Anne Friedberg, Ph.D.

Professor
Chair, Critical Studies

213.740.9279
afriedberg@cinema.usc.edu
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A historian and theorist of modern media culture, Professor Friedberg is the author of Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern and co-editor of an anthology of critical and theoretical writing about film, Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism. In conjunction with her new book, The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft, Professor Friedberg has launched an interactive translation/extension of the book, The Virtual Window Interactive.

Friedberg has lectured widely in this country and abroad and her work has been translated into German, French, Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, and Japanese. A Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in 2001-2002, in 2005-2006, she was a fellow at USC’s Annenberg Center’s themed research group, “Networked Publics.” She has just been elected to serve a two-year term as the President-Elect of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), to be followed by a two-year term as its president.

In addition to her role as Chair of the Critical Studies Division, Friedberg was a principal architect of the new interdivisional Ph.D.— iMAP (Media Arts and Practice.) She is also on the Steering Committee of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program and has joint appointments in the Departments of Art History and English.

Friedberg's current research and teaching interests include: film and media histories and theories, old media/new media historiographies, critical theory/ feminist theory, nineteenth century visual culture and early cinema, theories of vision and visuality, architecture and film, global media culture.