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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
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Susan Felleman

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
  • Videographic criticism

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 recent ones: "Show the clichés": the appearance of happiness in Agnès Varda’s Le Bonheur," Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies, Volume 19 (2021); The Roses of Jay DeFeo and Bruce Conner: Belated Thoughts on Intermediality and Friendship,” Interfaces: Image-Texte- Language, no. 48 (2022); “Avant-garde and Kitsch: Modern Art and Money on Screen, 1963-1964,” in Screening the Art World (Amsterdam University Press, 2022); “A parenthetical story about art: between the lines of Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia),” in Intermedial Encounters (Scientia, Cluj, 2022); “Ninotchka: Pleasure and Politics Objectified,” co-authored with Catherine Walworth, in A Light Touch: New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch (Amsterdam University Press, 2024); and two video essays, “Four Ways to Be a Woman Artist... According to the Movies,” co- authored with Hannah Shikle ([in]Transition, 2022) and “Hiding in Plain Sight: Blackamoors in Classical Hollywood Cinema” (In Media Res, 2024). She recently wrote and co-directed (with Hannah Shikle) a feature-length, personal essay film, In Production: the Life and Career of George Justin.


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