Laura Heins
Assistant ProfessorDegrees
Ph.D. Yale University 2005
M.Phil. Yale University 1999
B.A. University of California, Berkeley 1996
Interests
Genre cinema in transnational perspective, Nazi culture and comparative fascisms (German, Italian, Spanish), exile film and literature, Weimar cinema and visual culture, New German Cinema, contemporary German and European cinema, German-Hollywood relations, German television and media history, classical film theory (eg. Balázs, Kracauer)Books
The Domestic War: Film Melodrama and German Fascism (manuscript in progress)
Articles
“Criss-Crossings of Robert Siodmak: the Time and Space of Cinematic Exile.” In Exiles Traveling:
Exploring Displacement, Crossing Boundaries in German Exile Arts and Writings. Johannes Evelein, ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008.
Honors
DAAD exchange scholar, Freie Universität Berlin (2001-2002)