgers University and as a film critic at the "Arizona Republic". She has published numerous reviews and essays for such publications as "Films in Review, American Film, Premiere, The New York Times", and "The Los Angeles Times", and is the author of three books on women and film, one of which, "Women on Film: The Critical Eye", won the Dartmouth College Award for Best Dramatic Criticism and the Choice Outstanding Book Award for 1983.