New Waves: Hiroshima Mon Amour

Lucy Fischer is a Distinguished Professor, Emerita of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of several books including Jacques Tati; Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women’s Cinema; Designing Women: Art Deco, Cinema and the Female Form; American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations; Art Direction and Production Design; and Cinema by Design: Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History. Her forthcoming book is Cinemagritte: René Magritte Within the Frame of Film History, Theory and Practice. She held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art and received fellowships from the National Endowments for the Arts and for the Humanities. She was President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and received its Distinguished Service Award. At Pitt she received the Provost’s Excellence in Mentorship Award and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award.

Patrice Petro is Professor of Film and Media Studies, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, and Presidential Chair in Media Studies. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of twelve books, including The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender (with Kristin Hole, Dijana Jelaca, and E. Ann Kaplan, 2017), Teaching Film (2012), Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s (2010), Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the “War on Terror” (2006), and Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History (2002).