Patricia Zimmermann
Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor of Screen Studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Indiana, 1995), States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (Minnesota, 2000), Thinking Through the Digital: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (Palgrave, 2015, with Dale Hudson), and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (California, 2008).
Her book based on her blogs, Open Space: Openings, Closings and Thresholds of Independent Public Media, will be published with University of St. Andrews Press in 2016. With Scott MacDonald, she wrote The Flaherty: Sixty Years in the Cause of Independent Film (Indiana University Press, forthcoming in 2016). She is also codirector (with Tom Shevory) of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, a major international festival housed at Ithaca College.