Leslie Midkiff-DeBauche

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