Lisa A. Dombrowski
Professor of East Asian Studies
Mansfield Freeman East Asian Studies Room 01OFFC01, 343 Washington Terrace860-685-3236
Professor, Film Studies
Mansfield Freeman East Asian Studies Room 01OFFC01, 343 Washington Terrace860-685-3236
BA Wesleyan University
MA University of Wisconsin at Madison
PHD University of Wisconsin at Madison
Lisa A. Dombrowski
Lisa Dombrowski’s research concerns the art and business of filmmaking, with an emphasis on American independent cinema, East Asian cinema, and international art cinema. She is the author of The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You! (2008), the editor of Kazan Revisited (2011), and the co-editor with Justin Wyatt of ReFocus: The Later Works and Legacy of Robert Altman (2022). She has contributed book chapters to Screening American Independent Film (2023), Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited (2021); United Artists: Hollywood Centenary (2020); Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos (2018); Silent Features: The Development of Silent Feature Films, 1914-1934 (2018); Behind the Silver Screen: Cinematography (2014); and Widescreen Worldwide (2010). Her articles have also appeared in Film History, Film Quarterly, Film Comment, The Velvet Light Trap, The New York Times, and the Criterion Collection, among others. She is currently learning Cantonese while researching and developing a digital humanities project on Chinatown Movie Theaters in North America.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, rm 102
Office hours: M & W 3:00-4:00pm or by appointment
Courses
Fall 2024
CEAS 346 - 01
Contemporary East Asian Cinema
FILM 348 - 01
Postwar American Independent
Spring 2025
CEAS 306 - 01
Cinema in American Chinatowns
CEAS 372 - 01
Hong Kong Cinema