Lauren Rabinovitz, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Biography

Publications

Books

Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
Columbia University Press
2012

Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture
Duke University Press
2004

Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays
1999

For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
1998

Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War
1994

Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-71
1991; 2nd edition (2003)

Research interests 

  • American cinema
  • Amusement parks and world's fairs
  • Foodways
Lauren Rabinovitz, PhD
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Education
PhD, University of Texas at Austin (1982, American Civilization)
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714 Jefferson Building (JB)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States