<sod>'''Anne Friedberg''' was Chair of the Critical Studies Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at the [[University of Southern California]] and President-elect of the [[Society for Cinema and Media Studies]]. An author, historian and theorist of modern media culture, Friedberg received her PhD. in Cinema Studies from [[New York University|NYU]]. She was on the faculty of Film and Media Studies at [[UC Irvine]], where she was the principal architect for a new interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Visual Studies and the founding director and programmer of UCI's Film and Video Center. In 2003, she joined the USC faculty, where she was instrumental in the creation of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate and the [[Media Arts and Practice]] Ph.D. program. In 2009, she was named an Academy Scholar by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]. She died in Los Angeles on October 9, 2009, at the age of 57. <eod>
<sod>'''Anne Friedberg''' was Chair of the Critical Studies Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at the [[University of Southern California]] and President-elect of the [[Society for Cinema and Media Studies]]. An author, historian and theorist of modern media culture, Friedberg received her PhD. in Cinema Studies from [[New York University|NYU]]. She was on the faculty of Film and Media Studies at [[UC Irvine]], where she was the principal architect for a new interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Visual Studies and the founding director and programmer of UCI's Film and Video Center. In 2003, she joined the USC faculty, where she was instrumental in the creation of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate and the [[Media Arts and Practice]] Ph.D. program. In 2009, she was named an Academy Scholar by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]. She died in Los Angeles on October 9, 2009, at the age of 57.<eod>