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Robin Blaetz
Associate Professor of Film Studies
Chair of Film Studies
Specialization
Experimental film, historical film, film and modernism, French and Italian film history, Joan of Arc in film and culture
Robin
Blaetz teaches Introduction to Film, History of World Cinema, and
Experimental Film, as well as courses in documentary film and various
genres, including the musical and science fiction. Her scholarly work
centers on women and film. She focuses on both the work of little-known
women avant-garde filmmakers and the representation of women in
historical film.
Blaetz is the author of an anthology entitled Women’s Experimental
Cinema: Critical Frameworks (Duke University Press, 2007). The book,
written with the aid of a grant from the American Association of
University Women, offers critical contextualization of 15 of the most
significant women experimental filmmakers working in the United States
between 1960 and 1990. Blaetz wrote the introduction and contributed an
essay about Marjorie Keller to the project, with other entries written
by some of the most respected scholars in the field of film studies. As
part of this project, Blaetz hopes to make the often-ignored films of
women artists more prominent through increased exposure and restoration.
Blaetz also wrote Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and
Culture (University of Virginia Press, 2001), which examines the image
of the fifteenth-century French heroine in the United States over the
course of the twentieth century. Using films and myriad popular culture
sources, including literature, drama, visual art, advertising, song,
criticism, and propaganda, Blaetz looks at the ways in which Joan of
Arc’s androgyny, virginity, and sacrificial victimhood were evoked in
relation to the evolving roles of women during war. Visions of the Maid
was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2002.
(Photo by Mary Noble Ours)
News Links:
"Blaetz Reviews New Tinsel Town Tome," Chicago Tribune, April 5, 2008
"Celebration of Faculty Accomplishments February 25," Office of Communications, February 18, 2008
"MHC Profs Teach Online Courses," Office of Communications, September 6, 2007
"2006 Baccalaureate Address," Office of Communications, May 27, 2006
"Film Studies Scholar Robin Blaetz: Exploring the Language of Imagery," College Street Journal, February 8, 2002
"Film Scholar Robin Blaetz Explores the Language of Imagery," Vista, summer 2002
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