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Eric Ames
Education:
2000; PhD, University of California (Berkeley),
2000; nineteenth-and twentieth-century German literature; cultural studies; film history, theory, and visual culture.
Eric Ames is Associate Professor of Germanics and a member of the Cinema Studies faculty. He teaches courses in all periods of German film history as well as core courses in Cinema Studies. His first book, "Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments" (UW Press, 2009), explores the making of modern theme space, including the history of zoos, films, museums, panoramas, amusement parks, ethnographic exhibitions, and Wild West shows. Currently, he is writing a book on Werner Herzog and the documentary tradition.
Profile in Germanics: http://depts.washington.edu/uwgerman/faculty/eames.html