Visual Communities
Comparative analysis of film preferences in Europe.
Sensationalism and early cinema
Reception of 1920s US cinema
My Ph.D. dissertation (defended 2011) looked at how 1920s US cinema reception discourses organized audiencing processes as a blurring of perceptual frontiers, and notably as regards to the expectation of « realism ». I am now engaged in refining my understanding of 1920s US film reception by focusing on its intermedial dimension.