LANDY, Marcia 1931-

PERSONAL: Born June 24, 1931, in Cleveland, OH; daughter of Isidore and Goldie (Baratz) Kanevsky. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Ohio University, A.B., 1953; University of Rochester, M.A., 1961, Ph. D., 1962.

ADDRESSES: Home—2307 Pittock St., Pittsburgh, PA 15217. Office—Department of English, 526 AH, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; fax: 412-624-6639. E-mail—mlandyt@pitt.edu.

CAREER: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, began as assistant professor, became professor of English and film studies, 1967—, distinguished service professor, 1998.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, Society for Cinema Studies, AAIS.

WRITINGS:

Fascism in Film, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1986.

British Genres, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1991.

Imitations of Life, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1991.

Queen Christina, British Film Institute (London, England), 1996.

Cinematic Uses of the Past, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1997.

The Folklore of Consensus, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1998.

Italian Film, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor and author of introduction) The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 2001.

Also author of Film, Politics, and Gramsci, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN).

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Choice, September, 2000, S. Vander Closter, review of Italian Film, p. 136.

Film Quarterly, fall, 2001, John David Rhodes, review of Italian Film, p. 64.

Public Historian, winter, 2002, Thomas Cripps, review of The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media, p. 103.

Publishers Weekly, June 5, 2000, review of Italian Film, p. 86.

Quarterly Review of Film and Video, April, 2002, Philip Mosley, review of The Historical Film, p. 187.