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Jaimey Fisher
Associate Professor, German
Email: jrfisher@ucdavis.edu |
Jaimey Fisher is Associate Professor of German who specializes in European, especially German and Italian, cinema. He is on the Committee in Charge for Film Studies and teaches regularly in the program. His research interests include postwar German and Italian cinema, Holocaust cinema, transnational film noir, and contemporary European cinema. On the topic of contemporary European cinema, Professor Fisher will also run the first Film Studies Summer Abroad program in August 2008 in Germany, a program whose highlight will be a trip to the Locarno Film Festival.
Sample Film Publications:
- Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War (Wayne State, 2007)
- "Home-Movies, Film-Diaries, and Mass Bodies: Péter Forgács's Free Fall (1996) into the Holocaust," in Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, and Memory. (Forthcoming).
- "On the Ruins of Masculinity: The Figure of the Child in Italian Neorealism and the German Rubble-Film," in Radical Fantasy: Italian Neorealism's Afterlife in Global Cinema (2006).
- "Wandering In/to the Rubble-Film: Filmic Flânerie and The Exploded Panorama after 1945," The German Quarterly 78.4 (Autumn 2005).
- "Globalisierungsbewältigung: Global Flows and Local Loyalties in Contemporary German Cinema," special issue on "Globalization and the Image," Genre XXXVI/3-4 (Fall/Winter 2003): 405-28.
Film Studies Courses Taught:
- FMS1 Introduction to Film Studies
- FMS90x Lower Division Seminar
- FMS125 Film Genre (on film noir)
- FMS142 New German Cinema
- FMS176 Weimar Cinema