Vanessa R. Schwartz

Expert in Parisian history, the Cannes Film Festival and French wax museums
  • Associate Professor of History
Office: (213) 740-8494

Expertise

  • the history of modern visual culture
  • European intellectual and cultural history
  • film and entertainment history
  • 20th century French and American film
  • the Cannes Film Festival
  • urban history, especially Parisian history
  • French museums, including wax museums and the Louvre

Languages

  • French

Additional Information

  • Author of Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris(1998)
  • Co-editor of Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (1995) and The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader(2003)
  • Editor, Film and Media Column, Perspectives