Katherine Singer Kovács (July 26, 1946–May 12,1989) 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. remembered for two long-standing book awards named in her honor.

Career

After being awarded a

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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

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and

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. She was editor of the '' Quarterly Review of Film and Video'' up to her death from cancer in 1989. Two awards were founded in her honour, the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize 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 from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies 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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