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Susan Felleman
Title: | Professor / Art History + Film and Media Studies |
School of Visual Art and Design | |
Email: | felleman@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-777-8833 |
Office: | McMaster 215A |
Resources: | School of Visual Art & Design Film and Media Studies Program |

Education
PhD, Art History, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (1993)
M. Phil., Art History, CUNY Graduate Center (1991)
BA, Art History, Cornell University (1981)
Areas of Specialization
- Relationship between film and other visual arts
- History and theory of avant-garde film and video and the art film
- History and theory of Hollywood cinema
- Modern art and theory
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Feminist theory
Bio
Susan Felleman is the author of four books: Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin (Twayne 1997), Art in the Cinematic Imagination (University of Texas, 2006), Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films (Intellect 2014), and Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema, co-authored with Steven Jacobs, Vito Adriaensens, and Lisa Colbert (Edinburgh University, 2017), as well as numerous other publications, among them, “Source Hunting in a Dreamscape,” about art history and the films of David Lynch, in Lola (no. 7, 2016); “Two Way Mirror: Francis Bacon and the Deformation of Film,” in Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls?, edited by Angela Dalle Vacche (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012); and “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through: Three Screen Memories by Wago Kreider,” in Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches, edited by Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012).