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Cinema Studies Faculty
Richard J. Leskosky
Titles
Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies
Associate Director, Unit for Cinema Studies
Address
3035 Foreign Languages Building, MC-162
707 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illlinois 61801
phone: (217) 244-2704
fax: (217) 244-4019
e-mail: rleskosk@illinois.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois
Major research interests
Animation and animation technology
Cinema pre-history
Film semiotics
Language and film
(Past president, Society for Animation Studies)
Selected publications
- "The Real Millennium Bug: Giant Arthropod Films in the 21st Century." Antennae Issue 3, Volume 1, Autumn 2007 <http://www.antennae.org.uk/ANTENNAE%20ISSUE%203%20V1.doc.pdf>.
- “Size Matters: Big Bugs on the Big Screen.” Insect Poetics, ed. Eric C. Brown. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
- "Animated Musicals." M/C Reviews: Culture and the Media 30 September 2003 <http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=1888>
- "Two-State Animation: The Thaumatrope and its Spin-offs." Animation Journal, Vol. 2, no. 1 (Fall 1993), pp. 20-35.
- "The Phenakistoscope: 19th Century Science Turned to Animation." Film History, Vol. 5, no. 2 (June 1993), pp. 176-189.
- "The Illusion of Reality, the Reality of Illusion: The Peircean Sign in Animated Films." Semiotics 1988. University Press of America, 1989.
- "The Reforming Fantasy: Recurrent Theme and Structure in American Studio Cartoons." The Velvet Light Trap, No. 24 (Fall, 1989), pp. 53-66.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unit for Cinema Studies
rleskosk@illinois.edu
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