Mary Desjardins - Dept. Chair - Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies. Mary Desjardins received her PhD in Cinema-TV from USC. Before coming to Dartmouth, she taught at UC Santa Barbara and the UT Austin. Articles in: Film Quarterly, Camera Obscura, The Velvet Light-Trap, Quarterly Review Of Film And Video, Vectors, and The Spectator. She also has book chapters in Television, History, and American Culture; Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire; Headline Hollywood: 100 Years Of Film Scandal; Communities Of The Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture; Fires Were Started: British Cinema And Thatcherism; and Questioning The Media. ] A recent collection of essays on Marlene Dietrich, Dietrich Icon, which she co-edited by Gerd Gemunden, was published by Duke University Press in 2007. Her forthcoming book is Recycled Stars: Female Stardom in the Age of Television and Video. Mary is also on the planning board of Console-ing Passions: Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism, and on the advisory board for “She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio,” a permanent collection at the Paley Center for Television and Radio. Areas of teaching specialty include: media history, film and television stardom, feminist theory, gender and the media, feminist filmmaking, melodrama.
Office: 308 Wilson.
Phone: (603) 646-0237.
Mary.Desjardins@Dartmouth.eduCheryl Coutermarsh - Department Administrator. Cheryl Coutermarsh is the Department Adminstrator for Film and Television Studies. Please contact Cheryl for any information about the department.
Office: 319 Wilson.
Phone: (603) 646-3402.
Cheryl.Coutermarsh@Dartmouth.eduJim Brown - Senior Lecturer of Film and Television Studies. Jim Brown received his MFA from New York University's Graduate School of Film and Television in 1981. He worked as a freelance director - cinematographer in New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, and ran his own film and video company, True North Productions, out of New York and Vermont. His experience includes narrative, documentary, industrial, music videos and commercials. He began teaching at Dartmouth in 1990. His special interests are independent filmmaking and cinematography. He teaches both the introductory and advanced film production courses as well as a course on directing actors for film and a course on the history of American independent filmmakers. FS. 31, FS. 32, FS. 41 and FS. 11.
Office: 308 Wilson.
Phone: (603) 646-3835.
James.E.Brown@Dartmouth.eduPeter Ciardelli - Audio Visual Specialist. Peter Ciardelli received his BA in Theater from the University of Vermont and his MFA in Media Studies (Film Production) from the University of New Orleans. He has worked on music video, commercial, television and feature film projects in a variety of capacities including prop master and assistant film editor.
Phone: 603 (646-3132).
Peter.A.Ciardelli@Dartmouth.eduDavid Ehrlich - Visiting Professor Film and Television Studies, MALS, AMES. Guest Professor of Animation at Beijing Film Academy. David Ehrlich studied at Cornell University, UC-Berkeley and Columbia University. His 1978 work OEDIPUS AT COLONUS was the first animated hologram ever shown at festivals in Annecy and Zagreb. His award- winning abstract films are held in the collections of MOMA, Pacific Film Archive, the ASIFA Archive in Berlin and the International Animation Library in Tokyo. Ehrlich has produced many international animation collaborations, including the 1987 ACADEMY LEADER VARIATIONS, which won a special jury prize at Cannes. Ehrlich has been on the Executive Board of ASIFA (The International Animators Association) since 1988 and served as Vice-President of that organization for six years. He teaches courses in Animation Production, Animation History, Asian Animation, Chinese Film (with Prof. Mowry), Music and Animation (with Prof. Dong), and Representation of the Creative Artist in Film.
Office: 224 Clement Hall.
Phone: (603) 646-3148.
David.Ehrlich@Dartmouth.edu
Professor Ehrlich's WebsiteGerd Gemünden - Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, chair of the German department. He studied German, English and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon (Ph.D. 1988). His specialties include Critical Theory and cultural studies, 20th Century German literature, and the history and theory of German cinema. He is the author of Die hermeneutische Wende: Disziplin und Sprachlosigkeit nach 1800 (1990); Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination (1998); and Filmemacher mit Akzent: Billy Wilder in Hollywood (2006). His volumes as editor include Wim Wenders: Einstellungen (1993); The Cinema of Wim Wenders (1997); Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections (2002); as well as special issues of New German Critique on the director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Film and Exile. A volume on Marlene Dietrich, co-edited with Mary Desjardins (Film Studies), will be published next year by Duke University Press.
Office: 330 Dartmouth Hall
Phone: (603) 646-2491.
Gerd.Gemunden@dartmouth.eduAmy Lawrence - Professor, Film and Television Studies, Women's Studies, Comparative Literature. 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, 50s melodrama, avant garde film, animation history, and film theory. She has written on sound in film, feminist film issues, Hollywood stars, and contemporary animation. She also makes animated films.
Office: 318 Wilson.
Phone: (603) 646-3834.
Amy.Lawrence@Dartmouth.eduBill Phillips - Visiting Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies. Bill Phillips is a screenwriter who has worked for most of the major Hollywood studios, networks and cable companies and has directed one feature. He's been a member of the Writers Guild since 1980. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1971 as a Senior Fellow in Film and received an MFA from USC in 1973. At Dartmouth, he teaches screenwriting I and II, a Freshman Seminar in Screen Adaptation, and Screenwriting in the MALS program. With the exception of one year at Boston University, where he taught directing and screenwriting to undergraduates and graduate students.
William.F.Phillips@Dartmouth.eduJeffrey Ruoff - Associate Professor Film and Television Studies. Jeffrey Ruoff is a film historian and documentary filmmaker. With his brother Kenneth, he co-authored a book on The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On and historical memory in postwar Japan. An American Family: A Televised Life, his study of the 1973 public television series, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2002. His anthology Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel was published by Duke University Press in 2006. His films and videos, including Hacklebarney Tunes: The Music of Greg Brown (1993) and The Last Vaudevillian (1998), have been shown at festivals and on television in the United States and abroad. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. from Temple University.
Office: 213 Wilson.
Phone: (603) 646-1553
Jeffrey.K.Ruoff@Dartmouth.edu
Professor Ruoff's WebsiteMark Williams - Associate Professor Film and Television Studies. Mark Williams is an Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies. He received both of his graduate degrees from The School of Cinema-Television at The University of Southern California. His courses at Dartmouth include surveys of U.S. and international film history, television history and theory, and new media history and theory. He has published in a variety of journals and anthologies, including New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality; Collecting Visible Evidence; Dietrich Icon; Television, History, and American culture : Feminist Critical Essays; and Living Color: Race, Feminism, and Television. In 2005, he directed a Leslie Center Humanities Institute entitled Cyber-Disciplinarity. With Adrian Randolph, he co-edits Interfaces, a University Press of New England book series on visual culture. In conjunction with the Dartmouth College Library, he is initiating an e-journal, The Journal of e-Media Studies. His book Remote Possibilities, a history of early television in Los Angeles, will be published by Duke University Press.
Office: 317 Wilson.
Phone: (603) 646-3836
Mark.J.Williams@Dartmouth.eduJoanna E. Rapf - Visiting Professor Film and Television Studies. Joanna E. Rapf is a Professor of English and Film & Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma, but since 1978, has regularly taught as a Visitor at Dartmouth. Her father, Maurice Rapf '35, is a screenwriter and Emeritus Director of Film Studies here. Her grandfather, Harry Rapf, was one of the three founders of MGM. Joanna, who received her Ph.D. from Brown University, is the author of books on Buster Keaton and "On the Waterfront," and is currently working on one about director Sidney Lumet.
Phone: (603) 646-3402
Joanna.E.Rapf@dartmouth.edu
