Katherine Singer Kovács (1946-1989) was an American film studies academicGottesman, Ron. ''Homage to Kitty Singer Kovacs.'' Cinema Journal 30, no. 3 (1991): 3–5. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1224926.''In memory of Katherine Singer Kovacs (1946‐1989),'' Ron Gottesman. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Volume 11, 1989 - Issue 4 remembered for two long-standing book awards named in her honor.

Career

After being awarded a PhD from

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in 1974 with the title Flaubert's Le rêve et la vie: a new theatrical conception, Kovacs worked at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

and

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before she died of cancer in 1989. Two awards were founded in her honour, the

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award from the

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for the best book published in Latin American and Spanish Studies and the

Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award is a prestigious book award that is given annually for outstanding scholarship in cinema and media studies. The award is made annually by the Society for Cinema and Media Studi ...

from the

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for the best book and article in film studies.

Selected works

* Kovács, Katherine Singer. "Georges Méliès and the" Féerie"." Cinema Journal (1976): 1-13. * Kovács, Katherine Singer. "Luis Buñuel and Pierre Louÿs: two visions of obscure objects." Cinema Journal (1979): 87–98. * Kovács, Katherine Singer. "Gustave Flaubert and "Le rêve et la vie"." (1977).

References

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