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Anne Friedberg, a friend…

… of UD’s friend, Lisa Nesselson, and a professor in the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts (note way cool faculty webpage), has died. She was 57.

Friedberg wrote about the strange new world of screen media — the constant presence of screens, our constant scanning of screens — but she was also an historian who complained about the “presentness,” as she called it, of media studies. She was interested in shifts in the ways we envision the world, and her work went back as far as the sixteenth century.

In an email to me, Lisa, who lives in Paris, writes:

She was smart and funny.

She and [her professor, novelist and screenwriter husband] Howard liked to stay at the Hotel Louisiane because of its spartan style and famous guests.

The only drawback to their incredibly cool house [in the Hollywood Hills] was that it didn’t have enough walls for the giant vintage film posters they brought back from France.

There’s a tiny clothing boutique a few blocks away from here called Hug & Co. and …Anne liked to take a photo in front of it with her son each time she was here.

Friedberg’s very vivid web presence, in interviews and films and interactive sites, reminds UD that to her it does indeed still seem strange and new, this online history we leave of ourselves…

Margaret Soltan, October 12, 2009 9:15PM
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