Katherine Singer Kovács Explained

Katherine "Kitty" Kovács
Birth Date:	26 July 1946
Birth Place:	Queens, New York
Discipline:	Film studies
Workplaces:	University of Southern California, Whittier College
Alma Mater:	Harvard University
Thesis1 Title:	Flaubert's Le rêve et la vie: a new theatrical conception
Thesis1 Url:	http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990038652690203941/catalog
Thesis1 Year:	1974

Katherine Singer Kovács (July 26, 1946–May 12,1989) was an American film studies academic^{[1] [2]} remembered for two long-standing book awards named in her honor.

Career

After being awarded a PhD from Harvard University in 1974 with the title Flaubert's Le rêve et la vie: a new theatrical conception, Kovacs worked at the University of Southern California and Whittier College. She was editor of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video up to her death from cancer in 1989.

Two awards were founded in her honour, the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize award from the Modern Language Association for the best book published in Latin American and Spanish Studies and the Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for the best book and article in film studies.

Selected works

• Kovács, Katherine Singer. "Georges Méliès and the" Féerie"." Cinema Journal (1976): 1-13.
• Kovács, Katherine Singer. "Luis Buñuel and Pierre Louÿs: two visions of obscure objects." Cinema Journal (1979): 87–98.
• Kovács, Katherine Singer. "Gustave Flaubert and "Le rêve et la vie"." (1977).

Notes and References

1. Gottesman, Ron. Homage to Kitty Singer Kovacs. Cinema Journal 30, no. 3 (1991): 3–5. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1224926.
2. Gottesman . Ron . December 1989 . In memory of Katherine Singer Kovacs (1946‐1989) . Quarterly Review of Film and Video . en . 11 . 4 . 1–6 . 10.1080/10509209009361322 . 1050-9208.