Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lucy Fischer is Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author or editor of nine other books: Jacques Tati (G. K. Hall, 1983), Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women’s Cinema (Princeton University Press, 1989), Imitation of Life (Rutgers University Press, 1991), Cinematernity : Film, Motherhood, Genre (Princeton University Press, 1996), Sunrise (British Film Institute, 1998), Designing Women: Art Deco, Cinema, and the Female Form (Columbia University Press, 2003), Stars: The Film Reader (coedited with Marcia Landy, Rutgers University Press, 2004), American Cinema of the 1920s (Rutgers University Press, 2009), and Teaching Film (coedited with Patrice Petro, MLA, 2012). She has published extensively on issues of film history, theory, and criticism in such journals as Screen, Sight and Sound, Camera Obscura, Wide Angle, Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, Film Criticism, Women and Performance, Modernism /Modernity, Frauen und Film, and Film Quarterly. Her essays have been anthologized thirty times in volumes of film history, criticism, and/or theory. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), and has written catalog essays for exhibits at the Wight Gallery (Los Angeles) and the Neuberger Museum (Purchase, New York). She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Art Critics Fellowship as well as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors. She has lectured internationally in Tel Aviv, Israel; Lausanne, Switzerland; Lisbon , Portugal; Amsterdam, Holland; Vienna, Austria; Glasgow, Scotland, London , Great Britain; and Adelaide, Australia,and has taught abroad in Augsburg, Germany; Stockholm, Sweden; and on the Semester at Sea program of the University of Pittsburgh (which traveled around the world). She has served as president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2001–2003) and in 2008 received its Distinguished Service Award. As its Conference Program Committee chair, she has twice hosted and organized its annual national conference in Pittsburgh. Furthermore, she has served as chair of the Film Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association and has been a delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. ...