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

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Sarah Kozloff has been at Vassar since 1988. 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 and American Women Directors). Her scholarship focuses on American cinema, particularly on issues related to sound, narrative, score and ideology. She has been invited to present her work at major symposiums in Australia, Denmark, Montreal and London and to contribute to textbooks and reference works and to evaluate film programs at other colleges.

Ms. Kozloff’s publications include:

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• BFI Film Classics forthcoming.
• Overhearing Film Dialogue
• Invisible Storytellers: Voice-over Narration in American Fiction Film
• "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.

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.