Amy Lawrence
Appointments
Professor of Film and Media Studies
Area of Expertise
Hollywood star studies ,
British film and television,
Sound studies,
Animation history and theory
Biography
Amy Lawrence has taught at Dartmouth since 1988. She teaches the Introduction to Film Course, film history, and courses on women and film, film sound, musicals, British film and television, animation history, and 50s melodrama. She has written on sound in film, feminist film issues, Hollywood stars, and contemporary animation. She also makes animated films.
Education
B.A. University of Southern California Cinema-Television
M.A. University of Southern California Cinema-Television
Ph.D. University of Southern California Cinema-Television
Publications
- The Passion of Montgomery Clift (California, 2010)
"Paranormal Survivors: Validating the Struggling Middle Class" Journal of Popular Film and Television, 45:4, 2017
"Bruised and Confused: Helen Morgan and the Limits of Pathos," Film History 25:3, 2013.
“Italian American: Rudolph Valentino, Modernism and the 1920s” in Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s ed. Patrice Petro (Rutgers 2010)
- “James Mason: A Star is Born Bigger than Life” in Larger than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s ed. R. Barton Palmer (Rutgers 2010)
- “Counterfeit Motion: The Animated Films of Eadweard Muybridge,” Film Quarterly , 57:2 (Winter 2004) 15-25.
- “Marlene Dietrich: The Voice as Mask” in Dietrich Icon ed. Gerd Gemunden, Mary Desjardins (Duke 2007)
- The Films of Peter Greenaway , (1997).
- Echo and Narcissus: Women’s Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema , (1991).
Works in Progress
paranormal reality television
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