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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

 

LUCY FISCHER

 

“La Vie en Noir: Melodrama and the Biopic”

 

Lucy Fischer is a Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh where she directed the Film Studies Program for thirty years.  She is the author of eleven books: Jacques Tati , Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema, Imitation of Life, Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre, Sunrise, Designing Women: Art Deco, Cinema and the Female Form, Stars: The Film Reader, American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations, Teaching Film, Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema (2013) and Art Direction. She has held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art and The Carnegie Museum of Art, and has been the recipient of both a National Endowment for the Arts Art Critics Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors. She has served as President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and received its Distinguished Service Award.

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