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Kathryn Fuller-Seeley

Kathryn Fuller-Seeley (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1993) is Associate Professor whose work specializes in film history. Fuller-Seeley is the author of four books that relate to various aspect of American film history: The Cinema in Non-Metropolitan American from Its Origins to the Multiplex (California forthcoming; co-edited with G. Potamianos), Celebrate Richmond Theatre (Smithsonian 1996), At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture (Virginia 2001), and Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy (Cambridge 1996, with G. Jowatt and I. Jarvie). She is completing work on a book project relating to the history of movie exhibitions in Cooperstown, New York. Her research has also appeared in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Film History: An International Journal, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and Film and History, and she has authored six book chapters relating to media history topics. Fuller-Seeley has been the recipient of fellowships from the NEH and the Smithsonian Institute. In 2000 she received a Young Alumnae award from Agnes Scott College. She recently served as Project Scholar for a film documentary focusing on Mary Pickford aired as a PBS series in 2005. Research Areas: Media history; audiences and exhibition. Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Moving Image Studies), M.A. (Film & Video). Core Graduate Seminars Regularly Taught: Media Historiography; Narrative and Genre; Film History.