Alice Maurice

Biography

Alice Maurice's book, The Cinema and Its Shadow (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), focuses on race and technology in early U.S. cinema, exploring how questions of race difference informed the development of cinematic language in early U.S. cinema. In addition to her work on early cinema, her research includes late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century American literature and visual culture, and documentary studies. Her current project focuses on the history of the face in American cinema. She has also worked in documentary film production and was Associate Producer of two award-winning films, A Healthy Baby Girl (Judith Helfand Productions, 1997) and the Academy Award-winning short Defending Our Lives (Cambridge Documentary Films, 1994). Alice Maurice's book, The Cinema and Its Shadow (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), focuses on race and technology in early U.S. cinema, exploring how questions of race difference informed the development of cinematic language in early U.S. cinema. In addition to her work on early cinema, her research includes late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century American literature and visual culture, and documentary studies. Her current project focuses on the history of the face in American cinema. She has also worked in documentary film production and was Associate Producer of two award-winning films, A Healthy Baby Girl (Judith Helfand Productions, 1997) and the Academy Award-winning short Defending Our Lives (Cambridge Documentary Films, 1994).

Research Interest

19th Century American Literature, 20th Century American Literature, Aspects of Theory; Cinema Studies.