Kirsten Moana Thompson

Kirsten Moana Thompson
Born
Auckland, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealander
Alma materUniversity of Auckland (BA, MA)
NYU (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsFilm Studies and Visual Culture
InstitutionsWayne State University
Victoria University of Wellington
Seattle University (Current)
Websitewww.seattleu.edu

Kirsten Moana Thompson (born 1964) is an interdisciplinary scholar of American and New Zealand/Pacific cinema and visual culture. Thompson's work in American film has focused on classical American cel animation[1] and the introduction of three strip Technicolor, on contemporary crime films and blockbuster[2] and special effects cinema.[3][4] Her work on Pacific cinema situates film production by American and Pacific filmmakers in broader cultural and visual contexts.[5] She has also published on American horror film[6] and German cinema.[7]

  1. ^ Wells, Paul (2002). Animation and America. Rutgers University Press. pp. 57–58.
  2. ^ Thompson, Kirsten (2006). Scale, Spectacle and Movement: Massive Software and Digital Special Effects in The Lord of the Rings," in From Hobbits To Hollywood: Essays On Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings eds. Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 283–299. ISBN 978-9042020627.
  3. ^ Prince, Stephen (2012). Digital Visual Effects: The Seduction of Reality. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 88.
  4. ^ Burgoyne, Robert (2010). Epic Film in World Culture. New York: Routledge. pp. 5. ISBN 978-0415990189.
  5. ^ Thompson, Kirsten Moana (2014). "The Construction of a Myth: Bloody Mary, Aggie Grey and the Optics of Tourism". Journal of NZ and Pacific Studies. 2 (1): 5–19.
  6. ^ Thompson, Kirsten Moana (2007). Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium. Albany, NY: SUNY Press: Albany. ISBN 978-0791470442.
  7. ^ Ginsberg, Terri and Kirsten Thompson, eds. (1996). Perspectives on German Cinema (Coeditor with Terri Ginsberg). New York: GK Hall. ISBN 0816116113. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)