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Author Katherine Balsley

Katherine Balsley

Katherine Balsley graduated with a BFA in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2003, and earned an MFA in Mass Communication and Media Arts from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 2009. Her films and videos have been exhibited across the United States and abroad, including the Athens International Film and Video Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival, the Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival in New Zealand and the Jecheon International Film and Music Festival in South Korea. Currently, she is an assistant professor of film at Georgia Gwinnett College near Atlanta.

Subjectivity, Spectatorship and Social Change: The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century, by Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone and Wang Chi

Katherine Balsley
June 2018
Book Reviews
In the fall of 2017, I was approached by a colleague at the public liberal arts college where I teach film studies and production. My colleague, a political science professor, wanted to know if I would like to ...
essay films

Defining the Cinematic Essay: The Essay Film by Elizabeth A. Papazian & Caroline Eades, and Essays on the Essay Film by Nora M. Alter & Timothy Corrigan

Katherine Balsley
December 2017
Book Reviews
  From 2011 until 2015, I taught a course entitled “Documentary Production” at a small liberal arts college north of Chicago. Rather than basing the class entirely on production techniques, I included aspects ...
World Cinema

Understanding Genre in a Globalized World: World Cinema through Global Genres, by William V. Costanzo

Katherine Balsley
December 2015
Book Reviews
William V. Costanzo’s World Cinema through Global Genres is comprehensive and truly enjoyable. At 431 pages it never becomes dull or opaque, and instead provides clear, detailed investigations of world genres a...

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