ACTIVITIES
Responsible, as Assistant Director, for the general
administration of the WCFTR, for relations with donors
of films, photographs and papers to the WCFTR, and for
accessioning and processing collections, especially
manuscript collections. Also Coordinator of the Cinematheque,
responsible (with the front-of-house manager) for its
day-to-day administration.
My principal area of research is the early cinema in Europe and America, on
which I have published a number of articles in Screen, Cinema Journal,
and Film History, and (with Lea Jacobs) the book Theatre to Cinema: Stage
Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film (Oxford University Press, 1997).
Much of my current work is on performance in early cinema and stage acting in
the same period. My most recent publication in this area is "What Happened to
Pantomime?" Cinéma & Cie 2 (Spring 2003): 15-35.
EDUCATION
M.Sc. Econ., Sociology, London School of Economics,
1967