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Catherine Preston

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Current Research

The role of visual culture in the construction of identity and memory.

 
Current Projects
A three-year study of girls' interaction with their visual environment.
 
Research Interests

Latin American film, Latin American women in film

 
Selected Publications

"Correo Mítico: The Construction of a Civic Image in the Postcards of Montevideo, Uruguay, 1900 - 1930," co-authored with Anton Rosenthal, in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture , Volume 15 (1996): 231 - 259.

"Fotonovelas: Class and Cultural Literacy", presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, California, May 31, 1989.

"A Great Sensation of Something Real: Women and Fotonovelas in Quito , Ecuador ", presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts. Albany , NY , October 29, 1987 .

 
Courses Taught

TH&F 450 Race, Class, and Gender in Visual Culture
TH&F 902 Film Seminar in: Visual Methods

 
Education

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1994)