Jennifer Peterson

Jennifer Peterson has worked as an oral historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. Currently on the faculty in film studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, she is completing work on a book about early travelogues to be published by Duke University Press. This article is adapted from a chapter in Learning with the Lights Off: A Reader in Educational Film (Oxford University Press, 2010).

 

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