Rebecca Prime

Rebecca Prime is a film historian who received her Ph.D. in 2008 from UCLA, where she completed a dissertation on blacklisted filmmakers in postwar Europe. Originally from England, she also holds degrees from Columbia University and New York University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for France. Prior to beginning her academic career, Prime was active in film programming and production, working with numerous film festivals and on the independent feature film, Lulu on the Bridge (1998). She has published numerous articles in both academic and mainstream journals and co-authored the companion book to Lulu on the Bridge. Her manuscript, tentatively titled Intimate Strangers: Hollywood Filmmakers in Postwar Europe is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press. 

Courses Taught

• ART 275 The Art of Film: History and Aesthetics.  
• HON 371 Film, Politics, and Society
• ENGL 299F Special Topics in Film Adaptation
• Hon 102: Film and Technology

Degrees Earned

• Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, December 2008  
• M.A. New York University, 2001  
• B.A. Columbia College, Columbia University, 1996  

Scholarships, Awards, and Honors

• Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007-2008  
• Fulbright Advanced Student Fellowship for France, 2006-2007  
• Chateaubriand Fellowship, Embassy of France to the United States, 2006-2007 (awarded but declined)  
• Georgia Frontiere Scholarship in Memory of the Humanitarian Efforts of Aaron Curtis Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2005  
• Otis T. Ferguson Memorial Award in Critical Writing, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2004  
• University Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003-2006  
• McCracken Fellowship, New York University, 1999-2001  
• Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1996  
• John Jay Scholarship, Columbia College, Columbia University, 1992-1996  

Publications

• The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico Book review in Film Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 2, winter 2008-09, pp. 83-84. 
• "The Old Bogey": The Hollywood Blacklist in Europe Article in Film History, vol. 20, issue 4, winter 2008-09, pp. 474-486.  
• "Cloaked in Compromise: Jules Dassin's 'Naked' City" Chapter included in "Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era, ed. Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, and Peter Stanfield, Rutgers University Press, 2007, pp. 142-151 
• "'A Strange and Foreign World': Documentary, Ethnography, and the Mountain Films of Arnold Fanck and Leni Riefenstahl" Chapter included in Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture, ed. Sharon Sherman and Mikel Koven, Utah State University Press, 2007, pp. 54-73 
• Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong Book review in Film Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 2, winter 2006-07, pp. 63-64 
• "Stranger Than Fiction: Genre and Hybridity in the Refugee Film" Article in Post Script, vol. 25, no. 2, winter/spring 2006, pp. 55-66 
• "Interviews: Paul Auster, Kalina Ivanov, Alik Sakharov, et al." Interviews included in Lulu on the Bridge: A Film by Paul Auster, Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1998, pp. 143-209 

Invited Lectures

• Naming Names All Over Again: What the HUAC Testimony of Cy Endfield and Carl Foreman Tells Us About the End of the Blacklist
  Presented at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2008 
• L'Exil Doré: Blacklisted American Filmmakers in Paris in the 1950s Presented at the École Supérieure d'Arts de Rueil-Malmaison, January 15, 2007 
• A Cold (War) Reception?: The European Films of the Hollywood Blacklist Presented at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Vancouver, BC, March 2-5, 2006 
• Tales of the City: Jules Dassin's Transatlantic Noirs Presented at Visualizing the City Conference, University of Manchester, UK, June 26-28, 2005 
• Fear of Fear: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" Presented for Postwar European Film, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles, February 23, 2005 
• No Man's Land: Warring Genres in Jules Dassin's "Night and the City" Presented at Film and History Conference, Dallas, TX, November 11-14, 2004 
• First Person Plural: Autobiographical Film and Video Presented for (Trans)Cultural Cinema, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, April 29, 2003 

Teaching Experience

• University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Writing Programs, 2006  
• University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, 2004-2006  
• Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, 2002-2003  

Research Areas and Languages

• American filmmakers in postwar Europe  
• Cinema and the cultural Cold War  
• Ethnographic filmmaking during the silent era  
• Migrant and diasporic contemporary European cinema  
• Fluent written and spoken French  

Professional Affiliations

• Society of Cinema and Media Studies, 2003-present  

Related Professional Experience

• Fulbright Fusion Arts Exchange Program, 2007. Member of Selection Committee.  
• Dr. Janet Bergstrom, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004-2006  
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2002-2003  
• Paul Auster, 1997-1998  
• The French Film Office, 1996-1997