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Amy Lawrence

Professor of Film and Media Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature
Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies

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Departments and Programs

  • Comparative Literature
  • Film & Media Studies
  • Women's and Gender Studies

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Contact Information

Email: amy.lawrence@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3834
Office: 6194 Wilson Hall

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

Areas of Expertise

Avant garde film and poetry; women and Third World film; British film and television; animation history and theory

Selected Works

  • "Two Sisters: Animated Films by Faith Hubley and Caroline Leaf," in Women and Experimental Filmmaking, J. Petrolle and V. W. Wexman (eds.), (2005), 193-201.
  • "Counterfeit Motion: The Animated Films of Eadweard Muybridge," Film Quarterly, 57:2 (Winter 2004) 15-25.
  • "Trapped in a Tomb of Their Own Making: The American Family and Domestic Architecture in Sirk and Ophuls," Filmn Culture, G. Gemunden and E. Rentschler (eds.), 23:2-3 (Winter/Spring 1999) 150-166.
  • The Films of Peter Greenaway, (1997).
  • Echo and Narcissus: Women's Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema, (1991).

Current Projects

  • "Marlene Dietrich: The Voice as Mask;" "The Face of a Saint: Montgomery Clift and I Confess;" "Re-Producing Muybridge;" "The Beating Human Heart: GE and the Image Archive;" "Constructing a Priest, Silencing a Saint: The PCA and I Confess:" "Dead Animals in Motion: Eadweard Muybridge and the Representation of Animals"