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Lucy Fischer

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Born: August 21 1945

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Lucy Fischer is a Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies and directed the Film Studies Program at Pitt for three decades. Beyond teaching she has also had film curatorial experience at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Her interests in film studies are wide ranging and include international cinema of both the silent and sound era as well as narrative and experimental film.

Her particular fields include cultural and feminist studies, film theory, film aesthetics, women and film, film and literature, and the relationships between film, consciousness and desire. Aside from publishing 9 books, her articles have appeared in many journals, including: Screen, Film History, Sight and Sound, Camera Obscura, Wide Angle, Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, Film Criticism, Women and Performance, Frauen und Film, and Film Quarterly.

Her essays have been anthologized 30 times in volumes of film history, criticism, and theory. She has lectured internationally in Israel, Switzerland, Holland, Austria, Scotland, Great Britain, Portugal, and Australia and has taught abroad in Germany, Sweden, and on the Semester at Sea program of the University of Pittsburgh . She recently completed editing an issue of the Portuguese journal, Anglo-Saxonia, and her latest book, Cinema by Design: Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History.

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Lucy Fischer

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Books from Lucy Fischer

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema

Imitation of Life

Glamour in a Golden Age: Movie Stars of the 1930s

Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s

American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations

Enfant Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film

Teaching Film

Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre

Art Direction and Production Design

Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form

Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema

Kosmorama #268 (June 2017): Art Nouveau, Production Design, and the Contemporary Horror Film

Cinemagritte: Ren� Magritte Within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice

Cinema by Design: Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History

Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre (Princeton Legacy Library)

Birds of Paradise: Costume as Cinematic Spectacle

Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

Recollecting Collecting: A Film and Media Perspective

Recollecting Collecting: A Film and Media Perspective