Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University American history May 1993

M.A. Johns Hopkins University American history May 1990

B.A. Agnes Scott College History (with high honor) June 1982

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor, Film Studies Georgia State University 2003-present

Associate Professor, History Virginia Commonwealth University 2000-2003

Assistant Professor, History Virginia Commonwealth University 1994 - 2000

Visiting Asst Prof. Media & Am. Studies Hampshire College 1992--1994

Instructor, Women's Studies Program Johns Hopkins University Spring 1992

PUBLICATIONS -- BOOKS

The Cinema in Non-Metropolitan America from Its Origins to the Multiplex. Co-edited by Kathryn H. Fuller and George Potamianos (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming).

Celebrate Richmond Theater, with photographs edited and compiled by Elisabeth Dementi and Wayne Dementi (Richmond: Dietz Press, 2002).

At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture, (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001; originally, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996)

Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy, co-authored by Garth Jowett, Ian C. Jarvie and Kathryn H. Fuller (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Work in Progress: "Bert and Fannie Cook: a Biographical Study of Early Cinema's Transformation of Mass Culture in Cooperstown, New York."

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

"Learning to Live with Television: technology, gender and America's early TV audiences," in The Columbia History of Television, ed. Gary Edgerton (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming).

"'What the Picture Did for Me:' Small Town Exhibitors and the Great Depression," in The Cinema in Rural America from Its Origins to the Multiplex, ed. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and George Potamianos (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming).

"Dish Night at the Movies: Exhibitors and Female Audiences during the Great Depression," in In the Absence of Film, edited by Eric Smoodin and Jon Lewis (Durham: Duke U. Press, forthcoming).

"'You Can Have the Strand in Your Own Town:' The Marginalization of Small Town Exhibition in the Silent Film Era," in Moviegoing in America, ed. Greg Waller (New York: Blackwell Press, 2002), p. 88-98.

"At the Picture Show: Nickelodeon Nomenclature," in Exhibition: The Film Reader, ed. Ina Rae Hark (New York: Routledge Press, 2002), pp. 41-49.

"Selected Bibliography: Additional Sources for Researching Television History and Cultural Geography," in Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age, ed. Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001) pp. 357-365.

"Lessons from the Screen: Film and Video in the Classroom," in Audio-Visuals in the Teaching of History. Ed. Robert Brent Toplin (Washington DC: American Historical Association, 1999), p 15-21.

"Viewing the Viewers: Representations of the Audience in Early Cinema Advertising," in American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era. Edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby (London: British Film Institute, 1999) p. 112-128.

"Motion Picture Story Magazine and the Gendered Construction of the Movie Fan," in In the Eye of the Beholder: Critical Perspectives in Popular Film and Television, ed. Gary Edgerton, Michael Marsden and Jack Nachbar (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 1997), p. 97-112.

ARTICLES

"Cinema Exhibition in the Midwest: Picture Palaces, Movie Houses and Drive-Ins," in Encyclopedia of the Midwest , section 13: Media and Entertainment, section editors James Swoch and Mimi White (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, forthcoming 2004).

"Introduction to Special Issue on Spectatorship in Popular Film and Television," Journal of Popular Film and Television (guest editor Kathryn Fuller-Seeley) 29:3 (Fall, 2001), pp. 98-99.

"Lessons from the Screen: Film and Video in the Classroom," Perspectives [American Historical Association newsletter] 37:4 (April, 1999), pp.45-48.

"How Dish Night Saved Hollywood in Depression-Era America" NCECA Journal [National Council of Educators in the Ceramic Arts] 18 (1997) p. 47-48.

"'You Can Have the Strand in Your Own Town:' The Marginalization of Small Town Exhibition in the Silent Film Era" Film History: An International Journal 6 (1994) p. 166-177.

"The Cook and Harris High-Class Moving Picture Company: Itinerant Exhibitors and the Small-Town Movie Audience, 1900-1910" New York History 75 (1994), p.5-38.

"The Thirteenth Manuscript: The Case of the Missing Payne Fund Study," G. Jowett, I. Jarvie and K. Fuller, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 13 (1993) p. 387-402.

"Erik Barnouw: A Selected Bibliography and Filmography," Film and History 21:2-3 (1992), p.109-112.

"Boundaries of Participation: The Problem of Spectatorship and American Film Audiences, 1905-1930," Film and History 20:3 (Fall, 1991), p.75-86.

TEACHING

Georgia State University: Courses taught to date

COMM 8980 Media Historiography

COMM 6170/Film 4170 Hollywood Cinema to 1960/ American Film History I

Film 4780/Hist 4490 Film and History: The Great Depression

Film 4xxx Film Genres: Silent Film Comedy

Film 4xxx Gender and Film

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta GA , March 2004. "The Video Divide: Unequal Diffusion of Early American TV Audiences 1945-1955."

Commonwealth Fund Conference in American History, "American Cinema and Everyday Life" University College London, June 2003, "'What the Picture Did for Me:' Exhibition, Reception and Everyday Life in Small Town Mid-America during the Depression."

Society for Cinema Studies, Denver, CO, May 2002. "Paramount's Magazine Advertising and appeals to consumer culture, 1917-1930."

Organization of American Historians, Washington DC, April 2002. Comments on papers delivered for panel "Saving Audiences from the Movies: Hollywood, Gender and History."