Faculty
Leslie Midkiff DeBauche
Professor
- Media Studies -
ldebauch@uwsp.edu
Phone: 715.346.3379
Office: CAC 205
Focus
- B.A. Degree: University of Iowa - 1974
- M.A. Degree: University of Iowa - 1979
- Ph.D. Degree: University of Wisconsin - Madison - 1986
- Major Area of Concentration: Film Studies and Mass Communication
Courses Taught
- Comm 160: Introduction to Film
- Comm 361: Film History Beginning to 1940
- Comm 362: Film History 1940 to the Present
- Comm 364: Soviet Film and Culture (NW)
- Comm 369: Topics in Film (Film and History of the 1930s, Women and War in History and on Film, Eastern European Film and Culture)
- Comm 374: Art of Criticism
Research & Publications
2002 “Billie Burke Plays Stevens Point.” In Beyond the Bowery: The Cinema and Mass Entertainment in Small Town America from Its Origins through the Multiplex. eds. Kathryn Fuller, George Potamianos, Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming
2001 “High Fashion, Costume Design and Character Type: How Clothes Helped Bille Burke Become an ‘American Girl.’” In The Tenth Muse, ed. Leonardo Quaresima, Laura Vichi. Udine: Universita degli Studi di Udine.
2000 “Melodrama and the World War I War Film,” in I Limiti della rappresenttazione: Censura, visibile, modi di rappresentazione nel cinema. Edited by Leonardo Quaresima. Udine: Universita degli Studi di Udine.
1999 “Reminiscences of the Past, Conditions of the Present: At the Movies in Milwaukee in 1918,” in American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era. Edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby. London: British Film Institute Publishing.
“The United States Film Industry in World War I,” in The First World War and Popular Cinema. Edited by Michael Paris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
1997 Reel Patriotism, the Movies and World War I. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
Current Work in Progress and Areas of Interest: Silent Film History, Haute Couture, Mise en scene, Actresses in the 1910s