Faculty & Staff Directory
Katharina Loew
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 617.287.5642
Email: Katharina.Loew@umb.edu
Department: Modern Languages Lit, Cultures
Areas of Expertise
Film technology and special effects; international early and silent cinema; German cinema and classical Hollywood; film style; film theory; film festivals.
Degrees
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies and Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
MA, Theater Studies, Ludwigs-Maximilian-Universität, Munich, Germany
Professional Publications & Contributions
- 2022 “From Trick to Special Effect: Standardization and the Rise of Imperceptible Cinematic Illusions,” for Special Effects on the Screen: Faking the View from Méliès to Motion Capture, eds. Martin Lefebvre and Marc Furstenau, 271-309 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press).
- 2021 Special Effects and German Silent Film: Techno-Romantic Cinema (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press)
- 2020 "Augmenting cinema: the Kino-Variété (1913-14)," co-authored with Michael Cowan, Early Popular Visual Culture 4 (November): 383-399.
- 2018 “‘The Spectacle of the Ages:’ Noah’s Ark (1928),” in The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz, eds. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press).
- 2015 “Lunar Longings and Rocket Fever: Rediscovering Frau im Mond,” co-authored with Tom Gunning, in A Companion to Fritz Lang, ed. Joe McElhaney (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell).
- 2015 “Magic Mirrors: The Schüfftan Process,” in Special Effects: New Histories, Theories, Contexts, eds. Michael Duffy, Dan North and Bob Rehak (London: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan).
- 2014 “The Spirit of Technology: Early German Thinking about Film,” New German Critique 122 (Summer): 129-148.
- 2013 “Tangible Specters: 3-D Cinema in the 1910s,” Film Criticism 3/1 (Spring/Fall): 87-116.