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Richard W Mc Cormick

Rick Mc Cormick

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German, Scandinavian & Dutch 205 Folwell Hall

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Brecht
  • feminism
  • film and cultural history
  • film studies
  • German film history
  • German studies
  • Nazi cinema
  • post-WWII German cinema: New German Cinema, GDR cinema, feminist cinema
  • post-WWII West German literature and culture
  • Weimar film and culture

Publications

  • The Carnival of Humiliation: Sex, Spectacle, and Self-Reflexivity in EA Dupont's Variety (1925). Mc Cormick, Rick, Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective, 2003.
  • Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature, and New Objectivity. Mc Cormick, Rick, New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  • Rape and War, Gender and Nation, Victims and Victimizers: Helke Sander's Film BeFreir und Befreite (1992): Mc Cormick, Rick, Camera Obscura, 46 , 2001.
  • German Essays on Film--German Library Volume 81. Mc Cormick, Rick, Alison Guenther-Pal, Continuum, 2004.

Research Activities

  • Transnational Modernism: German & Austrian Filmmakers Between Europe and Hollywood: researching continuities and discontinuities in the European and American films of emigre directors, 2002
  • German Essays on the Cinema: Volume co-edited with Alison Guenther-Pal containing historically significant essays in German on the cinema, 1999
  • Rethinking Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950: Volume co-edited with Patrizia McBride and Monika Zagar, 2002

Professional Activities

  • Member: German Studies Association
  • Member: Society for Cinema Studies
  • Member: Minnesota Forum on German Culture , 1992 - 2002
  • Member: Modern Language Association
  • Member: American Association of the Teachers of German
  • Member: Center for Advanced Feminist Studies , 1988
  • Member: Film Studies Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota , 1989 - 2000
  • Lecture: "Modernism, Weimar Cinema, and Exile: Expressionism/New Objectivity/Noir?," Sixth Biennial Minnesota Forum, University of Minnesota , April 26, 2002
  • Executive Committee: Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, University of Minnesota , 1992 - 2001
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies: German and Scandinavian , 1999 - 2000
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies: Department of German, Scandanavian and Dutch, University of Minnesota , 1992 - 1999
  • Director of Honors Division: College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota , 2001
  • Director of Graduate Studies: Germanic Studies, University of Minnesota , 2000 - 2001
  • Co-organizer: Sixth Biennial Minnesota Forum: "Northern Light/Northern Darkness? Rethinking Modernism After the Demise of the 'Master Narrative': Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950" , April 25, 2002 - April 27, 2002
  • Chair: Council on Liberal Education, University of Minnesota , 2002
  • Chair: Committee on Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising, CLA Assembly, University of Minnesota , 1997 - 2001
  • Member: Center for Austrian Studies Advisory Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota , 1995 - 1999
  • Associate Editor: SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , 1992 - 1994
  • Member: Women in German
  • Member: Center for German and European Studies Executive Committee , 1999

Outreach Activities

  • Panelist: "Women in Opera," Minnesota Opera, 1993
  • Commentator: Jewish Film Festival, Hopkins, MN, 2001
  • Secured CLA Scholarly Events Fund grant for Twin Cities International Film Festival: 1996
  • Co-organizer with Al Milgrom, U Film Society, and Angela Greiner, Goethe Institute, Chicago: film series on "Germany After the Wall", 1993
  • Commentator: Jewish Film Festival, St. Louis Park, MN, March 2003

Awards

  • Bush Program for Excellence in Teaching, 1991 - 1992
  • McKnight Summer Fellowship, 1997
  • DAAD study Visit Research Grant for Faculty, 1999
  • Faculty Travel Grant, European Studies Consortium, Summer 2003
  • American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 1994 - 1995

Courses Taught

  • Ger 3604W - Introduction to German Cinema
  • Ger 5630 - Topics in German Cinema: Weimar Cinema
  • Ger 4622 - German Cinema Since 1945
  • Ger 1601 - Fleeing Hitler: German and Austrian Filmmakers Between Europe and Hollywood
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