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Sarah Kozloff
Professor of Film
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Stanford University

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Sarah Kozloff has been at Vassar since 1988, teaching courses in film studies. She teaches genre (e.g., Musicals, Westerns, War Films, Romantic Comedy); cultural studies courses (The McCarthy Era and Film, Women in Film, Film as Propaganda); and seminars (such as, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, American Women Directors, Violence, Sex and Censorship). Her scholarship focuses on American cinema, particularly on issues related to sound, narrative, and ideology--she has published on The Lord of the Rings, Citizen Kane, and audio books. She has been invited to present her work at major symposiums in Australia, Denmark, Montreal and London.

Ms. Kozloff’s publications include:

Overhearing Film Dialogue
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8803.html

Invisible Storytellers:
Voice-over Narration in American Fiction Film
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/2286.html
 
“Narrative Theory and Television” in Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, ed. Robert C. Allen

A more complete list can be found on the VC Faculty Scholarship Database.

Prior to her academic career, Ms. Kozloff worked freelance in film production in New York City, working on commercials, documentaries, educational films, low-budget features and "The American Short Story" series for PBS. She is married to a professional cinematographer, and they have two sons.