Dr. Laura Lee
Visiting Assistant Professor, Japanese Film, Global Cinemas and Visual Culture, Animation
Ph.D., The University of Chicago
M.A., Yale University
M.A., The University of Iowa
3020 William Johnston Building
(850) 644-1250
llee2@fsu.edu
Laura Lee received her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from The University of Chicago. Her field of specialization is Japanese cinema and postwar visual culture, with focus on the 1960s, contemporary image culture, and film theory and aesthetics. Her scholarship engages multiple media, including anime, manga, television, and emerging media, and emphasizes cinema’s dense relations with other visual and literary art forms.
She is currently working on the critical role stop-motion animation practices have played in Japanese cinema’s domestic and international success. She has additionally been researching subcultural art and film culture in 1960s Japan. Her research interests also include documentary, ethnographic film, and Asian and Latin American cinemas, as well as international animation and issues concerning new media.
Dr. Lee offers undergraduate courses on global cinemas, international film history, and multicultural film. These courses focus on how film and other media respond to and shape both local and international aesthetic, technological, political, economic, and cultural contexts. In addition, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Japanese cinema and art practices, animation, film theory, and film aesthetics.