Dr. Elizabeth Rawitsch

Elizabeth Rawitsch received her PhD in Film, Television, and Media Studies from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. She is currently a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she teaches courses on the history of American film exhibition, contemporary British television, Turkish Yeşilçam cinema, and international film comedy. Her book Frank Capra’s Eastern Horizons: National Identity and the Cinema of International Relations was published in 2015, and her research on popular culture and national identity has appeared in Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, Journal of American Studies, and Journal of Popular Film and Television.