Biography
Heather Blackmore is a Ph.D. candidate in the division of Cinema and Media Studies. Heather grew up on a small ranch outside of Los Angeles. Passionate about animals as well as film, art, literature, and culture, Heather’s freshman year of college led her away from her planned career path in veterinary medicine and toward the study of cinema and other types of media. She completed a B.A. at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and then continued on to work toward her Ph.D. Her dissertation focuses on miniaturization in 20th Century media technologies, and her other research interests include animation, documentary, the merging of animation and non-fiction media, historical motion picture technologies, comics and graphic novels, spatial exploration in video games and interactive media, media representations of the female body, and transmedia storytelling. In addition to her academic work, Heather has worked on a number of creative and practice-based scholarly projects including graphic novels, stop-motion animation, documentary films, video essays, and interactive databases.
Heather is committed to sharing her excitement about film, television, and media with her students at several Southern California colleges.
Heather Blackmore is a Ph.D. candidate in the division of Cinema and Media Studies. Heather grew up on a small ranch outside of Los Angeles. Passionate about animals as well as film, art, literature, and culture, Heather’s freshman year of college led her away from her planned career path in veterinary medicine and toward the study of cinema and other types of media. She completed a B.A. at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and then continued on to work toward her Ph.D. Her dissertation focuses on miniaturization in 20th Century media technologies, and her other research interests include animation, documentary, the merging of animation and non-fiction media, historical motion picture technologies, comics and graphic novels, spatial exploration in video games and interactive media, media representations of the female body, and transmedia storytelling. In addition to her academic work, Heather has worked on a number of creative and practice-based scholarly projects including graphic novels, stop-motion animation, documentary films, video essays, and interactive databases.
Heather is committed to sharing her excitement about film, television, and media with her students at several Southern California colleges.
