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The faculty members teaching in the film and photography major are all accomplished scholars or artists and offer a wide array of interesting courses.
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Christine Carr, assistant professor of art; A.A.S., Tidewater Community College Visual Arts Center, B.F.A., Corcoran College of Art and Design, M.F.A., Tyler School of Art of Temple University
Christine Carr teaches color, digital, and black and white photography. Her work explores the mood derived from spatial, light, and color relationships in non-descript suburban environments. She has exhibited in various locations in the United States in addition to Germany as part of the Society Imaginaire. One of her images was included in the most recent edition of Exploring Color Photography by Robert Hirsch. She is also the co-founder of the Oculus Photographic Arts Group.
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R.H.W. Dillard, professor of English; B.A., Roanoke College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Richard Dillard's courses in film as a narrative art focus on close readings of films by a single filmmaker or in a single genre. The courses feature the work of Ingmar Bergman, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Val Lewton, Roman Polanski, Josef von Sternberg, or Orson Welles, as well as studies in the horror film. In addition to his novels, short stories, poems, and literary criticism, he has written essays on the horror film and the films of Fellini and is the author of the critical monograph, Horror Films (1976). He is also the co-author of the screenplay of Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, a film which, according to Leonard Maltin, "has gained a peculiar cult reputation"!
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Amy Gerber-Stroh, M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, School of Film/Video, has produced and directed over 30 documentaries and art films. She has had significant professional film experience in Hollywood and New York, working on several 'B-movie' features by Roger Corman and as casting associate on twelve major motion pictures, including Goldeneye and The Mask of Zorro. Her documentary feature, Public Memory, was completed in 2004.
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Klaus Phillips, professor of film and German; B.A., M.A./M.F.A., University of Arkansas; Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin
Klaus Phillips teaches a variety of courses in the film and photography major. He is specialist in the German cinema and directs the annual Hollins Colloquium on German film. He has published widely in periodicals and books, is the editor of New German Filmmakers, and co-editor of Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Literature and Geschichte.
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Robert Sulkin, professor of art; B.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; M.F.A., M.A., University of Iowa
Robert Sulkin specializes in photography and teaches both studio courses and the history of photography. Since his arrival at Hollins in 1980, Sulkin's work has been shown in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions in the mid-Atlantic region. He was one of 30 artists, selected from 800 nationwide, who participated in the New Orleans Museum of Art's 1992 exhibition, New Southern Photography. Among Sulkin's accomplishments are six Best in Show awards at the Lynchburg Area Juried Photography Exhibit and many purchase awards from regional and national juried competitions. His work is also exhibited in collections throughout the South and Midwest. Sulkin's recent work explores the legacy of the late 20th century as discovered and interpreted through images borrowed from popular culture, primarily television.
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