Lutz Bacher, Ph.D.
Professor of Media Arts (Media Arts)
bacher@rmu.edu 412-397-6435 phone (M) 412-397-2200 fax Wheatley Center 316

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Speech Communication & Theatre, Radio-TV-Film (minors: art history, theatre), Wayne State University, 1984
• Master of Arts, Speech Communication & Theatre, Radio-TV-Film, Wayne State University, 1976
• Bachelor of Commerce, Honors Business Administration, Marketing, University of Windsor, 1964

Professional Background

• 2005- Present: Professor of Media Arts
• 2003-2005: Professor of Communications
• 1997-2003: Assoc. Professor of Communications
• 1981-1997: Ass't. Professor of Communications
• 1978-1980: Instructor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Speech Communication & Film
• 1974-1980: Freelance Film/Video Production (grip, dolly grip, gaffer, ass't. director), Detroit
• 1965-1970: Marketing & Media Researcher, Campbell-Ewald Advertising, Detroit
• 1964-1974: Artist Manager & Booking Agent, LBJP Concert Agency, Detroit

Area of Expertise/Research

• American Film Industry History (rental studio independent production in Classical Hollywood Cinema)
• Film Production History (methods of analysis for relating production circumstances to a director's style and intentions)
• Film Aesthetics (camera movement)

Publications

• Books
  
  • Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
  • The Mobile Mise En Scene. New York: Arno Press, 1978.  
• Representative Essays
  
  
  • "David L. Loew, Renoir's 'French Method', and The Southerner", Film History: An International Journal, Volume 21, Number 23, 2009.
  • "The Lost Ballad: Max Ophuls' Last American Project," Arizona Quarterly, Fall 2004.
  • "Max Ophuls a Hollywood: adattamento, sovversione e ricaduta sul finale europeo" in Il Piacere E Il Disincanto Nel Cinema Di Max Ophuls. Milan: Editrice Il Castoro, 2003.
  • Pictures Out of the Ordinary: Seymour Nebenzal und das Package Unit System Hollywoods" in Erika Wottrich, ed., M wie Nebenzal: Nero Filmproduktion zwischen Europa und Hollywood. Munich: text + kritik, 2002.
  • "Un cineaste americain a Paris," Positif, no. 487, September 2001. 
• Media
  
  • DVD Extra, "Making an American Movie: Lutz Bacher On Max Ophuls and The Reckless Moment,"  for Carlotta Films, France, 42 min. (2010).
  • DVD Commentary Track, Caught, for Second Sight Films, UK. 88 min. (2008)
  • DVD Commentary Track, The Reckless Moment, for Second Sight Films, UK, 81 min. (2006)