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Dr. Carolyn Anderson

Professor Emerita

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Carolyn Anderson Office: 223 Draper Hall
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Film and television criticism; media ethics; media historiography.

Education

Ph.D., UMass Amherst, 1984
M.A., UMass Amherst, 1979
B.A., Kansas State University, 1961

Background

Author or co-author of Reality Fictions: The Films of Frederick Wiseman; Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's "Titicut Follies"; "Diminishing Degrees of Separation: Class Mobility in Movies of the Reagan-Bush Era"; "Film and Literature"; "Biographical Film." Current research includes work on autobiographical film and video produced by Asian Americans and the contemporary Hollywood biopic.

Select Publications

Books

Benson, Thomas W. and Carolyn Anderson. Reality Fictions: The Films of Frederick Wiseman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. Revised edition, 2002.

Carolyn Anderson and Thomas W. Benson. Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's “Titicut Follies.” Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Chapters in Books

Anderson, Carolyn, and Jonathan Lupo. "Hollywood Lives: The State of the Bio-Pic at the Turn of the Century." In Genre and Contemporary Hollywood, ed. Steve Neale, 89-102. London: British Film Institute, 2002.

Anderson, Carolyn. "Contested Public Memories: Hawaiian History as Hawaiian or American Experience." In Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in a Media Age, ed. Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins, 144-168. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001.

Ouellette, Laurie, and Carolyn Anderson. "Reading the Talk Show: The Politics of Talk Soup.” In The Eye of the Beholder: Critical Perspectives in Popular Film and Television, ed. Gary Edgerton, Michael Marsden, and Jack Nachbar, 213-238. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press, 1998.

Anderson, Carolyn. "Diminishing Degrees of Separation: Class Mobility in Movies of the Reagan-Bush Era.” In Beyond the Stars 5: Themes and Ideologies in American Popular Film, ed. Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller, 141-163. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press, 1996.

Anderson Carolyn, and Thomas W. Benson. "'Put Down the Camera and Pick Up the Shovel': An Interview with John Marshall." in The Cinema of John Marshall, ed. Jay Ruby, 135-167. Philadelphia: Harwood, 1993.

Benson, Thomas W. and Carolyn Anderson. "The Freeing of Titicut Follies.” In Free Speech Yearbook, Volume 30,1992, ed. Dale A. Herbeck, 40-55. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.

Anderson, Carolyn and Thomas W. Benson. Setz die Kamera ab undgreifzur Schuafer: Ein Interview with John Marshall." In Jager und Gejagle: John Marshall und seine Filme [TheHunter and the Hunted: John Marshall and His Films}, ed. R. Kapfer, W. Petermann, and R. Thomas, 135-165. Munich: Trickster Verlag, 1991.

Benson, Thomas W. and Carolyn Anderson. "The Ultimate Technology: Frederick Wiseman's Missile." In Communication and the Culture of Technology, ed. Martin J. Medhurst, Alberto Gonzales and Tara Rai Peterson, 257-283. Pullman: Washington StateUniversity Press, 1990.

Anderson, Carolyn. "Biographical Film." In Handbook of American Film Genres, ed. Wes D. Gehring, 331-351. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Anderson, Carolyn. "Film and Literature." In Film and the Arts in Symbiosis: A Resource Guide, ed. Gary Edgerton, 97-134. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Anderson. Carolyn and Thomas W. Benson. "Direct Cinema and the Myth of Informed Consent: The Case of Titicut Follies" In Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photography, Film and Television, ed. Lany Gross, John Katz, and Jay Ruby, 58-90. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Benson, Thomas W. and Carolyn Anderson. "Good Films from Bad Rules: The Ethics of Naming in Frederick Wiseman's Welfare. In Visual Explorations of the World: Selected Papers from the International Conference of Visual Communication, ed. Jay Ruby and Martin Taureg. 2-27. Aachen, West Germany: Radar Veriag (Edition Herodot), 1987.

Anderson, Carolyn. "The Titicut Follies Audience and the Double Bind of Court-Restricted Exhibition." In Current Research in Film: Audiences, Economics and Law, ed. Bruce A. Austin, vol. 3: 189-214. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987.

Journal Articles

Anderson, Carolyn. “The Abiding Salience of the Local in a Global Age: The Case of Hawaiian History.” Spectator 23, no. 1 (2003): 83-98.

Anderson, Carolyn. "The Conversation as Exemplar and Critique of Sound Technology " Post Script 6, no. 3 (1987): 13-30.

Benson, Thomas W. and Carolyn Anderson. "The Rhetorical Structure of Frederick Wiseman's Model." Journal of Film and Video 36, no. 4 (1984): 30-40.

Anderson, Carolyn, Marlene G. Fine, and Fern L. Johnson. "Black Talk on Television: A Constructivist Approach to Viewers' Perceptions of Black English Vernacular in Roots II." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 4 (1983): 181-195.

Anderson, Carolyn. "The Conundrum of Competing Rights in Titicut Follies." University Film Association Journal 33, no. 1 (1981): 15-22.

Fine, Marlene G., and Carolyn Anderson. "Dialect Features in the Language of Black Characters on Television Situation Comedies." Phylon 41 (1980): 396-409.

Fine, Marlene G., Carolyn Anderson, and Gary Eckles. "Black English on Black Situation Comedies." Journal of Communication 29, no. 3 (1979): 21-29.

Curriculum Vita

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