Department chair
Dr. Mary Samuelson
Cinema Instructor
Education
PhD, UCLA
MA, UCLA
BA, USC School of Cinema-Television
Dr. Mary Samuelson earned her PhD at UCLA and teaches film history, film theory, digital writing, English composition and literature. She has taught at LACC for 10 years, including CINEMA 003 (History of Motion Pictures), CINEMA 004 (History of the Documentary Film) and CINEMA 018 (Introduction to Film Genres).
Her specialties include the Hollywood studio system, documentary film, French cinema, genre studies, the history of radio and film theory. She has published several articles, and her book The Patriotic Play is forthcoming.