Associate Professor
301.405.1359
molouns@umd.edu
Myron Lounsbury
is currently investigating "film culture" in New York City between 1940
and 1970: the practice of film theory and criticism in the context of
urban institutions (movie theaters, museums and art galleries, college
campuses, book stores, radio stations), where the reception of the motion
picture intersected with the activities of European intellectual and surrealist
artists, behavioral scientists, and the founders of cybernetics and information
theory to contribute to the national debate regarding public taste and
cultural literacy in the emerging era of television and mass communications.
His current interests are informed by past research (the course of film
reception in the decades of the genteel tradition, the post-World War
I Hollywood film industry and the Great Depression) and projected future
research (the emergence of contemporary academic theorists who explore
the implications for personal and collective identity in the era of the
Internet and other manifestations of computerization). Throughout, he
has been guided by a central question: what is the role of the public
intellectual in redefining what constitutes community and communication
in the context of innovations taking place within our media technology?
Degrees:
Ph.D. American
Civilization (University of Pennsylvania, 1966)
M.A. American Civilization (University of Pennsylvania, 1962)
B.A. History (Duke University, 1961)
Publications:
- "Against
the American Game: The 'Strenuous Life' of Willard Huntington Wright,"
Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 5, ed. Jack
Salzman. New York: Burt Franklin & Company, 1980. 507-55.
- Editor,
"Popular Literature" Section, American Studies: An Annotated
Bibliography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
- Editor,The
Progress and Poetry of the Movies: A Second Book of Film Criticism by
Vachel Lindsay. Lanham, Maryland & London: Scarecrow Press. 1995.
- "'The
Gathered Light': History, Criticism and the Rise of the American Film,"
Quarterly Review of Film Studies 5 (Winter 1980): 49-85.
- The
Origins of American Film Criticism, 1909-1939. New York: Arno Press,
1973.
- "'Flashes
of Lightning': The Moving Picture in the Progressive Era." Journal
of Popular Culture 3 (Spring 1970): 769-97.
Courses
Taught:
- Introduction
to Film Culture Studies (undergraduate)
- American Film Culture in
the 1950s (undergraduate)
- American Film Culture in
the 1960s (undergraduate)
- Senior Seminar in American
Studies (undergraduate)
- Culture and Communications,
1945-1970 (graduate)
- Pedagogies
Seminar in American Studies (graduate)
- Site-Webs:
The Cultures of Theory, 1985-present (graduate)
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