Lucy Fischer
Distinguished Professor of English
Director of film Studies
412-624-6551
lfischer@pitt.edu
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Lucy Fischer's many publications include articles in Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, Screen, and Wide Angle and the books Jacques Tati, Imitation of Life, Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema, Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre and Sunrise and Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco and The Female Form.
She directs the interdisciplinary Film Studies Program, serves on the editorial boards of The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Wayne State University Press Contemporary Film and Television Series, and Journal of Film and Video and regularly teaches graduate courses such as Maternal Discourse in Film, Cinema and Desire, The Body in Cinema, and Women and Film.
Teaching
Graduate Courses
- Desire and The Cinema
- Film and Modernism
- Film History/Theory
- Women and Film
- Film and Literature
- Comic Theory and Cinema
- Maternal Discourse and Cinema
- The Film Body
- Cinema and Nation
Undergraduate Courses
- Advanced Seminar in Film Studies
- Film Analysis
- Film and Literature
- Women and Film
- Film Comedy
- Contemporary International Film
- Orson Welles
- World Film History
Other Duties & Service
- Director, Film Studies Program
- Member, Humanities Council
- Member, Library Film Advisory Committee
- Member, Cultural Studies Program
- Member, Women's Studies Program
- Member, Jewish Studies Program
