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 Graduate Instructor of English and Film Studies office: 450 Strickland phone: 573-882-7814 email: rbwx93@mizzou.edu web: www.myspace.com/ramsaywiseproducts office hours: TR 1:30-3:00 Research and teaching areas: Film and Twentieth Century American literature. Ramsay WiseRamsay graduated with a BA in English from MU in 1996. He graduated again from MU in 2003 with an MA in English. He’s got money on the trifecta. His masters thesis, “University of the Future: Sight and Sound 1932-1942, a Discourse in Cinema and Propaganda,” argues that a potential model of cinema as an educative, socially au courant tool went unrealized as a result of the changing geopolitical sentiments surrounding World War II. These sentiments are evidenced in the pages of the British periodical through its contributors' changing attitudes—ideological and rhetorical—not merely toward the creation of socially conscious propaganda, but toward the word propaganda itself, as well as toward the fundamentally socialistic outlook of certain British and American documentarians of the era. His dissertation entitled Film in Post World War II American Fiction looks at the influence of film on the post-WWII American novel and focuses on novels by Walker Percy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, and Jessica Hagedorn, as well as such films as The Searchers, The Wizard of Oz, King Kong, Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song, All that Heaven Allows, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Throne of Blood, and film personalities such as William Holden, Fritz Lang, Paul Newman, Oscar Micheaux, and Mickey Rooney. Education Selected Publications
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