Tamara L. Falicov
Associate Chair and Associate Professor

Department of Theatre and Film
The University of Kansas
Oldfather Studios
1621 W. 9th Street, Room 224
Lawrence, KS 66044
Phone: 785-864-1353
Fax: 785-331-2671
Email

Fall 2008 semester
Office hours:
TBA
Course assignments:
- TH&F 902 Film Seminar in: Political Economy of Film and Television (#41504)

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Tamara Leah Falicov is an associate professor of film studies and has worked at the KU since 1998.

She received her doctorate in Communication from UC San Diego, where she wrote a dissertation on state cultural policy in relation to the contemporary film industry in Argentina. She also received a degree in sociology from UC Berkeley. She received a Fulbright student research award to study the film industry in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the 1997-98 academic year.

Professor Falicov’s specialty is Latin American Cinema, with particular focus on the film histories of Argentina and Cuba. Her research has appeared in the following journals: Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Southern Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Communication, Media, Culture, and Society, Framework, and Film and History. She has authored a chapter on Argentine blockbuster movies for the anthology Movie Blockbusters, edited by Julian Stringer (Routledge, 2003).

Her most recent book chapter examines Hollywood's involvement in the Mexican and Argentine film industires in The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry, edited by Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko (Blackwell, 2008).

Falicov's book manuscript, The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film (London: Wallflower Press) was released in April 2007. Find out more about her new book here: http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/publications/film/cinematic_tango.html.

She has researched numerous topics such as the Ibero-American film production fund Programa Ibermedia and issues related to multi-country co-production, the role of Hollywood in Latin American film production, young videographers in Patagonia who are creating a vision of the land not normally portrayed in Patagonia, Argentina, the film industry in Uruguay, and US-Argentine film exchange relations under the Good Neighbor Policy.

She has written reference essays for the Encyclopedia of Censorship, The International Encyclopedia of Films and Filmmakers, Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellions, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture.

Falicov is co-authoring a book of film history and criticism by Latin American authors to be translated into English to be used in classrooms.

Falicov has received numerous awards for her research. She spent one month as a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay. In addition, she received a grant to study at the Rockefeller Archives in Sleepy Hollow, NY and a Big XII Faculty Fellowship to visit UT-Austin and use the Benson Latin American Studies Library.

Falicov received an NEH Summer Stipend in 2002 to finish her manuscript and visit the National Archives in Washington DC.

Prof. Falicov teaches courses in Basic Video Production, Documentary Video Production, Latin American Cinema, Cuban Film, and a graduate seminar in the Political Economy of Film and Television Industries.

In the Fall of 2003, Falicov took the first group of KU students on a Study Abroad trip to Havana, Cuba, for the Festival of New Latin American Cinema. In Summer of 2004, she accompanied KU faculty to Havana to explore possible academic exchange and collaboration.

Falicov has been awarded a sabbatical and a Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship for the 2006-07 year. She will be completing her second book on the Latin American film market and its relationship to the United States and Spain.

Other interests include participation in the Kansas City Jewish Film Festival, and participating on the Boards of the following organizations: The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Latino/a Caucus), the Latin American Studies Association (Film Area), and the Greater Kansas City Film Commission Board of Directors.

A recent profile of Prof. Falicov's work and biography written by KU journalism undergraduate Courtney Hagen is available at the following link:
http://reporting.journalism.ku.edu/spring06/bradford-utsler/2006/05/professor_understands_plight_o.html.

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