2010.10.12: October 12, 2010: Korea RPCV Thomas Doherty who specializes in research on Hollywood film culture was recently selected the 2010 Edwin Smith Family Distinguished Speaker by the Westfield Athenaeum
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2010.10.12: October 12, 2010: Korea RPCV Thomas Doherty who specializes in research on Hollywood film culture was recently selected the 2010 Edwin Smith Family Distinguished Speaker by the Westfield Athenaeum
Korea RPCV Thomas Doherty who specializes in research on Hollywood film culture was recently selected the 2010 Edwin Smith Family Distinguished Speaker by the Westfield Athenaeum
Doherty is a professor of American studies at Brandeis where his courses include media culture. He is also a cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema. Doherty holds a bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and a doctorate in American studies from the University of Iowa. He served two years in the Peace Corps in South Korea, where he also taught as a Fulbright scholar at Ewha Women's University.
Korea RPCV Thomas Doherty who specializes in research on Hollywood film culture was recently selected the 2010 Edwin Smith Family Distinguished Speaker by the Westfield Athenaeum
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
WESTFIELD - A Brandeis University professor who specializes in research on Hollywood film culture was recently selected the 2010 Edwin Smith Family Distinguished Speaker by the Westfield Athenaeum.
Thomas Doherty, of Salem, will deliver an address, "Jews, Nazis and Hollywood Cinema, 1933-1941," on Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. at the library.
The Smith speaker award carries with it a $1,000 honorarium.
Doherty's address comes in the midst of his research and writing of a soon-to-be-published book on the topic of Hollywood and the Third Reich. He will address how the rise of the Third Reich presented Hollywood with "an unwelcome set of economic, cinematic, and moral problems," including how to conduct business with Nazis, whether to address or ignore them in films and coverage of Nazi events in news reels.
Doherty is a professor of American studies at Brandeis where his courses include media culture. He is also a cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema.
Doherty holds a bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and a doctorate in American studies from the University of Iowa. He served two years in the Peace Corps in South Korea, where he also taught as a Fulbright scholar at Ewha Women's University.
He joined the faculty at Brandeis after teaching in the division of humanities at Boston University.
In 2005, he received recognition as an Academy Film Scholar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
A question-and-answer period with Doherty will follow the talk. Refreshments will be served.
The Athenaeum is due to launch an inaugural Russian film series on Nov. 13.
Thomas Doherty
Thomas Doherty, a professor of American studies, is a cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema. He teaches courses in media culture and things American. He serves as the undergraduate academic advising head for the department.
Doherty's undergraduate degree is from Gonzaga University, a small liberal arts college in Spokane, Wash., similar to Brandeis but with different religious holidays. After a two-year stint in the Peace Corps in South Korea, he entered graduate school at the University of Iowa, where he received a Ph.D. in American studies in 1984.
After teaching in the division of humanities at Boston University, he came to Brandeis in 1990. He has also taught overseas as a Fulbright scholar at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, and as the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
As a senior Fulbright scholar, Doherty has lectured in New Zealand and Albania. His reviews and commentary have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, and he writes frequently on media culture for the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2005, he received recognition as an Academy Film Scholar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Doherty is the author of "Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s" (1988), "Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture and World War II" (1993), "Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934" (1999), "Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism and American Culture" (2003) and, most recently, "Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration" (2007).
He serves on the editorial board of Cineaste and edits the film review section for the Journal of American History.
He and his wife, Sandra, a freelance editor and fierce Pittsburgh Steelers fan, live in Salem, Mass.
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