Author Biography
Amanda Greer is a PhD Candidate at the CSI. Her dissertation, supported by a SSHRC grant, a Doctoral Excellence Award, and a Vivienne Poy Chancellor’s Fellowship, develops a theory of pedagogy as cinematic form in the post-WWII social guidance film. Drawing from feminist methodologies, Michel Foucault’s work on discipline, and critical pedagogical theory, this project argues for the disciplinary cinematic formation of pedagogical relationships between student and teacher in educational films. Taking up cinematic techniques like freeze frames, superimpositions, and acousmatic voiceovers, this project argues for pedagogy as a disciplinary device in social guidance cinema, one that shapes, moulds, and forms the films’ student body, constructing normative notions of adolescence. More broadly, her work investigates feminist theory, cinematic form and formalist reading strategies, educational film, useful cinema, Classical Hollywood, the teen girl in cinema, and American film history.
